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Angela

I now remember why I don't cry. My face swells. And I mean swells! As if someone had lifted up my skin, placed some tennis balls under my cheeks and closed it up again. But after Gill left last night, what was I left to do? I had sincerely hoped that he would say that he liked me or that at least he didn't feel anything for this Luna –whom I don't know but already hate- but it just didn't happen. However, I would be smarter this time; I wouldn't make the same mistake of getting involved with a guy who's confused about two girls. Goddess knows I shed just too many tears when Vaughn told me he was leaving the Eastern City for good to marry Chelsea. He had told me that he wasn't sure about how he felt about her or me, but I still pressed, trying to get him to like me. I can't say that it was a waste of time, since I learnt from him how to take care of animals and get their best produce, but I helped him so he could see that I was the best for him and his life. Chelsea, however, managed to tame his heart in a way I had no chance of doing so she got the cowboy and I got his precious gloves as good-bye gift (I was hoping for his hat, but that was sooo not happening…). Anyone but me would have thrown them away but I kept them to remind me of my mistakes; I swore that day I would never, ever, get involved in a situation like that. Damn, I had even kept Vaughn and I's picture of back when I was a fool in love… Bah! Gill and Luna could kiss my rear for all that I cared; I was not going to be a fool for a second time, hell no!

Suddenly, some frantic knocking at my door startled me out of my memories. "Angela? Angela Blackmoon, you better not be asleep still! It's already 10 a.m. and we have a shopping mission I sincerely hope you haven't forgotten!!!" Elli's voice boomed from the outside.

Getting groggily out of bed, I dragged myself to the door, opening it and letting some sun in. "After the night I had yesterday, you can't be serious about dragging me out of bed at 10, now can you Elli?"

"We're wasting time Angie and by the way-…wow… Angie… you look like hell…."

"Yeah, your own personal devil at the door. Come in and close behind you; I'm gonna try old bat Craig's coffee recipe and see if I can wake up…" I said as I slithered to the kitchen.

"The famous Re-Living the Un-Dead recipe? No one has gotten that one! How did you make him teach it to you?" Elli said sincerely surprised as she closed the door.

"He didn't; I saw him once while he was preparing it. He was laughing so maniacally that I had to see what he was doing…" I declared from inside the fridge as I collected the ingredients.

"Angie, if Craig had found out…"

I placed the Pontata root, the turbo jolt, the coffee, the honey and the grape cocktail on the counter and connected the blender. "What could he have done? Wack my head with a weed?"

"He has plant pots, you are aware of this right? Heavy, ceramic, damage dealing plants pots ready to be crashed unto any skull to keep that secret, right?" she said while helping me cut the root.

I contemplated this for a second and then shrugged. The recipe would have to stay with me until the old bat and his plant pots threat were way below the ground…

After having drunk the concoction, I fell on the floor, seizing for a minute or two under Elli's terrified look. Then, I laughed maniacally at the goblins dancing around her and fully incorporated when I understood they were just products of my very altered and awake mind. Remembering I still had to feed my chickens and my silk worm, I ran to my coop, Elli hot on my heels.

"Angie! Are you sure you are ok?" she fretted as I lifted the in-the-past very heavy chicken feed bag to spread some of its contents to my chickens. Curiously, now it was feather like…

"Never better, Ells, never better!" I answered as I checked on my silver worm. The stupid thing better produce silk soon on I was going to introduce it inside Cain's lying rear… "Now I will go to chop off some wood, yeah, that's what I'll do!" I ran back to my house to get my ax.

"Angie! Shopping, remember?! Today is Summer 25th! Chloe's birthday is in 2 days and we promised her a dress!!" Elli's voice floated behind me.

I stopped and nodded, crossing my arms over my chest. "Chloe's birthday, of course, of course…. Well…" I ran and grabbed her hand and began running to the town. "Let's go to Pascal and tell him to take us to the Eastern City to buy the dress. I know some shops that are nice and not that expensive, you know?"

