As I woke I opened my eyes, the sunlight seeped in and I could tell it must have been late morning. The grass in the park I'd been sleeping on was dry but I felt wet, it must have rained overnight. A head blocked the sun from directly hitting my eyes. The shadow cast over her face stopped me from telling who she was at first. But it was a girl.
My eyes shifted to Dil, who slept next to me, and back to the girl. My eyes began to focus and I could see who she was. The blonde hair was what reminded me, and then I could make out her facial features, her eyes staring down at me.
I stood up, some of my weight budged into Dil but he didn't wake.
"Phil! Are you okay?" Angelica asked putting both her hands on my upper arms.
"I'm fine, we're fine," I said still shocked, "What are you doing here?"
"I needed to see if you were alright, everyone's worried," she said holding me still although I was still shaking.
"Dil sent you a text didn't he? We're fine," I repeated.
"The text was 2 days ago, anything could have happened!" she said.
"Are you going to come check on us every other day?" I asked. I know I sounded ungrateful. Why would I be grateful? We came here to get away from people we knew. But she seemed upset by the way I spoke to her.
"No, I…I was really worried, and being the only one to know where you guys are." she began, "You can't stay living out here!" she blurted out to me.
I quickly looked down at Dil, who just rolled over on the grass by the pavement.
"You can't seriously stay away from home, you're family are going mad!" Angelica spoke more quietly. "You don't want to be out here, Dil's dragged you away from everyone and everything you love."
"I can't go home, I can't leave Dil," I said angrily wriggling my arms out of her hands.
Just then Dil awoke, "What? Angelica?" he said as he noticed her standing by me.
"Hey Dil," Angelica said stepping aside and bending down nearer her cousin, "I came to check you guys were okay."
"How'd you find us?" Dil said rubbing his head and trying to stand up.
"I've just been looking around the city, this park was one of the first places I checked," she said in a nicer tone than how he'd just spoken to me.
Dil rolled over and tried to get up. As he stood his legs seemed to still be asleep and he collapsed onto the bench we'd been sleeping next to.
"We were that easy to find?" Dil asked.
"Only because I knew you were in the city," she said.
"You're spying aren't you, you're going to go back and tell everyone," I said angrily.
"No, no it's nothing like that. The others were worrying me, telling that you could be kidnapped or murdered," Angelica said standing up straight again.
"You got money?" Dil asked rubbing his eyes again.
"Yes, why?" Angelica asked stupidly.
"So we can get a meal of course," I moaned.
"Phil? Why are you being like this to me?" I asked. I didn't reply, why should I? I knew why I was like this. She'd woken me up from the best night sleep I'd had since being out here and was no pestering me to come home and upset Dil.
"Come on Angelica, we're going to the café," Dil said getting up and walking beside me.
We walked through the café door and saw the dirty looks coming at us from the staff. Yeah, like their jobs were any better. Angelica spoke for all of us and bought us each a sandwich.
"This is great!" Dil said taking a huge bite once we were sat down.
"Glad I can make you happy," Angelica said.
"I'm not happy that you're here," Dil said sounding quite nasty, "I'm glad your money's here!" I was suddenly getting a guilty feeling. My morning grumpiness as wearing off and I could see how rude we were being to Angelica; she'd come to help us after all.
" Err…How's yours?" I asked, trying my best to sound friendly towards her.
"Good," she smiled. We sat in silence after that, loudly munching on the free food.
Dil finished his sandwich first and got up.
"Where you going?" Angelica said anxiously.
"The toilet, that okay?" Dil asked.
"Erm…yes…sorry," she said. Angelica looked back at me when Dil had gone into the bathrooms and I smiled back.
"I don't want to be persistent," Angelica said (unusual word for her) "But why did you come here, why did you let Dil take you away like this?"
"Because I want him to be happy," I said truthfully, "I know that what he wants is for me to be with him and to be away from his parents."
"But you don't love him," she said. I went to deny it immediately, but the words couldn't come out. "I'm right aren't I?"
"No, well, I dunno," I said getting angry again.
"You just drop everything because someone says they love you?" Angelica said louder, "What if it was someone else? Why should you give up your happiness for him?"
"Why are you talking like this, why does this matter to you? Since when do you care what me and your cousin are up to?" I asked also getting louder.
"Since my cousin and I fell in love with the same person," she whispered, I didn't understand what she meant and I was too confused to control myself. She put her hands behind my head, pulled me forward and kissed me. I was too stunned to stop it. As it happened I heard a door in the café swing open and when Angelica let me go I saw Dil watching from the corner of the room.
"I…I didn't," I whimpered, barely hearing myself say it. I watched the anger grow in Dil's face. It seemed to boil and intensify until he burst and stormed away.
"Oh no, Dil, I didn't mean to," Angelica said, I felt sorry for him, I felt sorry for her. I felt sorry for myself, as I didn't know what I was feeling. I grabbed both our bags and ran after him.