CHAPTER 31 I’ve already told you how much I despise being ignored. I would much rather be hated than tossed aside and abandoned. That’s why I felt a little thrill of victory when I finally managed to make Jake angry. I was acting like a witch. I’ll be the first to admit it. But for weeks, I’d been trying to get some reaction out of that boy. Like when you’re a kid and you keep poking at the jellyfish in the aquarium because you just want to see it do something. I’m sure if I had a psychologist or therapist they’d tell me how messed up that is. Tell me it’s immature try to make someone mad at you because you’re attention-starved and insanely hormonal. They can take all their book learning and shove it down their throats. What do they know about me, anyway? I got to the NICU that night,