Elli tripped every two steps. "Pascal's ship still hasn't sent for the missing parts to travel that distance, Angie! Going to the city is out of the question!"

I halted and Elli crashed against me, falling to the floor right after it. "Damn! Why hasn't he done so? I must talk to Gill , no, wait, I'm not talking to Gill anymore. Stupid Gill, messing up when I need him. Well, we have to think of something else. And why in the Goddess nonexistent name are you on the floor, Elli?" I finished, looking at the startled girl on the ground.

"Angie perhaps it would be better if we go by the Clinic first. You are a bit accelerated, I think…" Elli said slowly, as if talking to a child.

"Nonsense Elli! You show up to my door babbling about lost time but then you suggest a pit stop at the Clinic. Kindly make up your mind!" I frowned.

The Town Hall's assistant sighed, closed her eyes and looked at me again. "Ok, tell you what. I have an idea but I need one of Chloe's dresses-"

"Oh, I see!! We're gonna make the new dress! I can go for a sample one in a flash! I'm like a ninja, you know? But I don't know how to sew… Well, it can't be that difficult! Oh, oh, oh!!! We could ask Jin to help us!!" I interrupted while skipping in one place.

Elli scratched her head. "Why would we ask Jin for help? He is not a tailor Angie, he is a doctor…"

"Duh! Obviously Elli!!!" I said while shaking my head at the stupid remark. "However, he has to do stitches! He has practiced them many times, especially when I go by the Clinic. For example, take a look at these ones from yesterday when the stupid container fell…" I began undoing my bandages.

Elli stopped me in a flash. "Angela! Stop it! What are you doing?"

"Just showing you how Jin sews! He has practice! Besides, sewing flesh cannot be that different from sewing fabric, now can it?"

"Yes Angie, there is a big difference…"

"Is there?"

"Yes!"

"Drats…"

In the end, Elli dragged me to the Inn, where she instructed Kathy to give me two mugs of hot milk. She promised to come and get me as soon as she retrieved the dress we needed.

"So, Angie, are you ok?" Kathy asked as I tapped my fingers on the table, impatiently. She had sat with me until the milk was ready.

"Never better, Kathy, never better. Just thinking where to get some nice fabric for a dress…"

"Are you going to wear a dress?" she asked.

"Good heavens no! I hate dresses! Insufferable pieces of clothing designed by men to type-cast women into submissive little-"

"Ok, ok, ok, I get it…" Kathy broke off my feminist tirade. "Then why do you need it?"

"It's 'cause Elli somehow promised Chloe we would get her a dress in her birthday. And it's in two days…" I said while waiting for Elli. She left minutes ago, I mean, how long can you take to go from the Inn to Ramsey's to the Inn again? Not more than 5, for sure…

"Well, you can go to the Tailor Shop. It's already open and Shelly is the fastest seamstress I've ever seen. I'm sure that of it's for little Chloe, she could even have the dress for tomorrow…"

I jumped from the table. "You're brilliant Kathy! I'll go right now and pick some fabrics. If it were for Elli, she would pick the flashy patterns, soooooo out of season. Where can I find the Tailor's?"

Kathy blinked her eyes a couple of times. "N-Next to the Clinic, you can't miss it…"

"Well, I'm leaving. Tell Elli to meet me there, ok?"

"Sure, but, don't you want your mug of milk? It seems you could use it…"

"Nonsense! Bye Kathy!"

"B-Bye…"

I ran to the Clinic and next to it was, as predicted by Kathy, the Tailor Shop. I entered and since no one was around, I began looking at some light blue fabric with white stars on it. While I pictured the kind of dress that would fit on Chloe with this fabric, a pink midget approached. Damn Craig and his illusion-creating concoction!

"Welcome, what can I do for you today?" the midget spoke in a soft voice. Oh, it's a girl…

"Oh, well, I'm looking at some fabric for a dress…" I answered taking the blue cloth in my hands.

