Chapter One Hundred Sixteen: The Mixed Feelings

" I don't understand who she thinks she is. Why the hell did she think that she could just come here and try to make demands? " Penny vented as Keera listened while they walked.

" She acts though she owns me or something! Which couldn't be further from the damn truth" she continues.

" I am so frustrated right now" Pennh wanted to punch something, anything, but she tried her best to hold her anger back.

" So..were you Two dating or.? " Keera Was trying to be understanding but very much confused on what had just transpired. At 1st she thought she was going to have to fight someone to protect Penny and yet this seemed more like a lovers spat than anything else.

" No we weren't! We could have been..I think? But she didn't want anything to do with it. So that's why I don't understand her freaking logic" Penny stopped walking and placed her hands on her head, trying to calm herself down.

" Well it sounds as though, Dating or not dating she's very possessive over you. I guess protective could be a word we could use but it seems more possessive to me" Keera pointed out.

" And I'm not even saying that's a bad thing but it's definitely confusing considering she wanted nothing to do with you and now she's claiming you as her own" Keera was trying to piece together the situation but found a hard time doing so.

" Yeah well, there is nothing there. There once was, but now there is nothing" Penny growled.

" Obviously there is. For you to be this upset, it means there is emotion behind the anger. And usually anger comes from confusion in my experience, so you are angry because you are confused about her reaction just as much as to how she feels about you. You still care for her and now she cares for you in a way that seems..well..less platonic? " Keera crossed her arms as she now watched Penny pace back and forth.

" No..there is nothing there. I promise you that there is nothing" Penny assures.

" You don't have to promise me anything. I am not mad one way or another if there is something there or there is not something. I'm just trying to help you better understand the situation to that your less confused" Keera pointed out.

" I don't think I'm ever going to not be confused by the situation. She goes back-and-forth so much that it's impossible to understand what she's feeling at any given time. And to be honest with you, I'm completely done trying to understand it. There are so many other things that I have to worry about right now that I don't have time to deal with this stupid crap" Penny complained.

" My father is back in my life and I haven't even really talked to him that much. My mom is dead..or alive..I don't know. The world needs to be saved but it's exhausting and I don't know what I'm doing. I keep thinking I have things under control but I really don't. And I feel like I'm losing it" Tears began forming around the eyes of Penny as she raised her arm to quickly brush them away so that Keera wouldn't see them.

" Well life is never going to be perfect. And the decisions that you make in life are also never going to be perfect. All you can try to do, Is do the right thing. Sometimes that's going to end up working out well for you and sometimes it won't. But at least you did the right thing at the end of the day. And though I don't really have any advice for you on this whole love situation that you got going on, What I can tell you is that you probably need to get that sorted as soon as possible because it's going to continue to distract you from your goal" Keera reasoned.

" I definitely don't have a solution on how to combat this situation and I don't really entirely know what to tell you to do or how to say things of word things properly to Ember. But I think you two need to hash it out because clearly there are tensions even if you say there aren't" Keera added.

Penny Continue to pace around for a bit trying to calm her mind down so that she could figure out what exactly to do. But she was struggling. She knew this was only going to get harder if she didn't get everything out with Ember. But with so much going on, she might confuse other emotions and bring those into the conversation which wouldn't be beneficial either for either of them. She needed a way to calm down and was finding it increasingly difficult to find that peace.

" You know, You would think that this walk would have helped but somehow had ended up making things even worse" Keera tried to joke but Penny didn't respond with a laugh, only a sigh.

" Let's see if we can go get a drink or something. That might work better than just standing around and hoping to get somewhere with this" Keera suggested and Penny agreed.