Like A Boy?
Chapter 6
(A/N): OMGSH! I'm running for my life right now! Kitty's got one of those Flame Throwers, and she's going to light me up! HELP ME!
End of Flashback…
Uriko pulled the phone away from her ear, her heart felt like it was going to burst through her chest. She didn't know whether or not she wanted to scream obscenities at Kenji for being so stupid, or cry in sorrow for being stupid enough to actually accept Kenji in her life. He was a low-down, dirty, dog, just like the rest of them. Why did it seem like it was she who was the one that couldn't find the right guy? If this relationship was just for kicks, how come Uriko couldn't see it until now? The day she decided to impersonate Andrew, is when the truth comes out. 'Why didn't I just listen to Arias and back out of this whole plan? Why didn't I break up with Kenji…? And why in the world am I questioning myself? I do love him and whatever, but I don't know if I can take this whole love thing for granted, especially with what I know now… How could he do this to me? I treated him with respect, I loved him for him, I gave this relationship my all, and this bastard thinks he can just get over it all by messing with Angie, and pretend he didn't know what the hell happened! Ignorant boy, if you're there; physically; you know what happened, don't try to pretty it up by acting…!.' Uriko's mind disconnected its constant mental commotion, when she heard Kenji's voice calling out to Andrew. Able to muster up her pride and let out some loose frustration in her voice, she spoke back to him in her Andrew-voice, simultaneously; putting her feeling into what she said. "Yeah, I'm here... Kenji, bro! What the hell were you thinking; your just trying to mess things up with your girlfriend, aren't you? You know that Angie is devious, you know she always has a few tricks up her sleeve, so why would you invite the chick into your house, when you know damn well that the chick is foul-minded…!"
Uriko could hear through the phone Kenji heaving like he was either crying or beating himself up for being so naïve. "Drew, don't make it seem like it was my entire fault, I don't know what happened! This is all I remember, I was sitting in the Living Room watching TV; I got tired of that and went into the Shower, once I got out and put some clothes on, I heard somebody at the door, and I was hoping that it was Uriko..."
"Wait, why were up hoping that it was m-... Um hum, I mean Uriko?" Uriko asked, kind of sounding like herself in the beginning, but near the end of her question she cleared her throat and started talking like the guy she was playing out to be.
Kenji sighed for a moment before proceeding. "Because, I missed her when I was all alone; I put forth my hopes and dreams that she would come over, and we could spend some time together, but boy was I wrong…"
Uriko rudely cut Kenji off, and said, "Like hell you are, Kenji! How could you let yourself go, saying you truly missed Uriko, but you turn around, noticing that a random female just waltz into your home and you sleep with her; ironically. And to make matters worse, you start to feel bad about it later, so you call your boy and hope to get some kind of decent response to lift up your spirit and make it seem like you can get over it, when your pretty much the one to blame...! How are you going to break it to Uriko, I mean, not only will she be extremely devastated, but she might just leave you just like that!" Kenji fell silent on the other end of the phone, and Uriko let out an exhausted sigh. "You can't depend on other people telling you what you want to hear; unless you talk about it to the person you messed up on. Truly, I don't know what advice I can give you to make matters better, except talking it over with Uriko, herself..." She heard him make a sound like he was going to speak, but she continued. "Hey, I'm just your friend! I don't want to be put in the middle of this! Just know these 2 things: 1, is Karma, 2, is if you don't tell the truth, it'll eventually come back to you, and you're definitely going to be having a hard time trying to get out of it."
Kenji let out a sigh, "Okay, Drew. Thanks I guess..." Before Uriko even had a chance to get more information out of him, he quickly hung up the phone. She pulled the phone away from her ear, and dazed off into the darkness engulfing her room; besides the ominous pale lighting of the moons shine, radiating, on the foot of her comforter, and on the floor. Thinking back to her recent conversation she had with her close-to-be-ex/former boyfriend, she let the thought sink into her mind, as it began to take a toll on her. She threw Andrew's phone on the bed, and growled at how her mind toyed with her emotions, causing the young half-feline to embrace the madness and anger she endured. She turned around and began to fight with her pillow, strangling it, and punching it, consistently. Talking to herself, and imagining that the pillow was Kenji, she began to fight her obsessed anger into what she felt; hurt. "Stupid boy...! I hate you so much...! W-why would you even... Do this... To... ME!" Her last word was in between resentment and a choked sob. She felt the melancholy grievance succumb her, as her cheeks flustered, her lips trembled, and her nose started to sting. Not being able to hold onto her strength and keeping herself intact, by not letting her true feelings get in the way of her anger; Uriko threw her face into her punching bag of a pillow, and cried. She didn't know how long she was crying, and didn't care; she just knew that she couldn't fight the despondency any longer. Clutching most of the pillow in her pale-knuckled fists, she cried; hysterically, and so hard that she began to oscillate furiously.
