I AM ONE OF THE MOST UNFAITHFUL, IGNORANT, IDIOTIC, MORONIC PEOPLE WHO HAS EVER BREATHED IN THIS WORLD

FORGIVE ME DEARLY

WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO EXPRESS MY SORROW AND APOLOGETIC-NESS

"What did you just say?" I spluttered as I almost tripped over the high heels. He grimaced.

"It's not something I really like to talk about." He said while I still tried to process what he just said. Fang first girlfriend, she tried to kill her?

"I – Uh, I – um…" What did I have to say to that? 'Oh, so your girlfriend tried to kill you, huh? What does this have to do with Double M? Oh and can you also pass me some punch?'? He was still grimacing while clutching his stomach for some reason.

Then, without thinking, I shooed his hand that was clutching his stomach and pressed it lightly. I felt it. The scar that was slightly curved.

"Oh god," I whispered, "did she do this to you?" He nodded slightly.

"How…" I trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.

"She kind of stabbed me with a blunt steel pipe."

"WHAT?" I screeched and almost everyone looked towards our way, our friends looking at us worriedly. I gave them a weak smile and waved them off.

"What happened? Why did she do that?" Oh god, Fang almost died!

"It's kind of a long story." I could see that he was trying to get out of talking about this, but can you blame me for trying to keep him going? I mean, a girl tried to freaking kill him, for crying out loud!

"We have the whole prom to talk about it. Fang, this is important. What if she tries to… finish the job?" I asked with a worried tone.

"I don't she will. After the incident, she went into hiding. Never heard from her since."

"When did this 'incident' happen?"

"3, 4 years ago?"

"Oh god, are you saying you almost died when you entered high school?" He just nodded.

"What did Maya do? Why did it even happen? Why does it have to do with Double M?" I asked so many questions at once, I didn't even know what I asked in the end until it was too late.

"Double M? Why'd you ask about her?" He said with disgust and I quickly thought of an excuse.

"Uh, when you were drugged, you said Maya and Maia," he flinched slightly, "were related to you and hating Double M. I just want things to clear up. I hate being confused, you know." I said nonchalantly and he nodded like he understood.

"Ok, so I guess I met Maya when we were freshmen. She was absolutely beautiful in my eyes at that time, I always thought of ways to ask her out. She was the one to ask me out, in the end." I nodded, signaling that I was listening. The song had turned slower and it was a perfect time to talk.

"We were happy. We would always meet after school at the café and whenever I tried to pay for our drinks, she would wave me down, saying that being her boyfriend was paying for everything. She always had these wads of cash and it was weird because it didn't look like she was the rich type. I asked her once about it and she just smiled and said she had a job that paid her well." Can we say suspicious?

"I was curious and I was broke. Living on your own for more than 7 years means you don't get a lot of money. I thought that if I followed her to her job, I would get a job there myself. I need the money, badly."

"So you followed her?"

Yeah… Saw how she got all that money. Apparently she was the assistant to Maxine Martinez." He said in disgust. Wait, Maya was an assistant to me? How is that possible? I didn't know any assistant named Maya.

Oh wait…

"How did she look like?"

"Um, dirty blonde, chocolate eyes, skinny… I don't really remember anymore. Why?" That was a similar description…

"Ms. Martinez, the next interviewer is outside the door. Should I let her in?" One of my assistants, Lila, said and Anne nodded.

"200 hundred interviewers and none are right for the job. Don't you think?" She asked me while I just shrugged.

"Whatever. I don't even know why I'm here. You're the one who's gonna make the decision anyways." I said in a bored tone.

"Don't use that tone on me, young lady. You know you need an assistant to remind you stuff and to bring you stuff. Lila, send the next on in." Lila nodded and went outside.

"Why can't I just use Lila?" I asked in annoyance.

"Because since she keeps on helping you, she can't help me!"

"Whatever." I said with a roll of eyes.

"Here's the next interview ma'am." Lila said as she returned with… Oh my god… She looked almost like me. Well, when I don't have the contacts and wig.

"Hi, my name is Grace and –"

"Wait, what's her last name?" I asked as that interview suddenly came up.