"Flashy patterns are totally in style right now! You should try out a new outfit!" the she-midget whined from my left.

"Emmm…nope. They're not. At least not according to Vogue… They were, though, last Summer…"I countered while looking for another fabric. I hated this kind of sales person: trying to get rid of the last season material by cheating 'dumb hicks'.

"Oh, come on! Take some risks! You could look waayyy more attractive!" she said while waving her arms.

As I was about to choke the little idiot, an old woman came from another room. "Luna, that's enough! You're making the customer uncomfortable!"

"What? No, I'm not!" whined back the little scoundrel. "I was totally about to make a sale!"

No, you were not you dumb little-

Wait! Luna?

So this was the Luna?

Someone up there definitely didn't like me today….

"Luna, stop being ridiculous!" the older woman replied. She then turned at me and bowed, " Well, it's nice to meet you. We just opened up this tailor shop. We sell clothes and accessories. I'm Shelly, head tailor of this shop. Pleased to meet you."

The girl turned at me again. "I'm Luna. You need to have good taste when it comes to clothes! How's your taste?" she asked while looking at me from the top to the bottom.

"Fairly good, I daresay…. I am Angela, by the way." I said while her baby face twisted in understanding. Good, you have heard about me too, huh? Shelly looked as if she would have a stroke, though…

"Hm, really? You could have fooled me with that outfit…" Luna replied. "No wonder why Gill hasn't mentioned anything about your taste…"

I sneered, drawing a frown from her. "Funny, cause he hasn't mentioned you at all…"

As the angry pink dwarf was about to retort, Shelly tactfully intervened. "Please, excuse my granddaughter. Her manners need some mending. By the way, Luna, do you know where your sister went?"

She glared at me one last time and turned to reply. "Probably some place where she doesn't have to talk to people, like the field or the mountain. What a wallflower!"

"Luna! Don't say mean things like that about your sister!" Shelly said while she looked at me, obviously embarrassed. "I'm sorry about Luna, Angela. Anyway, it was nice to meet you!"

"The same here, ma'am. And I wouldn't worry about Luna. At her age, kids tend to say inappropriate things…"

"I AM NOT A KID!" Luna screeched while Shelly tried to calm her. "I TURNED 20 IN SPRING!!"

"Hm, really? You could have fooled me with that outfit and those childish pigtails…" I replied, using her own words against her.

"Better pigtails than soggy and frayed, layered hair like yours! And this outfit is the best of the best unlike those old shorts and that horrid green blouse… Is that a dirt stain I see over there?"

"Well, I am a farmer. It's only natural!" I flushed while unconsciously dusting my shirt.

"Figures! I mean, how do you live? How can you have that horrid look and still walk proudly by the street? If I were you, I would be sooo depressed!" she said while shaking free of her grandmother.

"Girls, please!" Shelly begged, getting in between us.

I ignored the woman and threw my arms in the air. "Good Goddess! How can you utter that much stupidity in such a short amount of time? If the Brownie Ranch had a horse with the speed of your tongue, I'll be sure to buy it. It would win all races known to men!"

"Only a crass farmer like you would concoct insults using animals. Do you really have no better things to say?" she mocked as she breathed deeply, obviously trying to compose herself. "How can people in this town stand such a man-like crude woman? I mean, you even look masculine! That tool belt, those boots and even those so second hand gloves. Who did you steal them from? No, no, wait, perhaps you ransacked some cowboy's trash can and found them. That's it, right? Ha, ha, ha, ha " she finished, laughing irritably.

'Vaughn's gloves… How dare she?' I thought as my heart skipped painfully at the memory.

"Luna! Apologize in this instant!" Shelly demanded as she took in my tortured face.

