Author´s note:
HI! I am sooo happy to be writing this chapter. I am kind of overwhelmed too since I want to do this other 2 stories as well, but they will have to wait. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter and thanks for your reviews.
Chapter 10- Different
Tigress was walking to Po´s house, she had to admit, it was really cold outside. As she was walking she was thinking what Po would say, or what he knew. She felt her fingers get cold, and she remembered how Po used to hold her hand and make her feel warm.
Without him, she felt as is part of her was missing, like she was incomplete.
With Po…
He was at his house now. He was trying so hard not to cry. But his eyes were burning. His dad came into his room, and stood at the door, wondering what was wrong with his son.
"Po, what´s wrong son?" Mr. Ping asked him concerned.
"Tigress, she is what´s wrong!" Po yelled, his words were not really clear because he was now sobbing, but his dad, is well, his dad. So he understood. He frowned,
"What happened, did you two had a fight, you know, all couples go through that" Mr. Ping replied calmly, trying to comfort his son.
"She...she cheated on me!" Po answered, then started sobbing again. Mr. Ping was shocked, Tigress didn´t seem like that kind of girl. But he was upset that she had hurt his son. He was frowning.
"Don´t you worry, you will find another girl, one who is better than that" Mr. Ping finally said, leaving Po alone in his room.
"But I want her…" Po whispered to himself sadly.
With Mr. Ping…
"How dare she does that to my son! And she told me ´I would never hurt him sir.´ Ha, well she is a liar". Mr. Ping was muttering angrily. He was in the kitchen baking some dumplings when he heard a knock on his door.
"I wonder who will knock at this time" Mr. Ping wondered. It wasn´t really late, but besides Tigress, no one actually came to visit.
Mr. Ping opened the door and his eyes frowned, clearly angry. Then he shut the door and started to walk away from it.
Tigress was standing on the other side. She knew that Mr. Ping wasn´t happy, Po probably told him, but he didn´t knew the whole story.
"Mr. Ping. Please open the door! I need to talk with you or Po!" Tigress yelled, her arms wrapped around herself, trying to make herself warm. But she couldn´t, that was Po´s job.
Mr. Ping wasn´t sure if he should open it or not. He stood there waiting, maybe she will just go away.
"Mr. Ping! Open this door!" Tigress yelled, getting desperate. She knew she wasn´t being polite, but screw manners, she wanted to be with Po, she wanted to explain, to fix things. Mr. Ping wasn´t opening the door.
"Mr. Ping, if you don´t open this door, I will break it, and I won´t be paying for it!" She finally yelled. Mr. Ping heard the determination on her voice, he sighed and then went over to it, he opened it, he was still frowning.
When he opened it, Tigress was in her fighting stance, ready to give a powerful kick that will break the door. Tigress went to her normal stance seeing how her tactics worked on Mr. Ping. She stood there, freezing, looking at Mr. Ping, who was glaring at her and not inviting her inside.
"Mr. Ping, I am not sure what Po told you, but let me explain." Tigress said, now back to her gentle self. But Mr. Ping was still glaring at her.
"You hurt my son, I am not talking to you" Mr. Ping said and turned around.
"That´s fine, I don´t blame you, but just listen then" Tigress said, almost pleading. Mr. Ping had never heard Tigress like this, and it kind of scared him because she sounded hurt and desperate. He sighed and let her in and into the kitchen, where they usually had breakfast. Tigress took a seat while Mr. Ping was giving her some hot chocolate to help her get warm.
"Ok, go ahead I´m listening" He said, sitting down and giving her the drink. He was looking into her eyes, clearly paying attention to everything she was going to say.
"Ok, first of all, I need to know what he told" then she thought a little bit more, "Actually, no I don´t, I think he thinks that I cheated on him, right?" She said. Mr. Ping nodded.
"Ok, so that didn´t happen, the thing is, there was this other guy who liked me. I was waiting for Po by my locker. What I didn´t know is that during that time, That guy, whose name is Nyuk, was talking to Po about him not being good enough for me." She started explaining, Mr. Ping was silent.
