Sadie is my best friend, and I share almost everything with her, but I keep my deepest secrets for Ethel alone. She’s crass and honest and always gives me the best advice. I want more than anything to spill my guts to her about the entire thing right here and now. But that’s the problem, apparently. In my parents’ eyes, I should never be close enough with a resident to share the most vulnerable pieces of my heart with them. “I’m good,” I tell her and plaster a smile on my face. “How are you?” “A little pissed that you’re lying to me,” she says, crossing one bony leg over the other and pinning
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