Fire

“BLAZE!” Dave shouts. Great, Dave is awake, and like always, he is ready to deliver my early morning beatdown for any ridiculous reason that crosses his mind, but today is not the day to beat me up, I have millions of things that need to get done by 5:00 PM, I have to finish the laundry, then I have to go clean the whole first floor, then the second floor, I have to make sure the front and back yard are clean, then I have to go grocery shopping for ingredients to prepare dinner, I woke up really early, and I am washing the last set of clothing, so it dries as I do everything else. “BLAZE!” Dave shouts again. But if Dave beats me up, I will have to use my ability to heal, otherwise, everything will be delayed **SIGH** I will have to induce him to pain, because even with my ability to heal it will take too long, if I do that…I would be exposing my power to them, and if they believe that I killed our parents by mistake, by exposing my power, I would give them the reason and they would never believe that I had nothing to do with their deaths. “BLAZE!” Dave shouts for a third time. I place the clothing in the washing machine, add the soap, and I start the machine, Dave is the kind of man that listens to no one, so not even Michael will talk him out of beating me senseless, so I’ll have to do my best to quickly heal, I close the lid of the washing machine and head to the kitchen. “BLA…” “I heard you the first three times, Dave, what is it?” I ask as I enter to the kitchen. “My breakfast, where is it?” he asks. “Michael told you…” “I AM NOT ASKING YOU WHAT MICHAEL SAID; I AM ASKING FOR MY BREAKFAST!” Dave snaps at me. “I have a lot of things to do…” “AND I DO NOT CARE, MY BREAKFAST IS YOUR PRIORITY!” he snaps at me again. “Not really, you have a mate, a mate that has two hands, two legs, and I am pretty sure she has a brain, and aside of doing nothing all day, she can get a little early, and cook breakfast for you” I snap back at him. Dave takes a step forward “YOU LITTLE…” “STOP!” Michael shouts as he enters the kitchen. “SHE…” “Today is a big day for me, Christine is coming over with her family, so everything has to be perfect, and that includes not beating Blaze, even though the whole tribe hates Blaze, not everybody agrees with the way we treat her, that includes Christine and her parents, they believe that if we treat her like that, I will do the same Christine, so even if it is for one night, Blaze will not have a single scratch on her body” Michael says. “And who is going to cook breakfast for me and Carly?” Dave asks. “You can cook for yourselves or go out for breakfast” Michael answers. “YOU!” Dave shouts as he points at me. “This will not stay like this, I will make you pay for calling Carly useless and for not having my breakfast ready, because if for a second you think that Michael is the one that calls the shots here, you are wrong, I work, I pay bills, so as much as you obey Michael, you have to obey me as well, and I will force you to understand it, even if I have to beat you to achieve it” Dave says as he walks towards the exit of the kitchen. “Get on with your chores and please try to not get beat up” Michael says. “Yes, Michael” I say as he walks out of the kitchen. Saved by Michael, but Dave will get to beat me up, I need to get some pain out of me or I could lose control and hurt someone, this someone been Dave and anyone around me, Mr. Jack says that every single time I go through pain, I accumulate it, and accumulating too much could result on me releasing it involuntary, but if I meditate, I could use my pain to heal myself and spread the pain through all my body. I need to find the time to meditate before Dave beats me up, but when? I have to chores do and meditation could take up to 2 hours, only heavens know at what time exactly do Christine and her family leave, and after that I must clean…TOO MUCH IN MY HEAD! **SIGH** Things would be so different, if they were alive, they would tell them I did not do the crimes I am been accused of, that I do not deserve to be punished for it, but they are dead, and despite all my efforts to clean my name I have never been able to prove that things did not went down as everybody believes, that I had nothing to do with the death of my parents. I was 5 years old; Michael was 9, Dave was 7. It was a normal day, Michael and Dave were playing in the living room, Mom and I were playing hide and seek, I asked Dad to play with us, he said that he would help Mom find me, she started to count, I hid in the usual place, and I waited, but Mom, Dad, they were taking too long to find me, so I left my hiding spot, there were bodies all over the floor, most of them were pointing to the kitchen, when I got there, Mom and Dad were there, together, they were hugging, most of the bodies around them were burned, which meant that Mom had gone Super Nova. My brothers, they knew this, I remember the stories Dad used to tell us, of how one day, they would be gone, and it was up to us to take care of each other. When I finally got reunited with my brothers, they had eyes full of hate, they stopped been the loving and caring brothers that I once knew, instead they were calling me a murderer, they were saying that I killed our parents, and they would never forgive me for doing so. Since that moment forward, they would hit me, call me names, and as we grew the abuse got worst, well, at least Dave got worst, Michael doesn’t interact with me, and he only beats me up, if he is really mad at me. Word spread quickly in the tribe, people fear me, because they do not understand what happened and how I killed them, so they do not interact with me at all. Only Mr. Jack, the Alpha interacts with me, he seems to understand my power, and he helps me to keep my power at bay and hidden, because he says that if the world knew about my power, I would place everybody at a great danger, including myself. He knows the truth; he knows I had nothing to do with their death, he knows the awful treatment my brothers and the tribe put me through, and yet he refuses to tell anyone what happened that day, the reason really eludes me, which makes him a horrible Alpha, but so far, he is the only person I can trust.