If I Was Your Girl

Grant follows Amanda in the hallway at school, even though she’s been trying to avoid him. Most of her wants to be with him, but a part of her feels reservations because “it could end in both of us getting hurt” (78). He kisses her, and all her reservations melt. 

Amanda hangs out all night with the girls before finally going home. It’s one of the first times she feels like an ordinary teenage girl. The next morning, Anna calls Amanda and begs her to go to church. She’s hesitant since she hasn’t been to church in a long time, but she finally gives in. Her dad warns against it since he worries how the people at church will treat her if they find out the truth, but she goes anyway.

The car ride is awkward, as Amanda realizes that Anna’s parents are really strict. However, the church sermon strikes a chord in Amanda. The pastor says that Christians are “too concerned with the external, with our appearances […] when we should be concerned with the internal” (87). Amanda feels reassured that maybe the people in her life might actually care about who she is on the inside, not who she once was on the outside.