The Promise - 3 Chapter - Do you know this guy?

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"Catlin, show me, show me! – I said, I was at Catlin's house, more exactly at her front door, I was breathing hard, I had run all the way from my house to here...

She should have told me what it is, she made me run! I hope it's something important, or I'll happily kill this girl!

"C'mon in, you really did run, I thought you're playing!" Catlin said with a big smile on her face, I just knew it! She made all that fuss around something without any importance just to see me run to her home…

"You like me that much, that you make me run all the way till here just to say that?" I said also smiling, this was like our little joke, we knew each other so well that we normally take advantage of each others good and bad sides, one of mine bad sides is clearly curiosity…

"Well no, I really have something important to show you, like I said c'mon in!" With that little phrase my mind was, again, running at a hundred miles an hour to try finding what she was talking about. Maybe a new boyfriend? No, she wouldn't "show" a boyfriend, maybe a little cute dog, nah, Catlin isn't a girl that would have animals…

When we entered the kitchen I immediately knew what she wanted to show me, a little Angel was on top, of what I assume was Gina's sewing box. She had pink hair, two black cords hanged from the side of her hair, her eyes were pink, but the most amazing part was her clothes, a completely black Chinese and tight kimono with three pink flowers and only one big sleeve, that had also another pink flower. The Angels legs were covered with, also, black leggings and black shoes.

"So what's her name?" I said running a grabbing the Angel, she was great "The pink in her eyes is amazing, same thing with the hair!" I continued "And in what is she strong? Speed? Strength? Balance?" I keep going till Catlin stopped me answering "Well her name is Mayu and yeah I don't know the meaning of that" she said reading my mind and then continued answering all of my questions "She has emphasis on speed and on balance, she doesn't have that much strength, but it'll be alright!"

"Of course it'll you're the best fighter I've ever know, and you'll also dance ballet" and then it hit me "It's because of that, that you have an equal emphasis on both stats right? You aren't that strong but you still are very good fighter, and well, ballet it's like your lost love, very smart Cat!" seeing the smile on her face I just understood "You've been planning this for ages, and I that just thought that you would never play, you know because of…" I didn't want to finish the phrase but Catlin immediately understood me.

"Yeah I know, but yes I've been thinking about this for a long time, me and Mayu are going to be the best!" I couldn't believe what I had just heard, Catlin seemed so determined, the smile had faded of her face and she seemed, for a little bit, sad, like she had to much weight on her shoulders and because I didn't want her thinking in bad things I immediately changed subjects " So what about if we go to your room? I've something to tell you to!" The moment of true had come for me, I had to tell her, she was after all my best friend! I seated Mayu on the kitchen table and followed Catlin.

When we got there I looked around, I loved her room, she had a great collection of posters and just the yellow wall, where the bed was laid against, was free of posters.

Has she sat up on the bed, I went a started a search on Google about Angelic Layer I needed to do something with my hands while I told her the truth. Ok breed Ann Mayer control yourself, it's not big of a deal!

"Oh, just wait a second Ann, I will be back in a second" I can believe she just left when I was going to tell her what happened yesterday!

Minutes later she was back. I just smiled and she said.

"I'm back... So, did you want to talk to me?" I looked at her she had Mayu on her shoulder comfortably seated like she was, also, listening to our conversation. Then I looked at myself on Catlin's mirror, I was the exact opposite of Catlin's beauty, she was blond with beautiful green eyes and I just had a normal brown hair and normal brown eyes, and was that that made all hat had happened yesterday more excitant!

"Hello? Ann are you going to let me here and fly to the moon or something?" Catlin was now on the bed with Mayu seated next to her. "Well no, I was just trying to make you curious!" I said with my best smile "So what I wanted to tell you it's that, well, ah, John asked me out! I'm completely on heaven!" Catlin did a strange face for a second, like she was pondering if I was playing or something, and then her face changed and she was smiling and pulling me to her, in a couple of seconds we were jumping and screaming. "I'm sooo happy for you, you've been dreaming about it for ages! Oh Ann I wish I was so lucky!"

"What're you talking about? There were, at least, five guys that asked you out this last summer, you're problem is that you're simply blind, there're like another five guys in our class completely and madly in love with you!" She just made a face like-yeah-right and said "Ok, ok, but just tell me everything, I want to know everything!"

"Well" I began "I was at my locker and then…" I told her everything, how he was smiling and how he helped me to open my locker. "And then there was this awful silence, no one knew what to say and I decide that was it, like there couldn't possibly been anything more to say, so I was turning preparing myself to say bye and thanks and he grabs my arm and just asks me out! My face and my mind just went to different colours, my face was completely red and my mind completely blank!" At this point Catlin just started to laugh like there was no tomorrow… I knew she was wishing she had been there to see my face. I knew very well how to make her stop laughing so I just said "Looks like you don't want me to continue, I can stop, you know?"

"No, no, please continue! I was just hoping I had seen your face!" Bingo! "Well" once again I continued "I just looked back at him, just to see if he was joking or something, but he seemed almost embarrassed, John is soo cute when he's embarrassed!" Catlin was now with a hand in front of her mouth trying to stop laughing. Well at least she's trying… "So I smiled, there's nothing more cute than an embarrassed boy! In two seconds I had completely regain control of my face and mind and all of that because of the way he was looking at me!" This time I also giggled along with Catlin. "And then? What happened then, you said yes right?"

"Well" This word it's starting to be annoying, but hell the girl needed suspense, she always says that I'm the curious one, but her face, when I said nothing, proved her wrong, she was has curious has me.

"Ann!" She screamed, her voice filled with anxiety

"I said yes, okay? What did you thought I had done? We're going out next Friday! We have to go on an emergency shop trip! What about today afternoon?" I asked.

Catlin's face changed, again, in a second "No, today I can't, I'm sorry, but I need to start my training with Mayu!"

"Yeah but you can start tomorrow, this is way more important than Angelic Layer!" Catlin just got up and said "Nothing's more important than Angelic Layer, at least not now! We need to be the best!" I couldn't believe in what I was hearing, and I, also couldn't understand what had got into her.

"Ok, ok, don't worry" I didn't want to argue with her, five seconds ago we're in such a good mood, I needed something to do, something to make me stop of saying something I don't mean, so I started to write on goggle – ANGELIC LAYER U.S.A CHAMPIONS – to see if I could change the subject or something, she seemed pretty interested in that whole world so, that, seemed like a good idea at the time.

None of us said something so I clicked on one of the pages and started to scroll down. On the screen was now a very handsome guy wearing a white mask that covered only his eyes. His smile was amazing but kind of wicked too like he was the most fantastic person on the world and was sure of it. Some of his blond hair was around the mask making the picture even more perfect. The whole picture emanated beauty, He's cute that's for sure, but not has cute has John! I looked at Catlin again, her face was glued on the screen, not like she was in love with the guy, it was more like she hated him.

"Hey, Cat…" I said trying to evaluate in what kind of mood she was "do you know this guy?"

She just said "No" and continued looking at the screen. "Are you sure? Don't take this the wrong way but you really seem to hate the guy!"

This time she looked at me, her face was different, her eyes where glowing but they weren't happy.

"No I don't know him, but I will! That's why I can't go out with you, I need to train." We stared at each other and out of the blue her face was once again normal and she just shut the computer down and said "It smells like the pizza is ready, let's go!" It was like nothing at all had happened.

Yeah I know this was like the third time I described Mayu, but I really wanted you to have a clear picture of Mayu, what I normally hate the most in stories or whatever is not being able to picture the characters... Slowly I will also start to describe a little more of what surrounds Catlin...

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