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Jesse climbed up between me and Lydie to stare at Kitty. He’d finally found someone that pulled his attention more than the guys. His eyes were full of wonder as he smiled. “You look like Barbie.”
Kitty was extra fabulous in hot pink sequins. The dress showed off a lot of cleavage and went all the way to the floor, where it was hemmed with pink feathers. She winked at Jesse. “And you look like my new best friend.”
Barb was scanning the crowd and stopped when her eyes moved just over my shoulder. “Oh, hello. Excuse me! Excuse me, sir.”
Lydie’s mouth hung open in shock as Brenda saw who Barb was yelling at and elbowed her in the boob. “You got an orgasm last night. I didn’t. This one’s mine.”
“What’s an orgasm?” Jesse couldn’t take his eyes off Kitty. “You’re so pretty.”
“I only got an orgasm because I talked Gerald through it like a toddler.” Barb looked at Jesse and winced. “No offense, kid.”
“Yoo-hoo! Sir!” Brenda was all but hanging over Jerry’s lap. “Yes, you! In the stiff shirt. You are a tall drink of water. Are you here with anyone?”
Lydie had tears leaking out of her eyes as she clutched her stomach from laughing so hard. “That’s our dad!”
I whipped around to see Dad sitting back, ramrod straight. I swore I saw him shaking when Brenda called to him again. Turning back to Kitty and Jerry, I shook my head. “What are y’all doing here?”
“We go out, Little Kitty. You don’t have to sound so shocked.” Kitty pulled a sparkling lipstick from her purse and applied it perfectly.
Jerry rolled her eyes. “Even prisoners get yard time.”
“Would you be offended if I sat on your dad’s lap, Little Kitty?” Barb had a wig of bright red ringlets on and looked like Annie, if Annie had lived her entire life in the seventies.
I lifted a brow and considered it for a second before shaking my head. “That’s my mom right next to him.”
“Are they married?” She eyed Mom up and down. “Happily?”
Helen pulled a rolled up newspaper out of her bag and swatted both Barb and Brenda. “Leave her family alone.”
“My friend has a barbie. She’s always naked.”
“Your friend or the barbie?”
“The barbie!” Jesse climbed over the back of my seat and stood in front of Kitty. “I like your hair.”
Kitty scooped him up and held him in her lap. “I like your glasses.”
I shook my head at Lydie. “When’s the last time we got a compliment from this kid?”
She wiped her eyes and kept bursting out into giggles. “I’m moving here as soon as I can.”
“What did you just say, young lady?” Mom leaned over me, apparently ear plug free. “You arenotmoving here!”
Lydie, always ready to rise to a fight, leaned forward. “I am. I might not even finish this semester of school.”
“David! Did you just hear your daughter? She says she’s going to move here! Tell her she’s not.” Mom motioned at me and lowered her voice. She still made sure that I heard what she said next. “Do you want two children like Olive? Do something, David.”
“Yeah! Do something, David!” Barb and Brenda both teased my dad with pure joy in their voices. They were in their element.
“Can I have some of that pink lip stuff?” Jesse’s innocent question made Mom swing around to see who he was speaking to.
Mom’s eyes went comically wide when she saw Kitty. “Is that… Is that adrag queen?”
Jerry doubled over laughing. Barb and Brenda hissed at my mother like a couple of feral cats. Helen had turned her attention to a couple making out beside her. She was hitting them with the newspaper and shouting about getting a room.
Kitty pulled her lipstick out and met my gaze in a silent question. I nodded and watched with a widening grin when she took the lipstick and made football strips on Jesse’s cheeks before letting him have the tube. He immediately squished it into his lips and giggled.
“Look over there!” Kitty waited until Jesse was looking away to flip my mom off. “If Iwasa drag queen, I’d be sashaying all over your butt right now.”
