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"So your life sucks. Boys still fawn all over you. And you have all the good friends. And everything of yours is real. You don't have to question things all the time. You just have everything."
She pauses. "Everything of mine has always been faked or vicarious through you. That's why I freaked out about liking Kenny so much. It was the first thing that felt like it was mine... completely because of me and completely in my control. So I screwed that one up fast. On purpose. I had Xander. And after Giles... he had just started to actually see me as someone not your little sister. Then I get pulled here and I'm back to being little Dawnie. Whose to say I won't do the same with Peter that I did with Kenny? Sometimes I don't think anyone has any clue what it's like to be me."