I got the scolding of my life over a stupid bra.
Mom asked me why I would do something like that and I’d just said I thought it would be funny. I mean, true, it was a little bit funny but honestly I just wanted to piss them off. It was their little princess, the favorite child—of course they’re throwing a fit. Dad wants to kill me, mom is thinking about disowning me. It’s all in their expressions, the disgust, the contempt for the stain of the family.
I figured they’d react this way.
If Violet was mean to me, they’d assume I deserve it, right?
Because, as Phil said, I’m mean and probably have a future including incarceration.
The problem child.
The stain.
When they dismissed me because they’d had enough of yelling at somebody who wasn’t fazed by it a
