**EVELINE**

How could I have been so stupid?

"I don't want you to leave," he insist and stands in front of me.

My stupid heart is debating against my mind. I am not being naïve ever again. How many times have boys been taking advantage and how many times have I been made a fool of? So many times. I was so stupid to think we had some sort of understanding between us, that I was not crazy, that he felt it too.

But turns out I was indeed crazy, I was alone in this, I was feeling and seeing whatever my brain wanted to see. I am beyond humiliated and pissed off at myself. I can't take it anymore. I want to go in my room and lick my wounds alone.

I stand up and he stops me. We are now standing toes to toes and I am holding my side, that I now know has gone worse. "Let me go," I say gritting through my teeth.

"Why?"

Why?! Is he not reading the room?