Vacation Nightmare (For Them)
"If you arrange a place for us now, I'll tell my parents you had urgent business with your company and couldn't make it. But if you don't, the consequences will be yours to bear. I won't forgive you, either."
How pitiful. When I'd been bending over backward for them, they'd treated me as dispensable. Now, they dared to threaten me? They should look in the mirror and reflect on their audacity.
I replied with two words, "Fuck off." Then, I ended the call.
Still, Johnny wouldn't relent. When his calls came again, I simply turned off my phone.
That night, I attended a pool party hosted by the hotel, sipping cocktails under a warm Bali moon.