Callie had never experienced being genuinely happy in the Human World. Since she was a child, she experienced prejudice and bullying that she never deserved, even her mother who was being involved in those bullies going overboard didn't deserve to be complicated by their humorless jokes.
She had a hard time in there, from just being an innocent kid until she was in high school. She definitely injured the emotional pain and sometimes physical pain as well that long. But even then, she realized and learned a lot of things.
"Who's that? Why is she dressed that way?"
"Pfft. She dressed like my grandmother."
"She looks funny. She's weird."
A seven-year-old Callie held her mother's hand tightly as she looked up at her mother's face, trying to find any emotion on there that would at least l
