Once he had said this, Arvin ran offstage in a flurry because everyone was kicking up a ruckus about Angela and him being together in the public eye.
After the party, Angela planned to ask Arvin out, but she figured that Arvin might have a dinner party with seniors in the hospital.
At last, Angela left the hospital alone with her trophy.
In the office of Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
"Bang!" Nita took off her dacing costume and angrily threw it onto the ground.
Susan, who was close by, was scared out of her wits by Nita's reaction. As Nita's assistant, she had never seen Nita so at a loss that she would throw things. It just wasn't respectable behavior for a woman of her social standing.
However, when she thought about it a bit more at length, she realised that Nita's anger was totally reasonable because she always strove to be number one, no matter what. Now it had been robbed, Nita didn't know how to act.
Tonight, Nita lost her chance to win first place to Angela; but what a spectacle, that night sky and those fireworks! Nita always hated Angela. How could Nita react with any but anger? Susan mused to herself.
Just then, Nita was thinking about the audience's reaction, and how they had voted for stars and trinkets over Nita's supreme dancing talent, and it aided to piss her off.
'Now everybody in the hospital knows that Angela is daughter of Chuck and she has a close relationship with Arvin... They voted for her only for the sake of Chuck and Arvin.
There's no way they could see actual talent behind the girl; it was a farce.' Nita comforted herself in this fashion as a way to alleviate the envy she felt towards Angela.
Next moment, she asked Susan, "Where is Angela right now?" Nita's sudden words shocked Susan a little like a knife in the dark. Susan obediently took out her cell phone and rang the R and D department.
Three minutes passed. Angela was found. "Director Zhen, Angela has just walked out of the department and is heading for the parking lot as we speak."
In the parking lot.
Just as Angela pressed the alarm button for her car, about to waltz over and settle in for the long drive home, two people emerged from the darkness and obstructed her route.
Angela smiled calmly after she saw clearly who they were. "Hello, Director Zhen. Don't you know that old saying, 'great barkers are no biters'?"
Nita was irritated by Angela's humiliating sentence. She was so angry at this moment that she couldn't say a word, except "Angela you!" She had never met someone like Angela, who dared to call her 'a barker', in all her live-long life.
'I have never been humiliated before by such an insolent maggot!' Nita raised her hand to slap Angela across the face, that irritating, pustule, maggot of a face! ...
But Susan bounded forth to stop her committing a felony. She whispered to Nita, "There are many people here, Director Zhen." It was off-peak hospital hours; many people came and went in the parking lot as the day shift ended and a new one began.
Nita then scrunched her palm into a fist and thought with a distorted look on her face, 'All right. It doesn't matter. This is not what I came for.'
The next moment, Nita transformed from the wronged anti-heroine into the fairy godmother of peace. "Do you know what I am really coming for, Angela?" Seeing the smirk on Nita's face, Angela realized that Nita was only here to stir the pot.
She replied, "Maybe you're giving me a Greek gift?"
... 'Withhold your temper!' Nita told herself out of irritation. She waved at Susan and told her to leave them alone for a while. She did so, and now just two of them stood facing each other.
"You've heard many sayings, haven't you?" Nita asked rudely. After a moment's silence, Nita mentioned, "So I suppose you've heard that old adage: Pigs will fly if men are dependable.
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