Bottling

"Of course I can keep a secret" Anna raised her eyebrows at Emily across the table.
"You too?" Everet asked her. Anna nodded, suspiciously.
"I think I'm in love with Elisia." The silence, for a moment, hung like a nuclear shock wave.
"You're kidding!" Anna sat there silent, frozen as Emily began her prattle. "You don't, like, know her. And she was drunk. Does that really... "
Anna's head began to fill. Her eyes watered and her breath was short. Her face became red and to visibly swell. So this was the sum of her patience... for him to find someone else. She wanted to scream, to cry, but she couldn't, her eyelids and throat were too swollen. Finally, Anna popped. The fleshy debreis flew across the table. Emily stopped talking. Anna's lips fell with a splat in Everet's plate. "But you said I had such pretty skin!"