Monotone Noa likes to refer to people by their most prominent features, the ones she knows they’ll be insecure about. Never their names. It’s Bald Spot , or Teeth , or Eyebrow s. It’s from high school, according to her. From being called Flat Chest for years herself. She’s really good at it. Finds the exact thing a person hates about themselves. When we fight and she calls me Monotone for the first time, I ask her about it. What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you do that? Don’t deflect , she fires back. You’re manipulating the conversation . She’s right, because the fight was about how I left her alone in the club bathroom when we went out and she had to throw up and because I didn’t hold her hair back she got vomit all over her hair and a friend joked about how she smelled. On the way back on the train she gave me the silent treatment. Except for the few times she let me hold a water bottle in front of her face so she could...
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