"Um, Grace. Why?"

Oh dear city of heavenly fire. (AN: Cannot wait for this book!)

"Um, just kind of thought that the information was important. Anyways, what happened next?" He gave me a confused look before continuing.

"I confronted her at her job and asked her why she didn't tell me. She just shrugged and said that if she told me this, I would start to hate her."

"Why did she think that?"

"She knew about this thing… With my mom… And, uh, yeah…" He stammered out. I didn't force him to go on the subject of his ex-mother. I really didn't want to even remember it.

"OK, so what happened after?"

"She hugged me and said she was sorry."

"What?" I deadpanned and he just shrugged.

"I really liked her that time."

"Okkk then. I really don't see how she got to almost kill you then." He winced for some reason.

"She almost killed me because I found a secret about her that I really wasn't supposed to know." Ok, is it just me or is this prom getting some tension?

"Which was?"

"A really big one." I just gave him a curious look. He sighed. "I got a job at the place like Maya. I think I was the one who delivered coffee to this person named Anne or something. I don't remember anymore." Oh, so he was the one who was supposedly 'hot but too young' for that witch a few years back?

"I needed to get a few more bucks so I stayed in that place after dark. It was and still is weird to me that the place had bedrooms and stuff. I mean a supermodel must have a house to sleep in, right?" I just shrugged. I actually made that bedroom myself without Anne suspecting a thing. Every time she kind of pissed me off, I would go there and sleep. She still doesn't suspect that bedroom.

"I realized that I couldn't make more bucks by just giving coffee to some person so I asked if I could do janitor work too. They just agreed and dismissed me like that. I didn't care though. As long as I got the money, I would do anything. I was cleaning up the hallways when I heard some chatters all of a sudden. That wasn't supposed to happen. There weren't supposed be people except for me and a few other janitors and all the janitors definitely did not have a girl's voice. So I did what I always did when I was curious."

"You followed the noise, didn't you?"

"You would have done it too." He stated. Ugh, he knows me so well. I stared at him to continue.

"Turns out, it was a girl and a guy and I was interrupting their 'moment'." He said in disgust.

"Who was it?" Though I knew who it was.

"When they caught me, she leaped off the bed and pushed me out of the bedroom." He kept going, as if he hadn't even heard me. "I stuttered stuff I don't even remember but she just glared at me as she yanked a steel pipe out of nowhere. It was dark so I couldn't see her very well…"

"Was it Maya?" I asked hesitantly and he replied hesitantly.

"I didn't think it was Maya at first… I thought it was the supermodel, Maxine Martinez. Then she whispered my name and I knew it was her… I knew it was Maya…"

"But a lot of girls know your name!"

"But they don't know my real name… She also told me she was Double M. Supposedly she didn't think her plan through because she said that after she said my name. I pointed that out for her. The biggest mistake of my life."

"She stabbed you?" I didn't even want to imagine that scene.

"I didn't know she had it in her. I would have just broken up with her and never see her again. Her, on the other hand, didn't think so. I don't know why. I still don't know." He finished and that was when I realized why he hated Double M so much. Maya… Double M… Maya told him she was Double M… He thought that Maya was Double M… And he hates Double M because of Maya…

I can never tell him the truth now…

"Good afternoon, Ms. Martinez. The photo shoot is right this way." Karen pointed to the left as she smiled with a cup of coffee in her hand. I narrowed my eyes as I inspected her face. Something was strangely familiar about her… Very, very familiar…

"Karen, do you know who the assistant before you was?" I asked and though it was subtle, she hesitated slightly before answering.

"I don't really know Ms. Why? Is there something wrong?"

"Karen… I'm firing you."

"Wh- What?!" She stuttered.

"I think you should leave now. Maya." And walked to the left for the shoot. Maybe my ears were tricking me but I was fairly sure Maya murmured something angrily.

"Fang… Oh, Max, you just made a very big mistake." Maya murmured as she stood there, alone, with the coffee still warm in her hand.

When the darkness comes by Colbie Cailat

Absolutely beautiful song...

FORGIVE ME