Devil's Cat

07. The School's New Vixen

Chapter 07: The School's New Vixen

     Dusky gray light soared into the vast evening sky. Painting a perfect picture of twilight. At the side of the road, over the long white drive that swept through manicured lawns, stood a massive house. Red bricks, black double doors with golden doorknobs, built at the top of a massive stone staircase.

I sighed. Looking at the imposing edifice of a house that stood in front of me. Chase's mansion. Home to the of my latest nightmare; Angela Chase.

The evening wind whipped out its cold embrace, sending my long blonde hair billowing in wavy mess. My walk from school to here was a silent one. I was collecting my disarray thoughts and preparing an apology towards Angela.

My mood since the cafeteria incident had not been improved and worse, soured since Ethan delivered his ultimatum of not going to the Valentine's ball. I just wanted everything to be fine. I wanted to help Dave and I also didn't want to hurt both Angela and Ethan.

I guessed all of it had went to the drain of defeat and despair. I couldn't help Dave and I became the school's biggest enemy for hurting their queen. I kicked off some tiny pebbles off the road. Feeling frustrated and completely helpless, I didn't know what I should say to Angela Chase when I meet her and I didn't know if she even wanted to talk me.

Part of me told me just to run away and go home. That this all was pointless. But another part of me argued that I should try to give myself a chance to explain to Angela. I like to listen to the latter part of me and here I was, ringing the doorbell to the home of Chase mansion.

Is it too late to start running now?

I waited for several minutes for the door to open and before I could humour myself to entertain the idea of scrambling out from here again. The door opened and Angela Chase peered out slowly.

"Yes?" She asked gloomily.

"Urmm, I just want to apologise...about Ethan and the Valentine's Ball. " I said meekly and stood in silence as Angela weighted in my words.

Her passive face clearly showed that she didn't want me here apologising.

"Okay..." She said. "I'm sorry about what my friends did to you." Angela responded. "That was mean of them."

I tried to smile pacifyingly. "Well it's alright... Lunch shower, the new trend in keeping up your eternal reputation in high school." My attempt in joking went sombre as Angela didn't even crack a tiny smile.

Silence stretched uncomfortably between us and I realised both of us were waiting for others to speak. I adjusted my glasses briskly, trying to smile more but it was just felt weird on my face.

"I hope that you'll accept my apology, Angela." I said. "Truly, I don't mean it to happen this way. I just forgot about my promise to you."

"Hrmph, so you and Ethan will attend the ball after all?" She looked at me. It did not sound like a question, but more like a statement.

Ah, the blasted Valentine ball. I wished to delete the social event off from existence. It brought nothing but misery to me. If it was not for Dave, I would not bother at all about it. The image of a sad tabby cat flitted in my mind.

"Well, Ethan will not be going. He doesn't want to anymore." I said.

"Oh, I see." Angela muttered, seemingly came to conclusion that I was too, would not be going as well.

More flashes of images of Dave, my sad feline of Cupid.

"I do accept your apology, Janice. I don't hold grudge." Angela said. "But, I have one question to ask to you."