Pretty Was Never the Plot — Episode 7

I just want to be comfortable and I don't want you thinking I don't love you because I can't finish my food. Then tomorrow we'll go to the family clinic and do what the doctor says. I won't make you finish your plate anymore. My nose started to sting. The people who love you can still love you the wrong way, but real love hears your

pain and changes. I was wrecked. I wanted to bury my face in my pillow and cry all night, but I couldn't let them take the one thing I was good at. School was the one place I could win without my looks mattering. I could lose Eve. I couldn't lose myself.

My crush is dead, but my life is just beginning. I get here early every day, not just to prep. I just don't want anyone watching me suck in my stomach and force myself into a chair built for a standard body. You blocked me? Yeah. I can explain the diary. I don't want to hear it. The person who got humiliated is always expected to sit

there and listen. Like having a reason makes the hurt go away. Professor Miller, I need a new lab partner. Ethan keeps passing me notes and it's keeping me from taking notes. There are open seats in the back. Lily, you can move there. I used to worry about embarrassing him, about saying I was overreacting. But when he humiliated me in front of hundreds of people, he didn't think