"I hate when my eyes get red and everybody knows I've cried." - Unknown

DEDICATION: TheWallflower for being an absolute darling! Your kind comments always make me smile. I can't thank you enough.

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"Retina, please tell me that you're there!"

"You've been calling me non-stop for the past day."

"That- okay, that obviously wasn't a question."

"I had to pick up so my teacher wouldn't freak."

"Look, I'm-"

"Why did you call me?"

"Retina, I-I'm sorry that I snapped at you yesterday."

"I would have hung up the moment sound came through the speaker, but I need to tell you this- you are the optometrist and I am the patient. We do not, nor will ever, have a relationship further than that."

"Damn, I thought that after several months of chatting-"

"Also, your position on the social ladder? Please, what a joke. You don't deserve to be breathing the same air as me. I thought you had changed me for the better, when you really changed me for the worse. That was all a joke. You're a joke."

"You know what? I take back all my apologies. All of them."

"Well, maybe if you weren't such a heartless moron-"

"Maybe if you weren't such a stubborn idiot-"

"Just stay out of my life!"

"Trust me, I'd be happy to."