The bird is flippant, and if gripped too tightly or too loosely, it will fly away.
Grabbing Lesly's wrist, I pulled her back and told her I would go with her to buy whatever she needed. After seeing the driver only starting the car when he was assured that she wouldn't run again, I could imagine how it had happened the last time, and had to suppress a laugh.
Arriving at the shopping center, we bought the charger for her overly old phone, only to be stopped by a girl, good assets, light brown dyed hair, decent and clean-looking—the perfect hook-up target.
Again, my agitation turned worse, my stepmother had already been presented with a false picture of me, and I wasn't eager to see another look of disgust on her face, especially when directed at me.
After the guy who I had hit today had commented on me making or not making 'a move' on Lesly, here was the next one trying to drag my reputation down even further.
