What mattered most was invisible to the eye. That was what Valerie always thought. It had been engraved on her mind ever since she was young.
Beauty was only skin deep. Social statuses and achievements didn't define you as a person. What you do, your thoughts, and the ideas you share with the world were much more important.
This might be true, but different kinds of people didn’t share the same opinion as she did. So she never understood why people would insist their beliefs on hers as well.
Something didn't ring that well to Valerie when she heard those lines from Leah. But, it was something that she could only think to herself. Instead, she tried to gently discuss instead of making it an argument.
"No, not at all." Valerie slightly shook her head and replied, "I have spent a good amount of time with them to know that they will never do any harm to me or to others."