Adjusting my gloves and letting my bangs fall over me eyes, I looked at Luna from behind them. "Better crude than infantile. I mean, you even scare your sister away, the poor thing! She goes to the field or the mountain not to get away from people but to get away from you! Only that if I knew her, I would recommend her to put you in a box and ship you all the way to equatorial Africa where the other pygmies reside! That way, she'd be able to live in peace!" I shouted while Luna stepped back, her eyes watering. "That's right, so, are you going to cry, little pygmy? Oh, please, do! Make my day…"

Luna stepped a few more spaces back, some tears falling from her incensed face. Her grandmother was about to tell her something when, agile as a cat, she side stepped the old woman and launched herself straight at me, shouting wildly with nails sharp as claws. I braced myself for the impact but the dwarf was heavier than I expected; I heard the glass of the shop's window breaking into million pieces while we both flew through it.

Shelly shouted in panic and I prepared for the impact, thinking of how many shards were going to be embedded in my arms again. Jin wouldn't be pleased…

Elli

Once Kathy told me that Angela had not taken the milk and had gone to the Tailor Shop, I feared the worst. In her state, there was no way that Angela remembered that Luna and her family owned the store. Praying to the Goddess for the first time in 10 years, I left Chloe's sample dress and ran to the Tailor Shop, begging the deity Angela had waited outside. But as I rounded the corner, I knew the vile being had not listened. Angela and Luna were flying through the glass at the Tailor Shop, entangled fiercely. The pieces of glass fell under and all around them as they impacted the floor. It looked like a really messed up bar fight… 'What did you expect Elli?' I thought as I pushed myself faster. 'The Goddess hasn't ever listened to you in her stupid life! She may not even exist!'

I thought the impact and the glass would dissuade them from continuing the fray, but these two were spirited women in their own accord. Luna was straddling Angela, hitting her left and right with her small fists. Angela grabbed Luna's fists and with a mad yell, head butted the pink haired girl straight in the middle of her forehead. Luna fell back, clutching her bloody forehead while Angela took advantage and tried to stand up, surely to get away from the messy sea of glass. However, the tailor recovered swiftly and with her legs, she tripped the farmer, making the latter fall flatly on the ground.

"You won't see daylight again, man-face!" Luna shouted while she hit Angela in the ribs.

"Yeah,but it would be because I will be locked up for killing you, you oversized pigmy!" Angela breathlessly replied as she grabbed the other girl's pigtails and pulled them hard, making the tailor shout in pain.

"Leave my hair alone, you dumb witch!" Luna yelled while Angela pulled her up by her pigtails. "You are so going to jail! I will tell Gill to land sorry inexistent behind in a cell for all times!"

"Shut up! No one is going to lock me up because killing you has to be considered community service!" Angela said as she hit Luna on her right eye, slamming her into the tailor Shop's wall.

Luna recovered quickly –out of anger, no doubt. With her eye bleeding extraordinarily, she charged against Angela, knocking her into the sea of glass again. The farmer shouted in pain as a big shard went through her thigh and was quickly silenced as Luna broke her nose in one sickening sound.

With her last effort, Angela punched Luna in her right temple, knocking the tailor effectively off her. Both panted for a couple of seconds and when they were going at it again, Irene and Jin quickly interfered. The woman and her grandson had come out of the Clinic seconds before and rapidly jumped into action, unlike me, who stood terrified at the scene.

Summer 25th, XXX1

Today has been perhaps one of the craziest days this town has ever had and the most abundant in malicious gossip too, if the full Inn has anything to say about it. It began as usual, Elli, Father and I going to work; I thought Elli was going to kill me last night when I went to her house to narrate everything that happened. Perhaps I wanted to be killed… After all, as I told her while she prepared some tea, I was feeling guilty as hell: Angela was one of the few really interested in being my friend and I ruined it. Now I was confused, hanging between the sensations I did not feel for Luna and the ones I did feel and also about the feelings I did not feel for Angela that now I felt.

Elli listened to my rambling while sipping her cup and was quiet for a long time after I finished. For a moment, I thought she had poisoned my drink and was just waiting for the venom to act, but then she simply sighed.

