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…Chapter Four…

The next morning, I woke up to an empty bed. Figures. I sat up trying to adjust my eyes, when I heard yelling coming from downstairs. I put on a pair of jeans and a hoodie. I grabbed my cell phone and laptop, then started going down the stairs. I stopped when I saw a woman in the middle of the stairs, yelling in spanish. Yep, I know who that is. It's Sofi or as Bobby called her 'La Vida Loca.' I giggled to myself, because even though I was with Angel first, it kinda felt like I was Sofi's competition.

I just shook my head, then laughed as I walked past her down the stairs. Sofi stopped in mid-sentence, when she saw me. "What the hell is she doing here?"

"Go back upstairs!" Angel yelled at Sofi, then gave me an 'I'm-sorry' look. I just shook my head and sat on the couch as Bobby and Angel started arguing with each other. After a few minutes, I tuned them out and started playing on my laptop. All I heard was Bobby saying "Loco Uno is not staying one more night!" and "Let's play some fuckin' Turkey Cup!"

After that, I started listening to a few of my voicemails. One from my work and the other one was from my friend, Gina. I must've not been paying attention, because I didn't notice Bobby sitting next to me, until he draped his leg over mine. I slowly looked over at him as he was glaring at me. After about a minute of our stare down, I turned my attention back to my laptop and ignored Bobby's glares.

As I was typing an email to my boss, I briefly looked up to see what everyone was doing. Jack was in the kitchen, Bobby was still glaring at me, Jerry was watching the hockey game, and Angel was sitting on the recliner, next to the record player. All of a sudden, I saw this yellow disc flying out of the corner of my eye, towards Bobby. I saw Angel with a handful of them, then he threw another one.

"Don't start, Man." Bobby said, as he dodged one of them. "Why do you always do that?"

"Shut up." Angel retorted, throwing a few more.

"To be aggravating." Jerry added.

"To be aggravating." Angel mocked him, throwing some discs his way.

Jerry dodged one. "Chill out, Man. I'm watching the game, come on."

Angel was throwing some more a Bobby, then he threw a few at me. "Hey!" I yelled, but Angel laughed and threw a few more at Jerry.

Angel hit Jerry in between his eyes with a disc. "Try it one more time."

"What you gonna do?"

"You'll see."

"Big ass teeth. Bite me?" Jerry laughed, as Angel made biting noises.

"You do have some big ass teeth, Jerry." Bobby added, making everyone laugh.

Angel threw another one that hit Jerry in the head. "Alright." Jerry said, standing up. Then he smacked Angel on the back of his head.

"Yeah! Get him, Jerry!" Bobby yelled.

"What the hell you doing?" Angel asked, as he lunging at Jerry.

"Come on, Boy." Jerry said tackling him. Then the both of them were wrestling in the middle of the family room.

Bobby started to commentate. "The Gorgeous Black Ladies of Wrestling, Nitro and Midnight." I started laughing. "Nitro got Midnight in a headlock. Get him! Get him, Jerry! Midnight trying to get up, but Nitro's on him. Get him, Nitro!"

As Jerry had Angel pinned to the ground, Angel said "Okay, alright, alright, alright."

Jerry helped Angel to his feet. "I'm still your big brother."

Angel gave him a hug, then Jerry sat back down in his seat. I looked up and saw Angel looking right at me. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

I shut my laptop and put my cell phone in my pocket. "Uh, sure." As I got up, I heard Bobby growl under his breath. Angel lead me outside, over to the car.

"Look." he started. "I don't want things to get weird between us."

I leaned up against the car. "I don't either, Angel."

"I know you still love Bobby." he paused. "And that's the way it's supposed to be."

"Is that how you feel?"

"What I feel… doesn't matter."

"Maybe it does."

He stood in front of me, looked me in my eyes. "When it comes to you, I will always feel like I'm second best."

"Angel, you were there for me when Bobby wasn't."

"That may be true, but you belong to him." I looked down and was ready to cry. "And what we did in New York, while I was on leave." he paused. "Nobody has to know."

I scoffed. "Well, it's more complicated than that."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing." I looked away.

He hugged me. "I will always love you, Mel. I don't want you to think that I never did. A part of me is in love with you, but the other part is telling me to let go. I also don't regret anything that we did, but it would be best if you were with Bobby."

"Angel." I looked up at him. "I'm leaving in a few days, he's not going to come with me, just to be with me."

"Well, if he doesn't then, he's stupid." I giggled a little. "Okay, so you smooth things out with him and I'll keep Sofi a safe distance away from you."

"Fine." I sighed in defeat.

"So are we cool?"

"Yeah." I gave him a weak smile.

"Because I'd rather be friends with you, than nothing at all."

I nodded. "Me too." as we walked back inside the house, it felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest. I must care more about Angel than I thought I did, if I'm feeling like this. As I picked up my laptop, I noticed Bobby glaring at me again. I shook my head, then went upstairs to Bobby's room. I laid down, trying to finish up that email to my boss.

After a while, I felt like someone was watching me. I looked up and saw Evelyn sitting in Bobby's chair. She was smiling at me, then she spoke. "You should tell Bobby and Angel about what's going on." all I could do was nod. "Both of them are in love with you, but only one of them has your whole heart." I felt my contacts getting dry, so I blinked and then Evelyn was gone.

Seconds later, I looked over at the door and got startled. "Geez… Bobby, you scared the shit out of me."

He walked in. "Sorry."

"It's okay."

He sat down next to me. "Whatcha' doing?"

"Um, sending." I paused. "No, attempting to send an email to my boss." I shrugged my shoulders and shut the laptop. "I'll send it later."

"Can we talk?"

I nodded. "What's up?"

"I want to start off saying, that it was my fault leaving to Chicago, for you being with Angel."

"Well, Bobby, you up and left me. You lied to me about coming back and didn't hear from you at all." I paused to take a deep breath. "I was heartbroken and I'm sorry to say, but Angel was there to pick up the pieces."

"I'm not mad about that anymore… all of that, is in the past." he paused for a few seconds. "And I'm sorry for ditching you, when I saw you in New York."

"You hurt me when you left to Chicago, you hurt me when you left me in New York… I don't know how much heartbreak I can take." I looked down, playing with my nails.

"Do you still love me?"

My head snapped up. "What?"

"Do you still love me?" he asked again.

"You want the truth?" he nodded. "Well, I'll always love you, that's never gonna change."

As I waited for his reaction, he had a shocked look on his face. He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Then a few minutes later, he got up and left the room. I giggled to myself, because I was imagining what his reaction would be if I told him the big news. I grabbed my phone and headed downstairs.