[ WP ] A man that is socially awkward goes to a party full of mind readers .

*Sorry, not doing good today, so this prompt response isn ’ t as good as I ’ d like it to be. * 
 
 He stood back, observing everyone at the party. He hadn ’ t even wanted to go. But he figured it would be good for him. 
 
 One person in particular caught his eye, a red headed woman, who was tall and slender. But he knew he would never work up the nerve to approach her. 
 
 All of a sudden he froze in terror as she walked over and introduced herself. 
 
 “ Name ’ s Katie, ” she said, extending her hand. When he didn ’ t shake it, she placed it back by her side. “ Don ’ t like shaking hands then? ” 
 
 He stood there and nodded. He had wanted to shake her hand, just to touch her, but he was too afraid. And then, before he knew it, she was rubbing his shoulder, bringing up topics of conversations he wanted to talk about, and kissing him. It was as if everything he thought she heard. It wouldn ’ t be until later that he realized that everyone at the party could read minds, and that everything he had been doing with her that night was basically broadcast out to the entire party. 
 
 He headed back to a room with Katie, following her lead. People had been shouting to him all night, talking to him all night like they already knew him. And as Katie laid him down on the bed, he found that she was doing everything he wanted. 
 
 They laid in bed for a few minutes. It had taken a little while, but he had finished his analysis. Katie was a mindreader and so was everyone else. And she must have figured out what he was by now, a soul reader, capable of understanding the very back bone of what makes a person a person. And his reading of her soul revealed a socially awkward girl laying next to him. He rolled over and hugged her. That was when he realized that she hadn ’ t been using her mind reading abilities to help him be less socially awkward, but that she was using them so as not to appear awkward. 
 
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