Shayna My lack of external reaction seemed to frustrate her. She was used to me wearing my emotions on my sleeve. However, she clearly didn't know that I had gotten really good at masking my emotions over the last decade. Deep inside I was shaking like a leaf. Rachel still affected me. I may have grown stronger and working with Levi, Christina, Patrick, and even Alex had my confidence building, but I clearly still had more work to do. The minute she walked in and the second I heard her voice, I was reduced to a crumbling pile of ash! "Still as dumb as you were before I saw," Rachel said while inspecting her nails. I wanted to shrink back at her insult, but I thought about all the times she bullied me when I was younger. I thought about Miles. What would I tell him to do in this situati

