I Blame My Evil Clone

Chapter 6: An Attempt to Rescue

Why is he doing this?

"Answer me," he demands in a low growl.

"I-I.. no..."

"Oh, come on, Sky. Look, you can have it. Don't you want it?"

"...Y-Yes," I mumble.

"Then take the ingot from me and call it budder," he says, stretching out his hand and offering the ingot to me.

I hesitate. Then I reach toward the ingot and say quietly. "I do want the budder..."

Rage burns as bright as a fire in Ty's eyes. "No! It's not budder, it's gold, and you hate gold!" He starts beating me with the budder ingot. Oh, the irony. What used to be my favorite block in Minecraft is now causing me immense pain. Ty suddenly stops. "Take off your sunglasses," he says slowly.

Hesitantly, I pull my sunglasses off.

"Now open your eyes," he hisses.

I sigh and open my eyes. "Do you like them?" I ask sarcastically.

He jumps back. "They're- they're bright red, they're hideous! Cover them up, cover them!" he shouts. I quickly put the glasses back on. Ty says in a low, menacing voice, "If you so much as think about 'budder,' I will kill you. If you utter one word against the squids, I will kill you. And if you ever take off those sunglasses again, I'll make you wish I'd kill you."

I gulp and nod. (It's basically over. I don't think the above stuff is even proper torture. Anyway, from now on it's just mental torture.)

Ty takes a deep breath and speaks again. "Oh, two more of your friends realized they had the wrong Sky. Mitch and Jerome, I believe. The furry one said he was relieved to have you gone, and the other one just went to buy cake and balloons for the party."

I feel tears threatening to spill down my face. There's two more of my friends that were never really my friends. Did I ever, at any point in time, have an actual friend?

Ty's POV

"And they torture Sky every time we tell someone," Jason finishes.

"What the heck? Why'd you tell us, then?" Mitch asks.

"Because we have to save him," I say.

"Okay, so are we going to Seto's?" Jerome asks.

Jason nods and leads us out the door. Mitch falls back to talk to me. "I have a question," he says. "If Evil-Ty is torturing Sky, and he looks exactly like you, well... What if Sky is afraid of you, Ty?"

My jaw drops. "What? But-But we're so different. I would never hurt Sky like that!"