Hello, and Merry Christmas. Sorry I didn't post this in Christmas day, because I posted another Smurf story. It's called, "A Smurfy Adventure". So, whoever is a Smurf fan, free to read. But at least I post this chapter before New Year. Hope this chapter will make you a New Year's resolution! XD!
Enjoy!
Aggie sat on the log at the beach, kicking the sand with her talons and feeling the cold night air of the ocean. She didn't care she was cold. She can't help but thinking what she did to Red in a worst and best way. She just killed him with a dagger, and then brought him back to life by True Love's Kiss. It's an embarrassing thing though. She let herself killed the bird she was in love with. It was a regretful thin she ever made.
But when she still thought about everything, she started to feel cold as she shivered, until she was covered by a fuzzy blanket. Aggie gasped when she felt someone covered her with a blanket.
"Ags?" Red sat beside her. And then, the rest of the gang and the whole three islands are there to join her.
"How did you all know I'm here?" asked Aggie without looking at her friends.
"You're… too easy to be found now," Leslie replied.
"What do you guys want?"
"We want you…" Chuck sighed, "To tell us everything. Everything what you've been hiding from us all this time."
"I thought I already confessed everything to you, remember?!" Aggie reminded.
"Yes, but you weren't yourself that time. We want to hear it from the real you," Silver corrected. "Since you're back to normal, we want to hear your secret out from the original you."
Aggie hated it that she has to confess her upsetting secret again. While holding the blanket around her body, she stood up, and walked just a few stapes away from the log, feeling ashamed of what happened.
"Aggie, is it really true? Are you angry at us ever since… you know when?" Matilda asked, but Aggie couldn't answer.
"You were never angry at us before. Well, except for the pigs, and we haven't met most of the eagles yet. Are you really really angry at us?" Willow asked the same question.
Aggie couldn't hold it anymore or else, Dark Aggie will take over again. She has to confess to get this over with. She turned around with teary eyes, "YES!"
Only the residents of Bird Island gasped.
"I guess I owe you," Hal whispered to Bubbles as he gave him the money.
"Oh my gaawww..." the Mime Bird said silently.
"I was angry at all of you, okay?!" Aggie started to confess her feelings in her true nature, "I tried sooo hard to fit in. I tried being kind. I tried to make you smile. Heck, I even revealed my true identity and unleashed my powers to save you! But I guess everything I did was not enough! I'm not enough."
"No, Aggie, you did too much," Red shook down, "We… are not enough to be friends."
Then, Judge Peckinpah admitted, "And you were right about us. We only befriended others who were heroes, not someone who tried to be a good friend."
"And we noticed how you work so hard to be friends with us birds. Your effort wasn't worthless…, it was worth it," Olive Blue added.
"We're very sorry, Aggie. We made you feel like nothing to us again, and we never knew you feel so bad," Dahlia spoke.
But Aggie couldn't answer them. She's still waiting for someone else to admit a mistake to her. She also felt bad for hurting the innocent birds she knew.
Realizing Aggie couldn't talk about it yet, Chuck and Bomb glanced at one another as they thought it's their time to admit their mistake.
"Aggie, uh…" When Bomb was about to speak and Aggie turned to look at him, he got scared and shoved Chuck in front of him, "You know what, buddy? You'll tell her first. It was your idea, anyway. You started it all first."
"Alright, alright," Chuck didn't hesitate, and turned to Aggie, "Ags…, it's hard for me and Bomb to explain, but… Look, we didn't try to make Red forget you after your break-up. It's just that… since the pigs declared a truce, we thought that we should give Red something to get his mind off of things… of saving the world and all. Taking a break from it."
"By… Speed Dating?!" Aggie suddenly yelled, "By making him date other people?!"
"Look, cous, it was just a suggestion for cheering both of you up from your break-up. You want to be alone, and he needs someone to keep him companied," Bomb explained.
"Hey, I never needed someone else to cheer me up than her, you know, and I never wanted to agree with you with this!" Red reminded.
"But you already know how that makes me feel!" Aggie spoke with a broken voice, "Sure, breaking up was my idea, only to save the universe, but it doesn't mean I'm incapable to love anymore!"
"I may not be a love expert, but she's kinda right," Leonard whispered to Ruby as she nodded in agreement.
