Jack
She was too 'sweet' to do that, I thought. The friendship between Emily and Kathy did not seem healthy. But then I reminded myself that maybe I couldn't trust Bloody. She didn't exactly seem like the best source either. For all I knew, she was lying
In a way, she reminded me of Anti. She just wanted to protect Emily. She was just subtler about it.
All this ran through my head as Emily looked up, eyes grey again. She seemed confused as to why she was sitting on the couch with a card in her hand, and why I was sitting next to her with two. Then she dropped the card, horrified.
"I did it again, didn't I?" she asked, scared.
"What's the last thing you remember?" I asked, trying to figure out when she switched.
"Walking down the sidewalk. I went to eat at a place just down the street, and I black out when I got in front of the building. It was so sudden. I didn't have time to react. What happened?"
"Bloody walked in the door and said we needed to talk." I suddenly remembered what we had been talking about. "What was Kathy actually like?"
Emily frowned. "What do you mean?"
"The way Bloody talked about her, she did not seem nice."
"She was amazing. She warned me about my other friends. They weren't real friends. She was. She never kept anything secret. She would-"
"Bloody said-"
"You seriously believe Bloody?" Emily said, aghast. "Why would you even listen to her? She wasn't there! She didn't understand! And anyway, she's lying about Kathy. She always hated her. She killed her! What kind of person does that? She's just trying to get you to believe her! She killed my only friend, and you're just calmly playing cards with her!" Emily was shouting by now. I'd never seen her this mad before. Or mad at all. I remembered Bloody's warning. She has mood swings sometimes. Was this one of them?
When I didn't reply to Emily, she stormed to her room. I didn't see her again until the next morning.