It was when her phone began to ring that she slowly pulled herself together, she glanced at it and realized that it was the same exact person that put her in this vicissitude; Kenji. Repudiating his person, she turned her phone off, and spent her entire night, curled under her sheets, and gave into her depression.
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"I hate days like this!" said the mid-back length, beautifully curly, Indian black hair; Dark-Caramel skin; 5'2" inched; 18 year old girl, named Arias Kelly. She walked through the Hallways of the school, heading for lunch, with her arms high in the air, extending her muscles from its tensed position. She felt stiff, and tired, from her late night; in which it's ironic, because she went to bed at 11:30; but couldn't stay asleep, since she felt like something was wrong, what was it; she just didn't know. Shrugging her shoulders, she made her way to the cafeteria, and ate her lunch, when she realized that neither Uriko nor Andrew was here today. Confusion damaged her face, as she wondered why she decided to skip school today. She reached for her phone, when she noticed Kenji and Angie. She took the rest of her Tuna Wrap, before proceeding to the 2; while noting each physical, social, mental, and emotional detail that flared off of them. Kenji was slightly red in the face, as Angie gossiped about her evening yesterday to a group of people. From Arias's point of view, it seemed like Kenji was invoked with a strange aura of ire, its intensity shone in his eyes that it turned fierce, and so serious it was like they were drowned in blood, because the color they once were was now a deep, depression of crimson; it was so terrifying that if just anybody looked his way or walked in his path they would either be struck down rapidly or receive a very cautioned perilous warning that stated; "stay out of my way". He stood in front of Angie; who had her back turned, and was so engulfed in her conversation that she didn't notice, but everybody did; the enraged Kenji. Wide eyed, the group began to remove themselves one by one away from Angie, and take off to go meet some of their other friends; just to cower away from Kenji. When at least 5 people were left, Angie then turned around, and stared at the intense gaze of the 18 year old mole. "Oh, hey baby! I was just talking about you and our day together from yesterday!" Angie said to him, smiling brightly and running a hand down his face. Taking a firm hold on her wrist, he could feel the rage building up inside of him, and his hand heated up in disgust towards the billow-headed blond. Angie felt heat on her wrist from her touch that she winced in pain, and tried to pull away from his touch, only to feel her wrist began to be torch by fire. She saw sparks of fire letting out little blazes of its energy on the sides of his hand. She couldn't help but think that he was trying to cremate her wrist. Yanking her wrist out of his hold, she saw the burn marks of his hand print on her wrist; caressing her tender skin, she looked at Kenji when he pulled his face towards her. The death in his eyes made her jump back, but re-grappling her wrist from earlier and making her head cringe in pain, by restarting the fire he was doing before on her; he spoke low and vigorous. "I know you tried to sabotage me into whatever happened yesterday, and my relationship; but I'll have you know, if I ever find out what you did to me yesterday, you're going to be dealing with hell and high waters going forward." The last of his words smacked her hard in the face, and before she even had a chance to recuperate, he threw her wrist out of his hand so forcefully that she fell back; due to the lack of balance, her spine connected to the table seat, and her butt hit the floor. Kenji didn't even acknowledge that the entire cafeteria was watching, he just snarled at her and walked away, eager to remove himself from her presence before he would torment her any further.
Moaning in pain, some of the group members asked if she was okay and the others tried to help her up. Pissed off with his behavior, she flicked off the helping hands, and got up yelling at Kenji's retreating figure. "Don't be mad at me when you brought this on yourself! You dated me first, and you gave into everything I did, which includes yesterday; but now you want to act upset because the truth is getting to you! I don't think you love your girlfriend like you say you do, if I got to you before she did!" Arias's face lit up with confusion once again, what was Angie talking about? She looked off at Kenji; who walked in long strides out of the cafeteria. She glanced back at Angie, who was infuriated because of the humiliation of Kenji and falling. 'Hum, it's weirdly ironic that she can't balance on her own 2 feet, but when it comes down to physical intercourse she can maintain; or so I've heard.' Arias couldn't help but think. Angie angrily sat down and finished her meal, while Arias took off to go find out where Kenji went. She looked all around the school, near any classrooms, by the boy's bathroom, and lastly the Courtyard, but she couldn't find him. Letting out a sigh, and placing a hand on her hips she looked around the yard some more, before leaving the outside world. Dark crimson eyes; that held an ominous light around them; the color of bright red, made his eyes a bright red but simultaneously dark; began to reveal itself in the sheath of the tree's dark shadows. They averted themselves on the withdrawn figure of a petite light brown skinned female with long, curly, black hair. The sun's rays of light opened up every little entrance the tree had to offer; no matter how small; to show unique details of a young male who transformed himself into a beast-like creature, with the heat of fire coursing through his veins.
