A second chance

Give & take

The walk back was shorter than I thought, before no time I was back. On my way here I kept thinking I couldn't wait to come back home, but now that I'm finally back I realize I can't stay, this is no longer my home, this now is just some place that we lived in, we never even owned this. As the dickhead landlord loved to remind Chase as he he kept coming up with excuses on why we were late with the rent, Kay always tried to keep the peace after the landlord would leave, sometimes she would go as far as to take his excuses... "Mom, dad is trying to win his money back, once he does, and he will, then we'll show him dad is no liar, right dad?"

I just watch them, he once tried to convince mom to let me go with him and his friends to who knows where. Mom wanted nothing to do with that

"Take her where? With whom? For what? Don't try to mix her in any of your games, you keep getting yourself in those messes, well get yourself out of them too, leave us out of it!"

Chase could never convince her, no matter how hard he tried, and he DID try, if only he had tried THAT hard to protect us instead of using us

I shake my head as I think that. He could have never protected us he is weak, also we should have never relied on somebody to protect us, specially him.

The halls of the building are deserted, can't hear anybody snooping around either maybe I'm in luck today, I just gotta pack a small bag and get the f**k out of here, the longer I stay, the more painful I feel it'll be. I stop at the door, it's still busted, probably from that day. I remember it like it was yesterday.......

I'll probably always remember that day.

But that's not what stops me from opening the door

Somebody is in there; I don't know how I know but I can feel it.

"You sure like taking your time, huh?"

-Oh s**t! - I jump as the voice in my head scared the s**t out of me, but then it kinda makes me happy, guess I got somebody to talk to now.

But then as I open the door, I feel slightly disappointed

-Well, I think it's pretty insulting that you would really think a voice in your head would be more interesting than me- says a voice in the shadows of the apartment- Now I know you're not afraid of me, which is good, makes our introduction that much quicker.

-Shouldn't YOU be concerned about being afraid? - I ask the shadow, he doesn't need the light to know the smirk plastered on my face

.

-Perhaps- he says, and I also can tell he's got a smirk too, well hell I guess we got some jokesters between us- let's start over huh, I'm Osmar

He moves away from the wall he was leaning on, as he comes closer to me, I can take a better look at him

-God damn that's one nasty scar- I say getting much closer to inspect his face, his grey eyes get slightly darker, a mixture of pain and anger crossing him. I take a step back, not because I got afraid of him but more because he didn't even try to hide his eyes.

-Why are you not walking away-

-Why should I?- he says with not even a hint of shame. I come closer to inspect the nasty scar, but then a nasty thought of mine crosses my mind

-I'm not sleeping with you

My comment doesn't surprise him at all

-I sense you before you even realized what was changing in you, bit of a luck actually that I was walking by when the fire started-

-So you didn't know we were there until then? - I say, the pain in my voice so clear

-No, I would apologize for not being there buuuuut can't chance the past- he says shrugging his shoulder

I laugh at his reply

-Feels good to get rid of the burden of thinking you need to come up with some sobbing lie, huh? - I say to him- not that I care, I may have cared in the past what other people could think, but recent events well they kinda left on the f**k IT train. So since I don't really got enough voices in my head, guess I can make room for one more

-I'm glad you think that too- he says and then lifts his hand to point at his face- well get it over with then

I smile and put my hands on his left cheek near where his scar begins on the cheekbone and finishes in between his eyebrow and where his nose begins, though it goes over the lid of his left eye it doesn't seem so have made it to his eye. Could have been worse.

He laughs at my thought, he's about to say something and then he stops

-Well, this is really gonna suck if you can know what I'm thinking but I ca-

-Why would I open like that it's not like you know me or-

-Ok, ok, first of all do not interrupt me again- I see he is about to say something, I lift my hands as a sign of "yeah yeah I know I interrupted you too"- get over it, you did it first, I won't interrupt if you don't, deal?- we shake hands and he moves his hand for me to continue- No, I don't, and I would like to think I still got some mystery left to say that you don't know me either. But since you don't need my permission to meddle in my head it's only fair that you open up just like that- he looks a bit taken back, he doesn't say anything so I continue- if you don't want to that's fine but then beat it

He smirks and stays quiet, nobody says anything for a few minutes, I don't think he's waiting for me to say anything else cause I know I don't, I also know I won't change my mind to which I also know that he sees what a waste of his efforts it would be to even attempt to, I still wonder why he is here in the first place, however if I can't get all the answers that I want then I don't need to knos his either. Suddenly my train of thought gets interrupted by a small laguh.

-Yeah, I guess what you are thinking is only fair, and you are right I came to find you not the other way around, and yes I already had the feeling of how nosy you would be, and yet here I am

-And yet here you are, why ARE you here?

-It's quite simple actually, you already know I can read your mind, MINDS for that matter, however just like in the past you were only able to create and manipulate ice and now you can create fire, yet not fully manipulate it I can start to mess with the brain yet not fully manipulate it either. I didn't even know I could mess with it until not that long ago.

-So, you're saying you were able to start reading minds not that long ago?

-Yup, it started with what seemed like tiny voices in my head, for a minute I got scared thinking that I was going crazy, now even if that was the case it doesn't seem as scary anymore, before the voices started I was able to move things

-What kind of things?

-Anything you can think of, though unlike you nobody really knew about it, well almost anybody

-I don't wanna talk about who knew about me

-Good, I don't wanna talk about mine either, so I'll make you a deal, we'll make a deal about off limit topics, I promise I won't pry

I'm about to protest, he can just read my mind whenever he wants too but then he moves his backpack and pulls out a headband

-I also had somebody that created something for me just like that cuff still in your wrist, and it works just like that for me, well I modified it so instead of blocking me from moving anything it will block me from you, so if you feel like I'm prying then put it on

-How do I know if it really works?

-I'm gonna turn my back and you're gonna start thinking of any number/numbers you want, the moment I stop saying them out loud means I can't read you anymore. Deal?

I stare at him for a minute, I could think that I shouldn't trust anybody anymore, but "meh" can't think that I'll be stupid enough to get fooled that easily.

-Deal