At first I didn't like the girl. Maybe it was a bit selfish, but she took attention away from me. Everyone talked to her because she could actually care about their stupid problems. I would have killed to be able to care! Hell, I had killed to try to be able to care. I didn't like her. I didn't like sharing my element with her. But most of all, I didn't like the way Axel stared at her. All the time.
It sickened me.
"See ya later, Larx!" Axel called as he left one day. The door slammed behind him.
I turned towards the wall. "He's so clueless," I mumbled to myself.
"What was that?" a girl's voice asked. So naturally I had to assume that it was the only other girl in the castle. Xenos. I turned around, and guess what? I was right! Surprise, surprise. How the hell did she come in without me noticing?
"Nothing," I said. "What are you doing here?" She walked further into the room and sat on one of the many chairs, clearly not seeing that she wasn't wanted.
"I just came to say I'm sorry."
"What for?" That was another thing I hated about her. Anyone could say they were sorry. Xenos could actually mean it.
"I dunno," she had this annoyingly high voice and a habit of chewing her gum really loudly. After all she'd done, she didn't even know? I was starting to get really pissed off. The girl acted so innocent and naïve. But I could see right through that. "It's just… you don't seem to like me very much. And I don't like not being liked." Why couldn't she just say she hated me too so that I could go on acting like she didn't exist? When I didn't respond, she continued. As though she felt like she needed to say something. "So what's Axel so clueless about?"
To this day I don't know why I told her. Everything I've said about her should have made me not want to tell her.
But maybe that's why I did.
I sat down next to her and I told her the entire story of how Axel and I had been together, before we were nobodies. I told her how much I had liked him. That I'd never gotten to see how far it would have gone.
Xenos… she really was a good person. She kind of made it clear to Axel that she wasn't interested in him after that day. And when I was done talking, she gave me the best advice she could have given.
"Just talk to him," she stood up to leave. "He's not quite as clueless as you might think."
…I really despise that girl.