Walking into the girl's bathroom, Arias pulled out her phone and read a text that came in from Uriko. 'Hey, can you please come over after school, I need some companionship. :'('
"What's going on today? Am I missing something h...?" Arias recalled out loud, but cut herself off when her alerted ears detected a loud female who sounded just like Angie coming close to the bathroom. Rushing into a stall, Arias tried to listen to what Angie was talking about as soon as her and her wannabe friends came in. "I can't believe that son of a bitch!" Angie said as she walked over to the sink and placed her severely burned wrist under some cool water, but only for it to burn hotter. "DAMN IT!" Angie screamed as she removed her wrist from under the cold water.
"What the heck happened? Why was he acting like that?" One of Angie's companions asked.
"I don't know! He was acting that way yesterday, well sort of. He doesn't want to admit the truth so he can keep up his reputation as the best boyfriend alive or some shit! I hate how he acts like what happened between us didn't happen, he needs to grow the fuck up and get over it, there comes a time in every relationship that somebody is going to cheat, regardless of how much they say they love you or they'll never do it!" Angie responded. Arias eyes opened wide from thinking that what Angie was talking meant that Kenji and Angie slept with each other yesterday. "Maybe that's why Uriko sent me this text? Oh my gosh..." Arias said low, not realizing she said it aloud.
"How was it?" Another one of Angie's friends asked. Arias could hear from Angie's friend and Angie herself that they were smiling.
"Shit, like the best I ever had! I can't believe he would keep that confidential when we were dating. I would definitely go for seconds if he stops acting like such a prick and give it up... That little bitch Uriko didn't get to it as fast as I did, I bet she was waiting for her best friend, Arias to join her in on that. Nasty bitch, claiming she's a Virgin, when she's really some closed up bi-sexual whore waiting for something to happen." Angie and her friends laughed like it was actually funny, while Arias stood in the stall, pissed off beyond belief. She couldn't believe that Angie would actually talk bad about Uriko when she's the one who goes around and sleep's with her suppose-to-be best friends boyfriends, and the chicks as well; as if that wasn't it, everybody was pushing Arias's last button by calling her bi, then to top it off, they laughed about it so Arias reacted without second thought...
Angie's friend said, "Damn, how did you pull off sleeping with him?" Before Angie even had a chance to speak, Arias unlocked the bathroom stall, and opened it with a loud slam that it connected with the other side of the 4 walled stall. The 3 girls jumped, and Angie's face was twisted with surprise when she saw Arias. Angie didn't get a chance to say a thing, and Arias left no room in the bathroom to talk. She walked straight up to Angie and punched her right in the jaw with a hard left hook that Angie's head flew over the sink and ran smack into the mirror, cracking it instantly with the hard impact. Angie's 5'6" body fell to the floor as she grabbed her head and her jaw. The girls tried to double team Arias, but she scrabbled between one of their legs, and kicked the same chick in the back; her foot connecting with her spine, but not shattering it. The other female rushed Arias trying to give her a flying clothesline, but Arias ducked just in the nick of time and scissor swept her running legs, to where she crashed her nose into the bathroom stall, and screamed in pain as she rolled on the floor bleeding.
