Chapter 17: Eventful Day Part One

Angel's POV:

Two Months Later*

After that night, Justin and me stopped talking. I will admit I miss him but I'm not apologizing first. He snapped at me for no reason. I didn't see him as boyfriend material. But then I think back to that night I did my first few kills. When he kissed me, the spark between us was insane. I wanted him to kiss me again. But that was probably because he has soft, primly, pink lips. I wanted to bite them, suck on them, everything. But I couldn't. I dated five guys since that night we got into it but all of them didn't work out. Hell, I even dated Colin but that I'd do last long either. All I could think about was Justin. He was on my mind 24/7. I wanted him. I tried everything to get him off my min shut it's hard to do that when he goes to my school, when he's in my classes, and when he works at where I work at.

I asked advice with Kacey but she was much help. I found out she was jealous of Keisha for taking me away. Keisha wanted to fight her for having a problem with her for no reason. I wanted those two to make up. That's why I had an idea to get them together and to settle their beef. I wanted them to come to a restaurant for Chinese food at the mall. As I waited for them to show up, my mind reverted back to Justin. Every boy that wore glasses or had his black hair, I thought it was him. I wanted to talk to him. But I didn't wanna give in first. "Angel?" Called a voice. I turned my head to see Kacey. I smiled and waved her over. I hugged her tightly. "Hey boo. You hungry?" I asked. "Hi. Yeah I could eat." She said, as she sat down. I noticed her hair was half up and half down.

"What's up with your hair love?" I asked. "Oh. I'm supposed to go to my little brother's friend's bar mitzvah." She said. "Oh. I was finna mad because I thought you were finna go to a party and you didn't invite me." I said, jokingly. She laughed. "Now you know I'd bring you to a party." She said. Then she gasped. "What is SHE doing here?" She asked, glaring at something. I turned around and aw Keisha looking around. "Keisha!!!" I called. She looked at me and smiled but that smile disappeared when she seen Kacey. "Fuck is this bitch doing here?!" She asked. "Be careful who you call a bitch. I can show you how your mother dies ya know." Kacey said, icily. Keisha lunged for her but I got in between them. "Alright enough. This has got to stop." I said.

They stared at me. "You two are my bestest friends and your at each other's throats. It's okay with me. And it's definitely not okay with Annie." Is aid. Their faces softened. After I heard about Annie's miscarriage, I went to see her after my shift. Turns out she didn't lose her baby. The doctor made a mistake. He was new to the medical field and he made a mistake and had someone else's sheet. She's now three months pregnant with a baby girl. She has to take leave off for work until she hits six months. Bishop wants her to take a rest from work I til she gives birth but Annie denied it. She was even more scary now that she's pregnant. She said she will work till she hits seven months.

But Bishop has to force her to go home and rest until he says otherwise. She's been using her time to work til 3:00. That's when she has to go home. Bishop helps her and makes sure that she gets home safely. With Grey still on the run, who knows what could happen to her. "Angel?" Kacey called, snapping me out of my thoughts. I looked at Kacey. "Look guys. I really love you both but please stop fighting. This isn't what I want to deal with everyday." I said. They looked at each other. "Please guys. If you hung out with each other, you'll realize how much fun you both are." I said. It was silent. "You were a pretty cool girl before you left Keisha." Kacey said. I smiled. "You were too Blondie." Keisha said, smiling. They laughed. "Okay cool. But stop starting shit with me." Keisha said. "I can't help it. I have to defend myself. It's what AA made me to be." Kacey said.

"True true." Keisha said. "So we good?" I asked, looking between them. "Yeah we good." Kacey said, smiling. "Alright. Let's eat." I said. We ordered our food and ate it. It was good. We spent the day shopping, then we went to my house. We walked inside only to have Tasha run up to us. She wrapped her little self around Kacey's legs. "Hi Tasha." She said. "Hi Kacey. That lip gloss you got me smells good. It's poppin." Tasha said. Kacey giggled. "Glad I can help." She said. "Angel, I'm going swimming with the mermaid pod. Come with. It'll be so much fun." Tasha said. "Umm, I'm kinda hanging with the girls." I said. She began pouting. "It's good Angel. We'll be here." Keisha said. "Umm, okay. Let's go." I said. "Wait where's Trey and them?" Kacey asked.

"Trey is with Mike and Colin. They wanted to go to that new laser place that opened up." Tasha said. "Mama and Dad?" I asked. "Out for dinner. They said they wanted to have a romantic dinner." She said. "So you're here by yourself?" Keisha asked. Tasha shook her head. "Nope. Celia is here." She said. As if on cue, Celia came around the corner. "Hey ladies." She said. We looked up at her. "Hey boo." Keisha said, as she walked up to kiss her. Keisha was straight but she didn't mind messing with a girl. Ceiling was a lesbian but she knew Keisha didn't like her like that. She just enjoyed kissing her. "I'm gonna go put my shoes on." Tasha said as she ran off upstairs. "So how was Tasha?" I asked. "She's hyper." Celia said.

