SPIDERWEB 59 How Dare You!

She looked at the drop at the bottom of the cup and then slurped it up, then placed the cup down gently into her sink, stretching wildly on her way to her couch. She closed her eyes as she flopped onto the couch and stared at the ceiling, the bleakness of the gray describing her mind too accurately.

"OUCH!" she exclaimed, as the hard case of her phone jabbed into her back.

Angrily, she yanked out the phone from behind her and threw it to the ground and was about to look away when the screen lit up to reveal a string of texts on a notification. Reluctantly, she clicked on it and punched in her pa.s.scode, then read the messages.

"Oh…" She sighed, realizing what the texts were about then speed-read the texts from Mia and was about to turn off her phone when Mia texted one more sentence.

"I'm sorry," Gradis read the text, staring at it blankly after reading it.

"Ha…" her hands trembled, "HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA."

She burst into hysterical laughter as the sentence repeated in her head, "HAHAHAHAHAH I'm sorry? HAHAHAHA...HAHAHA...HAHA...HA," her hands tightly wrapped around her phone, "shut up."

Before she could stop herself, her hands rose up and threw her phone at the ground, bursting into another fit of laughter as she watched the screen showing the 'I'm sorry' shatter.

"SHUT THE f.u.c.k UP!" She screamed, her pupils shaking, as she stood up unsteadily and slammed her finger into the screen, then picked up the phone and threw it at the ground again when she read the sentence again, "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!!!!"

"What do you know?" Gradis asked as she stared at the flickering screen, her trembling lips twitching into a smile, "WHAT THE f.u.c.k DO YOU KNOW?!"

She slammed her fist into the screen, ignoring the blood rolling down her fist from the broken screen impaling her skin, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT ME?!" she shrieked, laughing cynically as she continued to hit the phone, "I'M SORRY? WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! WHAT ARE YOU APOLOGIZING FOR?!"

"YOU SAY I'M SORRY, BUT DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE APOLOGIZING FOR! YOU STUTTER NERVOUSLY WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M ANNOYED ABOUT! YOU TRY TO COAX ME WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M THINKING!" she raged, slamming her trembling fist into the screen again, "HOW DARE YOU? HOW DARE YOU ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME?!"

"WHY?!" She yelled, tears falling down her face when she realized that the only damage she had done was worsening the cracks on the screen, and leaving deep cuts on her hand, "why do you try so hard? Why do you feel sorry? WHY DO YOU FEEL SORRY FOR ME? WHO ASKED YOU?!"

She collapsed, giving in to her shaking legs and allowed her head to hit the ground, "why do you feel pity for me? Why is it me?" she asked with a quivering voice as she stared past the blood drops on the screen to Mia's name at the top of the broken screen, "who asked for your pity? I don't need it. I'm fine."

She s.h.i.+vered, wrapping her hands around her body, "I'm fine…" she repeated, rea.s.suring herself with the empty words, "I'm fine… I don't need saving… I just need me..."

Tears rolled out of her eyes, sliding up and down her nose and into her other eye, falling out even larger than before and seeping into the carpet. "I don't need anyone," she coaxed herself, "Just me… just me...I'm fine… I'm fi-"

DING!

She turned to the screen, squinting with her teary eyes to get a better few at the pop-up on the screen. There at the top of the blood-stained screen was another text message pop-up. Her eyes widened when she saw the name of the number.

"Hi :)"