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Harassment
Unsolicited words or conduct meant to annoy,
alarm or abuse another person
Things kind of tanked after that. I started eighth
grade a couple of weeks later. Byron never left the
house. And Andy was in a rotten mood all the time.
She’d never say a thing to Byron when I was around,
but she stayed up late every night hissing at him.
I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but I could tell
by the tone of her voice that it wasn’t good.
Her diet and her smoking were getting worse too.
Maybe it was the stress, but I thought it was more
likely she was just doing it to bug Byron. And if that
was her plan, I was 100 percent behind her. What a
guy. He, like, moves in with us, kicks me out of my
room—and then starts complaining about second-
hand smoke and our unhealthy eating habits.
