?WINGLESS AND BEUTIFUL
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?EPISODE 77?
“How do you want to do this? Here or outside?” Igrowled.
He looked around. The restaurant was almost empty,save for a few older people dining and chatting overnewspaper and coffee.
He stood up from his seat. Then he replied, “Outside,Vaughn.”
I followed him, bawling my fists to control myself fromdragging him out by the collar.We stood in the almost deserted parking lot.
Finally, he turned to face me. He took a deep breath andsaid, “I have something that belongs to you.”
“If you’re talking about my girlfriend, I demand that youreturn her at once!” I fumed.
“Look, Vaughn, I didn’t know she was your girlfriend. Ididn’t even know you knew each other until I read herdiary.”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “What diary?”
“She keeps a diary… a collection of letters she wrote foryou,” he replied. “I… I have it.”
“Why would she give you that diary if it was meant forme?”
He shook his head. “She didn’t. I… I took it from her bagthat night you were trapped in the cabin.”
Bam! I punched him on the jaw as hard as I could.
“That’s for stealing from her!” I bellowed.
Bam!“That’s for trying to steal her from me!”
Bam! Bam! Bam!
“And those… those are for paying those low-lives toassault her so you could fake-save her!” I shouted angrily.
“Do you have any idea of the danger you put her through?!”
“I know, I know!” He spat blood on the ground. He heldhis jaw in pain. He didn’t even try to fight back. “I’m sorry! Ididn’t know it would go that far.”
Bam!
“How selfish and stupid are you?” I growled. “Why thefk would you do that?
“Because I love her! I couldn’t get through to her. Shehad been so… so evasive. She wouldn’t accept anything from me… no matter what I do!”
“I love her too. More than you could ever love her, but did you see me endangering her life?”
“I know! And I said I’m sorry!”
Bam!
He fell down on the ground.“Stand up, Anderson! Fight back!” I demanded. “Let’s settle this now! Man to man! Fight me!”
He held a hand up in front of me. He furiously shook hishead. “No, no. no!”
“Stand up!”
“Fk it, Vaughn! I don’t want to fight you! Even if Iwanted to, I’ve seen how you kicked those potheads’ asses.I know you have a freaking black belt in martial arts.
I’m notstupid!” he said, almost in a scream while he staggered tohis feet. “I know what I did. And when I read your diary, I realized how much she loved you.
I know now why nomatter how hard I tried, no matter what I do… I could never
steal her away from you. You can beat me up all you want.
It wouldn’t make a difference.”
He sounded desperate. I might even say that he wasabout to cry. But he was right.
Even if I beat him to the pulp,it wouldn’t change the things that happened in the pastmonths. It wouldn’t bring back the time I lost with Allison.
“Where’s the diary?”
“I returned it to her,” he replied.
“As in you hand-delivered it to her?” I asked,suspiciously. I couldn’t trust a word that came out of this s¢umbag’s mouth.
He shook his head. “I went to… CRC. I left the diary there and then I left a message on her locker to tell herwhere to find it.”
“Where in CRC did you leave it?”
He gave me a hard look, then he replied, “In… in your garden.”
Bam!
He almost lost his balance with that punch. “What thefuck was that for?”
“For going to our garden!” I spat back at him. “You desecrated it, just by stepping foot on it, you filthys¢umbag!”
“I’m sorry, okay? I was gonna tell you, too. So you couldgo there and finally tell her the truth.”
“Say what? You want me to tell her what you did?”
He bit his lip, refusing to answer.
“You son of a…” I aimed for him again, but he shieldedhis face with his arms.
“Stop it, you freaking war freak!” he screamed. “I will doit! I will do it!”
“You will do what exactly?”
“I will be the one to tell her, okay? Happy now?”
I shook my head. “You will not get away with this soeasily. She deserved to know the truth—straight from yourfilthy mouth!”
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