I laughed. "I mean I love her. She's adorable but she's hyper." Celia said, laughing. "So you coming with to swim with us?" I asked. "Sure, why not." She said. "Guess that leaves you and me Blondie." Keisha said. Kacey smirked at her. "I have an idea on what we can do." Kacey said. "Like what?" I asked. "Okay so I heard a FashionNova just built a store in town. I wanna go shopping again." Kacey said. Keisha squealed. They both ran out the door. "Get me something too!!!" I yelled. "Okay!!!" Kacey yelled back. Tasha ran downstairs and walked up to Celia. She reached up for her to pick her up. "Alright lets go." I said. The three of us got in Celia's cat and rove to the beach. Luckily, it won't many people out here. We all got out the car and ran to the water. We straight ran in and soon our legs were tails. We linked up with Celia's pod, the mermaids and mermen who turned Tasha into one of them. We all took off swimming. We sped through the water, as if it was a part of us. I never felt so alive.

It was incredible to experience this. It felt so surreal. It was awesome. Breathtaking. We swam around and followed the pod to an island. We swam into an underwater air pocket. When we surfaced, there were a hundred mermaids and mermen. "Hey Tasha." They greeted her. "Hi guys." She squealed. Well I'm happy she's over her fear of water. Me too. "Tasha, Angel, perfect timing. We just got your moon rings made. Here ya go." One mermaid said. She swam over and handed us our moon rings. I felt even more powerful. "Here let me show y'all how to use them." Celia said. She used her moon ring to do something to a rock. Then she moved it over and made another one appear. Then three more. She even made a few float. Then we tried it. It was harder than it looked. She showed us how to do it a few more times.

"There ya go Tasha. You got it. Just stay focused." One merman said. "Okay Angel, now lower yours." A mermaid said. I did so just it just floated back up to the roof of the cave. "That's okay. Just keep trying." Celia said. I did it again and this time, the rock lowered itself to the ground. "Okay. Do it a few more times so you know how to do it." Celia said. I did just that. Me and Tasha kept this up for another hour. We wanted to make sure we had this down. We didn't want to use this and accidentally do something bad. "There ya go. You guys got it down now." Celia said. I smiled at her. "Okay. Now I gotta get home and start on my chores." Celia said. "Okay. Well see you guys later." Tasha said. We dove back underwater and swam back to the beach. We went behind some boulders and dried off with our powers. We ran back to Celia's car and she drove us home.

We said our goodbyes and closed the door. Tasha ran to the kitchen. "Where you going now Tasha?" I asked. "I'm hungry." She said. "Well I just ate so..." I said. She looked at me and glared. "What?" I asked, curiously. "You ate without me?!" She cried. I rolled my eyes at her. "I'll make you a sandwich." I said. "I don't want a sandwich." She whined. "Okay. What do you want?" I asked. "Pizza." She said. "I'll order Pizza Hut then." I said. I picked up my phone and called in an order. I ordered some wings for myself. When the food got here, Tasha jumped up and down. "Tasha stop. Your gonna make me spill the food." I said, carrying it all over to the table. I then had an idea. "Hey, wanna go watch a movie?" I asked. She nodded. "Come on. Let's go to the theater." I said. I picked her up and carried her outside to my car.

I drove around before spotting my Mama and Daddy in the parking lot of the movie theatre. It looked like they were leaving the theater. "Mama!!!" Tasha yelled out. Mama turned her head and saw us. She grinned when she seen us. As soon as I parked, Tasha got out and ran to her. "Oh my babygirl." She said. "Hey what y'all doing out here?" Dad asked. He kissed our foreheads. "We wanted to watch a movie. We already ate. Lord knows the movies charge a lot of money for small food." I said. They nodded. "Yeah that's why we ate before we came." Dad said. He picked Tasha up. "Whoa what's that?" He asked, looking at her finger. "Oh me and Angel got our moon rings today." Tasha said. "Give it here." Mama said. "Aw Mama." Tasha whined. "I don't wanna hear it. Gone give it here." She said.

I laughed. "Why can't I keep it?" Tasha asked. "Cause I don't want you out here using it." She said. "Oh yeah. You can't wear it." I said. She looked at me. "Why not?" She asked. "Cause it will shrink you or do something bad. Celia warned us about it." I said. "Glad you told me." She said? As she put it in her purse. "You'll get it back Tasha at the end of the day Tasha." Dad said. I looked at her. She had tears down her face. Mama wiped them away. "It's okay baby. You'll get it back when we get back. I promise." She said. Tasha wipes her face . "Where y'all headed next?" I asked. "We going to this new laser game store we heard about then we gon go shopping then we going swimming, then we coming home." Dad said.

"Oh Trey is at that laser game store." Tasha said. "Yeah he's out there with Mike and Colin." I said. "Well we'll see them there." Dad said, as he walked off. "Love y'all." We all said to each other. Tasha and I headed inside and I had to pick out a child friendly movie. We decided to watch Finding Dory and Coraline. Coraline was my favorite movie, next to Sweeney Todd. I loved them both so much. As we watched the movies, Tasha said she got hungry again. I got up and got a big box of popcorn but when I came back Tasha was gone. Where did she go? I saw a man walk out the movie theater. He had on gray pants. Grey?! No way he's here. I quickly got into assassin mode and chased after the him. He turned a corner and quickly headed towards the door.

