And I lose it. “You aren’t welcome here—don’t ever come back!” I scream with a bloody rawness in my throat. “Who do you think you are, busting in here, and with the nerve to talk to him that way!” I push past Hardin and come face-to-face with her. “I want nothing to do with you! No one does! That’s why you’re alone after all these years—you are cruel and conceited! You will never be happy!” I take a breath and swallow, feeling just how dry my throat is. My mother stares me down with full self-assurance, and more than a little scorn. “I am alone because I choose to be. I don’t have the need to
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Girl where tf are you gonna go in 2 chapters when you find out Hardin's history of date rape or whatever
