When I looked around, there was Wizzie and her gang, grinning at me. I found my voice at last. ‘What are you gawping at?’ I yelled at them.It was Sonya who answered. Sonya with her stutter.‘S-s-somebody nobody likes.’Once I would have snapped back at her, made a fool of her. Now I couldn’t think of anything to say. She was right. I was someone nobody liked. It was so unfair. In a few days I had gone from Hannah, always surrounded by friends, to Driscoll, the girl who was constantly alone.Zak Riley was at the door of the canteen when I stumbled through, as if him and his mates were waiting for me. ‘I’d hate to be a lassie,’ he said.‘You’re too much of a wimp. We’d never have you.’ A little of the old Hannah coming through. Why couldn’t it come through when I spoke to Erin?That night at home, I couldn’t hold back any tears. I cried so much I eventually made myself sick. I had to run from my room and just made it to the bathroom in time. I hung over the toilet, retching.
