However, before Gary could ask about that day, Marie surprised him with a question of her own.
“Are you an i***t?”
Now the high schooler was really confused. One moment, Marie had been thanking him, yet the very next she was insulting him?
“I’m sorry, that came out wrong. I just don’t get how you can not get scared in these situations. Back then, the black colour g**g members seriously outnumbered you. There was also a good chance that everyone could have jumped you earlier as well.”
Now Gary understood a little more what she meant.
“Well, I guess I am a bit of an i***t, then. I dunno, but it just felt wrong to stand there and watch it happen. In the past, I guess I never acted when I saw it. Now, though, people around me are getting hurt, and no one is acting out about them.
“So I
