Ana said as she removed the scrunchies from her hair, which caused her ponytail to fall.
Dammit! Why now?
"So...should I say 'welcome back'?" I asked with a nervous smile.
"No! You are supposed to say, 'I. Am. Sorry'." Ana said as she crushed my feet with her leg.
"I am sorry. Now please…remove your feet."
"Seriously. You took advantage of my condition and forced me to go out with you!"
"I never forced you!"
"You did!" Ana yelled as she crushed my feet again.
"Yes, I did! Now please remove your feet."
"And you did so many embarrassing things with me."
"You were enjoying that too!"
"I wasn't!" Ana crushed my feet again. But this time, she was pulling my hair too.
"Okay, you weren't! And please stop doing this"
"You dare to speak back to me?!"
"I am sorry!"
She looks furious.
I will just wait for her to cool off and then take my revenge.
"And you want to date both of us, huh?"
"That was a joke! Liz was just messing around."
"Oh? Explain yourself!"
Stop!
You are exposing us, you idiot!
She never thinks before doing something and then regrets it.
"I mean, she doesn't love me or anything. It's impossible! We just met like two weeks ago. How could she possibly be in love with me? Now remove your feet, dammit!"
Ana removed her feet and looked at Liz. In response, Liz just stood there looking at the ground.
After looking at her for a while, Ana took a big sigh.
"So…." I opened my mouth to say something but stopped.
"Hmm?" Ana glanced at me.
"When did you get your memories back? I mean, yeah, it was only temporary, but still--"
"A day before yesterday."
"You mean when terrorists broke in at school?!"
"No. I mean, yes! But, later, when I got back home and took a bath, I remembered everything."
How does that work?!
"Then why didn't you tell me? I was worried."
"Do you think I will tell you that after how you treated me for the past six months?"
"....."
"What happened? Something caught your tongue?"
"But still, that doesn't mean I wasn't worried--"
Suddenly, my vision got blurry, and I fell.
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Thump!
"Luka!"
Ana looked back, only to see Luka collapsed on the floor,
"Hey…what happened?" Ana muttered.
"Luka…Luka" Liz was muttering continuously, while Ana was shocked by what just happened.
"Calm down, Liz," Nisa said as she walked over to Liz and said, "Let's put him on the sofa first, Ana, grab his Legs...Ana…Ana?"
"Yea…h."
After putting him on the sofa, Nisa checked his breath and vital, saying, "It's okay. He is breathing fine. I think he just passed out."
"Luka…" Liz called his name as she sat on the sofa and put Luka's face on her lap.
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When I opened my eyes, my head was on Liz's lap... I mean, she was giving me a lap pillow. While Ana was crying on the sofa next to us, and Nisa was confronting crying Ana.
What's going on here?!
I tried to get up from Liz's lap, "Ow! What happened?"
"Luka! You are awake?! Are you okay?!" Liz inquired.
She looked both happy and worried.
I got up from Liz's lap, saying, "Yeah, I am okay. My head just hurts a bit."
"Ow!"
I feel like I had a terrible dream.
"Luka"
I looked at Ana.
She is really crying!
"Hey. I am okay. See?" I jumped a bit, then looked at Nisa, who was confronting Ana a while ago, but Nisa turned her face.
"Hmph!"
What's her problem?
After a while,
"Okay, great. Even Luka is awake now. Come on, lunch is ready, everyone," Ana's mom said as she washed her hands in the kitchen.
Ana, Liz, Nisa, Ana's mom, and I were eating lunch.
"That chiby is not here?" I asked.
"Oh. He is hanging out with his friends," Ana's mom replied.
That chiby got friends?!
"Chibby?" Liz asked, curiously.
"Ana's little brother," I replied.
"Oh. His name is Chibby?"
"Yeah. Isn't that amazing?"
"It is not!" Ana glared at me and said, "His name is Joseph."
"So Luka," Ana's mom said, "You passed out because Ana bullied you?"
"Mom!"
"No, no. It wasn't her fault. My head has been aching since morning."
"Oh, I see. But if it was really because of Ana, then I would have force…" she cleared her throat and said, "I mean, have Ana take responsibility."
"Mom!"
"Responsibility?" I asked, trying to act dumb.
"By marrying you, of course."
"Mom!"
"I see. I might be wrong. Maybe it was because of Ana after all," I commented.
"That's not true!"
"Fine, fine. Don't yell."
"But then again, Ana is going to marry you anyways," Ana's mom quipped.
"Mom, stop it. Who would marry him?"
"Then you are saying you don't care about him?"
"I don't care about him at all."
Weren't you crying a while ago?!
Everyone present there had the same expression on their face. I am sure they are thinking of the same thing.
After we were done eating lunch, Ana said, "Now, then what should we do?"
Ana, Liz, and Nisa were sitting on the sofa.
While I was using my phone.
"Anything you want to do," Liz stated.
"Same," added Nisa.
"Hey, Luka. What are you doing?! You were playing with your phone while eating too."
Ring~ Ring!
"I wasn't playing. I was just checking something. And..." I need to pick up this call. "Please hold on for a minute. I have to take this call."
I answered the call.
[Yes, it is Luka, Huh? Was it today? I see. I am busy now, so I can't come. But if you beg, then I don't mind---wait! I will come! I am coming! Please let me come! Yeah, I am on my way! You stay there, okay? Yeah, see you soon!]
"..."
"..."
"..."
All three of them are looking at me like I have committed some sin.
"So well..." I put my phone in my pocket and said, "You see, I can't join you guys. I got a call, and I have to go there. See you tomorrow at school, Liz, Nisa. See you in the evening, Ana."
I immediately dashed out.
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As soon as Luka rushed out of the house, Ana and Liz looked at each other and said "Suspicious" in unison.