Chapter Thirteen (Part 2)
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Chapter Thirteen (Part 2)
The dancing headlights from the car that just passed by was enough to illuminate Vanessa's eyes rolling in disagreement.
"Come on! This is just a firecracker! You guys should stop being such an uncle!" Vanessa ignored my words and impulsively opened the lighter and directed the fire the the illegal firecracking doom.
"Vanessa! Stop that..." I heard Blade trying to convince her. I even saw Lumence trying to snatch the thing out of her grasp but Vanessa just wouldn't let it. Gamence remained standing there while staring at me, still unable to cross the road because of a domino-like firecracker in front of me.
"VANESSA!" I screamed in time when she finally light the cursed gigantic firecracker.
She got shocked with my sudden scream and the adrenaline of lighting up that thing that she immediately throw it away without thinking its course.
Without thinking and with pure instinct, I step towards them... incognizantly crossing the road without checking if the coast is clear. My body just automatically moved desperately when I noticed where the firecracker was heading... it was towards Lumence and Gamence's cat Eclipse, who just entered the scene from nowhere.
But it looks like I was not the only one reigned with instinct because before I reached them to the other side of the road, Gamence did something we were prohibited to do--he used his power of telekinesis in a hasty wave of his hand. The firecracker that was supposed to hit his cat ricocheted in the opposite direction... instead of blasting in the cat's face, it rather exploded into an empty metal trash bin nearby. It flew in the air because of the potent force of the explosion but luckily... it did not hit anything.
Vanessa was extremely flabbergasted when I tried to look at her reaction. She just witnessed the forbidden... our secret. She witness one of us uses his skill. Vanessa remained dumbfounded and the three guys also remained quiet.
Meanwhile, I did not noticed that I also stoped on my tracks. I forgot to completely cross the road because of what happened, I remained standing in the middle of it. I did not not became aware that a roaring motorcycle was fast approaching me.
"AZUL!" It was Lumence's voice that brought me to sanity again and there I noticed that headlights on my left but it was two late. The next thing I knew, my body has already flown away because of the heavy impact from being hit by the vehicle that did not even stop and just continuously drive pass us, leaving me behind... soaking in my own blood while lying on the cold concrete. An inexplicable and excruciating pain enveloped my whole body driving me to immobility.
My ears could barely hear the distressed voice coming from my friends. I think the other people did not noticed the accident because the only faces that I saw around me were Blade, Lumence, Gamence and Vanessa with an expression that resembles a person that will have a heart attack any moment.
I endured a few minutes of agonizing pain all over my body before I felt it gradually subsided. I realized that my skill was probably doing its job to regenerate and heal my teared tissues and dislocated bones. I can feel the cut on my forehead slowly closing, like holed fabric being sewed with exquisite stitches. The bones on my arms are cracking while being involuntarily fixed. I arched my back when I felt my broken femur being fixed again.
After a few minutes I was able to stand again, I was assisted by Blade but I actually feel fine... like nothing perilous happened to me earlier.
Vanessa's horrified look was the first thing I saw the moment I successfully stood up again. Her mouth was gaping and the shaking of her legs are very visible. Fear is blatantly flowing out of her.
"Vanessa..." Blade to coaxed her to stay calm but she step backwards, still shaking. Her eyes drifted from me who just magically healed in front of her and then to Gamence who just used his Telekinesis to save his cat from beinh fried and then to Lumence and Blade who remained quiet.
"W-What is just happened?" Her lips quiver in so much fear and shock.
I tried to attend to her and do something that will calm her but she stepped backwards again, disliking the idea of me being near her.
"Y-You... How... How did y-you guys do that?" Her eyes lingered on my self-healed body.
Blade tried to approach her.
"Vanessa, just calm down--"
"D-Did you see what happened! Gamence and Ryz... they. They did something bizarre! Their freaks!" She screamed in raw horror and somehow... resentment. She called us what? Freaks? She called her friend freaks?
"Hey don't call them that way! You did not even saw half of what we can do!" Lumence cannot help but to interject.
Blade pushed him away.
"Why did you say that! You're not helping!"
And Blade was right because Vanessa's eyes started to water indicating that she was about to cry.
"W-What do you mean, Luis? A-All of you... a-all of you are freaks?" She uttered each word while sobbing.
"I told you we're not freaks--!"
"Lumence that's enough!" I barked at him before facing Vanessa and tried to reach out to her.
"Vanessa listen--"
"No! Don't touch me!" She slapped away my hands. I was appalled by her violent reaction. Nobody has... done that to me before. But now, my friend... she just did it so easily like I am very disgusting disease in her eyes.
"Vanessa..." Gamence's low growl was drowned when Vanessa screamed again.
"NO! YOU TOO, GARRICK! YOU'RE A FREAK TOO, RIGHT? Y-YOU! ALL OF YOU LIED T-TO ME? YOU HAVE HIDDEN T-THIS FROM ME?"
"It's not like that--" Blade was cut off too by Vanessa's outburst.
"Shut up! I don't make friends with freaks and liars! I don't wanna see you again!"
And then she ran away from us... from me. The only female friend that I had immediately ran away from me the moment she saw a glimpse of my little secret... she was horrified to to witness a tiny fragment of the monster within us.
And that's when I realized that living in this world where normality depends on the majority's rule will not be easy. No, not for someone like us.
"Arylle... hey, wake up."
"Hmm..." I rubbed my eyes when I heard my seat mate shaking me a little.
"The class is starting." She whispered shyly.
Oh, I did not even noticed that I already fell asleep. Our class adviser Mr. Mercado is already entering inside the classroom. I tried to fixed my messed up self he could notice my 'just-woke-up' look. Having another teacher to preach me today is the last thing I want.
-C. N. Haven-
- Writer
