Let just say B was a total B***h. I absolutely, positively could not stand her. She and her family had moved into town from South Asia a year ago and was always trying to make her presence known everywhere she went. She was brash, rowdy and had literally no filter. There was nothing one could do to embarrass her, and I could tell she worked very hard to not be seen as the “new girl”.
I, on the other hand, was fairly introverted. I tended to keep mostly to myself and found it very easy to make myself disappear in most settings. Had a very small circle of friends and hated drawing attention to myself. Basically, I had no game, no experience and I didn’t know any better. That’s how I navigated my entire life and expected it to stay that way.
If making it through the day with B in school was hard enough for me, she somehow became close friends with my elder sister. This meant she frequented my house all the time. And on multiple occasions, I would have to be the one to drive her home to drop her off.