Arias looked back at Angie, and jumped on her before she even had a chance to get up. She took Angie's chin in her right hand and popped her 7 times in the same jaw she punched earlier. Angie's friends must have recuperated slightly, because they pulled her off of her. Angie held her jaw, and stood up; with the 2 girls holding Arias's arms, Angie gave her a fistful of a punch right in Arias's gut. Arias grunted, and her quickest reflex helped out a lot, because her leg went straight up, and hit Angie square in the gut, making her double over. Arias felt one of the girls loosen up her arm when she twitched from Angie's new pain, with that as her cue, Arias pulled that arm out and elbowed the same chick who twitched, in the neck. The female grabbed her throat and her rasp breathing sounded serious, Arias felt her other arm loosen up, so she used her arm that was free and punched the girl in her nose; which was that same chick who ran her nose into the stall. "OH MY GOD!" Yelled the girl who got hit in the nose, she screamed and fell to the floor. Angie lifted her head, but couldn't stand up fully because the force that was afflicted to her stomach was severe. With her lifting her head up, Arias used that as her moment, she gave Angie a serious upper-cut with her strong left hook, making her fly straight out the bathroom, and in the Hallway. Everyone who was walking out of the cafeteria screamed, and cheered. "Woo! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" As they chanted; Angie forced her shaking body up, as Arias walked towards her screaming. "You're going to pay for punching me, talking about my best friend, and always getting in somebody's relationship!" Angie tried to walk away and give her a surprise attack, but Arias grabbed a fistful of her hair, and wrapped it around her hand, while pulling her face towards her fist. Angie tried to get away multiple times, but the shorter opponent had a serious hold on Angie's hair, that Angie couldn't get away from the rains of punches Arias inflicted on her face. After hundreds of punches and trying to get away, Angie turned around to her when she noticed that she was free from Arias's iron grip, but simultaneously; felt a strange breeze on her neck like her hair was pinned up. Arias's and Angie's eyes widened when they saw the hair dangling in Arias's hand. Angie felt around for her hair and only had a 3rd of her long tresses on the other side. Arias made a 'this-is-disgusting' face, as she unhooked the hair from her hands, and each piece of its long length fell. Arias looked more closely and noticed that Angie's hair had split-ends on top of split-ends until it got all the way to the follicle; for every strand of hair that was there; talk about severely damaged hair. "Damn girl! You ever heard about trimming, or stop flat-ironing your hair because you got a bump or a wave?" Angie fell on knees and screamed like a whale, as she held all the hair on the floor in her hands. Everybody from all sides laughed hard at Angie, seeing that she had a big bald spot in the middle of her head, and half an inch of hair in the rest of the spots, while the other side still had her long length.
They heard a loud sound and somebody screamed, "PRINCIPAL!" Arias thought quickly and ran inside the bathroom to pull the 2 girls into the Hallway; she made the one who got elbowed in the throat hold Angie's damaged hair, and the other one hold that chick by the throat; like she was choking her. Arias took off running and lucky for her, Angie didn't see her get away. The Principal approached Angie, and asked what happened. Angie was in a daze and when the Principal touched her shoulder, she struck him with a flying fist, and hit him square in the nose. He fell back but regained his balance, when security rushed forward, and took Angie to his office, along with the other 2 girls. Arias smiled and needed to do a few more things, but when she turned around she saw the kids who came up and saw her fight between her and Angie. "Hey, I got a proposition for all of y'all, because I knew the Principal is going to be asking students what happened and who did it."
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"And you're sure that Arias did this?" The Principal asked Angie and her friends.
"YES!" They said together in a chorus. The Principal dialed a number in the school phone line after blowing his bloody noise into a tissue paper; in a matter of minutes Arias was escorted into the office.
"Arias did you physically attack these 3 girls? Because each one of them claims you were involved."
Arias kept her confident face on and acted like she didn't know a thing that was going on. "I didn't do anything to them; they're just trying to get somebody in trouble." The girl's started arguing at Arias, when the Principal stopped them.
"You see, we would see if you're right or wrong, Arias. But I'm saddened to say that our camera's are down, so all I can do is receive some clarifications from the other student's around here." The Principal said before calling some student's into the office. The girls looked at Arias with a smart smirk, but when each of the students answered the questioned they all said that the girls attacked each other, and Arias had no part in it. Angie and her crew yelled at each of the students for being blind, when the Principal hushed them. Kenji suddenly walked in and spoke directly to the Principal. "Sir, I am pleased to tell you that Arias didn't do anything to these 3 girls."
"Not you too!" The girls said together, the Principal blew his nose clean of the blood before hushing the girls again.
"And you're sure about this Kenji?"
"Yes sir. If you don't believe me or anybody else look at this video, and the past. Arias never got in trouble at this school before, but unlike these 3; their willing to get anybody in trouble for what they've been doing." Kenji messed around with his camera before handing it to the Principal. Nodding his head, he looked at Kenji and asked, "How did you film this fight?"
"I was doing a video Documentary in American History when I caught sight of Angie's friend's fighting."
"WHAT!" The girls screamed before snatching the camera out of the Principal's hands and looking at a fight between them 3, and no Arias, everything in the video was the same as the fight they endured but it wasn't true.
