Every year, our school hands out free funfair vouchers.
But this one friend spent weeks whining about having nobody to go with.
So i finally caved, thinking I’d save her from a sad, fry-less night.

But we get there, and suddenly her lonely crisis vanishes.
First, she waves down a friend by the Ferris wheel.
Then two more by the cotton candy stall.
By the time we hit the bumper cars, we were a pack of six strangers.
And I am just there. Holding her jacket while they laugh at inside jokes.

She pulls me aside near the exit, all fake sympathy.
“My friends think you are annoying, and we would like you to leave.”

I walked home alone in the rain that night.

But It was a pleasure to see that she failed her exams a year later.