Blah blah image to maintain, nonsense about even more unattainable perfection than perfection already is, it goes to your head. Not in an ego-inflating way. [ And that's on toxic parenting. ] Honestly, I haven't even said it to anyone until like a few minutes ago.

[ Congrats hearing it first? ]

Hawkins doesn't deserve any of us cool people, anyway. But I know what you meant; did people like give you shit for 'suspecting' it in band or something? [ The "shit" rolls off her tongue easily. Probably more easily than Robin might think. She's usually not the type to curse out loud, even among close friends, but a while ago, Eddie was privileged (?) to witness her first out-loud cursing — and it was an f-bomb. They'd been discussing The Shit™ that went down in Hawkins — specifically in relation to her dying and him being caught up in it, so it was a well deserved f-bomb when talking about the company she kept there. ]