"It's aimed at bored housewives at this hour," Tip guessed. "Us teens are probably all supposed to be bored in class right now." She snorted at the nickname. "Grat makes me sound like an Eastern European nanny," she decided. And hey, while they were talking nicknames: "My friends call me Tip."

It was getting a little weird having only a couple people around who called her that. It was probably time for her to start expanding her definition of "friend" where the name thing was concerned.