The Angel Records. Remember the rainbow.

Chapter 18. For whoever needs to hear this...

//tw: self-harm//

I had two days left before my deal with the Lordship was done, and Cobra's tricks were only making things harder. Despite anxiety being a human emotion, I could still feel it creeping in from time to time, trying to make me believe I was failing Em, and how unworthy of the Guardian Angel position I was. Whatever those thoughts were, I had to ignore them. Emersyn needed guidance, and not just from me, from her loved ones too. The fact that she hadn't seen Jason in days was slowly killing her inside. She never realized how much she actually needed him to be a part of her life until that moment. How empty her days felt without their conversations or even his unexpected appearances at the school. Thanks to Cobra, I could sense depression was now her closest friend during school hours, along with anxiety. Luckily for her, Willow suggested giving her a gut feeling to go find her actual friends, as they would be able to cheer her up.

As she walked down the halls of Whitewater High, destined to find her two best friends, she spotted one of them running out of one of the classrooms with tears streaming down her pale face, while the rest of the students wouldn't stop staring and whispering. It was Rozella! Em's thoughts stopped, since now her focus was on finding out what had happened to her. She jumped in front of the weeping girl and tried to hug her, but she was doing everything in her power to ignore the red head at all costs.

"Roz, What's wrong? Can I help?"

"OH, REALLY? I THINK YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH, HOWELL!" snapped the blonde teenager, making Emersyn's eyes water a little. Screaming at her usually made her react like that.

"What? What did I do?"

"DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH ME! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! IT WAS MY SECRET, EMERSYN! HOW COULD YOU?!"

"But I...I didn't..."

"DON'T TRY TO DENY IT! YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNEW ABOUT IT!! AND NOW LOOK!" yelled the new student while pointing at her locker, which had the word MURDERER painted on it. "THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS AFRAID OF!!"

Emersyn covered her mouth in shock, as she hadn't seen Rozella's locker until that moment. The 8-letter word was painted across the girl's locker as if they were just trying to see her break. They didn't care about her father, his crimes or making her feel like a part of it; whoever did that wanted to see her explode. And I was sure whoever it was, they knew about Em being the only one who knew Rozella's secret.

"Yeah. Not only do they think that my father is going to kill everyone here, but they also think that I'm capable of doing the same thing! AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!"

People kept on staring and whispering, some were now recording the entire argument between the two friends. Everyone seemed to be hooked on the verbal quarrel. However, I had my eye on something else. I noticed Cobra coming out of the classroom Roz ran out from, which was the computer room.

"Oh boy... I know what Cobra did."

"WHAT? THIS IS COBRA'S DOING?" exclaimed Willow.

"...You really didn't get that?" The sheep looked at me more shocked than ever as I continued my theory, "Anyway, here's what happened. There was someone in the computer room capable of doing bad things to people without feeling any remorse afterwards... a human being, not Cobra. But I'm guessing she was there with this person, ready to influence them. And just like we saw a few months ago, she gave this person a sign, a bad one, no doubt.... Guess what article appeared on the mean human's computer?"

I wanted Willow to guess, but I swear sheep are the slowest beings in the universe!

"...FINE! It was the article of Rozella's father being released from prison."