I ran up behind him and tackled him to the ground. I turned him over but it was someone else. It was a Mexican dude. "Oh my God. I am so sorry. I thought you were someone else." I said, as I quickly got off of him. He began speaking Spanish. I quickly turned and around and got scared. Tasha where are you? I ran around, looking for her. "Excuse me, hav enough seen the little girl I was with earlier?" I asked the cashier. The girl shook her head. I groaned. I ran after asking everyone who walked out the theater. Just then, her scent filled the air. I followed it to the bathroom. I walked in and saw Tasha talking to a little girl. "Tasha!!" I cried. She jumped and looked at me. "Angel. I had to pee. Look, my friend from school is here with her baby brother." She said. I grabbed her hand and pulled her out the bathroom.

I pulled her behind a trash can and bent down to her level. "Tasha don't ever do that again." I growled. "Do what?" She asked, quietly. "Run off like that. I

You had me scared. I thought Grey took you again. Don't ever fucking leave like that." I said. I grabbed her hand and pulled her back into the movie theater. After ten minutes, I heard sniffing. Turns out she was crying silently. I sighed and pulled her back out. "Tasha I'm sorry I snapped at you. It's just with Grey still out there and Abby warning me to be on my guard, I've been a bit paranoid. But you can't run off like that. You could be kidnapped and we were worried sick about you." I said. She wiped her face but the tears kept coming. "I'm sorry. I just had to go." She said, through tears. I hugged her.

"It's okay Tasha. I'm really sorry. I was just worried about you. I love you so much and when Grey grabbed you, it scared me. I thought he got you again. I was scared." I said. She hugged me tightly. "I'm sorry Angel. I just had to pee really badly and you ran off and I couldn't hold it." She said. "That's fine just run after me next time. I want you in my sight no matter what." I said. I picked her up and carried her back in the theater. We watched the rest of Finding Dory and then we watched Coraline. It wasn't til a hour before the movie ended that I realized she had fallen asleep. I decided to finish the movie but with her in my lap. She crawled up on me and rested her head on my shoulder. We got to the part where Coraline sees the Other Mother in her evil form. I was happy to watch my movie again. It's been years since I watched Coraline.

After the movie ended, I struggled to stand up with Tasha in my arms. I stood up and carried her to the bathroom with me. I had to go now. She said she would stand in front of the door but she was still sleepy so she almost fell a few times. After I was done, I washed my hands and we went to the car. I saw that it was starting to rain. I wanted to get out there before it started to rain too bad. I quickly put her in her seat and strapped her in. She dissed off almost immediately. I got in the driver's seat and drove off back home. As I drove, I thought about what I did. I tackled a man I thought was Grey. I almost blew my secret. I was ready to give him a full power burst and expose myself for Tasha. I pulled in the driveway and seen Keisha's car here. I grabbed Tasha and carried her inside.

"There she is." Said a voice. I looked up to see Kacey and Keisha in the kitchen, eating out leftover pizza. "What's up? What y'all buy me?" I asked, softly. "Why you talking like that?" Kacey asked. I turned to the side. "Tasha is sleep." I said, quietly. Keisha grabbed her from me. Tasha woke up but realized it was Keisha then went back to sleep. "Whew she sweating." Keisha said. "So am I." I said. "What's wrong with you?" Kacey asked. I held up a finger. "Can you take her upstairs and put her in her bed please?" I asked. Keisha nodded and headed for the stairs. "What's up Angel?" Kacey asked. "Okay so me and Tasha went to the movies. Okay so, after some time in the first movie, she said she was hungry so I left to get popcorn. Then I come back to her gone. Then some man left in a hurry. And he was wearing gray sweatpants." I said. Kacey gasped.

I heard one behind me. Keisha ran up to us. "Bitch you mean Grey was there?" She asked. "Oh my God. Let's go get him." Kacey said. "Wait!!! Listen. Turns out it wants him. It was some Mexican dude." I said. "Oh. Was her cute?" Keisha asked. I gave her a look. "He looked well into his forties." I said. "Oh. Well what happened?" She asked. "Turns out she went to the bathroom and she had a friend from school there. Luckily I found her. But y'all I was so close to exposing myself. I will do it for Tasha. It scared me that she disappeared just that quickly." I said. "Well she's okay and well so calm down." Kacey said. "Yeah girl you look like you bout to have a heart attack." Keisha said, walking past me. "Today has been an eventful day." I said. When she walked past me, it was then I noticed a scent on her. "Were you with Justin?" I asked.

"Yeah he came by. He-" She was cut off by the doorbell. I ran to the door an door and opened it. A shock went through me. There, standing in the rain, was Justin, Jair soaking wet, along with his clothes. He looked up at me, with his bright green eyes. "Angel, can we talk please?" He asked. Rose? Let him in dummy.