"Oh shit," Libby muttered, spotting Andie as she browsed through the Clearance racks on Boxing Day. Andie was inspecting a pair of oven mitts that looked like they had cows on them about ten feet away from her. Not wanting to run and look obvious, Libby pretended to be engulfed in the 50% off coasters.

"You wanna know what my New Year's resolution is?" Andie asked, coming up behind her silently, moving with a startling seductiveness.

Her heart beating wildly, Libby set the coasters down. "What," she said indifferently.

"To apologize to you," she replied, her vice calm and cold.

Surprised, Libby looked up at her with a challenging light in her eyes. "So do it."

Shrugging, Andie said, "Your New Years resolution is supposed to be something that's hard to do. Just wanted to let you know I'm working on it."

As Andie turned to leave, Libby called, "You're a bully, you know that?"

"I'm a bully?" she demanded, whirling around, her deceivingly sweet face flushed with alarmed anger. "How am I a bully, Libby?"

"You have to be better than everyone around you. You let them get to know you, care about you, and then you push them away in the way you know is going to hurt them the most. With Chris, you cheated on him with a guy that he didn't trust in the first place, making him feel unloved and second best. With me, you just tried to get me to feel isolated in a place I was already foreign too. I don't know what you're planning on doing to Teddy, but I'll be sure to stay tuned." She tilted her head, curious and amused. "I'm right, aren't I?"

Andie's eyes looked dark and disturbed. "Not about Teddy," she said with a bitter voice filled with caged emotion.

"You'll just get him drinking again," Libby said before she could stop herself.

Andie had to curl her hands into fists and dig her nails into her palms to restrain herself from hitting this bitch. She said shakily, "Chris is never going to love you."

"Fuck you, okay?" she sighed, wanting to go home. "I take back what I said."

"He loves me more now than he'll ever love you and I treated him like shit." She smiled viciously. "There. Now I've made you feel unloved and second best too."

"Thanks. Thank you. I appreciate that." Libby brushed past her so that she bumped her roughly and muttered, "Fucking bitch."