The Assistant’s Exit

My girlfriend told me she had a surprise waiting for me at the press conference for her new movie.

I thought she was finally going to go public with our relationship, and I was so excited I couldn’t sleep all night.

Dressed in my best suit, I showed up holding a bouquet of 999 red roses that I had carefully prepared.

Yet under the blinding flashes of the media cameras, she casually introduced me to the crowd.

“He is just an assistant who helped me buy flowers.”

Then, she turned around and p