Chapter 4: You Never Really Know Better
Bonnie’s parents wouldn’t see reason. DX drove like a maniac while Bonnie yelled into her phone. “Mom, how can you not see that you are making things so much worse for me?”
“I’m doing everything I can to stop you from making a mistake you could regret your whole life.”
“By trying to get me on the Rush Limbaugh show? Don’t you think that’s a mistake you’re going to regret for your whole life?”
“I don’t like this, sweetheart—”
“Don’t call me that.” Bonnie gritted her teeth so hard she thought they might crumble.
“Sweetheart,” her mother said, in a voice so syrupy it should have come with a side of blueberries, “I don’t like this anymore than you do. But your father and I are just trying to love you until you can love yourself.”
“Tina loves me. I
