"Do you count not from Memphis other culture?" she asked, knowing what the answer was. "I mean, black, white, Darwin is like Chinese or something, but he can't even speak the language and that's it."
She nodded. "That's the way you joke with Martin, too. He respects you, you know? And he puts up with it, but I don't think he likes, not that he'd say. I don't think you can do anything wrong in his book." She still didn't like the way they could be so dismissive with Marty.
"That makes no sense to me, maybe because there are so many of us. We can't get close to one person. We try not to keep secrets, not that it doesn't happen, but every time that it does, bad things happen," she said, thinking back to the mess with Marti and Dan, cheering in Charlotte's place, her pregnancy. "Secrets ruin friendships."
Savannah smiled back. "You can show them with me. The worse that can happen is that I get an extra class or shopping trip, but I won't use them against you."