Chapter 121 - Bad memories - 2

Eventually, Tess and Jack could not take it anymore and called Maddox. He came and coaxed me until I told him everything.

In my memory, that was the first time I had cried so miserably.

I did not want to be a nasty person. But I also hated doing whatever I was doing/not-doing to be a good person.

Bro, Tess, Jack, and Tessa’s grandmother would talk to me and convince me that I was not a terrible person.

It took a couple of months. Finally, their words sank in, and I stopped acting out.

But then something had changed in those few months.

My parents were convinced the way I had acted out in those few months under Tina’s manipulations was the real me.

For example - they thought I was an untidy person. I stopped being deliberately disorganized or messy. But they said I was trying to be like Tina.

I was always an outstanding student. Apart from 1 exam in the middle of that school year when I deliberately did not answer half the questions so that Tina’s results could be better than mine, I h