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Chapter 33: Her Happiest

Some days followed.. I don't know how many for exact and all I could do was watch Amari and Mono. She was so happy now that her real best friend was here.. They both were. But I could see it in her.. Mono was different. Something changed her. And that made Amari not act her happiest.

I watched everything they did. In the halls, Cafeteria, Library.. I watched them get ready for missions. It was like everything was back to normal. And it didn't matter if I was noticed. I remember how Heelix told me to be careful with Amari because she was depressed and alone when Mono left her and I was there when her uncle died.

Her only friend.. I was all she had.

And she just ran back to someone who left her? I was all she had once.
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Tonight was Amari's party. I got her another gift that day because I didn't tell her I wasn't going.. But now it didn't matter. She had a friend. Besides I wasn't going through the trouble of sneaking out now having to follow our military's curfew.. I'm not considered one of them but I have to follow their rules?

I thought of all that time I wasted spending with Amari. I almost let her string me along and bring me out of my character. I told Heelix it wouldn't be the best idea to host Amari's party at his house but he ignored me and did it anyway.

If you save someone's life they owe nothing to you.

"Is that how you really feel?" asked Amari.

I was talking in a group with her, Mono, and some other random people.. I just walked up to the group to join and listen. She was telling them about her party. Mono gave me a weird look. I let them be. I walked away.

I thought of the first time we met. I didn't even know her. And SHE had tried to talk to ME.

..It's crazy how things changed between me and Amari.
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"Why are you being so distant with me?" "I didn't think I mattered." She put her head against the lockers to think.. Then she looked over at me and did that thing with her eyes. "Did you know that I loved you Henry? But it was never ok for you to love me." "LoveD?" I sighed then regretted it later when I said this.. "Well it wasn't ok for you to use me to get over your dead uncle." That thing in her eyes disappeared and then she just stared at me and walked away.

That's the only real thing I ever regretted saying.

I had come to her school to see her.

My mind was only on Mono after that. I lost whatever I had with Amari.

[Amari's party]
A few people turned into many. Heelix called me so many times frantically and after a few times I stopped answering. His wife was ok with it. And it wasn't a crazy party.. Even their daughter was enjoying it.

I thought about it so many times.. But I had to find a reason to go.

I was outside on the porch talking to an old retired military man. I said I was visiting someone from the military's retirement home.. It was the only way I was going to get out this late at night. He was telling me one of his stories.

"And so Mark wasn't always a drunk, but he decided to be faithful to his wife once he'd quit the drinking. Mark and I were.. like pals.." It reminded me of me and Cade.. "We shared the same values.. the same views.. During that time the superheroes were starting to become a thing.. I couldn't imagine fighting one until the night I lost Mark.."

He smoked his cigar.

"We've been fighting superheroes for as long as I can remember. Now they want us to work for them!" He laughed then coughed excessively with mucus flying down his lip then beard. But I was trying hard not to listen. I still couldn't decide to go.