Ask Him Why
“I was more surprised that it was between second and third periods, and nobody had so much as ruffled my feathers all morning. It almost felt good to get it over with.
She stood in the hall in front of me with her hands on her hips, her forehead all knitted up as though she could be fierce, with her anorexic body and her breasts that never got smaller no matter how much weight she lost. I always figured there had to be a surgeon involved in an equation like that, but the boys loved it, no questi...ons asked.
I didn’t want any part of it, whatever “it” was, so I turned and walked back the other way, toward my locker. But that’s a bad strategy. It only draws them in, like when you back away from a mean dog. It only makes him feel more powerful and reminds him he’s winning.
A moment later, she was hovering near my locker with backup. Three of the girls in her group had materialized out of thin air to stand behind her and frown. These were the girls who had always treated me like I was nothing, after making it clear that I would never be welcome to join them, not anytime in this life or anywhere on this planet.MoreLess
She stood in the hall in front of me with her hands on her hips, her forehead all knitted up as though she could be fierce, with her anorexic body and her breasts that never got smaller no matter how much weight she lost. I always figured there had to be a surgeon involved in an equation like that, but the boys loved it, no questi...ons asked.
I didn’t want any part of it, whatever “it” was, so I turned and walked back the other way, toward my locker. But that’s a bad strategy. It only draws them in, like when you back away from a mean dog. It only makes him feel more powerful and reminds him he’s winning.
A moment later, she was hovering near my locker with backup. Three of the girls in her group had materialized out of thin air to stand behind her and frown. These were the girls who had always treated me like I was nothing, after making it clear that I would never be welcome to join them, not anytime in this life or anywhere on this planet.MoreLess
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