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Ch.18
I had an urge to stand, but my legs wouldn't allow me to. "What are you talking about?" I asked Lyserg again.

Lyserg clenched his jaws as he muttered through his teeth, "I'm just about this close to killing you."

"Same here," Hao said with a dangerous tone.

"Stop!" I cried as I felt the stress about to explode my head, "Stop it! Both of you sit down! NOW!"

Lyserg sat down, but Hao snatched Lyserg by the collar saying, "You better not sit until I'm done with you!"

Hao threw a punch into Lyserg's face, which wasn't fair, even in my eyes. Lyserg was trying to settle things peacefully. I glanced nervously at my door. Any second now, my parents would come knocking, thinking there was a burglar in my room. I tried to keep Lyserg and Hao quiet, but they were both going at each other. At least they weren't screaming, I said as I crossed my arms and simply watched. I hated Lyserg for stealing from me. And I hated Hao for being a conspirator. So, I sat and watched with a blank smile as they both punished each other. Finally, Lyserg delivered a punch so fierce that Hao went crashing to the ground.

It was over.

"Finally," I said as I watched Hao sitting on the ground with his hand over his bloody mouth, "now we can talk."

"Talk what?" Hao said as he spit blood out onto the wood of my floor, "there's nothing to talk. IF you don't believe me, then, it's over."

"I never said that I didn't believe you."

I felt a little tinge of fear that Hao would actually break up with me. Lyserg stood up for me saying, "Go ahead, leave. She doesn't need you. She's got Yoh."

"Oh, yeah," Hao said in a cruel tone that I had never heard before, "some Yoh. That boy who ditched you on the ride is your fiancé and you expect to be happy with him?"

Lyserg finally seemed to blow up as he shouted at me with his fists ready to fly again, "Yoh only ditched you on the ride and at the marketplace because he found out you weren't PERMANENTLY paralyzed! He wanted his revenge!"

I gasped as I felt yet another truck of backfire hit my face. "He knows?" I gasped.

"You didn't think you could hide it for six months did you?"

"Well…"

Hao took a step towards the window again saying, "This is so dumb. You know he's worth nothing. Fine. I see where this is going. You have a choice. It's either Yoh or it's me."

I glanced at Lyserg, who was screaming to choose Yoh from his swollen and bruised eyes.

Hao was standing there, panting as his face bled some more.

I thought back to Hao and how sweet he had been, then, I remembered Yoh. YOHHH was the one that was always there…yoh.…stupid Yoh.…

And this Hao guy…I barely knew him. And now, he's a manipulative liar. I looked between Lyserg and Hao. I was so happy with Hao? But on the long run, Yoh had always been there and I knew he'd always stay….

I gulped for air. Choose between my present love? And my past and future love?

OMG…if only I had legs so I could run away from all this…I looked to Hao. His angered face suddenly looked to be with a sincere face of apology, "I'm sorry, Anna…but…I'm doing this because I love you…"

I was stunned at the mention of those three words. Hao didn't seem like the type to say them.

"Aww shut up!" Lyserg suddenly cried as he threw his arms up into the air in a mocking manner.

"I can't shut up, Anna. I love you. I've loved you since I saw you on the ride. I thought you were so beautiful."

"Aww, gees. BARF!" Lyserg imitated shoving his finger down his throat as he bent over and gagged on himself.

"Lyserg," I said as I smacked Lyserg's bent over back. Lyserg jumped up, rubbing his back in pain, "be quiet. I wanna hear what Hao has to say for himself."

Lyserg stepped back with a clear look of disapproval. But I urged Hao to continued. I actually enjoyed this little speech of love. Yoh would never say this kind of stuff. "I love you," Hao continued, "I want to be with you forever and I'll never leave you."

"Gosh Hao," I said as I felt a warm gush over my face. Hao was so sweet. I couldn't just LEAVE him! I mean, he was being so sincere…maybe he did those terrible things just to keep me close! He had good intentions.

Lyserg finally seemed fed up as he said with a moan, "Can you please say this, Anna…gosh Hao, you're a fake little jerk who should shove his head up his butt, or…is it already up there? Please. Anna, say that…just say THAT!"

"No," I said as Hao and I smiled while gazing into each other's eyes. The more I stared into Hao's eyes, the more enchanted I was by him. He was so handsome…so sweet.

