Siblings Unite

An Ex-Friend Returns

 Chapter 22: An Ex-Friend Returns

When Eve and the others got home, Eve heard a grunt. Who could it be? It sounded all too familiar to her. She turned to face the person. "You!" she growled, knowing who it was. Her ex had returned!

"Eve, I just wanted to say I'm sorry," Fidget replied.

"For what?" Eve demanded, "For trying to throw my friends out of Ratigan's blimp? For not listening to me whenever I try to stop you from doing something bad? YES, you should be!"

"I'm sorry, okay? I'll admit I've been selfish as Ratigan is and for not listening to you or being nice to you and everyone else. Please, give me another chance. I can change."

Eve wasn't having any of it. "NO!" she retorted, "Fidget, I've given you enough chances, but you continue picking fights and our relationship isn't going to work out because of you and your selfishness! You're still not going to change! What you did was unforgivable and inexcusable! You're not sorry, just when you get caught! If I were truly honest, I moved on from you and reunited with my family. Olivia and her siblings got their father back and London was saved and no thanks to you!"

"What?" Fidget gasped, not believing Eve broke up with him. "You mean you're breaking up with me?"

"Now, I'm going to teach you a lesson as payback for what you've done to my friends. I shouldn't have tried to save you from falling into the Thames River." With that, she brought him over to Ratigan's lair.

"Eve, you're angry, I get it," Fidget told Eve, who was still upset with him, "Believe me, I know what it's like, but you are making a mistake."

"Mistake? Ha!" Eve scoffed with biting sarcasm. "The only mistake I ever made was living with you in this sewer! If I wouldn't have relied on you, none of this would've happened! Even I'm just as guilty for working with Ratigan, but quit!"

Fidget sighed and started to sing:

The path of hate

Is a dangerous track;

You take one step,

And it's hard to turn back.

Fidget shook his head.

It pulls you along,

And though it seems wrong,

It feels right.

Eve glared at him in the most hateful way possible. Was he contradicting what she just told him?

Don't you see this path you're on

Leaves a permanent mark?

It feels good at first,

Then it slowly turns dark.

The male bat knew he was just as guilty for the crimes he committed.

With each passing day,

You're further astray

From the light.

But Fidget wasn't going to stop there.

Suddenly you lose your way and lose the thread;

Lose your cool, then lose your head.

Every loss is harder to excuse.

Although what Fidget did was inexcusable, he wanted to make it up to her and everyone else he wronged. "Says you," Eve snarled.