12.2 Courage

The student looked at her for a moment. The young woman seemed to hesitate, torn between her desire to feign ignorance and her sense of remorse.

-You know, she tricked me into this, too," she began without looking up, fidgeting with her fingers in a frenzy that betrayed her discomfort. "She got close to me just so she could get to you. Once I realized that, I didn't know how to get rid of her... I thought that if she faced reality head on, if you rejected her directly, she would eventually give up and leave me alone..."

Her voice dropped as she spoke. Yomo swallowed hard. He was trying to contain the anger that was rising inside him.

-And you think it's okay to do that? Did you ever think about how I might feel about dealing with her?" he managed to say calmly, but the wave of emotion he felt made his voice tremble slightly. "You think it's easy for me to have to deal with someone who makes me hyper uncomfortable with her aggressive seduction?"