"Truthfully," she lied, "she would have attacked you with a lamp even if you hadn't just appeared from her bathroom. You see this scar?" She pushed up the edge of her shirt and dipped her jeans down slightly over one hip to reveal a thin, white scar. "She fucking kicked me with a five in spike heel at a party. It was my birthday and I ended up in the hospital with stitches." The whole story was a lie but she was so fluidly able to fabricate that she almost believed it herself by the time she was finished maligning Noc.