I felt a surge of pure loathing for her. Juniper too. I couldn’t believe how effective their little gimmick was, especially since it was so obviously fake. Maybe, I thought bitterly, the fakeness was what made it effective. After all, Idlewild boys didn’t act like this around me. Not that I wanted them to. I wasn’t jealous—not exactly—that Daylily and Juniper were doing a fake-lesbian act for attention. It just made me feel invisible. No, worse than invisible—I felt ugly. I imagined how my classmates would react if I announced in the Meetinghouse that Fay and I were hooking up. They’d probably
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Articulated very well