"Gill, it's quite natural to be confused. I won't tell you that Angela was wrong in kicking you out of her house, because I would have done the same, but perhaps it's better that she did."

"Yeah, I know. I'm an imbecile and now she won't speak to me ever again…" I sighed while I place the tea cup on its plate. I had a hard time swallowing.

She smiled and continued. "That's a lot of time, don't you think? No, Angie is not one to be mad for long, as far as I can tell about her. The thing is that you stood her up because of Luna, a girl you like… or used to like. That's a hard blow for any woman's pride, so you have to give her some time."

"I didn't mean to!" I insisted. "Luna caught up with me and things spiraled out of my control. Jin told me that me running to Angela was the answer to it all but I don't see any logic in that!"

Elli rounded the table and grabbed me by the shoulders. "Gill, pay close attention to what I'm going to say. First, how many girlfriends have you had since Luna? I know she wasn't technically your girlfriend, but let's ignore that for a second…."

"Emm…I… n..n"

"What? Don't mumble…"

"None, okay? I didn't like anyone in town! There was a girl in the University but I met her the day before I came back to Waffle Town so there wasn't really a chance…"

"Ok. Next, what were you expecting when you saw Luna again?" she asked, looking straight into my eyes.

I doubted for a second. What did I expect? "To be the same as before, I guess. I know that we were ten last time we saw each other, but I could feel that she was the one I wanted, even then. I felt a bond, yes. That was what I expected to feel, that bond of before…"

"Did you?"

"No… I felt happy but it was not as before. I mean, I'm elated that she's here but it's not the same as before. I realized that when I kissed her… And then I remembered Angela and ran, but it was too late…" I finished miserably.

"Are you afraid of Angela not speaking to you ever again?"

"Elli, have you been listening to anything I've said?!"

"Ok, ok… Then, what kind of feeling do you get when you talk to Angela? I'm not talking about anything romantic, ok? Just about the feeling."

I thought about the feelings I got with Angela, but they weren't precise. "Hmmm… I feel confident when she's around working part-time, because she's very efficient. I've never seen anyone preventing Maya from disarraying my alphabetical ordered files… Also, she makes sense, you know? While I never understood Kathy, Maya and their giggles and eyelashes, with Angela, I can know what makes her laugh, what she giggles about and I don't feel stupid. I also feel angry when she passes out in the mines but thankfully, that fool Owen is always around to save her. She should think more of herself. She always has some kind of injury when I'm not around… And even though you and father don't believe me, I still know she had something to do with the rainbow… She's mysterious about it, but I'm going to discover what really happened… I don't know, it's like a group of intense feelings all cluttered inside me."

Elli smiled again and finally asked, "What about Kathy, Anissa and the rest of the girls? What do you think about them?"

"Eh? What does that have to do with anything?"

"Just answer Gill…."

"Kathy, she is cool but simple. Maya, annoying and foul cook. Anissa, very charming and intelligent but a bit too quiet. Candace needs a tongue. Then, Reneé, I don't know her that much, not that I want to anyway. Selena, please… You, one of my most appreciated friends. So, what's the point of this?"

Elli went to her bookshelf, took out a really thick book and began speaking again while looking for a page. "Gill Hammilton, welcome to the world of crushes. What is a crush, you may ask… Well, according to my Romance Class guide, it's '…admiring someone from a safe distance. You feel a hugely powerful emotion, stronger than anything you've felt before. You obsess over this person-"

"I absolutely don't obsess over Angela!!" I countered, already regretting this conversation.

"May I remind you the reason of us having tea right now at 1:30 in the morning?" she said while lifting an eyebrow.

"… Continue please…."

"Thank you. Where was I? Oh, yes '…You would die for them. You think about them constantly. You are thrilled when you are near them and miserable when you are away from them. You desperately want to tell the person how you feel - but are frightened of it at the same time. Yep, most of this applies to you."