Chuck shook his head down, "We know, girl. And we're sorry. We didn't know you were so hurt. Even when I… you know… kinda…" He hesitated to confess his mistake, especially with his fellow birds, pigs and eagles around, but Chuck deserved this kind of punishment, "Teased Red of… making him think of an idea of dating my sister."
Matilda and Stella face-palmed in stress when Chuck finally confessed the truth. Even Roy and Rebecca were disgusted by their uncle's "playfull" behavior.
"You… already know… how a girl feels when you teasingly paired her love life with someone else. You already know that, Chuck!" Aggie angrily but gently poke Chuck's beak, so she won't hurt him even more, "You already know me!"
Of course Chuck knew. He just forgot all about that. He was just having fun, but his fun hurt one of his best friends, "Yes…, I knew that. And I should have known that. I'm so sorry, Aggie. I don't know what I can do to forgive me…, but saying to you that I was wrong."
Aggie quickly wiped away her forming tears on her eyes. It hurts but she understood. Boys will be boys "That's just the start. You and Bomb never made a mistake to me before, but this is your first warning," She told the two birds before shifting her eyes to her eagle aunt, "And yours, too."
Zeta stunned that her adoptive niece gave her an icy glared as she sighed, "Guess you're still mad at me, huh?"
"What do you think? I almost killed you. Wasn't that obvious enough?!" Aggie covered her back with a blanket again, shielding herself from her adoptive aunt.
"You are mad at me, for real, because I hurt you… because I ruined your effort of gaining your friends' trust on you, and your chance of love," Zeta felt ashamed as she sat on the log besides Aggie when Red scooted aside, giving Zeta a space for her to sit, "Agatha, I'm so sorry. I've been a terrible aunt to you. All you want to be happy, and I destroyed half of it. None of this is your fault, it's mine. So much for being a good aunt on a good first impression of being one, but I hope you know how much I already love you."
"I wish you would've thought of that before you found out everything," Aggie replied, but she still didn't look at her, "But I know it wasn't totally your fault. You didn't know so much about me and the rest of my friends from Bird Island. But still, it is wrong to judge people you haven't known yet nor just met."
"I know. I was wrong. Now I understand why Bernadette was so mad at me," Zeta remembered when she finally reunited with her human best friends after many many years, she only received anger from them than a warm welcome to their lives, "I… paired up and misjudged a male and a female birds, which the male one was actually your love-life, until you guys broke up, only for you to save the universe from non-existence. I shouldn't open my beak like that, especially you weren't there but you listened. I hope you give me another chance."
Aggie was still mad about her aunt's mockery of calling Red and Silver "lovebirds", but she has no choice since they're family, and family always fix things up between them. She finally turned to face her Zeta, "You're my aunt, Zeta. We're a family. I don't want to hurt you. Glad you understand what I've been through."
"I really do. I was in your shoes once, and now you're just like me."
"Way more extreme."
Compare to these aunt and niece, both Zeta and Aggie have similar love and brokenhearted stories. Theonly difference is Aggie was way more extreme and evil than Zeta since Aggie brutally injured everyone and stabbed Red multiple times mercilessly, while Zeta was using ice balls to scare the birds and pigs to evacuate their islands without any brutal consequences.
When the conversation of family is maybe over, Silver slowly scooted besides Aggie, "Aggie, I know… you don't want to talk about it…, but… I want you to let it out. No more hiding," Aggie only glanced at Silver who was next to her with begging eyes, "Is it true? That you really hate me? Since the beginning we met? Since day one?"
As of that, Aggie didn't want to talk of what she felt ever since she met Silver, but the longer she held her feelings in, she knew Dark Aggie will show up. When Aggie stood up face-to-face with Silver, a red dark cloud came out of her head. It's not just a cloud, but a cloud of her bottled-up emotions with anger and hatred. She sighed in defeat to confess, "I… really… hate you. You stole everything from me. You ruined all my effort to earn these birds' trust. You make me feel unwanted and unappreciated when you saved the world using your own intelligence, while I tried to do the same. You also made me lose my hope to get back with Red again, but you take it all away from me. You stole him from me. It's like you don't even noticed what I've been working on after I saved the universe. It's like you don't even know I have this feeling that I never had ever. And it's like you don't even care how much I was hurt when you were around him! Your life was already perfect because your smart and you have a supportive brother, but you want something more, something like I have!"
