Tracey looked confused and frustrated as Mandy began to shed tears. The girl just couldn't understand her point of view! She didn't realize how it was to grow up in a family where status was what their lives meant. And that if she ruined that, she ruins everything her family worked for.
"You do not know what you're talking about!" Tracey said, an incredulous tone to her voice. "My family loves me. But I love them enough to not dare put any damage to our name. I know that they won't disown me for whatever that I do, or yeah, maybe even whoever I fall in love with..." she found herself trailing off, realization hitting her profoundly. Her family deserved better than how she treated them. Zach deserved better than how she was treating him. "They'll still love me for me," she said, as though talking to herself.