Dani smiled.
But Hayden continued. "You're right, we don't hang out the way we used to and I miss that too. I'll even meet Sean because he's a friend of yours and you want me to meet him. But some of what you said to me was wrong Dani. When you tell me what I am, what I should see when I look in the mirror, and what I should feel, it means that I was right in not discussing my feelings with you."
Dani gave her a surprised look.
"It means that you have no concept of how deeply I have grown to hate the person that I see in the mirror, and how much I hate being in my own skin. If that's all it would take to fix what's broken in me, then I wouldn't spend every waking moment of my life fighting to be something else. So I don't need you to tell me who I am. I need to be the one to tell
