Unrequited love

5»Pact

Nicole found us in our room and on my bed when she arrived home. She had entered through the kitchen. The dorm room also had a living room and television. This University was something else.

"Am I... interrupting something?" She asked hesitantly, her hand on the door nob.

"Nope," I said. "We were waiting for you."

"For...me?" She asked confusedly.

Michael nodded.

"Hey Nicole," he said with a wave.

"Hey Mike...long time no see."

She dropped her backpack on her desk and sat down on her bed, facing us.

"What's this all about?" She asked.

"We're here to talk," I began.

"About what?" Nicole asked.

"About Reina."

Nicole flinched like someone had slapped her.

"What are you - "she began, but I cut her off.

"It's okay, Nicole," I assured her. "We won't judge."

She glared at me.

"I know Michael won't, but I'm not sure about you!" She spat, her voice laced with enough anger to set of a nuclear bomb 💣

I lowered my head.

"I'll understand, I promise I will," I said in low voice. "Reina hurt me too."

Nicole's face and voice softened.

"Oh...I'm sorry," she said.

"It's alright," I said. "I want to hear your story, if you'll let me."

"Okay. So, Michael, Michelangelo and I were childhood friends, until Reina came along. At first, she was nice and all that, but then I started noticing how absurd she was. How different she'd act in front of others compared to the monster she'd become around other kids our age. In grade school, I developed a tiny crush on Michelangelo.

"Reina found out. It was horrible. She started saying bad things to me like how ugly and fat I was. I developed an eating disorder and became obsessed with being skinny. She turned my own family against me after worming her way into my personal life. I lost friends and companions, my name was tarnished.

"I became depressed, thinking nobody loved me, but then I found salvation knowing that someone did. That Someone loved me enough to create me, to bring me into the world. Loved me enough to come down to Earth to die on the cross to save me from sin. If I hadn't had God, I doubt I would have survived those dark times.

"I stopped being obsessed with my weight, but I moved away because I had been ostracized from everyone. Even my sister, who was once my best friend, chose her over me. She's obsessed with Mikey, and the douche doesn't even know it. For him it's like he's her knight in shining armour, protecting her from the evil he thinks is us, or more accurately, Michael."

"What the hell is her problem? He doesn't even like her like that!"

Michael looked at me with a sickeningly sweet smile.

Right, it was my turn.

"I met Reina on my first day of school. Unlike you guys, she wasn't open about her dislike for me. She pretended to be my best friend, and me being the naive person I was, I told her everything about me. Michelangelo and I had become confidants at the time. Not really friends; we would just share each other's secrets with one another.

"I wrote them down in my diary, along with the big fat crush I had on him. One time when I told him I had never been kissed, he let himself be my first. I wrote that down in my diary too. I didn't tell Reina though, but somehow she still found out. She found my diary.