I woke the next day, I guess I could go to school today.
I worked out more than usual, which just meant I spent more time doing random stuff.
After bathing and dressing, I carried my bigger bag since today was another day at the ring.
I head down the stairs whistling a tune, today was going to be a great day.
The second I got down the stairs though, I paused, staring in shock, Everyone was already up before me, Everyone..... even Theo.
"What's going....." I didn't even get to finish my sentence before Dahlia spoke.
"You're finally awake, take this." She grabbed a lunch bag and shoved it into my hands. "One's for you and the other's for Alex, now hurry along, I'll tell her you'll be at her house soon".
I took a while for my mind to get up to pace, 'Don't I atleast get breakfast?' I thought as I left the house, I pushed open the door to a chilly morning with light snow.
I definitely wasn't dressed for snow...., I looked down at my simple shirt and trousers, then slung the lunch pack on my side 'This was going to be uncomfortable', but having powers that had a relation to life meant that your life was not easily threatened by natural causes.
'I fear no snow' I thought to myself jogging down the road, the outside was busy as always, but the atmosphere was a dull blue.
People of different colours and physiques littered the streets, moving on to their various jobs.
The whole world was just one giant blob of land, there were many lakes, ponds and great oceans, but every region was connected to another by land.
The whole world was together as one, and was ruled by the Great Congress, A combination of different heads from every region all preaching equality and stability.
But that wasn't to say that everyone was treated equally and peace reigned, but levels of discrimination and corruption was different amongst regions.
Some places were very bad..., I'm lucky just being born here.
But that wasn't my concern, everyone in my life was safe and that was good enough for me.
I started jogging, it made everything pass faster, not long later my pace slowed.
I was at where it happened, the blood was long gone, and no one found the body but.....
I killed a man.
It made sense to me, they tried to hurt me, they had a knife, they should have been ready to put their lives on the line..., but regardless I was a... murderer.
I turned away from the scene, continuing my jog, her house was just down the street.
I was about to call her but then I realised my phone was gone, I really needed to get a replacement.
Now that I think of it when exactly did Dahlia and Alex exchange contacts?, how long did she stay over yesterday.
I walked up the stairs leading to the door, the iron railings were cold to touch.
I knocked and stood waiting, running my hands on the cold railings, then checked the lunch bag at my side, nothing was spilled.
The door opened, and I was greeted by Alex, dressed in a puffy turtleneck dress and a coat.
The dress stopped at her knees, but she wore long stockings or leggings, I didn't really know the difference. Her dress was bright red and the coat a woody brown.
Her black boots were hard, they made knocking sounds on the wooden stairs.
"What are you wearing?" She asked, sounding sincerely confused. I smiled as I heard the question.
"It's like negative a hundred degrees out here" She rubbed her palms together as though to emphasise her point.
"Oh really, I didn't notice" I said shrugging "Must be a perk of being superhuman" I continued. She already knew about my powers so I was free to talk about them now.
"You must be feeling better then?, Dahlia went to call you for dinner yesterday but you were fast asleep." She said as we started to walk.
"I thought you wouldn't come to school today too until Dahlia told me you would be here soon....".
"you stayed until dinner?", I cut her off as her words finally sunk in.
"Yh, it was soo fun, we played games even after dinner, your elder brother and dad joined us too later on, we all had fun".
"we switched games soooo many times....". Her voice continued on and on listing out all the adventures from JUST YESTERDAY!!.
"Eventually it was late and so I had to go back home, but Dahlia and I took a long stroll and she dropped me off at my house...".
'This... this was definitely mind control.', I thought in silence.
I stopped walking immediately, making Alex turn to face me.
"You know what her power is.... right?" I had to make her realise she was under a spell.
"Yh...., you think I'm being manipulated?"She asked, I only gave her a long stare in response.
"I'm not under any form of manipulation Vicas, your sister is just a really cool person." Her tone was sharper now, she turned away and continued to walk.
"You don't like her don't you?", She asked after I caught up to her side.
"She just rubs me wrongly is all" I shrugged.