During Aggie's confession, everyone was terrified and stared at the dark red cloud above her, which is not hard to notice since the cloud was visible.
"If you keep doing what you were doing to me, I will NEVER EVER treat you as my friend anymore! And the worst part is, not even during our mission, YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY YOU WERE SORRY!"
Aggie's voice was really loud and strong, it created like a wind blowing on everyone's faces, hair, feathers, and even the pigs' ears.
"I… I'm sorry. I really am sorry, Aggie. I have no idea you felt that way of me… that was so… extreme," Silver said,
"YEAH, I DO! I DO FEEL THIS WAY SINCE I MET YOU!" Her voice made the ground tremble. As Aggie sighed in relief, the dark red cloud popped and calmed herself down from letting out all the anger from her, "But to be fair, I don't know how you could have known. All of you. Since I never felt like this before, sad, angry, jealous… vengeful, I decided to keep myself silent from you, but… I couldn't hold it much longer. I saw all of you how happy you were after the whole ice balls thing, so I ended up keeping my feelings for myself, bottling up my emotions, and pretending to be happy so you guys don't have to worry about me. Everything not just about me, everyone has their own spotlight, and I don't want to steal it, since that's what always thought about you, Silver. I just thought you guys might realize soon of what you did to me that hurt me a lot, but I let you all be happy of what you have while I ended up crying inside."
"Not everyone could realize their mistake to their friend right away, but everyone can do something to make everything right," Matilda stated, "The trick is to speak up."
"But what if someone can't speak up because they care for their friends' emotions than themselves?" pointed Aggie,
"If you want your friends and yourself to be happy and better, you have to decide what's best, and be upfront and honest, even if you can or can't expect their reaction in the future; either it was guilt or happy and relief," Ruby replied.
"So, I guess that means talking to you guys at the beginning instead of stringing them along until you get so frustrated, you totally lose it, and say and do a bunch of really awful things?" The white sparrow guessed.
"Pretty much like that," Red said, "You tell me. It was you who taught us that kind of lesson."
Aggie sighed frustratingly. She totally forgot her own lesson, "I just don't want you guys to feel guilty, and I don't want to get all of your attention to me. I want things to be fair for everyone, even me."
"Like what I said when I apologized, we couldn't just friends with heroes, but everyone around us, giving them a chance to experience friendship," Peckinpah repeated.
"And most of all, Aggie, we are worried about you," Chuck told her, "When you told us that you've been sacrifice everything to make us happy, you shouldn't just think about us, you should've think about yourself, too."
"If I do, everyone, including you guys, would think that I'm selfish, and you all probably think that I own everything and everyone around me, which is not good," Aggie explained about her fear.
"We already know you for 10 years, Aggie," Stella placed a wing on Aggie's back, "We know you're not that kind of person. But if you keep your mouth shut that you were upset about what happened, and bottle up your emotions, you will explode and you'll be a different person, much worse than usual. That's much worse than confessing that you're upset."
"I think I did do that," Aggie admitted. She was already on that stage before, "And look at that, it finally came true. I held you all hostage, K let you drowned, led you to all of my traps, poisoned the children to sleep, and almost killed all of you. I am so so sorry. I'll do whatever it takes for you to forgive me."
"Okay. Can you get me a lemonade?" Gale teasingly suggested.
"Gale!" Willow elbowed her as Gale shrugged.
"We already forgive you," Vivi said, "Right guys?"
"Of course, we do," Sophie nodded as the rest of the piglets, hatchlings and eaglets nodded and chanted in agreement.
"You really do?" Aggie raised an eyebrow.
"Of course we forgive you," Bomb wrapped a wing around Aggie's back neck, "No one is a better, magical, lovable and smarter friend than you."
"Exactly!" Silver exclaimed in agreement, "You taught us so much about friendship, and because of this long trip and life-or-death experience, you taught us almost everything that I didn't; magic, survival, and most of all, the sacrifices of a friend who was just trying to make her friends really happy, but ended up got hurt in the end. But not gonna lie. Hearing you say all those terrible things about me wasn't easy. But I needed to hear it. Why didn't you just tell me how you felt when we first met?"
"You were just a stranger when we met. I don't want to hurt you that easily," answered Aggie in guilt.
