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At our 10-year reunion, my high school bully strutted up, dumped wine down my dress, and sneered, “Look, everyone—the Roach Girl is still a loser.” Laughter spread through the room. I just stood there, silent. Then the doors slammed open. Her husband stormed in, face twisted with rage. “Where is she? She stole $200.000—that designer bag she’s flaunting is fake.” The room went de/ad silent.

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Turns out, everything. And then, spectacularly, nothing I could have ever predicted.

Roach Girl and the Queen Bee

Fort Collins, Colorado wasn’t exactly glamorous for me. Mom and I lived crammed in the back room of my aunt’s already small house off Shields Street. Mom worked nights cleaning office buildings, weekends pulling shifts as a gas station cashier. Money wasn’t just tight; it was a constant, suffocating anxiety. Dad? He vanished when I was eight. No calls, no cards, no child support. Just… gone.

High school was a masterclass in social stratification. I was at the bottom. Shy, perpetually broke, rotating the same three worn hoodies. I ate lunch alone behind the auditorium, reading library books to escape. Teachers barely noticed me – quiet, no trouble. But the other students? They noticed. Or rather, Trina noticed.

Trina Dubois. If you went to FCHS in the early 2010s, you knew her. Blonde, rail-thin, with a wealthy stepdad who funded her seemingly endless supply of Abercrombie and attitude. She wasn’t the loudest mean girl, but she was the most venomous. She could dismantle you with a single smirk. And for reasons I’ll never understand, I became her favorite project.

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