One week later...

"Hey, guys... is that Mike?"

"Welcome back, Purnomo, my man!" Almost the whole class welcomed him back.

"Ah, Mr. Purnomo, I see you are quite healthy again," Mr. Nicholls said to Mike.

"My pleasure,sir. And also a huge thanks for all your prayers. Seriously, I appreciate it."

"Good to hear. Please take your seat as we are just about to get started."

Mike took his usual seat in class and remained focused on the task at hand. Needless to say, during next period, which was a free class in Computer Lab, Angelica still had feelings for him.

'I gotta tell him how I feel about him,' she thought to herself. 'But how am I gonna do it without Chuckie's suspiscion?'

She thought about it for ten seconds. 'I'll just sneak out to his apartment without Chuckie noticing.'

The rest of the school day went pretty normal, all things considered. Just then the rest of the group joined him on the walk home.

"So, Mike, you feeling all buffed again?" Phil asked in a teasing manner.

"Yeah, pretty much. I feel kinda buffed, really. But maybe I'm just imagining shit."

"You encounter any trouble, Chuck and I will assist you," Angelica said.

"I don't know," Mike doubted.

"We just wanna make things right," Chuckie told him.

"Thanks for having my back guys, but don't you think you're being a bit too much?" Mike asked the gang.

"We just wanna make sure you don't end up in the E.R. again," Phil answered.

"I appreciate that, but at least give me some space."

"Don't worry," Tommy said. "Just let us know if you need anything."

"I'll keep that in mind, thanks guys."

That evening, Angelica paced around her bedroom.

"Hope Chuckie doesn't kill me for this..." she said to herself, groaning. "Man I'm in love with two frickin' dudes!"

She grabbed her car keys and drove over to Mike's apartment unnoticed by anyone. There, she parked her car, and headed up to his apartment.

"1210... 1211... 1212. Found it." she said. Just when she's about to ring the doorbell, she could hear Mike's music playing from his speaker inside.

'Is that Urdu?' Angelica wondered. 'Since when can Mike speak Urdu?'

She finally rang the doorbell.

"Just a sec!" Mike shouted, turning his speaker off. He peeped throught the peephole. 'Angelica?' he thought. 'What is she doing here?'

He opened the door. "Come in, Ang."

She entered his apartment and gazed at the guy. 'He's not as jacked as Finster, but he's so frickin' fit. If only I could tell him about how I really feel about him. But what if he gets all steamed?' she thought.

"Make yourself at home; I'll be back in a sec," Mike excused himself, and Angelica sat on the couch in front of her. He then returned a minute later with 2 glasses of cold water. He handed hers. "Here you go."

"Thanks," Angelica said, and she took a few gulps.

There was silence between them both for a minute, until Mike asked her a question. "So, uh... what brings you to my apartment at this time of day?"

Angelica stayed silent for a few seconds, not knowing how to answer while staring at the table.

Mike waved his hand at her face to get her to snap out of it. "Angelica?"

She finally plucked up the courage to speak. "Well.. the thing is..." she spoke softly, barely audiable.

"Take your time," Mike smiled.

She gazed at Mike a second time. 'He's even a good listener more than Chuck. ANd I don't think any of my friends are that compassionate,' she thought.

It took her 30 seconds for Angelica to pluck her courage up to tell Mike what was in her mind.

"Well... the truth is..." she started.

"Is?"

She took a giant deep breath, then exhaled. "Okay, back when you were first new to the school, I thought you weren't anything special."

"Okay, go on..." Mike said, encouraging her to continue.

She nodded. "But after a while when you got to know about us and vice versa, I suddenly have this crush on you, due to your mature personality."

She went on, tears staring to well up in her eyes. "But my feeling for you became stronger as time went on, even after you won that talent night."

Mike was about to say that he understood the fangirlism stuff and he was used to it, but he held his comment back until Angelica finished.

"Then after Chuckie beat you up, I had this conscience of wether or not you were gonna survive. And it was all my fault."

She buried her face with the tears leaking out of her hands. "If only I was your love as opposed to Brianna. I mean, I'm madly in love with you."

At that she finally broke down sobbing. Mike just came closer to her from his position in his armchair to comfort her, understanding her emotions. After about 10 minutes of crying her misery, Angelica was able to speak again.

"So this past week I was deeply in love with you, but I couldn't get myself to express my feelings to you." Angelica exlplained. "This past week has been hell for me!"

"Angelica..." Mike started, while comforting her. "I get it that this is some fangirl crap. But you gotta understand I already have Brianna, while you have Chuck."

"I'm gonna prove that I love you so much," Angelica said, determined.

"Angelica-"

It was at that moment Angelica kissed Mike with a sensibly deep passion, more than she ever could muster with Chuckie, which had Mike stunned as ever.

'What the bloody hell are you doing!?' Mike thought. He tried to resist at first, but Angelica wouldn't let go of her tight grasping hug, as she needed to kiss him in order to lose her guilty conscience.

After about three lengthy minutes, Angelica finally broke the kiss, realizing what she's just done.

"I shouldn't do this... and I'm trading Chuckie's love with a guy who's already taken."

Needing the urge to return home, Angelica got up in tears. "I'm... sorry for doing this..." She took a deep breath. "I... I need some time to think. Forgive me."

"Ang, wait..."

"Please... I don't want you and Brianna to break up because of me," she sobbed as she hurried out of his apartment.

"What the bloody hell just happened?" Mike asked to himseld out loud.

Angelica drove home and arrived at around 9:30 PM. From there she ran up to her bedroom, placed her bag on the bed and curled into a ball, sobbing.

"What was I even thinking?" she asked herself. She could sense the guilt from betraying Chuckie and falling for Mike, to getting Mike beaten up and placed in a hospital bed. She could feel the love Chuckie had for her since the age of three, as he never left her side given all the hardships. How could she be so greedy? She already had the best boyfriend who always loved her, but she went astray and fell for someone else, who's in love with one of her classmates she met since Jr High. Now she felt that none of the three would ever forgive her for her actions.

About five minutes later he rmother Charlotte passed by and noticed her daughter curled into a ball sobbing, as Angelica left the door open unintentionally.

"Angelica? You okay, princess?" Charlote asked after she knocked on her daughter's door, concerned for her. But Angelica didn't pay attention as she was curled into a ball the whole time. Charlotte entered the room to comfort her, and Angelica barely aknowledged her presence.

"Yes..." she spoke, barely audiable. "Just leave... me... alone..."

"You got into a fight with Chuckie?"

"I fell in love with Mike, who Chuckie put in the hospital... because he thought Mike was stealing my love from him... And now I feel guilty about what I've done, but I'm still in love with him."

"You really feel this way?" Charlotte asked.

"Really? You really regret what you did to him?" Drew asked as he entered Angelica's room after he heard the conversation (and her crying).

Angelica sniffed. "Uh-huh... Now I've betrayed Finster's love and I tried stealing Mike from Brianna! I'm the worst lover ever!"

Charlotte and Drew comforted her for the next hour, not knowing exactly how to help her.