Silver scoffed, "Pfft! Come on! It'd take a lot more than that to hurt me. I got used to that while I'm still at school. Our first meeting isn't as hurtful as a few angry words."
"And a magical temper tantrum and evil side of me?"
"Listen, I'd take that over the boring bird or human girl you were becoming any day. The Aggie I know and study is determined, brave, kind, happy, adventurous and yeah, sometimes angry and jealous. Those are my favorite parts of you when you first introduced yourself as a human from another world. That and the fact that you forgive me every time.""
"I'll forgive you if you forgive me."
"Deal," Silver offered her wing to Aggie as they shook wings.
"Even though you kept hiding your negative thoughts from us is an unselfish things because you want us to be happy and you don't want to be selfish, what you did is also a selfish thing," Garry said.
"Aggie, we know you as an honest person, but when we always ask if you're okay, you always told you're okay. But you weren't. You lied to us. How can help you with your negative thoughts if you keep a secret from us?" told Poppy.
"We never want you to be unhappy. Birds of a feather flock together. If you're not happy, then we're not. We don't want you to be alone just like how you are at your home world. And we should've known how you've been feeling all this time," Mighty Eagle added.
"And most of all of us, it was both of our fault," Red confessed as he and Silver stood up in front of Aggie.
"We're really sorry, Aggie. We never knew you felt this way… about us. We never knew you were jealous, " Silver apologized.
"But deep down, we knew you were hurt," Red tapped his chest, at the right spot of his heart, "That's why we ask you, and you always said you're okay. We believed you because you're always honest."
Aggie sighed, and replied, "That one was a lie, too. But…, I don't want to be that selfish. I never own you, Red. We also broke up, and I respect your decision that you moved on and decided to be with someone else."
"But I didn't," Red shook his head, "I never moved on from you."
"But I saw… both of you together on that mission. It's like you have feelings for each other."
"We kinda do, but we barely know each other. It's not technically normal, not even when you call it 'true love', and we never told you about us because we thought you were never upset," Silver explained.
"But it's too late. We should've known soon that you were already jealous and angry at us. We tried to avoid this feeling, but it already happened," Red added.
"I know. I watch the video of both of you from my parents' cameras all over again," Aggie showed to everyone all the clips of the video of every moments of Red and Silver on her phone.
Of course, the video showed the time when Red went on a Speed Dating with Silver when they first met, the part when they meet again in Avian Academy, the time when they escaped from Eagle Mountain as Silver was on to of Red, the time when Zeta trapped, the time when Bomb blew up the door, freeing Red and Silver from their traps with their face close together, the time when the two were in the vent as thought that Silver leaned closer to Red to kiss him, but opened the door behind him, and lastly, the time when they shared champagne together on top of Her Mountain with Aggie behind them, who was secretly saddened.
Just then, the phone was destroyed by a red laser, which startled Aggie.
It is revealed that Red was the one who fired the laser on the phone with his wand staff to destroy the video of shame, "We don't need to re-live it… ever."
"Hope you forgive us… for everything," Courtney fiddled her hooves together.
"Well, you know, Dark Aggie never forgives," Aggie said all birds, pigs and eagles shook their heads down in guilt, until Aggie lightened her tone, "But I do! You fellas can't shake me that easily."
They all raised their heads happily, realizing that Aggie forgave them.
"Now, there's the Aggie we know!" Chuck cheered, missing the old Aggie.
"Remembered…" Jay added.
"And loved," Mighty Eagle finished the sentence.
"Aaawwww!" The pigs and the other eagles exclaimed.
"Yeah, not that kind of love thing," Mighty Eagle corrected.
"We all learn a valuable lesson… well, more than one: Never ignore your friends' negativities," Pinky aaid, "No matter how many times they said they're okay."
"Always remember your friend's efforts and sacrifices," Leonard elbowed Aggie's arm, referring to her as she blushed.
"Do not forget a previous or interest when new ones come in to you," Jake stated, kinda glaring Jay at this point.
"Do not judge others easily at one look, never compare yourself of your miserable stories to others," Zeta snickered, but everyone stared at her confused, "That's my lesson.""
"Never force anyone to date someone else after a break-up. That's also my lesson," Bomb admitted.
"Same as mine, and don't tease your best friend about giving an idea of dating your sister other than their own true love. It's very embarrassing," Chuck rubbed his wings together in shame.