"Well, then. Arias, I am dearly sorry for pulling you out of class, Kenji thank you again, and you 3 stay put, you're in a lot of trouble." The Principal said to the 3, before the girls started screaming at him. Angie looked at Kenji, but all he said was, "What goes around comes back around, oh you might want to talk to your barber about that haircut, it looks really bad." He half smiled at her before walking out with Arias behind him.
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Away from the authority ears, Arias walked behind Kenji, and was just completely confused. He didn't have on his usual school uniform, but a spare one because the suit jacket was a little bigger than his actual one. He just savagely burned Angie's wrist in the Cafeteria with his own hand, how? Arias couldn't answer that question. Then he helped her get out of trouble, how? He wasn't even around when the whole fight started. She jogged a few paces to reach his side, and look at him, before speaking. "Umm... I just want to thank you for helping me out back there, I mean, you really didn't have to do that..."
Kenji looked her way before smiling, "I should be thanking you... You're the first person I know that would ever actually attack Angie."
"Hey! Somebody had to put that chick in her place; you can't just expect to talk about people and not receive the punishment. Not to mention, that is the last time anybody will ever call me bi." Kenji laughed at the last part, but thinking back to what she said at first, he looked down at the ground before he stopped walking. 'Punishment...' His mind went over the word as he looked at his phone; Uriko didn't call him back nor was she at school, it felt like she was ignoring him. He called her all night but her phone went straight to voicemail, he just didn't understand anything anymore. He leaned against a nearby locker, staring blankly at his phone; body, mind, and heart filled with a terrible sense of remorse and somber depression. Arias stopped her walk, as well and looked in Kenji's direction; he laid against the locker, staring at his phone screen. Arias guessed he had to be looking at the picture of him and Uriko; Uriko had jumped on his back throwing out a peace sign, smiling so brightly that her eyes looked half way closed, while Kenji laughed at her for being so silly and trying to hold her up from falling because her legs weren't strapped around his waist for support, instead one was kicked out and the other was straight; Arias knew because she snapped the picture. His free hand cupped his face; as he fell strangely silent. Arias placed a hand on his shoulder, when he rested his back along the line of lockers and stared up at the ceiling; still silent. "How did you pull off the video?" Arias said, trying to pry his mind away from his depressed situation.
Emotional exhaustion grasp a hold of his face when he finally looked at her, "First off, I heard about the fight, and how you conned people not to snitch, so I paid a few nerds to edit a movie that somebody recorded and make it seem like the girls were fighting each other. Using some of their actions from a play act, mimicked the girls movements, we took you out the video and replaced the girls instead." Arias smiled at Kenji, clearly showing impression. "How'd they do it so fast?"
Kenji looked away and shook his head, slightly as he spoke. "Had more than one person doing it, and they were competing in a race to see who would finish it. I don't know; nerds upgrade each year if you ask me." Arias laughed a little but stopped when Kenji didn't seem to enjoy the amusement, all he did was glare off to the side, showing a serious side of heartbreak or depression. He didn't smile or anything and that was starting to bother little Arias. With her hand still on his shoulder, she shook him sweetly, until he looked her way. "Hey... What's wrong, you've been looking gloomy earlier, and now?"
Kenji forced his body off the lockers, and walked a few steps away from Uriko's best friend. With his back facing her, he sighed and turned to face her one on one. "Some shit went down yesterday... And I don't know what to do. My mines all fuzzy, I don't... I don't want to believe anything that's being told to me, I don't know what's wrong with Uriko, I don't know whether or not she's dead or alive... I just... I'm just going through shit right now... And I don't know how to fix it!" He wasn't screaming; he was like on the verge of breaking down; not crying breaking down, but physically falling apart, like he could just tear each of his anatomies off his very body. Arias looked at him for a moment before saying something herself. "Does it deal with the argument you and Angie had this morning?" He released a breath before looking down at his school shoes and nodding his head. "Did you sleep with her or something, because that's what it sounds like?" She could see that when she said that he balled up a fist and forcefully ran his hands through his hair; snarling, like he couldn't control his emotions or something.
