Chapter 48 - Thing One And Thing Two

I finally made it to the toilet in time, bashing down the the door of the first empty stall that I had found feeling sense of relief when there was no longer bile mixed with undigested food in my mouth.

I had just finished eating my blueberry muffin so the flavor of the blueberry chunks tasted sweet in my mouth amidst the other things.

I took a glance at the undigested food in the toilet and I scrunched up  my face in disgust at the sight of the cheese puddle mixing with the chocolate.

It looked as if it were the food a two year old would feed you when playing make believe shelf but the only difference was that, it was edible, well was edible.

I stood there peering at toilet, looking at my last $20 being flushed down the drain, quite literally.

I sighed as I placed my hand on the door of the bathroom stall about to exit when I heard the door of the bathroom opened and in came a girl with a familiar voice and my hand froze.

Harin.

She came in chatting with what I could only guess were the two other girls from their group and cursed in silence in the fear of getting caught.

I quietly as possible turned the lock of the stall door, closing the toilet seat to stand on it so that they didn't know that I was here.

It had already been 2 minutes and they were still there chatting and laughing like what girls do and I was struggling to keep still and quiet on the toilet seat when I heard Shiwoo's name being mentioned and then my ears became alert.

Now I don't usually ease up, who am I kidding I do, but for some reason I was really interested in what they were saying especially since the incident and my name was brought up.

"So Harin you and Shiwoo finally huh? You have been running behind him for as long as I can remember. What has changed?" ask the person who I will be calling girl number one.

"Yeah" said newly named girl number 2, "you had always been behind him like a loyal puppy, no stray puppy. Always begging at his feet. What changed?"

"Okay, you two shut the fuck up for one!" snapped Harin finally annoyed at silently snickered, "I am not some lost puppy okay? Shiwoo should be grateful for having me and if you must know our fathers had a meeting with him so he is good now."

Meeting? Seriously? She had to get daddy involved to make a man like or be with her? How pathetic.

I rolled my eyes at scoffed at how desperate she was.

"A meeting? Wow" said girl number one and I think I heard both she and number two snickered.

"So" said girl number one turning the tap on, "what's about this Atalia girl that I heard about. Your ex best friend I heard?"

Harin scoffed and I imagined her rolling her eyes at the mention of my name.

"Her?" she asked and I could hear the hatred and disgust laced in her voice and dripping off her tongue, "I wouldn't call her my ex best friend, more like an ex worker or ex follower. I never really liked that Jamaican freak with her gravity defying her but I just played nice for the poor thing was like a stray dog."

I had, in that instant, had decided to demote them to thing one and thing two as they started  laughing at Harin's words and I felt my chest tighten.

"Oh my God Harin you're such a bitch. I kind of feel bad for the poor thing." said thing two laughing obviously faking her sympathy.

I balled my hands into fist counting to 10 in English but when I found that that was enough I starting counting in Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese and even Thai.

I was running out of numbers 1-10 to count to and I still wasn't calm by now.

I took a deep breath and counted to ten in the final language that I knew, Chinese, and felt my nerves calming and the tightness in the back of my head faded.

"Hold on," said thing one suddenly, "I heard through the grapevine that they actually fucked. Is that true?"

Thing two gasped and I heard a smacking sound that could only be described as he slapping her hand over her mouth and I rolled my eyes at her extraness.

What having sex is suddenly a crime when I do it but is alright for everybody else?

"Yeah they did. The little slut went to his and fucked him while she was drunk he told me. It was after she sent his booty to the hospital after brutally beating her up. The bitch is insane like angry black person grab your purse insane. He told me that he tried to stop her but she forced herself on him like the slut she is."

"Damn!" said both the things in unison.

"She's really awful. How did you manage to put up with her alone for all these years huh? You must have been scared every night." asked thing two sounding sympathetic and sincere.

Scared? Of me?

If it was anyone who should be afraid is me.

I will never forget when she had a guy over and how he basically sexually assaulted me when I first came here but brushed it off by saying, "you're a foreigner so you're an easy target so just deal with it."

Or the countless time she would grope me and say that it was what friends do so how am I the bad person here?

She was out there spreading all sorts of lies, defaming my character as if I was some type of home wrecking whore.

I mean I did wreck it but there was no home between the two.

"She really is awful" sobbed Harin and my blood began to boil, "I don't know why I kept her around. Oh wait I do. She did all the house work and my homework so I guess she wasn't totally useless."

Oh. She was done crying now?

I'll give her something to cry about real soon.

They stayed there in the bathroom talking more shit about me for a whole other ten minutes when one of the guys that they came with called them from outside the door.

Thank God for whoever he was for if it weren't for him they would probably be talking about me the whole day.

I guess I was famous now for they were definitely my fans.