"So you don't like her then?" Her voice was getting annoyed. "what makes you think that, I just wanted you to be aware just incase" I replied, things were going in a direction I didn't like.
"Also my mum got us some lunch, well to me it's lunch/breakfast, but the wording doesn't matter, it's the food that's important" I said while shaking the lunch bag at my side a little bit.
Alex smiled, I couldn't tell exactly what it was for, but atleast she didn't seem to push the matter about Dahlia anymore.
The atmosphere was awkward now, and it only got worse as we both reached the scene again.
I could not guess what she was thinking, how she felt seeing this place again, we never acknowledged between ourselves that a man was dead, but she must have seen it, on the paleness of his skin, his stillness...., Must have heard his screams. And now that she knew about my powers it wasn't hard to put everything together.
"I was scared..." She said as though hearing my thoughts.
"I couldn't understand why you fought back..., and I still don't " I listened quietly as she continued.
"Then you got knocked out.... and you.... you got stabbed..., I thought you were dead... and the screams, it was a nightmare."
"I'm sorry", I grabbed her hand and turned to face her, "Never again would anything like this happen, I am not a killer..., I won't let you suffer anything like this again".
Starng at her like this I noticed the snowflakes on her hair, the white touch on her black hair was.... beautiful.
Her hands were cool to touch, it made me realise my own abnormal warmth.
She smiled at me, a wordless smile, one that didn't fully reach her eyes.
It hurt my heart but nevertheless the rest of the walk picked up from there.
The sound of Idle chatter followed everywhere we went and soon we were at the school.
We walked into school and as usual, Alex sat at her regular seat.
But I sat right next to her.
"Is this seat taken?" I knew full well it was, but no one had any official seats, especially since the seats had no lockers.
But everyone still sat on the same spot everytime.
I saw the original "owner" of the seat, he smiled at Alex, as though expecting her to throw me out.
She just smiled back at him, making him find another free seat to stay.
Today I didn't fall asleep throughout classes, I took notes (Only when I noticed Alex taking notes), and class moved swiftly.
...
Soon enough it was lunch break, Alex and I sat at a table by ourselves, the lunch bag between us.
"I can't believe your mum actually made it" Alex stated, her voice dripping pure joy.
"Why don't you normally bring lunch to school?" She asked as I unpacked the bag.
I thought hard on the question now, 'I just didn't really feel like it anymore, I and Theola always had lunch together like this.....'.
"It's nothing" I said with a smile.
I finished unpacking the back, today's lunch was plain, and by plain I meant with no unnatural elements.
There was fried rice, salad and chicken sauce all arranged into separate portions for both of us.
Alex took in a deep breath as though savoring the scent as a meal on it's own, I couldn't fault her for that, the scent made my mouth water.
We dug in.
"Your mum needs to open a restaurant, it's a crime to keep such good food a secret" Alex mumbled with a mouthful, I turned away trying to hold in my laughter.
"What's wrong?"Alex asked, still munching on food.
'A restaurant would be amazing if it made people as happy as this', I thought to myself.
"Oh nothing, I just imagined I'll be the one running the restaurant as everyone else would be too busy" I watched Alex's expression closely, the way her eyes dilated briefly and how she stopped chewing.
"Good luck to you then, Chef Blanc" She said calling me by my last name.
"Oh Yes, and I believe I'd be seeing you often at my restaurant Miss Hart?".
"Sure sure" She says "and if your food does lead me to your mum's hospital I would get her to cook me something amazing to compensate me".
I put my free hand to my chest, an exaggerated shocked expression on my face.
We were done eating soon after, and we stayed there talking till lunch was over and it was time to go back to class.
.. ...
We walked into class and Immediately i spotted the guy from earlier, the one whose seat I took.
He was sitting on his seat now, about 10 minutes before class.
"Hey, wanna seat somewhere new today?" I whispered into Alex's ear, she looked at her seat and back at me, she must have seen the problem.
Alex nodded, and I took her hand, leading us to a seat at the far left of the class, away from her usual middle area.
The guy watched us go, poorly hiding his annoyance.
I gave him a friendly wink just for fun.