I stopped talking for a couple of minutes, while finishing my cold tea. If the information comes from a book, it's not likely to be wrong, now is it? "What should I do then?" I asked, defeated. Perhaps I did have a crush after all…

"Now, nothing. Wait for Angela to calm down and then try to talk to her, perhaps late in the morning today. Let her see that you're really sorry about what happened and improvise from there. And whatever you do, don't mention Luna; that's what got you into this problem after all…"

Later that morning, while checking the calendar, Elli got up from her seat like a possessed fool. Announcing she was going to take a break, she sprinted out of the Town Hall under Father and I's stunned look. It was only 9:50 and the next scheduled break was at 10:30.

Ignoring that, at 11, Father told me to have some lunch because we had a meeting with the town elders at 1pm sharp. Grabbing my wallet, I headed to the Inn and took my lunch quietly, under Luke's inquisitive look. Seeing the cheesecake on the menu, I asked Kathy if she could give me one to go. I remembered that Angela loved this particular dessert and perhaps that would make her more willing to listen to me again.

As I jogged to her farm, I saw the door of her house wide open. Worried, I picked up my pace; even in Waffle Town didn't happen anything, Angela was a city girl so she had all sorts of locks installed in her door even if it was not necessary. She always locked her door. Peering inside while calling her, I saw no signs of the farmer but no signs of violence either. 'Perhaps she is nearby?' I asked myself while looking around some more. Next to her journal, I found a picture I had never seen before, a worn picture of Angela hugging a cowboy, smiling as I had never seen Angela smile before. She was shining, positively blissful.

Taking the picture next to the window, I began examining it. The cowboy was young and had white, long hair. He was smirking, not entirely smiling and I had to admit he was good-looking. He wore a black, Stetson cowboy hat, a white handkerchief around his neck and a brown vest. But what really drew my attention were the gloves, they were strangely familiar, but I couldn't picture where I had seen them. Irritated, I placed the picture face down, by where I found it and left Angela's house, setting the cheesecake down on the porch.

Walking towards the town, I saw Luke leaning on a tree, not far from the town's entrance. He was smirking at me in the most irksome manner; I was about to be bothered by the axe man, no doubt.

"Hey, stud!" he said.

"Can I help you Luke?" I asked, not halting my pace.

He fell into step right next to me. "No, I can't say you can. But I wanted to ask you… well… How you do it?" He said winking conspiratorially and nudging my side.

"Walking? Easy, one step at the time. Breathing? Using my lungs. Avoiding exasperating people like you? It's a secret art not yet mastered…" I answered while heading to the Town Hall stairs.

He ran and stepped in front of me, still smirking. "No, you fool! How did you manage to get both Angela and Luna to fall for you? I tell you, those are the toughest women I've ever seen and yet you managed it without effort. Goddess man, they even fought for you, you know?

Flushed, I tried to side step him. "I don't know what on Earth you're talking about! Stop bothering me Luke because, unlike you, I have matters to solve!"

"So, you don't know about the fight?" he asked from behind, genuinely puzzled.

Exasperated, I turned around. Any conflict between the villagers is something the Town Hall must solve. "What fight?"

"You want the short or the long version?"

"Luke…"

"Ok, I get it, the short. Well, apparently, Angie got up from the wrong side of the bed and went to the Tailor Shop to look for Luna. We all know how you stood Angie up last night because of her and I can tell you, I don't blame her… Well, the thing is that they argued and Luna kung fu-ed Angie all over the street. They even flew by the window of the Tailor Shop and all…"

"What?" I muttered as my eyes went wide in disbelief.

"Yeah man. But Angie didn't stay behind. She pulled Luna by her pigtails and slammed her onto the wall seven times and gave her a purple eye. Luna got free and broke Angie's nose and then they were stopped by Jin and Irene. The entire town is wondering how you managed to get those two so crazy to fight for you… You should hear the long version; Maya says that Jin and Irene used some Spock-like touch to immobilize the girls when they picked up glass shards to use them as daggers…"

I was no longer listening to Luke; my feet were flying towards the Clinic, next to which I saw all the pieces of glass Luke was talking about. Fearing all of what he said to be true, I entered the Clinic in a flash, where I could hear heated voices arguing.

