You Should Not Have Paid That

You should not have paid that she said. Smugly. Haughtily. In a mean unkind ugly way. I gave her my famous straight-lined smile. The one I reserve for my enemies. I would not have bought that, she told me. Stuck up, aggressively, in a nasty, despicable way. I did not even hear her this time. She had ceased to be a part of my world now.