Chapter 140

• “Respect yourself,” I say as I pull away. Letting her hair go. She plops down on the ground just staring at me like a crazy person. “Don’t you want someone to respect you? To see you— not for what you look like but for who you, actually are?”
• “I— people see me.” She states but it comes out less like a statement than I think she wanted.
• “They see what you look like. Because you flaunt it like gold and diamond. And that’s great. But do you ever let them get to know who you are?”