Lyserg looked to me frantically shouting, "Don't tell me you're gonna let him get away with this!"

I shook my head, "I'm not like you or Yoh. I'm more mature than that. I'm going to forgive Hao and let us start over."

Hao's face brightened as he let a huge smile spread across his face. His teeth were so cute when he smiled. I smiled back, unable to resist Hao's charm.

But Lyserg seemed angered as he started to crawl out of my window again saying, "Fine. You can break Yoh's heart. This is just about the worse thing you could do to him."

But for some reason, those words didn't mean much to me. Yoh put me through enough torture. Now, I had finally found his weakness and I was going to poke at it for as long as I could. After all, he already knew I was only crippled for six months. There was no fun in that. So, all I had left was to be with Hao for as long as I could and let the jealous-monster eat at Yoh. I let Lyserg leave. Hao sat on the bed and said in a quiet, "For a second I thought you'd let that loser talk you into breaking up with me."

"He's not a loser," I said with a frown, "he's just defending Yoh."

"Yeah, whatevers…Yoh's a loser and that other punk is a loser too."

I looked away. I didn't like Yoh or Lyserg, but the rule was that no one could diss them but ME!

I didn't say anything to Hao, so Hao stood to leave saying, as he quickly pecked my cheek, "I gotta go, but I'll see you after school tomorrow. I'll come pick you up and take you somewhere nice for dinner."

"Right after school I have to go to tutoring with Yoh."

"Oh, when do you come back?" Hao asked. I could hear the displeasure in his voice at hearing that I'd be with Yoh.

"Around seven…pick me up and we can go straight to dinner."

Hao agreed and he quickly unlocked my door again before he disappeared out the window. Before he ran off, he put the screen door back in place.

I sighed to myself. What a day…what a day…

The following morning wasn't so great. Yoh had come to pick me up, but he didn't say a word to me. I felt terrible as I watched him walking like a zombie. "Hangover?" I asked.

"Heartbreak," Yoh answered blandly. The word seemed bitter on his tongue.

"Aww, stop being so dramatic, YOHH."

"Wifey, you cut me deep. Lyserg told me everything, and that really sucks. That Hao kid was doing all that on purpose and you forgave him. But I do a few things wrong and you never forgive me." Yoh's puppy eyes simply pouted as they stared straight ahead. He seemed really upset.

"It's not that bad," I said cheerily, "Hao isn't my fiancé. It's you."

"But you think I'm so unworthy of you, right?"

"It doesn't matter what I think," I said as I finally just started stating reality. I was going to marry Yoh whether I wanted to or not.

"Yes it does to me though. You don't think I have feelings, do you? You think that everything that I say doesn't really matter…you think that I'm just an immature dork when I say things like I love you."

I didn't have anything to say since Yoh seemed to be on a role with his speech. Maybe Yoh was being serious for once.

Yoh suddenly stopped in the middle of the sidewalk as he said, "You know, I really don't get why you still like that kid when I do so much more for you."

I groaned. I thought Yoh was going to be romantic, but I expected too much. Of course, I tend to do that…

But Yoh wasn't finished. He opened his mouth to say something, then, he sighed as he shook his head, "Nevermind. We'll be late." He started pushing me again. I wanted to hear what he had to say, but I wasn't about to ASK him to be romantic or anything.

I went to tutoring after school with the same depressed Yoh. "Hey, Yohhh," I said when we were finishing our tutor worksheets, "can we be a little less depressing?"

Yoh simply gave me the same depressed and hopeless expression as he did in the morning.

Once tutoring was over, I said, "Ugh…go ahead, be depressed! I'm going to meet Hao right now! And you can't do anything about it!"

"I could call your mom and roll you home so Hao could never find you."

"You wouldn't," I said darkly. But Yoh grabbed my wheelchair.

Suddenly, he seemed to change his mind as he said, "No….I won't. You're not worth it!"

"Oh, now you're being even more immature!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

And the argument continued until Hao's car swerved up to the tutoring center. He came out and gave Yoh a huge smile. Yoh glared harshly back at Hao. Hao put me in the car, shut the door, then said something to Yoh. Yoh's eyes opened wide in shock. Yoh started running up to the car waving his arms, but Hao was already driving off. In the side mirror, I could see Yoh shouting after the car.

Whatever Hao said to Yoh…it seemed to disturb Yoh a lot…I wondered what it was…

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