"Except its already happened," Mindy said, giving Harley a pointed you-don't-know-me look. "There's a reason me and Joel don't get along, and that's the bulk of it. Come on Harley, do you think I'd have those feelings just because? People here already show me exactly how I unnerve 'em as a kid, so they don't need to know who's to blame for me being 'broken,' got it?"

As far as she was concerned, they could stay in the dark about it too. She wasn't the person who was about to tell her life story so she could get sympathy anyway. What good would it do her? People wanted a reason to bring her down to the little kid level. She didn't mind pissing them off by not letting that happen.