New Age

Chapter 7-Aftermath

After the door had come crashing to the floor I looked up at who I saw and was mortified. It was Scarlet and she was as mortified as I was. "Z-Zena? Is that...No wait are you-" I could hear her try desperately to form a sentence but she couldn't, and neither could I. I stared at Scarlet and she stared right back. We were there for 1 or 2 minutes, trying to form a sentence to break the silence when I finally said something. I sighed and said in a sad tone of voice "Alright. You can go and pack your crap, no need in staying here with me." She stared at me a bit confused "N-no that's not it, it's just why would you-" I cut her off before she could finish "Why would I lie about something this important? Why would I lie to someone I just met about who I actually am so I could at least try to make a relationship that sticks?" I was about to continue but Scarlet cut me off this time. "No, It's just, why would you lie in general about this? I mean with something this big it's almost impossible to keep a secret like this." I was just pissed so I just straight up yelled at her "It's because I didn't want to hurt you!" We both just stood there in stunned silence, for who knows how long. "It's because I wanted something impossible for me to get: a friend." I was on the verge of tears again and Scarlet just looked like she was hurt. She looked down at the ground I was starting to regret what I told her. I heard her sniff and looked back up at her. She was crying. She walked up to me and just hugged me. We both fell to the ground and let it all out.

I wiped the tears off my face and smiled at Scarlet. "Thanks, I...I really need that...'' She just simply smiled and said "people always need a good cry every now and again. Here let's just go talk." She whipped the tears off her face and started dragging me to the kitchen. She plopped down on a stool and started boiling some water for some sorta drink. "You want something to drink?" She asked, "Um yea some iced coffee would be nice." She started getting things from the cabinet to make coffee. "So, where you always like this. Sorry if it might be a touchy subject but I just wanna know." I obviously didn't want to talk about it so I just countered with another question. "Why do you wanna know?" "I wanna help you. If I know how you got like this I could A: fix it completely, or B: Help you I guess control it." I tried to dodge the question again by saying "Wait a second, I don't even know what you are." She answered really quickly "Simple: Angel/Demon hybrid. My mom's a demon, hate her with every fiber of my being, and my dad's an angel, sweetest guy I've ever met." That just gave me more questions. "How do your powers work?" "Oh, that's kinda simple too. My angel powers can let me heal people, but if someones dead I can't fix that. My demon powers are just fire powers and um...seduction." I couldn't hear what she said last "wait what was the other thing" She sighed and said. " Seduction and seducing, I can make people hella horny or make them fall in love, and I forking hate it" I tried to hold in a laugh. "You um you just *snicker* said "forking"?" She looked at me confused for a sec but then she perked up then got miserable. "Oh yeah, another thing this dumb hybrid stuff gives me, my angel side won't let me cuss AT ALL. I mean words like "hell" and "lord/god" I can say just fine but if I try to say something like, "shirt", yeah that happens. It's like the chat filter in Roblox except in real life." I kinda felt bad for her but I also thought it was hilarious too. "Anyway, back to my question, could you at least tell me how your, I guess, werewolf thing works?" That's a much easier question than how I got my power so I answered.

I told her everything I knew about my power from the eye thing to the blackout thing the whole shebang. "Huh that's weird, to say the least, I mean I've seen werewolves with powers that have to do with emotions but, I've never seen something like this." The entire time we were talking, I didn't even realize, I was starting to change back to normal. All of a sudden Milinda straight up burst through the door of the dorms sweating and panting. "I came as soon as I-... Zena?"