The truth was, no matter how hard I tried, she was always the first thing I noticed when I entered the room. It wasn’t that she was beautiful, even though her sheer loveliness was blatant, almost glarin’. It was that no matter where Mei was or what she was doin’, she did it with confidence. With purpose. She’d drawn the eye by sheer force of her magnetic personality. Once, if Mei’d told me she would do somethin’, however outlandish, I would’ve believed her ’cause she was just that powerful, that capable, even at seventeen. Now that she was grown, it was even more palpable.
