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ELISE

I started eating as soon as Alia landed steaming plates on the table, and I took my meds as soon as I had a few mouthfuls of food in my stomach so pretty soon, the pain I suffered from my injuries started to get dull, too. I told her what happened in between the bites and chews of my breakfast, but I didn’t tell her how the bitch ripped my dress and exposed my boobsies to Gian. I didn’t know why she often teased me about him. Okay, I knew. It was because Gian was hot and delicious. She would just gloss over the fact that Gian’s type were statuesque, beautiful women, not diminutive and small-boned like me. The fact that I was in proximity to someone like him was all that was enough for my romantic friend to dream that Gian would suddenly forget all his preferences and fall in love with me.

So, even before I finished telling almost all of it, my poor friend was mad as hell. She was so angry that she waved her spoon and fork in the