"I should've notice a sign of a new friend who was upset, jealous, and angry, even though it was me. And even it was unintentional, I shouldn't stole someone's spotlight that she tried to shine for so long. Everyone deserves their spotlight, I deserve mine… And…, even it was no intention of mine, I shouldn't stole someone who was used to be someone else's," Silver thought she didn't make any mistake, but someone else's eyes beg the differ, and, to be fair, everyone makes mistakes, including her.
"Mine? I should always trust my team, work things out with them…" Red glanced at Chuck, Bomb and Silver, who were nodded at him, Chuck winked and Bomb gave a thumb-up, "And shouldn't give up on someone who never gives up on me since I met her…" Secretly, Aggie doesn't want to ask Red which someone he was referring to since he met many friends who never gave up on him. But, to her surprise, he looked at her, "10 years from now."
This made Aggie blushed when Red was referring to her. And then, it's her turn to tell her lesson, "I learn a valuable lesson, even though I already learned this lesson before, but I ignored it. I shouldn't keep mg emotions in, and I should've spoke up to my friends who were close to me, who were worried about, who were always there for me, even though I hesitated sometimes. Despite that I tried to be a great friend by doing everything for my friends and even family, I should've thought of myself, too. If I don't, I will be sad. I'll lose it. I'll never get the happiness that I want, that the others have. And I will never care for others anymore. That's the consequences… of keeping myself quiet and pretending to be happy than telling you the truth.
"Aggie, we're kinda flattered that you were protecting us from your parents this whole time, but you shouldn't have done that," said Silver.
"I have to. Since some of you have no idea why my parents are mad at you, I don't want you to feel guilty of what happened when they found out the truth," Aggie explained.
"So, you knew what your parents are talking about?"
"Yes. It was about… the two of you."
"Yeah. We kinda realized since you told us when you're still evil," Red groaned in guilt.
Aggie took a deep breath as she reached for her book of spells from her backpack that Zeta held, and opened the book as the pages revealed the category of all of her evil ancestors.
"Do you see this?" She shined the pictures of her ancestors with her wing containing light, "This is what I found here when I started reading the whole book. All of the records of every horrible things that my families' ever done when they became evil. Lying, cheating, killing, and then there's me," Aggie turned the light off of her wing, "I lied to you because I don't want you guys to think strange when something's wrong about me, so I ran away so I won't hurt you. I also defended you because I don't want to agree something negative about you with my stupid parents!" She picked up small pebbles, and threw them on her wrecked ship, "You were right about me, Zeta. I am a monster. I am just another link in the universe's worst chain."
Zeta sighed, "Agatha, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. But just because you're your ancestors' descendant doesn't mean you have to be like them."
"She's right, Ags," Red placed a wing on her shoulder, "It's not too late. You choose your own destiny. You chose to stay here in this world to make new friends and go on adventures."
"I guess I do," Aggie agreed, "By the way, Red, you did great of using the wand staff. You did good,"
"Thanks," Red held up the staff, "It's a little tricky when first used it, but I already know it's tricks since I've seen you using this everyday."
"Using it with your own hands or wings for the first time, you're pretty advance."
"I guess I am," Red smirked, but it didn't last long, "Well, thank you for letting me borrow this."
Red handed the wand staff back to Aggie. Aggie looked at Red with a smile on his face. He seriously wanted to give the staff back to her since it was not his. And then, she looked at the rest of the birds, pigs and eagles with their young ones. She believed that they already forgave her, but she has second thoughts about it. Sometimes, a simple apology wasn't enough to make others forgive you. Most especially after everything Aggie put them through, and murdering Red to death is very extreme. Although her guilt was slowly fading, Aggie wanted to make up for all the things she had done to her friends and other innocent ones.
"No. Keep it," Aggie slowly shoved the staff back to Red, "This wand staff was yours. It belongs to you now. Things haven't been right since… I turned evil, and I almost killed all of you… Well, actually, I killed you. The best thing I can do is to give you something to make everything right to you."
Seeing this gesture made Red feel guilty. Since what Aggie did was quite extreme, an apology wasn't enough for her to forgive herself, but giving her own heirloom to him instead, "Aggie, please, you don't have to do this. This is you family heirloom for hundreds of years, and I'm no part of your family. Besides, the whole thing you stabbed me, that was nothing. I deserved that, but I don't deserve this," He tried to give the wand back to Aggie, but she hesitated to take it.
