Chapter 26

• "Why?"
• "Because it was what I wanted."
• "I'm really not that big of a doormat, Byron," I said, knowing there had certainly been many times in my life where that could have been said about me. I had always excused it as family obligation, as looking out for someone who obviously wasn't capable of looking out for themselves. But in my relationships especially, I had always taken more of a lead role, often being the one to end things when I felt they were going south, cutting ties when it was time, saving all the useless arguments, the resentment, the anger. I certainly never just... wore what boyfriends told me to wear.