Forty-one

‘‘Why do you look hesitant, its just tea, no big deal,’’ Barbra nagged my shoulder.

I knew it was tea, just simple, perhaps tea and some donuts or cake.

‘‘Its not about the tea, its about the place where we are going to take tea,’’ I sighed. I felt like I was too much, I was already beginning to weigh them down with my problems and my original scared self was coming back too.

‘‘Its just a stupid room where people eat and come out, nothing much, you come out with your belly full,’’ she laughed again.

I knew it was a simple room for them, for everyone, but to me it wasn’t. It was the place where I had also experienced my lowest moments on earth. It was the room that was full of bad and pathetic memories. It was the place where Vince bullied me for the first time.

We should probably have an anniversary of enmity between us, because bullying me had become his new obsession and hobby, her had been doing it for so long that I even lost touch with being a normal girl. I almost forgot how