Roommaid

secretly, I’d always been her favorite niece

was his polar opposite,

out of the loop

That’s a tall drink of wow.

could somehow inoculate myself to his pretty, make myself immune to his charms.

This Tyler thing fell out of the sky like manna from heaven.

Even though I tried telling myself that my outer shell didn’t matte

was much vainer than I would have ever admitted out loud.

You don’t have to know Brad to be disgusted.”
“No, Tyler looked like a prisoner on death row who had just been pardoned. He is unnaturally happy that I’m with someone else.”

it wasn’t normal for your parents to map out your entire life, not allowing you to have any say in it.