Turned out Loretta hadn't even been sure America was the same girl in the alley she'd seen with me. I fessed up for nothing, damn it. I didn't really want to talk about it anymore, but I had to know. Was Loretta really trying to cause problems between us over something that happened so long ago?
Madeline explained that, for weeks, Loretta had been saying she was certain she knew the new girl at her work from somewhere else. Because of the not-so-common name it'd finally come to her that she was the same waitress that waited on her way back in that restaurant in Kings Falls—something I was not aware of.
Even then, she hadn't put America and I together in that alley. I'd been right about her not having gotten a good look at America in the alley. It wasn't until my dad went into the feed st
