Am I ready to get hurt?

Norma's POV

I am very nervous about going out with Connor tonight. I have loved him for a long time, but I did not dare to tell him because he did not like me in school. I'm afraid this is just a setup, and he will try to make a fool of me. I am not the easiest person to get along with in school. I was unhappy at home, so I wanted to take it out on innocent people at school, and it was wrong of me. I never liked to be a bully. I never wanted anybody to think of me the way I thought of my mother. But I had to protect myself from people always wanting to hurt me. Sometimes, I pretended to look down on people, but it was not because I wanted to. It was because I was hurting so much insight that I couldn't help myself being nasty to other people. Besides, back then, I was only a child. The older I got, the more I understood that I could not vent my frustrations on others. The hurt I was feeling inside of me. I could not inflict on other people. I know it wasn't very good of me. What could