9. Here she comes again!

I can’t help but screw my eyes at her in anger as she makes her way towards me, looking sheepish. Now that I’m aware of who she really is, her beauty diminishes in my eyes. I wonder what she’s doing here, trying to humiliate me again? What the hell was with girls and me lately? It had never been like this. Normally, girls are nice to me, and other guys are hostile.

Now, everyone is hostile regardless of gender.

Maybe there was something in the water which is making everyone see me as a target. Maybe it’s my face. I’ve heard some people saying that certain individuals have faces that make them want to do horrible things to them. Does my face look like that too? Is that why everyone is picking on me?

Man, I’m too tired of all this drama.

“What do you want now?” I ask her in a hard, cold voice as she comes within hearing range, “Want to rub salt in the wound more? Call out the guys here so they can make it a real public humiliation?”

Coraline gulps and looks ashamed, but I don’t let that deter me. I’ve seen crocodile tears too much to believe her.

She takes a deep breath before starting in a gentle voice, “I’m sorry for what I did in there,” she points at the restaurant with her thumb, “You really shouldn’t have come to the meeting, none of them wanted to see you or play nice with you. They just wanted a clown for the evening, and you were the chosen one for it. They wanted to bully you and make fun of you.”

“Yeah, I figured,” I snap back, “you know when they actually did that and you joined in. In fact, I would say that you led it.”

“I just wanted you to get out of

a doubt that my expression must look as boggled as I feel. Does this girl even hear what she’s saying? That’s a total of one-eighty from her attitude within the restaurant.

want someone to do something, you ask them to do it like a normal person. If you wanted me to leave, you could’ve just told me to. As far as I’m aware,” my voice is getting angrier, “we both speak the same language, which means we can understand each other when we talk with the said language. If you want someone to leave,

remorseful, but I’ve been fooled too much in recent times to trust her. Her story

she’s near tears, “I didn’t want to

to that, the waiter comes back running

to only charge the relevant amount. We promise that this kind of error would never happen again, and urge you to not let this impair your

of a pleasant time,” I mutter before drawing out my wallet to take the card from the waiter and

a minute,” Coraline exclaimed, “You

voice sounds so incredulous I wonder what’s

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