Liliana

You know, it's going to happen a few times.

She just said, oh, Lily said you're making her uncomfortable.

And he just gave me this look like I knew I was going to get it when we got home.

Like I knew like he was just so angry and so disappointed.

And again, my heart just sank.

I can't eat my food anymore.

That for some reason reminded me of another story.

I don't know if this is relevant, but I'll go ahead and tell it anyway.

But there was another time we were at a restaurant and I saw somebody that I went to school with at the restaurant.

So I was like, oh, hey, like waving at them, smiling at them and stuff.

And he leaned over and whispered in my ear, if you don't stop looking at them over there, I'm going to beat your ass when we get home.

And I just like, you know, face dropped.

I got tears in my eyes.

and I tried not to look at them anymore.

Or anytime I did catch their eyes, I would give a little wave, but they could tell something was wrong.

So they saw me at school, and they asked, why were you crying?

What happened?

And I was just like, I don't know.

Because that's the thing.

When you feel like you're in the wrong, if I could make myself not cry, I would.