No One Knows Us Here

by Rebecca Kelley

I was the one working retail and then getting lectured by a high-paid escort for not taking care of my little sister when I was still a kid myself.

I don't disagree ages young but her utter lack of responsibility to her little sister is making me really dislike her.

I closed my eyes and tried to steady my breathing. She wasn’t trying to kill herself. I knew that. Or—I wanted to believe that.

Eugh. She's insufferable. Believing anything to absolve herself

“She said she needed you. I’m not sure why, she hardly knows you, what with you so much older—” That got my attention. “I’m her sister.” “Her half sister.” Okay, I was beginning to see it, the urgency.

Now there's urgency because it's about YOU. Omg i hate this character lol

for a minute I could pretend it was normal, that she wasn’t there for harming herself to get my attention

Excuse me

He leaned down and kissed me, and I kissed him back, and our arms circled around each other, and I felt like I was in a movie, the end of a movie.

This girl is dumb af. This is a stranger just stick to your contact for now this is a dumb risk when you haven't even got your sister out yet.. Who just tried to kill herself!!!

In the elevator, we kissed.

Stupid stupid stupid

I forgot about Leo. I forgot about the Glasseyes.

Because you are an absolute idiot.

How narcissistic could I possibly get?

You've been giving me those vibes the whole book.

We kissed then and I thought: We could grow old here. Me, Sam, and Wendy.

Not only is she incredibly stupid she is so naive. This is a man that she Just. Met. She does not know him. This reads like a 14 year old wrote it.

I couldn’t believe how stupid the fantasy was. I had just met this guy. We hardly knew each other.

Oh thank fuck.

The speculum looked like a metal duck head, covered in slime and blood.

Bro wasn't gentle if it's covered in blood.

And then, as if by sudden mutual agreement, we lunged for each other.

I actually find this infuriating.

A month ago she was suicidal or, at the very least, pretending to be suicidal, which was not all that much better.

I can't tell you how much i hate this attitude

Whether this was actual shock or fake shock, designed to make me feel even worse than I already did, I couldn’t say.

Why does she believe all her sisters emotions are fake?

Yes, her suicide attempt had been a cry for help.

How to completely unravel the world's efforts of destigmatising mental health in one sentence.

If a real boyfriend had just announced that on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday, we were going to wear matching sweat suits and re-create his childhood favorites using his mother’s recipes, I would be eyeing the emergency exits about now.

What why? Why are you so unlikeable? This is not a red flag.

“They let you watch that?” It didn’t seem like something kids should be watching in school.

Why am i not surprised she's also anti sex ed

“If you have a minute, I can give you some referrals.” I told her I didn’t have a minute. I had to go. My sister had been through a lot. She’d lost both her parents. She was adjusting. I couldn’t just leave her alone out there—

She's so selfish. No i refuse referrals. My reputation matters more than my sister's health.

It wasn’t a vulture or a crow—just a small, brown bird. I didn’t know enough about birds to know if it was the kind that would attack me.

She is dramatic af

It may have been my imagination, but the bird’s heart began to beat more slowly the closer Sam got.

Yes

Sam inched closer to me. “Because I know you.” He was staring at me with an intense focus I’d never seen in him before. “And I know what you want.”

They spent like two days together give me a break

Did Hannah even have parents? I didn’t know. It had seemed like a reasonable thing to assume, that your sister’s friends had parents. That your sister’s friends were not full-grown adults with places of their own. That your sister was not spending spring break unsupervised with a deviant criminal.

She is actually the worst guardian

I hadn’t noticed. I hadn’t paid attention.

Yeah you selfish af that's why