After a few moments of hyperventilating, with one hand still in his hair; she could see that his eyes craved for blood, because it had that same scary sketch of crimson hovering and brilliantly flooding his once beautiful Amber color, and as awkward as it may seem, his hair color changed from it's radiantly, remarkable onyx state to a strange midnight blue or nylon. Arias looked at him strangely, as he continued his strange transformation from a young adult to an even older adult; not able to bare this strange situation, Arias quickly spoke. "KENJI!" She said his name loud enough to get his full attention, but not loud enough for an echo. He snapped out of whatever trance he put himself into and his handsome younger features came back suddenly. She squinted her eyes at him in confusion, but before she said anything, he intruded. "I think so..." Arias's eyes grew wide, and her mouth flew open just a little as he said quickly, "But it wasn't my fault, she came to my House talking trash about Uriko and I was going to kick her out but she..." As soon as he said those first 5 words, Arias shook her head and started walking away with her hands up, when Kenji spoke up more so his voice would travel to where she was going. As she was walking away, Kenji jogged behind her and attempted to make a grab for her elbow, when she pulled away from his touch, that's when he stopped himself from speaking any further. When he made a grab for her arm earlier, Arias raised her voice at him.
"Bull-shit, Kenji...! You got a window, maybe even a fucking peep-hole, why didn't you look through there to see who it was at your door! Damn, you could have called the police and put a restraining order on her, that's better than sleeping with her..." Sick of everybody talking over him and not listening to what he remembered what happened, he grabbed her arms and shook her lightly, before yelling over her. "IF YOU GUYS WOULD HEAR ME OUT FOR A MOMENT AND STOP PREDICTING WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED YOU WOULD AT LEAST KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON!" Arias's head snapped back, just a bit from the sudden shake; she glared back at Kenji; angrily, but shut her mouth and crossed her arms over her chest when Kenji dropped his hands by his side. "She came over, alright. I... I wasn't expecting it. I thought Uriko was at the door, but it turned out it was Angie. I didn't even invite her in; she walked straight into my House and tried to make herself feel at home, she tried to talk about Uriko, what she and I had, and whatever. I didn't want to hear it, so I went off on her, and tried to get her out of my House, but something was going on with her..."
"What do you mean something was going on with her?"
"I mean, she was burning up, turning red in the face, sweating and shit like that. I gave her a bottle of water, and she swallowed the whole thing like something I've never seen before, but that didn't do anything to the fact she that was burning up..." He paused for a second as he looked at Arias's confused facial expression, when she didn't say anything, he proceeded. "I put her in some cold water to cool down her temperature, and when she started getting her complexion back, I got her some clothes I no longer wear; because I threw her in the water with what she had on; before I went back into the Living Room. After I finished my drink, I got myself something to eat, and sat down feeling a strange amount of fatigue, when she came out of the bathroom. She was trying to mess with me, provocatively; but I couldn't push her off of me, because my whole body just went numb with laziness or tiredness, I don't know... From there it's a blurry memory, but when I woke up, I saw something sticky, wet, and white, but it didn't come from me. Next thing I know she's telling me she's leaving and she had fun and whatever and hopefully next time I won't fall asleep... I don't know, Arias! But I just got the strangest feeling, that something's missing, all this doesn't add up! You know as well as I do that I love Uriko, and I would never cheat on her, even if my life depended on it..." Arias put her hand up to signal stop as she began to think.
"And you said this is all that you remember?" Kenji nodded his head; he didn't want to confuse Arias with the awkward dream of Uriko during that time, so he left that out. She bit her bottom lip, as she paced back and forth, when the bell rung for next period. "Okay, listen. I'm not going to lie to you and say that I believe what you just told me..." Kenji was about to say something, but she stopped him by speaking. "Hold on. But, knowing how Angie is has me a little curious to look into this. Now, just to let you know, Uriko's just not feeling good so she stayed home, she texted me not too long ago. What I suggest is that you don't see her for at least a day; I'm just suggesting that, because you're a little shaken up with confusion and I don't want you freaking the poor girl out when she's sick; to where you tell on yourself and she breaks up with you. Also, I need to go over to your House today..."
"Why?"
"Don't ask; you'll understand when I come over. All I have to ask is, is the House the same way as it was yesterday? Like you didn't change anything, everything's as it was?"
"Umm, yeah?" Kenji questioned her with a questionable look. Arias half-smiled and told Kenji to hitch a ride with her after school so she can take him home, as they parted their separate ways to their last class. What they didn't know was a very observant person eavesdropping on the two's conversation, after they yelled at each other earlier. "Hum, interesting..." They said.
