Ziora's eyes flicked back to Raymond, her expression cold and distant. "Oh, I noticed you alright," she said, her voice clipped. "I just don't feel like talking to you."
With that, she turned away, her attention returning to Diara as if Raymond wasn't even in the room.
Raymond sighed quietly, the tension between them thickening the air. He knew why she was acting this way, but it still stung. The memory of that prank in high school was something he regretted deeply.
They had thought it would be funny, filling Ziora's locker with dozens of dead spiders, knowing how terrified she was of them.
But they hadn't anticipated how badly she would react, or the cruelty that followed when mean-spirited students edited and posted a video of her freakout all over the school.
For an entire year, Ziora had been mocked, and Raymond had been one of the four who had caused it.
