Land of The Gods

Life was always slow for me, slow to learn as a baby and hit my milestones. Slow to get my period and go through puberty like everyone else my age. Even down to being slow showing powers apparently. Yes you read that right, powers. I am apparently some magically being with super powers. I always used to read comics and pretend to be a super hero, so much that I started cosplaying as some of my favorite ones. I even have a few different Original characters in a few of my favorite fandoms. I'm a dork as some of my friends have put it before. I always take that as a good thing though and they say it with love. Considering they also cosplay and have their own original characters. While life was slow, it was also very hard for me, not being able to read correctly or being able to sit still. Never being able to focus on anything important. I always needed to be on the go doing something. My mom had to homeschool me most of my elementary years. She hated it because she wasn't able to work when I was at school. Instead she brought me to the cemetery to work with her. She was a graveyard caretaker, making sure the grounds were clean and well maintained. She loved her job since it was the graveyard shift. Most of the time I fell asleep in the office on a cot she had brought with her. Those used to be some of my favorite nights and even after I started regular school I would still go with her. It wasn't like she had anyone to watch me considering my grandparents kicked her out when they found out she was pregnant and not married. My Omi was one of the only ones who still loved and helped my mother. She was just really old and passed away a few years ago. We could never really stay with her or have her watch me till I got older. By then I was basically taking care of myself and my mom would leave me at home. Life was rough but we managed. When I went away to college everything was supposed to be good. I had a good roommate and everything, nothing was supposed to happen. I wasnt supposed to be in class one day and randomly show up in my dorm room scaring my roommate half to death. Although she didn't seem to fazed by it once she realized it was just me. I dont know how to explain it, she saw it was me and just shrugged. Maybe she just imagined that i had been there the whole time or something. I just stared at her hoping she wouldn't ask and then she actually spoke. "Aren't you supposed to be in class? why are you only now getting out of bed?" She asked but left before I could respond she walked out the door. I just blinked at the door unable to fathom how she just thought i had been in bed the whole time. Looking around my dorm room I tried to take a few deep breaths. My half of the room was a bit darker since I didn't have as many lamps as my roommate did. Her side was a bit to pink but she once told me she hated the color. She only just found love in it again. Which I heard is normal for some woman but I never liked pink to begin with. I needed to talk to someone, anyone. I went to reach for my phone only to realize it was on the table in my classroom. I smacked my forhead and sighed, I would have to sneak back into my classroom somehow. I leaned back against the wall in my room but instead of a wall it was the back of a chair now. I ended up falling back onto the floor in my chair and the entire class stared at me. I chuckled and tried to just play it off but the person next to me had this look. They didn't say anything the entire rest of class but once it was over. "Hey. Did you like teleport or something? One second you were there and the next you weren't. And then you were again." They asked me. I say they because as far as I know they are nonbinary. At least that's what they have said in previous conversations. "I have no idea what you are talking about." I said shaking my head and trying to continue to pack up my bag. "Okay well don't let the monsters get you." And they left. Wait the what. Before I could even realize what they had said they were gone. Like they had just poofed away into nothing but shadows themselves. This school was way to weird. I finished packing up my bag and quickly left to my car. It was over by the dorm which wasn't very far from my class. Once I was in the car I pulled out my phone to call my boyfriend. Only he didn't respond and it went straight to voicemail. I sighed and just threw my phone in the passenger seat. I needed to think. I needed to get away from campus in that moment. So I put my car into drive and left campus. There was a spot where me and my friend Bran used to go when I was in highschool. I was eighteen and he was twenty eight, two years ago almost. The last time I saw him he said he had to go back home to where his father was. I havnt seen or heard from him since, but he does have a cool buisness. At least from what I see on social media. My boyfriend doesnt like me talking to other male friends. The park came into view within a few seconds and I quickly parked before I turned the car off. Then grabbed my phone and ran to the wooded area of the park. I couldn't believe this was happeneing to me. There were a few people in the park but the wooded area people believed to be cursed. It was so silly to think about. There was the perfect little creek with a meadow of grass and purple flowers. They were periwinkles im sure of, but the way they grew was something of magic. This whole little cut away was just magically and not many people knew about it. There was almost this force field once you stepped into the meadow. I fell onto the ground and just laid umong the flowers. Me and Bran used to come here all the time, he was the first person to bring me here. I had no idea it was even her to begin with. He said the water had a magical healing property, but i think he was just making stuff up. There was no way magic was real right? Yet I had just magically appeared in my dorm room and then back in class. Bran didn't talk much he liked to listen to me talk. We dated for a little while but when he had to go home we broke it off. And then I got with Hunter, who has been more or less not the best guy ever. My phone rang and the caller id on it was my mom. I picked up and she quickly responded. "Hey are you okay?? Your roommate texted me saying you missed class?" "No mom. I didn't miss class. Its a little more complicated than that." "Can you explain over the phone or do you need to come over?" She asked full of concern. I loved my mother. "I probably should come over mom. I dont think this is something we should talk about over the phone." "Okay sweetheart. I'll be home from work in ten minutes you can meet me at the house." She had gotten a day time job once I was old enough to watch myself. This way she wasn't super tired during the day from her overnight job. She once told me she missed the graveyard cuz thats where she met my father. At least thats the story she used to tell me. I almost didn't want to leave the meadow but mom hung up and there was nobody else I could talk to. So I got myself up, dusted my pants off and left the meadow. When I got outside the circle I looked behind me and it was almost as if the meadow was just gone. I always knew where it was and could tell it was there. Yet for some reason you just couldn't see it. It only looked like patches of forest and nothing more. It was so strange but maybe just maybe magic was real. A snap of a twig pulled me from my thoughts and I looked around quickly. All my instincts told me to run but for some reason I just stood there. There wasn't anymore noise so I just left without even thinking anything more about it.