unfiltered honesty, stirs something in Hayley. She imagines speaking her mind so freely with Brandon, but the thought makes her stomach clench. Years of tiptoeing around her detached father and sidestepping her mother’s barbs have left their mark. Her need to smooth things over with Brandon, she knows, is a 38reflex born of deep-seated insecurity. She wonders, not for the first time, what it would be like to shed that weight.
Hmmmmm is she kind of scsred of brandon
