Alice...
Alone again....
I had chased after her, Tsutchie.... But she'd disappeared.
I couldn't find her...
It soon got dark and I decided to leave my house. I had taken a shower, gotten a change of clothes and something to eat but still couldn't stay. Even though it was my house it didn't feel safe anymore. Everything felt surreal.
Physically I was feeling better than I had in days, but....
Mentally I still felt numb... My mother was no-where to found and I had no where to stay. Not to mention the fact that some-one I trusted abandoned me, in a place where my life could have been put-out like a candle.
I couldn't, hate her after her explanation, but it still hurt none the less.
The street lamps glowed a soft amber, illuminating the side walk and shrubbery to the houses I passed.
Where am I going? You might be wondering. Well the answer to that is as simple as simple could be.
Where else could I go?
Besides, If I don't tell her now I might never get the chance to apologize. Though it probably won't seem like much now since most people have forgotten.
But I have to apologize to her, I have to tell Tess the truth. What happened back then wasn't her fault, nor was it in anyway fair, how I blamed it all on her.
I remember it as clear as day.
How we were good friends...
How I let my feelings for the boy I liked make me hate her...
How after he fell from the roof I blamed it all on her....
How she got expelled for it...
And especially how people looked at her afterwards...
All of it stuck in my memory and refuse to fade.
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Alice's mom....
"It's getting late and Eric hasn't returned yet, I should go," Carla stated trying to hide the fact that the woman still scared her.
"Aww, " Vanessa stated her voice raw with sarcasm "but you haven't told me what I wanted to hear yet."
"I've told you everything I know-" Carla started.
"-Shut up! " Vanessa snapped "you know, you aren't being very useful and do you what I do to people who aren't useful to me?"
"Tell me what I want to know!" she tried again "Where is the dragon child?" She picked up the blade she'd placed on the table before.
"I really don't know,"Carla answered.
"What do you see when you look at me?" Vanessa asked "do I look blond to you? Do you think I'm just another pretty face? Do you take me for a fool?!"
"She is your child!" She seemed angry.
"She was kidnapped ok!" Carla yelled surprising Vanessa a little "I tried everything, the police, posters and even detectives which probably wasn't the smartest choice."
Vanessa suddenly burst out laughing.
"You don't understand do you?" Vanessa asked "if you're telling the truth you're not gonna see her again."
Carla bit her lip, to hold herself back.
"It seems that another clan caught wind of it before I did." Vanessa said to herself and then "you're in luck, I'm bored now... you may go."
Carla wasn't gonna let her reconsider her decision, she stood slowly and made her way to the door.
"One more thing," Vanessa stated before Carla could open the door.
Vanessa got up and walked to her stopping in front of her leaving only enough space between for a breath of air.
She held Carla's gaze for a bit and then "here" she said pulling a coat from the coat hanger and putting it around Carla, tracing her cheeks with her fingertips after doing so...
"for the kiss and no hard feelings ok? Everything I do is for my clan."
She turned and opened the door. Only to face some-one whom she'd now prefer the company of someone who she'd feel a lot safer behind.
His hair was cut short and now his cheekbones defined him chiseled and lean but all the while leaving an air of gracefulness about him.
His blue eyes seemed to radiate light in the semi-dark walk-way.
"Eric..." Carla wanted to jump in his arms again like she used to but she thought better of it.
"What are you doing here?" He asked after glancing past her at Vanessa. "You said you'd never come back."
His tone pulled up an anger that she'd buried and forgotten about, It was his insensitivity that had pushed her to leave before and now he was doing it again.
"It's, not like that," she stated "I want to borrow your services, I'll pay you whatever you want."
"Fine." He said after a while "but, let's talk somewhere else."
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Alice...
"Hi," I said greeting Tess at her front door.
"What do you want?" Tess asked.
Just as I thought... She's still angry at me.
"I was wondering if we could talk," I said softly. She looked at me and then "hang on a minute." After a while she returned and closed the door behind her.
"Let's go," she said.
Huh?
"Where are we going?" I asked.
She didn't answer.
I followed her.
"Look, I just wanted to say-" I started.
"-That you're sorry?" She stated in a mild anger.
"Well... Yeah."
She stopped under the street lamp and turned to face me. "That's funny, you destroyed my life, took all my friends and turned my parents against me and you come back years later hoping I'll forgive you after an apology?"
She turned and started walking again and
I followed.
"I'm..." I started but realize I had no idea what to say "it's..."
"At first I was hoping that you'd fess up" she started "but when you didn't and I had to go to a different school I started to hate you, but when I thought about how you must have felt... I just couldn't bring myself to hate you. I started to feel sorry for you, the pitiful person you've become."
Soon we reached the park and she got on one of the swings.
"Does it still bother you?" She asked after a long silence.
I nodded.
"Good." She said and then "...say it..."
"I'm sorry," i said.
"That's all?" She asked.
"No... It was my fault, and no-matter how many times I say it it wouldn't be good enough, you were my best friend and all I can say is sorry." I couldn't look her in the eye as I said it.
She got off the swing and walked towards me, she raised her hand and I braced for it.
But instead she hugged me. "You idiot, I don't care about that anymore."
Ha.
I felt the tears roll down my cheek.
"What took you so long?" She asked "what took you so long?"
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