Chapter 25

It was safe to say I had become best friends with a psychotic, evil pregnant woman who enjoyed watching people squirm. Hannah did not let me leave the store until I tried on every provocative piece she shoved at me. Some of those pieces made me want to get on my knees and pray for forgiveness. I had drawn the line on the see-through ones. I mean really, what was the point?

After that, she left the store to one of her workers and spent the rest of the day with me, giving me a tour of a lifetime. While Johnson was funny and childishly playful, Hannah was brutally honest, straightforward, and not shy at all. While on tour, she noticed the distance people keep from me. She also called out a waiter who kept apologizing to me after accidentally spilling my drink before it got to the table. Her words did not only snap the waiter of whatever fear he had on me but also seemed to calm the people eating at the restaurant.

“Yo, we got your sorry the first and fiftieth time. I think she gets it. C