Sloppy Firsts

Jess begins talking about her childhood, and it turns out that Jess used to have a bother the same age as Hope's bother.  But coincidently, he did also, but not from a drug overdose like Hope’s brother did.  But when Jess was younger she used to be nice and sweet, and now that she is older, she is not so sweet anymore.  In fact, her father even calls her “Notso,” as in Jessica Not-So-Darling, as her nickname.  If her parents were to throw her a sweet sixteen party this year, Jess would rather not have the party and stay home.  But she remembers when she was little, she used to play with Charlie’s Angel dolls which were her favorite toy.  But since Jess isn’t the prettiest girl at school, she noticed that one of the dolls she played with didn’t have fake eyelashes.  She figured that since this doll was one of the smartest of the three dolls, it must be some kind of rule that you can’t be pretty AND smart, you have to be one or the other.  In Jess’s case, she figured she was just smart.