A/N: Written for the Hook a Prompt Challenge R27-C1 – Wormtail, and the Character Diversity Boot Camp, #043 – humiliate.
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199. Wormtail
he hated them: his so called friends who thought
they could laugh at him and get only smiles back
in return; those fools were always like that, not thinking
that he might be hurt by their remarks, their well-meaning
teases, that weren't teases when it ended with him blinking
back tears
but he was just little Wormtail who was the butt of everyone's jokes
including theirs – and what was the point in them defending him
if they turned and laughed at him afterwards?