Rather than immediately tell Nevada the truth, Lucy did her best to avoid him the following week. She didn’t like doing it, but there hadn’t been a good time yet to tell him what was really going on. That’s a lie and you know it. Fine, but what should I say? You had no trouble telling Sam. So, I just go up and say, ‘Oh, by the way, thought you should know, I’m dating Sam, you may recognize him from such places as the Captain of our rival drumline.’ In not so many words… Since “the incident” the previous Friday, everyone on the Forrest Hills drumline was pretty convinced it was Sam who had called her a bitch and there was nothing Lucy could say to convince them otherwise. Aside from all the drama, Lucy was absolutely bursting to tell someone what was going on. She couldn’t tell Gina and Mandy because she wasn’t sure they wouldn’t understand. Plus, Mandy and Jerm were pretty much together any spare time they had, so there was a good chance Jerm would find out if she did tell the girls.