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Around 9:55 that night, Uriko sat in her Living Room. She just kissed her mother on the cheek when she went back to work again, before turning the TV on and unloosening her braid to let her long hair hang over her body. She played with the ends of her hair, running her fingers through each section, and rid her hair of tangles, until she heard a knock at the door. Jumping up, and opening it without looking through the window, she finally came face to face with Arias and Jashad. "What took you so long to get here?" Uriko asked her as Arias came straight inside and sat on the couch. Uriko invited Jashad in after exchanging hellos, and closed the door to take a seat next to Arias.
"Time got away from us, sorry about that." Arias said, not looking at Uriko.
"Time? Arias, I really needed somebody with me today, you just don't know what I'm going through right now!" Uriko said, not able to really show a shocked facial expression because her eyes were so puffy from crying all night.
"Uriko, look we're really sorry. We were trying to take care of something, but it took longer than we expected it to be." Jashad said to Uriko, catching her attention.
"What were you guys doing that was so important?"
"Damn, Uriko! What are you some kind of detective? Gosh, listen we were handling some business, some business that we don't know yet, were just waiting for some results, so will you lay off on us, please!" Arias snapped; clearly irritated. "I said I'm sorry we couldn't be here earlier..." Arias looked away from Uriko, and dazed off.
"Arias, we're supposed to be friends, help each other out when one of us is hurting, and yet you put business before your best-friend...!"
"Uriko, you don't understand... We were actually helping you..." Jashad said speaking for Arias.
"How are you helping me when I'm right here, not wherever you guys were at...?" Arias was tired, confused, and not in the mood for this; she just dealt with one fight earlier; and her stomach was still cramping from that punch; she didn't feel like dealing with another one.
"Alright... You want to know so badly, fine! I was at Kenji's House for hours, when Jashad started looking for me; he decided to help us out with everything; there! What's said is said, we were at Kenji's place!" Arias sort of screamed at Uriko. You couldn't really tell if Uriko was shocked by the puffiness in her eyes, but you can tell by how her mouth fell.
"Arias..." Jashad started speaking before Arias said something back to him.
"She wanted to know, and now she knows."
"You didn't have to say it like that... Uriko, I know that the way Arias said it sounds very wrong, but that's not the whole story..." Uriko stood up in disbelief.
"I can't believe you two! I'm over here crying my eyes out, depressed beyond all standards and yet my best friend and her future husband are at my close-to-be ex/former boyfriend's House! Then to top it off, you don't even tell me why you guys were over there!"
"Uriko, it's not what you think; we barely even know what we were..." Jashad tried to reason, before Arias got up and took off outside. Uriko's lip began to tremble, when Jashad stood up trying to comfort her, but she backed away. "I want you guys to go..." Uriko said low.
"Uriko..." Jashad said, letting the sound of her name linger as if it were useless.
"GET OUT!" Uriko screamed, and Jashad just slightly tilted his head, as he made his way to the door, when Arias stood at the doorway, making a grab for the knob, like she was about to re-enter the House. "No! I want both of you to leave, you don't want to make time for me then I'm not making time for you! Also, I hope you enjoyed Kenji's company, because you can have him, considering you and Angie don't give a rat's ass to the fact that he was mine!"
"Uriko, your thinking negative..." Jashad said looking up at the sky; like he was rolling his eyes in an annoyed kind of way and also because he was now on the doorstep of her House; before looking at her.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Arias said confused beyond all reason.
"Let me make it stupidly easy... I hope you enjoyed the 3some between Kenji and Jashad today, because you clearly made it noticeable." Uriko said to Arias.
"WHAT! What the hell possessed you to even think that I slept with them? You're completely insane to think that I would waste many years of friendship by sleeping with your boyfriend! What's going through your mind right now; I'm not even that kind of female, you know that!" Arias yelled back at Uriko.
"Oh, but the way you said it and how you just walked out of the House made it evidently clear...!" Uriko screamed back before tears sprang from her eyes and she slammed the door on Arias and Jashad.
Jashad pounded on the door one time before screaming into the door so Uriko could hear him. "Uriko, you don't know the whole truth about Kenji and why we went to his House in the beginning...!" When she didn't open the door Jashad backed away and screamed, "Damn it!" Before standing by Arias and asking her, "Why didn't you just tell her?"
"Because, when Kenji first told me his side of the story, I didn't believe it, she's already a emotional wreak so why would you even want to tell her something like that; it'll just make matters 10 times worse?"
"Yeah, that's true... But why did you storm out of the House like that, you just made something that didn't even mean anything sound like it was something tremendous?"
