Abby

My body feels as though it doesn’t belong to me as I stalk to the breakroom. I

feel like a puppet on strings that have been cut, like my limbs are made of lead

and my body might give out from beneath me at any moment.

When I’m alone in the breakroom once again, though, I can’t contain my fury

any longer.

“Dammit!” The word explodes out of my mouth, and without thinking, I whirl

around and let my shoe connect with the wall. There’s a faint but satisfying

crack, and when I pull away, there’s a slight dent where I unleashed my rage.

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It’s almost laughable, seeing how small the dent is. It’s like my own body won’t

even do what I want, let alone the ingredients on that stage out there.

My mind is whirling with so many thoughts that I barely even register the door

creaking open. But then that venomous voice, that voice that I’ll hear in my

nightmares for years to come, slices through the air like an arrow whizzing past

my ear.

“Oh, Abby,” Daniel says, the sneer audible in his voice without me even having

to look at him. I can picture him without even turning around, that horrendous

the corners of his lips.

even start, Daniel,” I hiss, leaning on the

him.

he says, coming closer now. “I’m allowed

concerned, aren’t I?”

not to respond, but it seems as though

beginning to crumble. “Boy, that

it really should’ve been you dropping

have

into my palms despite the sting of

me, if

letting him

he continues, relentless as ever, his words dripping

fitting, isn’t it? You never belonged here.

a—”

face him, my eyes ablaze,

he spits out next

nothing but a stupid little slut

culinary world,” he hisses.

of me. My

distance between us,

trembling with the force of my anger, “are

an even worse excuse for

smile only widens, that infuriating, cocky smirk

“Struck a nerve, have

my arm tense. Before I can stop

my hand poised to

he deserves it. He’s a rat, a cockroach, a stain on this entire

only sabotaged me and Karl, but

slurs in my face like it’s

He quickly glances at my raised

in his

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