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▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">I’m not sure about that either. Maybe I saw it coming. Maybe I didn’t want to be the one taking the risks. Because it got messy from then on. You see, and let me finish, neither of us was good at talking to people. Unlike you. And so, when Karuna came up to me, well… she just wasn’t ready. Let me explain. The day after, she came home with a bouquet for me. Lillies, if I recall. She gave me a bouquet of lilies in front of the entire dining table, Mom included.</span>
Emma waits. Her half-sister just shrugs again.
<span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">Bitch had brass balls.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">No, no, that’s not the point. Look… she was even wearing a tuxedo. She looked like a guy.</span>
<span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">I don’t see the problem.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">OK, how about this: the day after, she brought mariachis to play under my window. At midnight. And she was singing. And everybody woke up but she kept it going. Karuna just waved at Mom when Mom looked out the window.</span>
Angel opens her mouth, raises her finger- but the words get stuck in her mouth.
<span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">Fuck.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">Fuck! Yes, exactly, you get the idea. For example, she started reciting love poems to me all the time, and it was cute at first, but she just kept doing it. Hand-holding was nice at first, but she wouldn’t let go even during dinner. Then, she got pushy if I didn’t pick up her calls or answer her messages right away, saying stuff like ‘please answer already’. And then she got jealous of Marcela for being pretty and ‘ladylike’. And she bought me so much stuff all the time… this one time she got me a PS5 so we could play together on the Internet. I didn’t even ask for it. And when we did, she’d just kill everything on the screen before I could do anything, and then she’d tell me stuff like ‘see how i killed everyone? Nice, huh?’. And stuff like that.</span>
<span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">Jesus.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">So… yeah. It was a mess. Camila caught on and got mad and said very mean things to me because she thought I was forcing Karuna to like me. Now that I think about it… I kinda was, in a way. I didn’t want to think back then. I just... wanted to believe that everything was going to work out. That neither of us would have to feel so lonely anymore.</span>