"Then he left him, and Nyuk came over to me, and he started flirting with me until he asked me out, and I said no, because well, I have Po." He kind of got mad, and tried to kiss me. That´s what Po saw, what he didn´t see, is that I put my hand in between, and then yelled at him." Mr. Ping was nodding understanding everything now.
"So then I asked him to tell me what he told Po, and when he did, I…" Tigress looked unsure about what happen next, she wasn´t sure how Mr. Ping was going to react when she told him that she slapped and hit Nyuk.
"Then what did you do?" Mr. Ping asked.
"I, well, hit him and slapped him" She said then looked up at him,
"Please don´t tell my dad though! He would get really mad at me for not controlling my temper!" She pleaded. Mr. Ping gave her a small smile.
"Don´t worry, I won´t tell him. It wasn´t right to do, but I am happy to hear that you would do that for my son" Mr. Ping answered.
"Thanks. But Po didn´t saw that, he only saw Nyuk trying to kiss me, and he thought that I actually kissed him back" She explained.
"Well, now I know what really happen, sorry for not giving you a chance to explain yourself and for thinking before knowing the facts" Mr. Ping apologize.
"It´s ok. Can I go see Po, I think he needs to know too" She said, part of her more relieved.
"Sure, he is upstairs, he is upset though"
"Oh, and this is Po´s book, he left it at school" She said handing it to his dad, Mr. Ping smiled at her kindness, Tigress nodded and started going upstairs.
With Tigress…
She was nervous, when she finally was standing outside his door, she knocked gently.
"Hi, it´s me, Tigress, can come in?" She said softly.
Po was inside and when he heard his voice, a smile appeared on his face, but then he remembered all the pain that she caused him.
"NO! Get out of here!" He yelled back. Tigress sighed, but she wasn´t going to give up.
"I´m going inside Po! Like it or not, you need to hear me out" She said strictly but still calmly. She turned the knob, but she couldn´t it was locked from the inside.
"HA! It´s locked, you can´t come in. Now get out!" Po said.
"Uggh!" Tigress was going to break through the door, she wouldn´t have actually done this, but Po didn´t wanted to see her, and there was a slim chance that he was going to open it. So she took some steps back, took a deep breath and then got in her stance. She then gave a powerful kick and crashed the door.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Po yelled at her, seeing how she destroyed his door.
"Sorry, but I had to talk to you and you just wouldn´t open it" She said innocently. Po stood up from his bed, facing her with furious eyes.
"What do you want?!" Po said, avoiding her eyes.
"I just want to explain everything to you, you are wrong about what you saw" She started explaining.
"I am wrong, but about you" Tigress was shocked about what he was starting to say.
"You are a fake! You are like those mean ´popular´ girls, except that you are worse!" He was screaming at her, not reaching a stopping point. Tigress heart was beating fast, and her eyes were starting to form tears.
"At least they warn you about their personality, but you! You make others think you are different, that you are nice, when you aren´t! You are a liar and a fake! You pretend you love me, when you were just using me! Well, guess what!? I don´t love you and I never had or never will! And no one is ever going to love you!" He said, now tears coming from his eyes. Those words were like needles in her heart, poking her all around, she felt so weak, so helpless, and so useless. She was in the verge of crying. Her eyes were red. But she was Tigress, she wasn´t going to break down, not yet.
"I was wrong about you, so just forget about us and let me get on with my life, without you" He finally said. Tigress couldn´t hold it in anymore, she started crying like she had the day she got suspended, maybe more, but that time, Po helped her, and this time, it was him who did it. And there was no fixing her heart. She shook her head at him and took off her necklace in a quick motion then threw it at the floor, then ran downstairs towards the exit.
"So how did it wen…" Mr. Ping said as he started to hear footsteps on the stairs, but he saw Tigress covering her face, crying, he went quiet, and before he had a chance to ask her what happened, she went out the door, leaving a trail of tears behind along with shattered pieces of her heart.
WOW, I have no idea what to say about this chapter, I thought it was pretty good, and maybe a little bit unpredictable because some of you thought they were going to forgive each other or something like that. But no. Tigress is heart-broken and Po is sad, and Mr. Ping is caught in between. Well, you will see what happens on the next chapter. I hoped you enjoyed it and leave your reviews! I´m hoping for another 4!
-Peace out
