I’m confused???? Is there a story to this?
The lines which are a flashback here are: She thought of her last day in middle school, seven years ago, when Sarah had given her an iPod. She had felt ecstatic that day when she realized she would be able to listen to her favorite songs and fend off comments from her cousins about how little she knew about music.
The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess. ... Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