"As soon as I'm good again, you'll see what's coming…" Luna threatened while Irene bandaged her head and right eye.

"Luna, please… calm down…" Candace shy voice muttered.

"Bring it on, pygmy! The last thing you'll see from you left eye will be the flies hovering over your rotten corpse!" Angela retorted, her face distorted in by the pain as Jin took out a large piece of glass from in her thigh.

"Angie, that's enough for today, don't you think?" Elli chastised while disinfecting the wound, Jin being busy preparing the instruments for the sutures.

I entered the room and everybody gasped as I came into the light. "May I ask what happened here?"

As if on cue, Luna and Angela began trying to explain, their voices escalating one over the other until turning into full fledged screams. Suddenly, Shelly's deafening whistle effectively restored peace and the woman began explaining.

"Angela came to our store to look for some fabric but she misinterpreted some of Luna's remarks and began offending her…"

"Your granddaughter is not a saint, Shelly." Elli interrupted as Luna glared at her. "We all know she insolently implied bad things about Angela, even accusing her of having stolen the gloves she uses and all."

"They are horrible and worn out, you can't expect me to believe she bought them… Besides, she also implied that I drew Candace away when I love her dearly and I would do anything to protect her. She messed into family affairs." Luna countered heatedly.

" And I stand by what I said. That poor girl over there is so shy she wouldn't have the courage to stand up to you. And your grandmother is just too much of a lady to do so. But I'm not in any of those positions so shut up, you snake!" Angela said while pointing at Luna threateningly.

As I watched the interaction, deciding on what to do, I looked at Angela's hands pointing at Luna. On her hands, I identified the cowboy's gloves –worn yes, but there was no mistake about it. A burning feeling rose inside me, something I had never felt before. Why was she wearing that cowboy's gloves?! In the picture, the gloves were nice but now they were worn, meaning Angela had had them for a long time. The women kept arguing while my head was spinning; I felt rage, I wanted to take those things and burn them to ashes. And I was angry at Angela for still wearing them when I was obviously so angry about them. Even if she didn't know…

"Angela, Luna, everybody, Shut UP!" I yelled. All the present turned at me as if I were a ghost, clearly scared by my outburst. Once I had their attention, I turned to the girls. "Luna, even if you mean well, your remarks are far to insolent in a regular basis. I hope this experience teaches you to curb your cheekiness and meditate your words before letting them leave your mouth. Of course, you will have to apologize."

Luna flushed in rage but then nodded, seeing the reason behind my words. Satisfied in that front, I turned to Angela. "Angela, I know you are new in this town, but a little common sense must come to you. You don't make any remarks about family members you don't even know nor families you aren't acquainted with, especially not for a silly thing such as those stupid, old, worn out gloves. Since your attitude was the most offensive, I expect you to apologize first to Luna and then I'll make sure she apologizes straight back."

I expected a reaction very much like Luna's but I should have already learned that Angela is unpredictable. Lowering her head, she jumped off the bed where she was on, much to everyone's surprise. She took off her gloves and limped towards me, leaving a blood trail. Jin and Elli were about to stop her but Irene prevented it; she somehow knew what was going to happen.

Angela came in front of me and unexpectedly slapped me with the gloves she was holding. While it should not have hurt, the blasted things were made of pure leather, so it hurt. A lot…

"I ain't apologizing…" Angela said in a gruff voice everyone could hear. "These gloves were a gift from a very important person who meant a lot to me. Because of this, I ain't apologizing to the anyone who insulted them and the memory I kept while at it. And also, while I'm at it, Mr. Hammilton, I expect you to go to hell…"

Having said that, she pulled the gloves firmly over her bruised hands and hobbled out of the Clinic, under a grave silence.


To be continued…