I-I'm sure it's nothing, but... Have you met a girl named Monika...?
[A quick inhale to speedily say-]
She's very nice and sweet and helpful and I'm sure she has absolutely nothing to do with this!
[Exhale.]
... But during the last event, she and I were talking, and I mentioned that I'm taking music lessons under a few different people, including a boy named Wirt. She, um, she told me that she and Wirt were a "thing". You know.
[She waves a hand. Dating. Hooking up. Together. IRL Shipping.]
So she told me that people might get the wrong idea if I kept going to him for my music lessons... I-I tried to say we could explain it, and I'd never try anything with Wirt, I like him just as a friend, and he's a nice guy so he'd never try anything either! B-but she kept insisting and pushing it, so... so I said I'd stop going.
... But then she said she really liked me and I was a good friend, so she couldn't have done this!
[For someone who was bullied 99% of her life, apparently she still can't realize that is exactly what happened. And judging from the lack of eye contact, there's another nugget of the story she's reluctant to tell.]
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[A quick inhale to speedily say-]
She's very nice and sweet and helpful and I'm sure she has absolutely nothing to do with this!
[Exhale.]
... But during the last event, she and I were talking, and I mentioned that I'm taking music lessons under a few different people, including a boy named Wirt. She, um, she told me that she and Wirt were a "thing". You know.
[She waves a hand. Dating. Hooking up. Together. IRL Shipping.]
So she told me that people might get the wrong idea if I kept going to him for my music lessons... I-I tried to say we could explain it, and I'd never try anything with Wirt, I like him just as a friend, and he's a nice guy so he'd never try anything either! B-but she kept insisting and pushing it, so... so I said I'd stop going.
... But then she said she really liked me and I was a good friend, so she couldn't have done this!
[For someone who was bullied 99% of her life, apparently she still can't realize that is exactly what happened. And judging from the lack of eye contact, there's another nugget of the story she's reluctant to tell.]