I was so excited. No one had ever played a game with me before. It would be the first time. All the other kids said I was strange because I was the only one without a real daddy,” she paused before laughing to herself. “Maybe they would like me if I had a pretty dress, or if I was a real princess because people always like princesses. I didn’t like the game; it really hurt. He said I’d get used to it like other princesses. But it hurt, so I kept thinking about the pretty pink dress with all of the white flowers on it. It hurt so much, and I just kept looking at the pretty pink dress because once I had it, once it was mine, I would get to be a princess and everyone would like me. Everything would be OK, once I had on my dress. I was wrong,” she scoffed before taking another deep breath. “I wasn’t a princess, nobody liked me, and I hated pretty pink dresses.” Chapter 10: Six Days Earlier AIDEN’S POINT OF VIEW April was right, I was still paying for staying up the other night, but it was worth it.