"I saw someone... They were peeking in the window behind Uriko, I didn't see their face cause the blinds were close, but I saw their shadow. I ran outside and ended up slamming the door making them run away, and when I reached where they were standing I found this sound recorder, it was recording our entire argument. It was like they were trying to catch our downfall; by means whatever they were doing with this thing, they knew about it, and wanted to hear if they were succeeding, listen..." Arias hit the rewind button on the machine, and they heard the entire argument that just happened. "This device is able to detect sounds in closed facilities, and hear it vivid through these headphones."
"Damn! Kenji's right, there's more to this thing than what's going on." He looked back at Uriko's door. "What should we do with her?"
"We'll have to tell her everything that's happening when we know what's going on completely." Jashad nodded his head, and they made their way back to Kenji's House when a shadowy figure of a person stood up from the bushes, watching the speeding car drive away..
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The next day...
Uriko felt terrible, she would've stayed home today but she needed to clear the air with Arias, and talk to Kenji. She never called him back yesterday, so hopefully she can at least get some info on what's going on. She felt bad that she kicked Arias and Jashad out of her House yesterday, and maybe she was just over-reacting, but she wanted to apologize. Releasing a shrill sigh, she closed her locker, and began walking to Arias's locker, when somebody approached her, and that somebody happened to be Angie.
"What the? What happened to your hair and your face?" Uriko asked staring at the shortness, and noticing the big, ugly bald spot in the middle of her hair. (A/N: Just to let you know, she cut the long part too, so it's like half an inch all over, but she couldn't do anything to the bald spot.) Also she had big, purple, bruises going along her face when Arias punched her, continuously yesterday. She flapped her hand to avoid the question, and spoke. "Screw that! I just wanted to say, I am so sorry about you and Kenji's break up; by the puffiness in your eyes, I can tell that it really affected you."
"What are you talking about, me and Kenji never broke up?" 'Not yet, I guess.' Uriko thought. Then Angie looked at her with a shocked and confusing facial expression. "What? You two are still together? I'm so sorry I didn't know..."
"Didn't know what?" Uriko said, cutting her off. Angie acted like she was hesitating to speak, when she shook her head like she didn't want to tell her. "Tell me!" Uriko exclaimed.
"Well, I went to Kenji's House because I left my cell-phone over there Sunday, and he was heartbroken, saying he was sad because you two broke up, I stayed just a little while to cheer him up, and one thing led to another, until... I shouldn't say anymore!" Angie said as she turned away from Uriko's sad glare, she grabbed Angie's arm and pulled her back her way.
"No! You already started, now finish it!" Uriko yelled.
"Well, he wanted to remember our moment we shared so he made me take pictures of what we did... He was so rough with me I didn't want to do it with him anymore because I didn't know if what he said was true. But anyway, he forced he to have sex with him, I mean, look at all this scratches and the bruises all over me!" She showed Uriko the marks, and the pictures of the entire sexual encounter. Uriko's chest was heaving up and down quickly, as she looked through each picture as Angie continued her story. Uriko was barely listening to what Angie said, instead heat fueled her veins to where her ears became hot, and she could feel herself transforming very, very slowly. She saw Kenji's entire physical features and erotic features that she wanted to scream or maybe even cry, especially when she seen the last picture of him playing with the oozy white substance. Grinding her teeth from aggravation, and deceive, Uriko's hands trembled. It was when Angie said something about Arias and Jashad that it caught her attention.
"Wait, what did you say?" Uriko said.
"I said, I was going to confront Kenji about telling you what happened between us, so I can get my hands on those pictures, but I heard some sounds and I glanced through the window seeing Arias, Kenji and some cutie having sex. I recorded it so I can show you what kind of friend you have. They did it for hours, and I think that they went back around 10, because I heard Arias talking about it this morning; I'm sorry, Uriko." Angie let Uriko watch the video of them doing it, and before Kenji even joined in, Uriko dropped the Camera feeling the tears of despair falling rapidly from her eyes; as she ran away from Angie, who smiled at her retreating back. Uriko didn't know who to believe, she never heard Kenji's side of the story, even though she doesn't believe Angie, the proof had to say it all. It looked to real to be true, so she just didn't care for her friend, her boyfriend, and her ex boy friend. 'It's just over; all of it is over...' Uriko thought as she cried hysterically, and ran straight out the school...
(A/N): Well that's it for this Chapter, I got one more Chapter to go and this story is done. Tune in for the last Chapter... And sorry, I forgot about the EOF on the last Chapter, so I put it on this one. Also, Angie doesn't have a cell phone because she doesn't want people bothering her about anything, so she doesn't keep one.