Chapter 7 - LISA’S FRIEND SENT ME THE VIDEOA woman named Natalie Chen contacted me.
One of Lisa’s guests.
She had recorded part of the party.
Not because she planned to expose anyone.
She had been filming a toast.
The camera captured Lisa ordering me to clear tables.
Then the shoes.
My refusal.
The shove.
My slap.
Everything.
Natalie wrote:
I’m sending this because Lisa is telling people you attacked her without provocation.
I watched the video once.
Then sent it to counsel.
I also noticed something else.
Before the shove, several guests laughed.
Afterward, none did.
People enjoy hierarchy until the performance becomes visibly violent.
Then suddenly everyone wants distance.
Natalie later apologized.
“I laughed earlier.”
“Yes.”
She looked ashamed.
“I thought Lisa was joking.”
“She was.”
I said.
“That doesn’t make it kind.”
Natalie nodded.
That conversation stayed with me.
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Cruelty often survives under the label joke because the target is expected to absorb the social cost of objecting.
I had absorbed enough.
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