OBS Chapter 96: Holding hands?!
Chapter 96: Holding hands?!
Cassie's anger didn't just evaporate, nothing of the like. She was still as furious as her friend as she was before she came in with all those apologies...
But now that she calmed down a little and actually listened to what Irene had to say, she could no longer just avert her eyes, assume bad intentions, and move on.
And even more importantly, given Irene's insistence on bringing her out to see something, Cassie couldn't help but feel curious.
"Just a little bit further," Irene urged her friend as she rushed down the street, looking around at every intersection, as if she was a hunting dog trying to catch the smell of her prey.
'She really looks like she's smelling something out,' Cassie thought, even more puzzled than she was before. 'Wait, what if she's trying to bring me somewhere where her other friends would...'
Cassie's lips pressed together as she turned her mouth into a single, slim line.
'Nah. She might be a bitch... Or she might be simply misguided and mistaken in her ways. But up until now, she never gave me any reasons to believe she's that much of a trash human being!'
Controlling her anger was something that Cassie could do to a surprisingly huge degree. As an introvert at heart and someone struggling to get the words out of her mouth with those that she didn't really know, she learned how to read the atmosphere and control her feelings, not to say the wrong things or act in the wrong way while out with others.
And yet...
'What was she apologizing to me about? And why am I even following her?' Didn't I decide to cut the contact?' Mere few minutes after leaving the restaurant, Cassie's mind bogged down on those questions as she lost the grip over herself.
The reality took a turn too quickly and too drastically for the heartbroken girl to easily process all the changes and adapt to them.
In the last few days that Cassie spent enclosed in her room and thinking about what happened, she gave some thought to how everything had to look from Peter's perspective.
And it wasn't a pretty sight whatsoever. In fact, after putting herself in his shoes, the only way in which she could sum up her own behavior was greatly disjointed with how Cassie actually looked at herself, who she considered herself to be.
Yet, as quickly and surprisingly as this thought appeared, it vanished from her mind, pushed away by the mix of shock, despair, regret, anger, fury, betrayal...
"That's why I'm sorry," Irene spoke with a face full of guilt... Or was it really guilt? Wasn't it anger by any chance? And what were those small sparks of an entirely different emotion dancing at the bottom of her eyes? "It looks like my meddling, rather than helping you out, made things even worse!"
With her mind already struggling to process her own emotions, Cassie simply ignored her observation, focusing on her own emotions rather than paying attention to the emotions of someone else.
Somewhere in the process, Cassie's sense of guilt for the pain she inflicted on Peter vanished. There simply wasn't enough room in Cassie's heart for her to feel guilty while going through all those different emotions!
And before she could even think about what she was supposed to do, or when she rushed forward, what she was supposed to say... Cassie already rushed ahead, stopping not on the crossing over the street, only having some miracle and fate to thank for how no car turned her into a bloody pancake plastered all over the driveway.
Cassie rushed forth, and in a mere moment, she reached the pair of her disgusting ex who somehow managed to get over the supposedly painful breakup and find himself such an otherworldy beauty!
As Cassie got closer, her worst fears proved to be true when she could no longer deny the fact that the two were holding each other hands, something she fervently blamed the distance and her bad eyesight for.
And when she finally caught up with the pair and rushed past them only to rapidly turn around and stand in their path, only a single thought was left in her mind.
A single sentence that fully encompassed all the feelings bustling in her soul.
"Who the hell is she?!"