Fred felt bad the moment he screamed. She shouldn't have done that. She should have done something else that they could have laughed about. She was just so angry. Hurt? She dropped to the ground and looked at him apologetically. She knew why she was really angry with him, but she didn't actually want to say it out loud. She was angry because she actually cared for Haylie in a way that she had only cared for one other person before.
"Sorry," she told him, "I just..." she had done the striptease for Haylie because she actually thought there was something growing between them. She had actually though Haylie cared for her too. "Please just don't mention that shit... or any of that type of shit again." Her eyes were becoming reflective now as they watered. She wouldn't cry in front of him. That would never happen. She would never let that happen.