Mattie Mae Albright has spent twelve chapters certain she knows exactly who Sarah Whitmore is. Chapter Twelve tells her she's wrong. This is Sarah's version—the girl who stopped talking when nobody listened, who turned herself to stone because the rules kept changing and nobody told her. She's been sitting on that stoop the whole time, waiting for Mattie to come back. Start reading from Chapter One →
Lyrics
Lyrics by Justin Zimmer, music generated by Suno.com (Suno Playlist)
[instrumental intro] [verse] When we were little girls I saw you sitting alone at school on the stoop, with your hands out in the air But you looked happy, said you were fishin' And you invited me to join I thought it was silly but I sat and you gave me a rod You told me all about fishin' with your dad and then you caught one, it was a big one. Now, I don't like to pretend I never liked that kind of play But I helped you reel it in anyway You made it so much fun, without any expectations and I thought that's all we needed to be friends [chorus] I'm just a weird girl A strange, unusual girl I talk and no one listens. They just laugh or turn away. They call me the weird girl the strange, unusual girl I wish it was as easy as fishin' on the stoop with you. Because I'm a weird girl I'm a strange, unusual girl I'm sorry I didn't know how to be your friend. [verse 2] But one day you looked sad And they said your daddy died And they told me just to leave you be I didn't understand, I didn't know what else to do And I never saw you fishin' there again Then girls they become young women and all the rules they change but I didn't change I don't understand the rules So they called me rude, they even called me strange I was the weird girl And there's no one I could talk to So I stopped talking I turned myself to stone [chorus] I'm just a weird girl A strange, unusual girl I talk and no one listens they just laugh or turn away. They call me the weird girl the strange, unusual girl I wish it was as easy as fishin' on the stoop with you. Because I'm a weird girl I'm a strange, unusual girl I'm sorry I didn't know how to be your friend. [outro] Now we're both weird girls We're strange, unusual girls But I talk and you don't listen. You don't remember. You just run away. To you I'm a mean girl A harsh, judgemental girl And I just miss sitting there fishin' in the air with you. [end]