"No, Red. Please, take it as an apology gift. I know magic wasn't your thing, but at least let me make things up to you, and maybe using magic for emergencies," Aggie insisted
Since they just made up, Red couldn't fight Aggie's decision anymore, "Well, I can't argue with that after all of this. I guess I'll keep it. But, what would your parents say?"
"My parents!" Aggie groaned frustratingly as she got up, and slouched on her wrecked ship. She stared at her blood-stained wings, "What would they say when they find out I turned evil and I became a murderer?"
"Whoa! Murderer is a strong word, girl!" Debbie complimented.
"Maybe it's best we should stay here for a while," Zeta suggested as she comforted her niece.
"Are you kidding?!" Aggie exclaimed in denial, "Zeta, this isn't our home. This isn't our island. And I don't think we're comfortable of staying in a place full of magic,"
"It's true. Staying in Magic Island was a little weird," Leslie described.
"But, you lived here for 8 years," Silver reminded.
"Yes, but I got used to this place when I was 5. You'll never feel like home if you stay here,"
"He's right though," Aggie nodded, "I was born in a world with a little less magic, while I got magic of my own, so I got use to live in any places weird places,"
"Exactly. So, it must be better that you guys should go back to your homes. And, I hope I should come along with you guys," Leslie was shy to ask.
Aggie chuckled, "Of course you should come!"
"Really?!"
"Yeah. You got me into this place, you're coming along!"
"Hooray!" Leslie rushed to hug his big sister, "Thank golly, I hate this place!" Aggie was shock that her own brother hated the place she was raised in, "But that doesn't mean I hate magic, too. I love magic. Just not in this place. Anywhere but this. So, is trapping your friends to get your revenge isn't parr of the plan?"
"Heck no! That was… unexpected," Aggie shouted offensively "And sorry that I poisoned you kids,"
"That was fine, Ms. Aggie. The poison wasn't actually deadly, it was making the kids sleeping. It wasn't a big deal," Kira laughed
"You meant to put the children to sleep because you already plan to… do this to me, huh?" Red guessed.
"I don't want the kids to see what happened. Kids can have nightmares, you know?" Aggie explained how bad the children will see something bloody and deadly if she hadn't poisoned them to sleep.
"You did the right thing, Aunt Aggie. I don't want to see or know what happened when we fell asleep," Zoe said
"Plus, those donuts are so good!" The dark blue eaglet with a guard head giggled dreamingly, "Can I have more?"
"Whoa, whoa! You kids can't get traumatized that easily, huh?" Aggie laughed, "Maybe tomorrow."
"Maybe tomorrow, we can fix this broken ship of yours that transported you guys here," Leslie tapped the metal of the ship.
"Well, the sooner we leave, the better. If Laird likes the idea. Speaking of which, where's Laird anyway?" Aggie wondered, "I haven't seen him since before I turned evil."
"Meh. I'm sure he's fine," Leslie suddenly yawned, "I know I just woke up from the Sleeping Poison, but I feel a little tired."
"I think we should all be in bed. It's been a long day," Matilda said.
Everyone nodded and spoke in agreement as they left the beach, and went back to the village, except for Red as he still sat on the log
"Uh, you should all go first. I think I have to speak with Aggie alone," he told his team
"Sure thing, Red," Bomb waved as he followed Chuck and Silver behind them
"Good luck," Leonard patted on Red before leaving.
And since he and Aggie are now alone, it's time for them to discuss.
"Aggie, can we talk?" Red called as Aggie turned to them, "About us?"
"Well, since I'm not tired yet, but alright," Aggie crossed her wings as she sat back on the log beside Red.
When they sat together, they just looked away from each other and gave a silent treatment for a minute. They're both guilty for what they did to each other so painful, they don't want to discuss it, but they want to get through with and get this over with.
"Listen, Red," Aggie started, "I'm sorry for what I did. I was so jealous, and angry. I tried to hold it, but…"
"No, I'm the one who should be sorry," Red interrupted, "I started it all, I did it, again. I ignored you for the past month. I barely even noticed you. I didn't know you're still in love with me, despite that we broke up, only for you to save the energy of the universe. I didn't even know that you made me decide that have to get back with you. And because of that, you thought that I already moved on from my feelings for you. But I didn't. I thought I did, but I didn't. I still have feelings for your. K really have. I just lost them, until I found it when you were missing, when you ran away."
