The Last Straw
Jenny giggled, covering her mouth.
My friends, who I'd worked hard together with in the past, also came together with Jenny, but they joined in the laughter too, teasing, "We’ve always heard Jenny say her brother likes beautiful women, and she wasn’t lying! He walked in and went straight for the prettiest one here!"
As it turns out, my so-called old friends had already grown close enough to Jenny to joke around like this.
Jeremy was incredibly strong, and I couldn’t break free.
Seeing as no one was going to help me any time soon, I stomped on his foot hard, and he finally let go with a pained cry.