To be honest, I was surprised by my own temerity as Tiffany watched me with squinted eyes over the distance, and I did my best not to squirm under her gaze like a child. It took me all my chutzpah to stand my ground, and the others, seeing my resilience, backed off.
I refused to let myself be intimidated by their meanness; I was born in their circle, so I wasn’t having any complexes by their superlatives attitude.
“There was no need for you to say that,” he muttered under his breath as we both stared in front of us unseeingly. At least, for me the match went unnoticed as the players hustled on the ground, and my mind was elsewhere occupied.
“Oh yes there was!” I replied in a hushed tone. “I’m not gonna let them bully you!”
“It does not matter,” he looked at me then, I could feel his e
