The Cashier Warned Me Not To Go To The Party And Minutes Later I Discovered The Plan They Had For Me

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“Oh, Eleanor,” she said. “That’s so sweet. But we actually have a beautiful cake already.” She gestured toward Brenda’s cake on the table. “I wouldn’t want two cakes to seem like a competition.”

Someone laughed. It was not a mean laugh, precisely, more the laughter of social awkwardness being released, but it was continue reading …