Chapter 1600 Lost In A Wrong Turn:>12

"Dear, you need to stand up for yourself. The only way people can walk all over you is if you lie down for them. I mean that in a figurative sense. How do you expect people to see you for who you really are if you don't show them? Didn't you have a nice conversation with her earlier? Heather I mean?"
"Yeah," said Laurie who was flushed with pride. "She didn't yell at me!"
Heather couldn't have felt like more of an ass if she had tried. The girl's self-esteem had been so trampled by people like Heather thinking she was just some brain-dead and useless tart that the act of NOT getting criticized for a few minutes made her that happy. She was just a beautiful girl trying to get another girl's attention in the only way she knew how.