"Red, I do still have feelings for you. I never stop loving you. That's why I gave up my life to save our whole team when Precious drained your powers, your energy, and your lives. It doesn't matter that I died that time, what matters to me that you're still alive. You're mean a lot to me, Red. I will do anything to please you. So, I did make you decide if you want to take me back in your life or moved on instead. I hurt you when I broke up with you. I don't want to make a decision on my own. You have life, you made your own life. I respected your decision when I thought you moved on, but it hurts me," Aggie sobbed, "It hurts me, Red, but I never told you, because I want you to be happy."
"Aggie, I'm very sorry I hurt you. I have no idea you were hurt. Since you grew older, you weren't hurt so easily, until… until…" Red started to tear up, "Until I did. Chuck and Bomb forced me to go on a Speed Dating to socialize, but meeting Silver wasn't part of my plan. When I found out from her that after I left, you defended me from her. You really care about me so much, and I didn't know. I never knew. Silver and I were gone off into a rocky start because she was kinda annoying. We kinda dislike each other, always argue."
"But why did you date her?"
"During our mission and when you abandoned the team, only to keeping us safe from… yourself, I thought I suddenly have feelings for her. But, everytime I look at you and you were always there for me, even if we're just friends, I realized I still love you. I can see how much you cared about me, and when you do, I can feel it too," Red gently held both of Aggie's wings, "Ags, I don't want you to suffer that I didn't choose you, even you still keep on doing what you're doing to please me, keep me safe and make me happy. I don't want your effort to be worthless. All of your hardwork to gain my trust on you deserves something. You deserve trust and friends. You deserve love. You deserve me. It doesn't matter that you're a human, I'm a bird, and we lived in different world. I didn't matter to me anymore. Silver may be smart, hard working, and loyal, but you have a big heart. You were so unselfish enough to sacrifice everything to make everyone around you happy. You sacrifice your own happiness to make me happy. But I wasn't happy at all.., with you. You don't deserve to be sad, you don't deserve to be alone, and you don't deserve that life you have before, just like me. You deserve someone who appreciate all your hardwork and sacrifices. Someone like me," Red stared straight into Aggie's sparkly eyes, "Agatha, I'm willing to let you in back into my life. I want to be with you again. I missed you. I missed our times together. I want to that again with you, just like old times. We could start all over again, so you could feel the happiness that I have."
Aggie started to cry as she smiled when she heard the whole speech that Red said to her. When she was still evil, she never believe, but now, she knew he was telling the truth. She believed him now. It made her heart beat when she found out that Red was still in love with her, even when she tried to get over her. He can't, because her loyalty to him was strong for him to ignore her like that. It was like the first time they became a couple 10 years ago, "Oh, Red. That was the sweetest thing you ever said to me," However, her smile turned upside down, "But…"
This surprised Red as he face dropped, "But what?"
Aggie didn't want to tell him, but she has to speak up as she sighed, "Red, I do love you, I really do… but I don't want this anymore."
"What?"
"When I'm still with you, I feel very happy, until we broke up. But after I… we saved the energy of the universe together, I wish for hope, hope that we could be together again. But I hope too much. I lose you, I lose my mind, I lose my feeling to love, I almost lose you for real. I don't want to do that again."
"Aggie, this is not all about me, this is also about you."
"That's the point!" Aggie yanked her wings away from Red's, "When I get into a relationship, I didn't only feel happiness, I also feel pain. I was hurt… again. I don't want to get hurt anymore, not even you."
"Aggie, I'm sorry you've been through all of this," Red shed a tear, "Just let me make it up to you. I promise I won't let this happen again."
"No, Red. Please, don't make promises that you're not sure you can do it. I can't handle this anymore!" the sparrow cried.
"What do you mean?" asked Red.
When the cardinal questioned her, Aggie held both of Red's wings, "Red…, maybe it would be best that we… shouldn't be together… for a while."
"But… but I thought..."
