***JASMINE'S POV***
"I'm trying to tell you..." I began....that I don't want to be treated like a prize to be won," I said, my voice steady. "I'm not some trophy for you to claim. I'm a person, with feelings and thoughts and opinions. I'm not just here to be your girlfriend, your stepsister or your friend, or anything else. I'm here to be myself, and I want you to accept me for who I am."
Sean looked at me, his eyes wide. He hadn't realized how much he had been treating me like an object, rather than a person. He felt ashamed, and he didn't know what to say, he just left.
Days passed and the prom party was getting closer.
"All right, everyone," Ms. Johnson, the student council advisor, said as we all gathered in the gymnasium. "The prom is only a week away, and we need to start making
