Lauren told me not to reply to anything online. “Let us handle it,” she said, and I did.
Instead, I followed Zayne’s advice. He told me to give my haters middle fingers, and that was exactly what I did by ignoring them.
I stopped reading comments and focused on work. I’ve had a rough life, and I’d be foolish to let anyone make me doubt myself now that things were finally working.
Where were they when I was barely surviving? When I was the one holding everything together: my mom, Jesse, and myself?
Now that I got a little help, everyone suddenly had opinions.
Even with the new buzz around me, Cade didn’t reach out after the day he saw me with Zayne. Sometimes I wondered if he was proud, if he still had my pictures saved somewhere. I was with Zayne now, but a small part of me still care
