Notes: *Yawn* I'm kinda getting bored of doing this… uh review please.
Chapter Thirteen
On Monday, Angel didn't come to school. I walked around, carrying a hollow feeling inside. Emma wasn't the girl I fell in love with, Angel was. Things were started to get back to normal. People were looking at me again, but now I didn't want it. I wanted them to leave me alone. Even Davis was being nicer to me than usual.
"Hi TS," Davis greeted me. I sighed.
"Hi Davis," I said, trying to get past him.
"Do you want to sit with me and Kari at lunch?" he asked, stepping in front of me.
"No thanks Davis, I'm gonna sit with Lori," I said, jumping to the other side and walking past him. He followed me.
"But TA, you have to. Kari keeps talking about you and it's driving me nuts," Davis continued.
That caught my attention. I stopped suddenly and Davis bumped into me.
"Kari keeps talking about me?" I asked, making sure I wasn't hearing things.
"Yeah, it's really annoying. Even Andrew commented on it after she left for class last Friday," Davis frowned. "TK this, TK that… bleah!"
I rolled my eyes and smiled for the first time that day.
"Tell you what Davis, I'll sit with you and Kari if Lori can sit with us too," I bargained.
"Deal," Davis said and ran off leaving me standing there.
I walked off to my next class.
At lunch I located Lori and told her about my 'deal' with Davis. When we walked over to the table, Kari stopped talking and stared at her salad.
"Finally TJ," Davis said, pushing his goggles up because they were slipping.
Kari stole a quick look at me and I caught her eye. She blushed slightly and looked back down at her salad. Davis and Lori started a conversation, which struck me as weird. Lori wasn't the kind of person Davis was normally friends with, but they seemed to hit it off straight away. Kari finally talked to me.
"TK, can we talk outside," she whispered. I nodded.
We stood up from the table and walked off. Lori and Davis didn't notice us leave. Outside the school, Kari and I walked to the place we once admitted that we cared about each other. We sat down on the bench and didn't say anything for a few uncomfortable seconds. Then we both spoke at once.
"I'm sor-" Kari started.
"Don't thi-" I interrupted.
We stopped and laughed at each other. It eased the tension in the air a little.
"You go first," I said. Kari nodded.
"What I was going to say was, I'm sorry for being mean to you these last couple of weeks. I admit that I was jealous of Emma at first, but it's okay now. I miss your friendship," Kari confessed.
"I missed you too," I revealed.
"What were going to say?" Kari asked.
"I think you said for me," I grinned. I leaned over to her and hugged her.
She returned the hug, not wanting to let me go. I didn't want to let her go either. I'd felt kinda lost without Kari. Suddenly I looked up… and saw Angel! She looked upset and ran away before I could call out to her. Kari finally released her hold on me. She noticed the strained look on my face.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing," I lied. I could tell Kari didn't believe me, but she didn't say anything.
We got up and went back inside the building.