"Yeah, that's too bad, if he were here I'd want to scold him myself, but you'd probably get in trouble and I wouldn't want that." Irulan started to fidget in Leti's arms and Emily reached out to take Irulan back. She had been a good girl, but she always ended up missing her mommy. "Well, then hopefully you can get off one day, I'm sure you will at some point, I mean it would be wrong for them to stop you from accomplishing your dreams."
"Exactly, totally pointless, but I think my dad wants me to go into business or something 'useful' as he says. But honestly I'm not meant for the corporate world. I'd be crushed like a bug," Emily said with a small smile. At Leti's words that she could have something like Calvin and Katie she gave a little shrug, "The reason why I can't is just sort of complicated, it's hard to explain. Also it's a bit discouraging when every guy you end up liking always has some other perfect girl who encompasses his thoughts. I'm just invisible little me. I'm not super smart, or super beautiful, or super popular, I'm easily forgettable. Also don't try to reassure me Leti, I know it's true and I know you may not think so, but you aren't there. At Moses Pearson's...I'm invisible," she gave a little sigh, "I wrote a poem about it actually, it will make a good song."
"Well it's just that you're so lucky Leti, you're so pretty and so confident and boys notice you," Emily said, "I wish I could be like that. It's just when you've been shot down time and time again, it doesn't exactly make one think too highly of oneself."