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Chapter Fourteen
After school, I swung by Angel's place. I hadn't been there before, but Angel had told me her address. I wanted to find her and explain what she had seen in the schoolyard. I came to a small bungalow on the outskirts of Odaiba. It seemed rather normal compared to Angel and her weird ways. Then again, Angel was supposedly normal now. I knocked on the front door and was greeted by Angel's mother.
"Hello TK," her mother said.
"Is Angel here?" I asked.
"Emma is in her room," her mother replied, correcting my slip-up. "Go on up."
I entered the house, which was even more normal than the outside. I walked up the stairs and looked for Angel's room. One of the doors was open and I could hear music playing, so I guessed that that room was Angel's. I knocked lightly on the door.
"Enter," came the reply.
"Hi Emma," I said. Angel was lying on her bed, a CD player on her left, blaring some music I didn't recognise.
"Oh it's you TK," Angel said in a snobby voice. I flinched.
"I came to tell you what you didn't see this afternoon," I began. Angel didn't move or say anything so I guessed she was waiting for me to speak.
"Kari was just apologising for being mean to us. She wants to be our friend again. That's all," I concluded.
"Kari doesn't want to be my friend," Angel said. I raised my eyebrow.
"What gives you that idea?" I asked.
"She just wants to be friends with you because she's in love with you. I'm a threat to her, because I took you away from her. That's why," Angel stated the truth. She swung her legs up and sat on the side of the bed.
"No, she does want to be friends," I twisted the truth. Sure Kari wanted to be friends… with me.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're a horrible liar?" Angel smirked. I sighed.
"You love her too don't you?" Angel remarked, suddenly serious again.
"As a friend," I said.
"No, more than that. I can see it, when she looks at you and when you look at her. You looked at me that way once. Just once, in the butterfly room. What did I do wrong? You wanted normal, I did normal. Now you want Angel again. What do you want TK?" Angel finished with a sentence and it took me by surprise.
"I… don't know anymore," I disclosed.
Angel looked close to tears.
"This it TK. You can't keep it up anymore. You have to choose. It's either me or Kari," Angel's voice shuddered as though she found it hard to speak.
"I can't do it," I said, my voice cracking.
"I'll make it easier for you TK," Angel said, "if you can say 'I love you' to me, you'll know I'm the one you really want. If you can't say it, then it's Kari."
My heart pounded. I felt so confused. I didn't know what to say. I knew Angel could see the pain in my eyes, because she refused to meet my gaze.
"Angel, don't make me do this," I said, not bothering to call her Emma.
"All you have to say is 'I love you' and all of this will be over," Angel reconfirmed her words.
The room began to spin and I had to sit down on the bed. My head pounded along with my heart now and I felt ill.
"You know it, why do I have to say it?" I cried.
Angel burst into tears and suddenly I knew. I got up and ran from the room, leaving Angel behind.