"Hey you" Kim said, approaching me, in her usual playful tone, but I just wasn't in the mood. Perhaps a side effect to the rock was also that it changed my moods... making me more bitter and brooding, but I just didn't feel like hearing what she had to say.... still she persisted.

"Geez, what do you want?!" I finally said, after having ignored her greeting and most of our conversation. Kim looks back at me angrily.

"Dude, I don't know what happened to you..." Kim snarled, "but you don't have to snap at me"

Kim began to walk away and, thinking about it, I...