The man

"Dear… I can't apologise enough. I don't know what happened to me back then…"

As soon as we stepped into the darkness of the changing room where I was given some time to prepare, Eve caught me from behind, wrapping her hands around my waist and burying her face in my back.

"What do you mean?"

To say that I was surprised by the sudden change of her attitude would be a great injustice to the shock that I survived. Right after I saw her happy to see me standing up for her, she turned apoglectic, as if she was about to reveal that she betrayed me or something. Just what the heck was going on?

"That man… I don't want to point fingers, but he had a strange influence on my mind. It's as if in one moment I wanted to hug and welcome him, only to spit and kick him in the very next moment. It felt… really weird…"