At a school, a trend swept through — a particular way of dressing, a phrase everyone said, a thing everyone suddenly had to do. A girl called Bea jumped straight in. New everything, the right phrase in every sentence, exactly like everyone else. A few weeks later, the trend died as fast as it arrived. And someone asked Bea, half-joking, "Did you even like any of that, or did you just do it because everyone did?" Bea opened her mouth to answer — and realised she genuinely didn't know. She'd been so busy keeping up that she'd never once asked herself whether she actually wanted any of it.