"You fucking heard her right, she said she doesn't eat shrimps. Are you naturally deaf, or do you just choose to be intentionally deaf?" Maryann said calmly to Kira while chewing the rice in her mouth.
The entire hall fell silent.
Kira ran her fingers through her hair, sighing in frustration.
"Were you deaf when I said you all should mind your fucking business?" Kira said as she looked at Maryann who was still scooping her food into her mouth.
"Considering how loudly you are shouting, even a deaf person would struggle to concentrate. So, what do you expect from me, who can hear perfectly well on both sides?" Maryann remarked calmly as she continued with her meal.
Sarah nudged Maryann under the table to halt her interference, yet Maryann ignored the gesture.
Kira got angrier.
"Hey, don't try so hard to get involved in anything, we all know the only thing you know how to do perfectly well is to steal. You should shut your fucking mouth and thank God that the President saved your stupid ass by letting you become a worker instead of rotting in jail."
Maryann scooped two more spoonfuls of rice into her mouth without uttering a word.
Kira thought she ate, as she continued to kick the leg of Melissa's chair and shouted, "Eat it now!"
"Leave. Her. Alone!" Maryann said calmly to Kira after swallowing the food in her mouth and scooping more to eat.
Melissa turned to look at Maryann who was busy eating and acting like she wasn't concerned with what was going on.
Kira, growing frustrated, marched up to Maryann's table and slammed her hands down, startling Sarah, Lisa, and James.
Maryann, however, continued to eat hurriedly, seemingly oblivious to Kira's dramatic display.
Kira grunted, leaning in close to Maryann, who continued to eat.
"My patience level is below ten," Kira said to Maryann.
Maryann kept mute as she continued to rush down her food.
"You meddle in my business, then act like you are not. Who the fuck do you think you are to pull that on me?" Kira asked Maryann through clenched teeth.
Maryann ignored her, still eating.
"You look hungry," Kira said confidently. "I can tell you're scared of me. Stop meddling in my business, thief. This is your last warning!"
Meanwhile, Maryann, who had finished eating, was scraping the remaining grains of rice into her mouth.
Whispers filled the hall.
As Kira turned towards Melissa, who was already trembling, and seemed poised to bully her once more, Maryann interrupted.
Her voice was quiet, yet it carried across the entire hall.
"I can tell you're having a lot of fun playing the main character," Maryann said as she downed her juice in one gulp.
Kira turned back to Maryann; "What did you just say?"
Maryann used the napkin on the table to wipe her lips before standing up.
"And I've just realized you thrive on people's attention, but this time you've crossed the line. You should remain calm; it's not like anyone's paying you or anything..." Maryann remarked as she passed by Kira and headed towards Melissa.
Maryann took the spoonful of rice and shrimps that Melissa was holding, ate it, and then grabbed Melissa's juice, downing it all in one gulp.
"You crazy wrench!!! Are you gonna beat me or sum?" Kira said as she walked closer to Maryann.
Maryann picked up her empty bowl of rice and her spoon, walked up to Melissa's table.
"Please may I take your shrimps?" Maryann smiled as she asked the three workers who sat at the same table with Melissa.
The three workers nodded as Maryann selected all the shrimps in their rice and put them in her empty bowl.
Maryann walked back to her table and asked Sarah, Lisa and James who had stopped eating the moment Maryann stood up.
"Please may I take your shrimps?" Maryann smiled as she asked her friends.
"Sure!" Lisa and Sarah agreed while James nodded.
Maryann selected all the shrimps from the three bowls of rice.
Maryann returned to where Kira's accomplices were standing with their food, and without asking, she picked the shrimps out of their bowls, as well as from Kira's.
Maryann's bowl was now brimming with shrimp.
Maryann approached Kira, placed the bowl of shrimps on a nearby table, and calmly told Kira, "Eat the shrimps!"
The hall became quiet.
"Eat it now!" Maryann ordered Kira in a calm tone.
"How dare you command me?!" Kira screamed on top of her lungs at Maryann as her saliva splashed on Maryann's face.
Maryann wiped her face with the back of her hand.
Before Kira could grasp her surroundings.
Maryann held Kira's hair with her left hand and dragged it forcefully backwards, making Kira look up to the ceiling.
"Ouch!!!" Kira screamed as she tried to raise up her head.
But Maryann pulled it down more.
Kira screamed in pain.
Maryann ignored her and no one came to Kira's aid.
Maryann dug her right hand into the bowl filled with only shrimps, squashed the shrimps in her hand and said to Kira "Open your mouth!"
Kira kept her mouth shut.
Maryann dragged Kira's hair down more and Kira yelped as she opened her mouth immediately.
Maryann forced the squashed shrimps in her hand into Kira's mouth and said "Eat!" but Kira spat it out and screamed;
"How dare you ....!!!" But Kira was cut short immediately when Maryann boiled up and dragged Kira's hair down more, dug her hand into the bowl again, got a handful of shrimps, squashed it and slapped it aggressively into Kira's mouth as she said; "Eat!"
Everyone in the hall exclaimed in shock.
Maryann didn't even let Kira breathe as she squashed the second one and slapped it into Kira's mouth aggressively screaming loudly "Eat!".
She squashed and slapped, screaming the third time "Eat!!". She squashed and slapped, screaming the fourth time "Eat it now!!", the fifth time "I said eat!!!"
Kira's face and mouth were filled with mashed shrimps.
Maryann squashed and slapped the sixth time screaming, "Eat!"
Kira tried to unconsciously defend herself by trying to hold Maryann's hair.
"I swear on my father's grave, if you touch my hair, I will slap life out of you!" Maryann said angrily, sternly and loudly.
Kira's hands hung limply, a gesture of defeat.
Maryann squashed the shrimps and slapped Kira's mouth the seventh time, screaming, "I. Said. Eat!"
Everyone whispered in shock.
Nobody could volunteer to stop Maryann because no sane person would want to experience the same thing Kira was experiencing.
Kira gagged so badly, that her face was a mess.
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Cyril was engrossed in the TV projector, watching and listening to the entire scene occurring in the diner.
Bobby signaled the guards in the office as he also tapped his earpiece and said:
"Get to the diner now! I repeat, get to the diner now!"
A few guards ran out of the office, heading to the diner, while some guards who were on standby outside, joined them.
"Your Excellency, I'm so sorry for the offensive scene…." Bobby apologized to Cyril as he picked up the remote to turn the TV projector off.
Cyril interrupted Bobby. "Hold on!" Cyril said as he continued watching.
Bobby bowed in fear, as he dropped the remote back. "Yes, Your Excellency"
Bobby's legs trembled in fear.
Cyril leaned back in his chair, a smirk playing on his lips as he observed the scene, his eyes gleaming with amusement and satisfaction.
Cyril smiled.