My mother came around the corner, her shirt all twisted and her lipstick smeared. “Princess, what…what are you girls doing here?” she stammered, once she realized that it was all three of us. I wanted to burn my eyeballs while both Alaia and Erin were tickled. Stevie Wonder could see what was happening before we came over. “To what do we owe this visit, Loves?” My father came around the corner looking calm and cool, as if he wasn’t turning my mama every way but loose.