Read the excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah.I can’t sleep. What will Adam say?Adam? Who gives a crap about Adam?Not me. Uh-uh. Nope.He’ll probably laugh.Hey, that’s not fair. He’s not like that.

The speaker is anxious because she cannot sleep and keeps worrying about how Adam will react. Her thoughts shift between fearing that he will laugh and defending him, showing uncertainty and concern. “Anxious” best describes her mood; “nonchalant” would mean unconcerned, which does not fit.

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