“Yes. He made me over from top to bottom, and I remember looking at myself in the mirror one day – wearing the awfulstuff that I wore for the first few weeks here – and not even recognizing myself. But every day he texted me and told me what to wear and by then, I was so sure that this was how a mature, adult relationship worked and looked, that I went along with it. In fact and worse, I thought that I was better after his changes. I know now that he was molding me into something that he saw in his head but back then, I thought that he was bringing out the best of me.”
“Asshole,” Silver repeated.
“But everyone around me kept telling me how amazing he was, how he was helping me to grow and change. Even my own parents told me that Brian was so attentive and caring, how he had to be totally
