There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can’t do.
The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.