"Red, I care for you. I always do…, but I also to care about myself. You guys were right. I also need to think about myself too. I don't want to get hurt again, Red. And not just me or you, I hurt everyone else, and I don't want that happen again. I need a break from all of this. I don't want to be reminded about what happened between us. It's too horrible," Aggie shed even more tears, which Red noticed them as he cried as well, "It would be best that we should stay just friends, until… I decide when we can be together again. I gave you that chance, Red, and you ruined it. Your decision ruined my life. It broke my heart, it destroyed reputation, it broke me. So, it's my turn to decide what's best for both of us, for everyone."
Red was devastated. He thought that everything between him and Aggie will go back to normal, but it wasn't.
"I'm sorry, Red. It's for the best," Aggie let go as she was about to leave, but Red still held her wing.
"Aggie, please!" He pulled her back to him, "I can't let you sacrifice our relationship again."
"I have to!" Aggie tried to pull away, but she can't.
"Just give me another chance!"
"I'm sorry!"
When Red held Aggie's arms that stunned her, he kissed her on the beak to prove he still loves her. But that didn't stop Aggie from resisting as she pushed him away from the kiss.
"I'm sorry, Red! I can't do this anymore! I'm so sorry," As quickly as she could, Aggie ran away from the beach, leaving Red alone before he could catch her again.
Red reached out his wing as he wanted to get Aggie back, but she already ran away sadly. He can't chased her like that. She doesn't want him to do that. It was her decision now. Red sat alone on the log. He tried not to cry, but he couldn't help but feel the pain in his chest. It's not the pain from the stab anymore, but the emotional pain in his heart. Everything he tried to get Aggie back wasn't working. She still doesn't want to be with him because of what happened, because he broke her heart, because he hurt her. He never hurt her before since 10 years. It was a long time ago, and that painful past still coming back to both of them. But most of this situation was all his fault. Red broke Aggie's heart, and made her feel unwanted, unaccepted, unloved, and abandoned, just like him before he became a hero. Not only she was angry at him, but also her parents. Leo and Bernadette gave him a chance to be with their daughter, but he blew it. He ruined their trust on him. They probably told the rest of the families by now. But that didn't matter to him. All that matters was Aggie. The one who loved him for who he really is. The one who always look after him, even though he didn't need help, guidance, or friends. She was his first friend that never gave up on him. During the Red Moon, it is said their souls bonded for all eternity when the moon shined above them. But he didn't believe on those things. Whether it is true or not, Aggie was his true love. But he ruined her capability to love, all because of him. Red covered his face with his wings, and cried in guilt for what he had done to his best friend.
Meanwhile, Aggie didn't make it back to the village, but stayed not too far from the beach, sitting behind tree and sobbed, hugging her knees. Deep inside, Aggie never want to stay break-up with Red because she still loves him. But, because of everything she had been through, like turning evil, hurting the innocents, and killed Red to death, Aggie couldn't help but to stay away from those stuff by staying just friends with Red. It was too much for her. She doesn't want to hurt again. She never feel so sad before. She was always been the "happy-go-lucky" one, but her status didn't last long anymore. Now she felt the feelings when a girl gets into a break-up, and her former love-interest has feelings for someone else. It does hurt. It hurts so much! She learned a lesson that she should think of herself first, so she wants to make this pain go away. But the longer she realized she hurt Red, the more she felt she was hurt too. This is so confusing for Aggie. She doesn't know if she was doing the right thing anymore. But… it is done. Aggie covered her eyes with her wings as she cried, and covered her body with her eagle wing from her back like she curled into a ball.
Well, this is chapter 18! The first chapter of lessons. So, you guys, if you read this, you might learn lessons of bottling up emotions, making too much sacrifices, judging people you haven't known yet, teasing other people, and other things. I hope one, two or all of this lessons can be your New Year's resolutions!
So, I may put few references in this chapter, like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Gravity Falls, Loud House, and Star Vs The Forces Of Evil.
So, since some of my friends/fans/supporters want Red and my OC, Aggie, to be together again, I made some moment for them, but I decided not get them back together, because of the majority and popularity of RedxSilver ship. I never EVER ship those two… EVER. It makes me sick when I watch the movie sequel, and it saddened me that my hardwork of writing a fanfiction about making a love interest and girl best friend for Red was worthless. But it was worth to try, and maybe worth of keep hoping my OC will be a canon would be a dream come true. I just keep hoping.
So, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Sorry I decided to keep Red and Aggie as still friends, but I still have to think about it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!