![]() ![]() They all have big Broadway dreams, fattened by watching Glee. For the drama dorks, it's huddling up in the auditorium, singing or running lines every chance they get. ![]() Until then, I'll carry on.Įverybody at JFK has a thing. I've heard if you pretend long enough-or maybe wish hard enough-faking normal becomes real. ![]() I walk on, brightening my smile through sheer determination. There's always a part of me that wants to make people sorry when they piss me off, but I've swallowed her whole, wrapped the shadow me in plastic, and I'm waiting for her to stop breathing. A bleary-eyed guy who's failing to rock a soul patch says, "What up, Princess?" and holds up two fingers in what's supposed to be a victory sign. They disable the alarms after each inspection, so they can slip in and out for a smoke. ![]() It echoes as I walk past the burners, which is what I call the pot and pill heads, who cluster near the emergency exit. But she's taught me a lot in the years I've been living with her, mostly how to stop being angry about things I can't control. Before I came to stay with Aunt Gabby, I was worse than those girls. It so doesn't, but high school is full of people who think what they wear matters more than who they are. The goth girls started it, all ripped black fishnets and heavy kohl, with chipped black nail polish and metric tons of attitude, like any of that makes them cooler than anyone else. ![]()
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