He thought Kristen was learning to manipulate them into behaviors that got them in trouble, and quietly enjoying the fallout.
Janelle had not been able to bite back her reply that time. She’d told the man to go f**k himself, and then been invited to leave his office.
Kristen’s therapist was more hopeful.
“She’s learning to live within expected boundaries. She may not understand those boundaries, or like them …”
The rest of it went over Janelle’s head. What the woman was telling her was that Kristen was learning to fake a conscious she didn’t actually possess.
Kristen’s apparent good behavior held though. She was as aloof as ever, but she stayed out of trouble.
Then a girl who had been her friend for at least two years, a girl who had stayed over at Janelle’s too many times to cou
