Chapter 21

I was in a love-hate relationship with myself. I hated my body so much for allowing Octavious to have such an effect on me but I also knew that I couldn’t help it because what he was making me feel was foreign and new to me. My parents had made sure that I didn’t even hold a boy’s hand, I wasn’t allowed to have male friends like Jessalyn had and I definitely couldn’t get a boyfriend. I always thought my parents were attempting to protect me because I was their youngest and Jessalyn was the oldest and most rebellious. 

I always tried my best to please my parents because I wanted their approval. I didn’t have to try very hard though, because I had been the favourite. My father would call me his princess and my mother would show me more attention than she ever showed Jessalyn. 

I could tell that the attention that my parents gave me bothered Jessalyn, and that was why she would act out