ple may say about me. If I asked him to back off when I felt ambushed, I worried about what people would say about me. It was exhausting.
“He doesn’t like you, Narissa.” Again, I knew she was just trying to get a reaction out of me. “You’re too ordinary. I saw him looking at me this afternoon.”
Anytime Simona had an opportunity to hack a crevice in my self-esteem she took it, and it worked. I could feel the seismic waves moving through me, carrying with them the energy that I knew would end in another blowout fight as she pressed at my confidence. All I knew to do was hit her with a low blow.
“It was hard not to look at you. You looked like a rainbow erupted on you. Did you want his attention just so it would be taken away from me? Gee, who else do you do that with?” I was yelling now.
“What?” Simona was also raising her voice.
“Come on, you have mom acting like you’re the focus of her universe and I’m…just some gassy planet out of orbit. You think you’re so perfect and the two of you have those cooking-together dinners and home movie nights while I catch up