30_ it's hurt my ego

Margaret, from the past

"I thought that something bad happened to you. You make me worry. "Are you okay now?"

A man named Ezekiel and a girl named Judy visited me. They said that they were one of my colleagues in my job. They said that I was just too stressed because there's a lot of time that I don't remember. But the thing they didn't know is that I am not the Margaret that they know, and that's why I was acting like this.

It's a good thing that Erox was here to tell me everything that I needed to know.

I was now in front of a man that I didn't know. He looked so worried, but the thing is, I didn't care. I have a lot of problems to deal with, and they were not one of them.

"I bet you couldn't go to work, maybe for a while because of what happened to you." "And I hope that our date will proceed." The guy said, and to my surprise, Erox immediately stood up and asked.

"What date are you saying?" "Why Would you think Margaret would date you?" Erox said angrily.

I just smiled at the man. Why do I feel like I'm the one who is embarrassed by what Erox did?

I saw that the girl named Judy leaned closer to Ezekiel; maybe she whispered something to the men.

"So that man was your suitor?" "Because it's impossible that he was your boyfriend now because you won't date me if you have a boyfriend, right?"

I look to Erox, because I myself don't know how to answer it. I didn't even know what the meaning of the date would be that he has been talking about.

"She won't date you." Or just come with me somewhere else because yesterday she already agreed to my not being her boyfriend, so back off."

I raised my eyebrow while I was still looking at Erox. I couldn't believe that he would say that. but if he didn't say that, it means that I would allow myself to be with this man to take me somewhere.

I couldn't just be with another person that I didn't know because of my secret. If someone knew that I was not the Margaret that they knew, who knows what would happen?

"Is it true, Margaret?" "Is it that Andrews was already your boyfriend now?" Ezekiel asked, and when I was looking up at Erox, he was looking at me like, "Go on." He told the man that I was your boyfriend, so he would stay away from you.

So that's what I did; I said that I was Erox's boyfriend. even if I didn't understand all of the things that I've said.

I see a triumphant smirk on Erox's face. Erox was looking at Ezekiel while the girl named Judy was glaring at me.

After a moment, the visitor said goodbye, and I left together with Erox and Fay again inside of the room that they call a hospital; in my world, it was a sanitarium for people who were not feeling well, though back then in my world, I never stepped inside of the sanatorium because I was not feeling well every time. I was just inside my room because my father, the king of the palace, didn't allow me to go there; instead, the doctor would be the one to come to me.

"Good girl, I didn't have to get mad before you said what I wanted you to do." Erox said

"I just do what I need to do because if I didn't do that, I would be jammed in between." I didn't know the guy, and if you find out that I was just disguised as Margaret, I will be doomed. So can you tell me what the meaning of "boyfriend" is? "Is it like the meaning of girlfriend, like what you explain to me as the meaning of it?"

Erox's face reddened. "Look, I didn't say that because I want you to be my girlfriend; I just said that because I want to kick the man in the ass."

"All I want to know is what the meaning of that is." "Because I understand why you do all of these things."

Erox sigh... But Fay was the one who answered my question.

"As I study this world for how many days, the word that has been said is a bit complicated if you do not agree to it because that means you have a relationship." "Am I right, Erox?"

I look at Fay, and she seems so serious while I am studying her face.

I narrowed my eyes when I was looking at Erox.

"You lied to me. You said that it was just a girl friend." But it turns out that it was more than that.

"I said I didn't mean it was OK." It's just that I need to do that. Do you think that I would like you to be my girlfriend for real? "You may look like my M, but I wouldn't like you for real because my heart already belongs to my M."

I don't know why, but it seems like I was offended by what he said. My chest feels painful inside, and I feel like I was rejected by the real Erox. My best friend and, at the same time, my longtime crush

I was thinking, "What if my best friend doesn't like me at all?" even if I was the one going to confess to him."

I wonder if it is as painful as what I feel right now.

However, as a princess, handle it with pride. I couldn't just let him hurt me.

"Well, for you to know, I was a princess in a huge palace, and I have a lot of suitors who are scrambling just to have me." "A simple man like you was nothing to them."

I was waiting for his boastful response, but he just said that.

"It was a relief to know,"

I raise my eyebrow. Is that what you're going to say?