I looked at them guiltily. The two of them had spent the whole afternoon with me yesterday and had made so much effort with me that they were now probably furious with me. And rightly so.

I couldn't blame them, so I replied quietly and dejectedly, "Hi girls. I'm sorry, but I have to wear this uniform because I'm practically one of the employees today."

They stared at me for a second, shocked but wordless.

Somehow I was really scared that they wouldn't like me anymore and would ignore me like the others. But it wasn't my fault.

Just the thought of being invisible to the world again, of being...