"I feel like you should know..Not even my brother or dad knows." She held her shoulder and sighed taking a deep breath, she laid her head in his lap and closed her eyes. "Growing up in China looking the way I do was very hard. Not only for me but for my mother, she was ridiculed and laughed at. Outcast by the other parents. No amount of money could change what people think. To you or even here I may fit in at least a little, but here things are different. I was laughed at because my skin would tan, and my hair sometimes curls. Because my eyes are too big and I have more curves. Kids are cruel, but mostly because of their parents. I got bullied a lot. My desk carved hurtful words I don't think I could ever repeat, my books were thrown in the toilet." Nadya laid an arm over her eyes biting her lip, "They would throw trash on me, once in high school a group of girls locked me in a closet and took pic-pictures of me, they spread them around the school. My mom asked my dad to transfer schools after that. Everywhere it was the same, they dishonored my family name, beat me up, treated me like trash. And the only relief I had was that I would graduate soon...." Nadya took a shaky breath to calm herself before the tears started falling. "And then my mum, she was so sick. They had targeted her, the women in the neighborhood treated her terribly. She was always sick, but she never told me a thing always worrying about me. But, I was so selfish I never relied on her. I never told her that I was okay. I just pretended like everything was fine without knowing that she knew. " She covered her face with her hands, "Then she died, and nothing was the same. I lived by myself for the remainder of high school, of course, the moment never stopped but I never told anyone. My father and brother were bound to take it out of proportion...when my dad finally came to visit me he offered for me to move here. Living there was too painful for me, and not only because of the memories." She went silent and wiped her eyes sitting up and sighing trying to hold her emotions in check.