Finn

Chapter 4 - Pizza

 Miranda runs her fingers through my hair as we hug. I feel my cheeks blush as tears continue to roll down my face.

"He must've been a great Dad to raise a person as thoughtful and selfless as you," she says as she steps back from me and places her hand on my face. She smiles and everything feels okay again. She wipes away a tear that's about to fall from her own eye and hugs me again placing her head against my chest.

"Thank you Miranda," I say as I feel a little wet spot where her head rests on my chest. She picks up her head again and looks up to me. She steps closer, arms wrapping around me tight. She leans up on her tippy toes and plants a soft kiss on my cheek. Time slows as her lips connect with my wet from tears skin. The warm tingling feeling in my stomach which I've only been heard described as butterflies occurs

"Of course Finn," she gives another smile. A tear quickly falls down her cheek ,but I catch it before it hits her smile. We stand there together for a moment in silence. "Did time seem to like, freeze for a second there?" she giggles and blushes.

"Yeah, it did," I respond and scratch the back of my neck.

"I'm glad, hey I'm gonna go pop in a pizza. Do you like Pepperoni or?" She turns and walks towards the kitchen.

"Whatever is fine," I answer as she turns out of sight. I'm glad. She really just said that. What does that even mean here? And did I slow time and she got affected by it because she also touched part of the rock or possibly did she slow time and I got affected by it. Maybe we both slowed time. That would be the most romantic thing ever if we both slowed down time during a kiss to the cheek. I hear her setting up the oven to cook the pizza and I walk over to the couch after sliding off my shoes. The couch is soft and I feel my eyelids getting heavy again. I reach over for the remote and turn on the TV. The night news is on repeat as I see the time shows nearly 2:30 in the morning. I place the remote beside me and lay my head back. As I start to drift off as I hear Miranda enter the room and looks at me for a second and walks over to me. With my eyes close I don't know if she knows I'm awake.

"Why did I slow time again while kissing you, Finn," she says while brushing the hair out of my eyes and planting another kiss on my cheek. Time slows the instant before I feel contact. It has to be her. There is no way I could've known that kiss was coming to slow time down. I hear her footsteps leaving the room. I open my eyes as I feel my cheeks start to burn again.

"AHHHH," a scream followed by the crashing of a pan comes from the kitchen. Before I know it I'm to my feet running to the kitchen.

"What's wrong, what happened," I say as I see the pan along with the pizza on the ground. I look up and Miranda's right hand is glowing a bright green.

"The oven mitt had a huge hole in it and I touched the pan," she says pointing to the mitt with a massive hole like she stated. I walk over around the pan and reaching for her hand.

"Here let's run the burn under some cold water," I say pulling her hand under the faucet as I twist the cold knob.

"Finn, it never hurt. I just got startled when I saw the pan burning into my skin," she says turning off the water.

"Nothing burns me , not the hot water in my shower, not my hair curler, and not that hot pan. I've also been able to sense lies, and watch this," before her sentence ends part of her shoulder starts to dissipate into thin air. Also parts of her legs along with the pants she has on. Over the next minute she slowly becomes completely invisible.

"Wow, that's incredible, I don't really know where to look ,but since I touched the rock I've gotten a lot of strength and I think some sort of super speed. I also have the ability to slow t-," I start ,but she begins to reappear right in front of me.