There’s a rounded dent on its surface now, the shape of her words, and that’s where I keep my anger. It suits you so much better than ballet.”īut Mom sometimes says things that dig at my self-esteem. “You should really take gymnastics or cheer, Lovebug. I smile with my teeth when I’m happy, and when my mom looks at me, I’m always happy. Some wear their hearts on their sleeves-I wear mine on my mouth. Always unsure and on the verge of snapping. Backs rod-straight like an exclamation mark. My classmates are leaner, longer, and more flexible. I feel their giggles in my empty stomach. Girls torpedo past me, bumping into my shoulders. I wiggle my banged-up toes in my pointe shoes, swallowing the ball of anxiety in my throat. But that’s BS, and if she gave a damn-really gave one, not just pretended to-she’d know this, too. I tell Mom it’s from messing with my hair too much. Whenever I let my hair down, my golden locks fall off in chunks on the bathroom floor. My white duffel bag dangles from my shoulder. I stand frozen on the threshold of my mother’s ballet studio, my pale pink leotard sticking to my ribs. My eyes are searching for the blonde head I’d like to bash against the well-worn floor.įeel free to not be here today, Queen Bitch. They blur into a rainbow of trims and scrunchies.

The tiles under my feet shake as a herd of ballerinas blaze past me, their feet pounding like artillery in the distance.īrown hair. This, my pretty reckless rival, is how our screwed-up story starts His parting words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this world is free. Now he lives across the hall, and I want nothing more than to be his last everything. In Penn Scully’s case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a bright summer day.įour years ago, he asked me to save all my firsts for him. The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.Įveryone loves a good old unapologetic punk.īut being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries’ way. There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears.ĭaria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. Yeah, baby girl, say it-I’m your foster brother. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much. Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project.

The good thing about circumstances? They can change. I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced.

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