All it later took for me to stop was a little gum pain.
Annie offers to drive me and drop me off at Crimson Group headquarters before heading off to her art engagements.
Annie was giving me a lot of pep-talk on the way. I did not listen to much of it.
I was occupied in the personal eclipse of the mixed feelings of anger, guilt and embarrassment. And also an overwhelming rage against the world for being so unfair. I'm going seeing someone I would rather not see.
Things only go well in dramas—in cleverly created fiction. But never in real life. In dramas, villains which is the antagonist sure get their moments. But they do not succeed in the end. They lose to the protagonist.
