“You must come.” I looked at Daenna, who gave me the invitation to her birthday party on Saturday. She was smiling, quite pretending to smile, in my opinion. As always, Daenna was with her minions, all “pretending” to smile at me behind Daenna’s back. So, I pretended to smile at them, too. “Thanks! I’ll try to see if I could come. My mom’s coming over this weekend,” I replied. “Thanks for inviting me, anyway.” I didn’t plan to go to her party. I was not good at socializing. Daenna looked at me with sadness in her eyes. “Wow, she was a great actress,” I silently thought. “Hey, it’s my birthday. Every year, all of my classmates attend my birthday party. Please don’t tell me that you don’t want to come because of the bad things that came between us? I mean, I have always been this naug

