After the visitor spoke at my high school

 about climate change, I could not

 stop crying.

“Do you want to talk about it?” a counselor

 asked.

I shook my head.

I didn’t want her in my life.

Besides, she would never believe

I was crying because Matt twirled Steffie’s

 hair during the lecture

And I heard him ask her to the prom.

— Felicia Nimue Ackerman