Chapter 35 - Angel's Confession
After each trio settled into their hotel rooms, the amigos and amigas changed into their nightclothes and started getting ready to call it a night. In their room, the women were talking about how all the people they had been passing by were admiring them and the amigos. "Those amigos must really be popular if people talk about them and look at them with awe," said Kitty, "But then, maybe the guys are returning after a hiatus in Mexico?"
"Who knows?" said Angel, "All I know is that Lucky and I have been through a lot together, and I feel…"
"Yes?" Kitty asked.
Angel thought about what to say, but then she sighed and said, "I just feel that he and the other men have been so helpful. They've helped us come so far to reach our dream destination."
Cecile, who was sitting on a bed while writing something, looked up and chuckled, "Angel, I think there may be something much more on your mind!"
"What are you talking about?" Angel asked.
"Cecile's right," Kitty grinned, "There's something about Lucky that's on your mind – I'm sure of it! Mind telling us about it?"
Angel wanted to snap at them and say that she had nothing on her mind, but then she finally confessed with a sigh, "Alright. I'll tell you… I think I'm in love with that man." With that, Kitty and Cecile walked over to stand by both of their friend's sides as Angel sang:
I don't know how to love him
What to do, how to move him
I've been changed
Yes, really changed!
Kitty and Cecile looked at each other, remembering how Lucky and Angel didn't exactly get along very well at times during their journey. Then, Angel took two steps forward as she kept singing:
In these past few days
When I've seen myself
I seem like someone else
I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he moves me
He's a man
He's just a man
Angel looked at her reflection in a mirror of a vanity, and she imagined Lucky's face appear alongside hers. Lucky smiled as he put his hand around Angel's shoulder, and Angel sang:
And I've had so many men before
In very many ways
He's just one more!
Kitty nodded at Angel's last sentence, totally agreeing with her, since both of the women both had their share of men before meeting the amigos.
Angel: Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love?
Let my feelings out?
We are then given a zoom-in of Angel's reflection with Lucky at her side, and then the image in the mirror becomes a scene where Angel and Lucky are together in strange room.
Angel: I never thought I'd come to this
What's it all about?
Don't you think it's rather funny?
I should be in this position
I'm the one who's always been
So hot, not cool
A lover's fool
Running every show
He bugs me so!
Lucky held his hand out to Angel, but she hesitated, and then ran off. Lucky came after her until he hugged her, twirled her around, and leaned in to kiss her. Before he could kiss her, Lucky disappeared, and we go back to the hotel room as Angel sang:
I never thought I'd come to this
What's it all about?
Yet, if he said he loved me
I'd be lost, I'd be frightened
I couldn't cope
Just couldn't cope
I'd turn my head
I'd back away
I wouldn't want to know!
She then sat on top of the bed and thought about her adventure with the Three Amigos and finished her song:
He bugs me so
I want him so
I love him so!
"Maybe tomorrow you'll have the strength to tell him?" Cecile asked Angel as she took her note that she had been writing.
"Maybe," Angel sighed. She saw Cecile's note and changed the subject by asking, "Cecile, out of curiosity, what are you writing down?"
"Oh, it is just a letter to my mother and father," Cecile replied with a sad smile, "Since I met Dusty and bonded with him, I thought about my dreadful actions as a teen, and now I want to say that I am sorry to my parents. I hope they are still living in the Midwest, because I am mailing this letter tomorrow on our exploration." She then set the note and pen on a desk beside the bed, and then she, Angel, and Kitty all crawled into the bed together to sleep.
Author's Note: The song "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar ((c) Andrew Lloyd Webber)