Angela felt her tears stop momentarily as she processed what the girl had said. Her dimmed eyes regained vigor, swiftly turning toward her goddess with newfound hope.
That's right. Selene promised to save me!
Selene raised a brow, eyes becoming watery again as she forced herself to look confused and scared. Something about the situation felt off to her, but Selene had no way of knowing why.
The same stupid girl she had always managed to deal with easily was still standing there with her gaze cast on the ground. Wholeheartedly, she wanted to believe that the pressure on her was an accident, a mere coincidence that luck favored the other, but something deeper screamed that there was something more.
She didn't understand how she suddenly became the person people looked toward with disgust and anger when that person should have been the other two idiots in the room.
I am so much better than them.