MOJIBYON LIORA

6.Matt's POV

Matt's POV

She's a bit out of the box but she has to be one of the most beautiful person in and out . My heart pounds, I have already diagnosed myself with tachycardia whenever I see her. Those beautiful black curls.. ahhh those chocolate eyes richer than the choicest of shades , her dusky skin and those luscious pink lips. I always felt the urgent need to protect her since the day I first laid my eyes on her. Back in childhood my blood boiled when I saw children bullying her, she used to fight, I never saw her backing down, it used to take a heck of effort to hold her from kicking people. I am proud of her but when she fought she hardly cared about herself, often bloody knee, scraped skin all over were the usuals. I have never seen a girl like Li hell except her I hardly ever saw anyone for nothing and noone interested me except Li and when she herself confessed me about her feelings that I really doubted if I heard correct, she never showed that side of her to me I felt special but then again she never really conversed with anyone but me and Kevin. The fear of any threat was mud compared to the thought of me being stuck in friendzone forever.
My heart pounded so bad I felt like it would pop outta my ribcage any moment when Li told me wide eyed about her having feelings for me. I still remember the hair at the base of my neck standing at the bolted emotion I'd been hit with.
To be quite frank I was smitten with her would be an understatement . Hell I can't believe my luck, to be loved by the person you loved most. I have to be among the luckiest.
Since childhood I wanted nothing more than a family, I have been lucky enough to have Li and Kevin they are family.
When I was in orphanage and was hit by everyone for being an outcast since I never made efforts to talk or be a part of any group. Children were no less than monsters, the orphanage was divided in groups and they always fought while the group members protected. Since I was part of no group I got hittings and punishments the most. I hated to as much as breathe, all I did was survive, never talked or involved myself with anyone to play. I was barely 6 when I got picked by a man who looked nothing sort of close to kind. I was tortured and beaten till I gasped for air. I had to do all chores and one slight mistake would often lead to scars. I was so weak that breathing was laborous, my skin seemed nonexistent, I was nothing but a bag of bones, often hungry and dizzy, malnutritious was a step above my condition. I was a zombie, the living dead that's what he often yelled while hitting me with belt. About two years after, he got taken away by police for murdering two girls. It was around that time police left me at his father's place. The father of the man who tortured me was nothing but a sort of angel. I started thinking him as my own grandfather who happen to find me, lord bless his soul. How he loved me, tears slide till today I cannot not cry at the memory of him. He enrolled me to school, baked me cookies he was grandma plus grandpa in one. We played chess till twilight and watched football, he used to be strict with my marks but I always scored good without worrying my mind about it. When I turned 13 he died and I got left alone once again, if it would not have been for Li and Kevin I would not have been able to make through being mentally normal. I am twenty but often times the curtain of past suffocates me. I wake up startled or scream dreaming of being hit with leather belt. Though it's dream but the pain I experience feels agonizingly real and cuts open my skin leaving fresh blood oozing out of it, scares the shit out of me whenever I have a nightmare . Kevin has been living with me since six years and he's quite a character,like me he too is an orphan, he'd been enrolled in the same school as me. A father from church used to look after him, pay his fees and give him shelter. We've been friends since past eleven years and when Kevin turned fourteen he threw tantrums to move in with me. Father Patrick was humble and almost Godlike, he still pays Kevin's University fee, treats Kevin as his own blood and this moron hardly studies. I lecture him twice a week like an established routine he listens with utmost respect and studies the whole day relentlessly only to get back to doing nothing the next day but still him clearing semesters at surprisingly good marks got to be mystery for he hardly ever studies to score even average..
Li is three years younger than both of us but she is an absolute genius. Her knowledge was sharp and memorization skills top notch she skipped two years before being our own classmate.
Kevin and her friendship was a older than mine with him. Li and her dad visited the church where Kevin was raised. Li used to talk only with Kevin in the beginning but soon the tables turned and my lady started opening up to me and we three became friends forever. When I used to ask why she started paying me more attention than Kevin , she used to say I had more piece of mind than Kevin well I can't object the truth. Li met with us only in school and church. I used to go church too with grandpa just to see Li and Kevin the baka . We three used to play UNO and Li used to win all the time, we almost smelled sorcery but never caught anything out of blue. That lady has one heck of solid luck.
When she called me at her place this morning for the first time in years I felt like a whirlpool hit me. She said her dad knew about us and he wanted Li to spend time with me which has to be vice versa being Li throwing tantrums to get me access to her house. I was nervous and uncomfortable has to be understatement. Watching movie which was in my watch soon list and getting not a point across was what Li's mere presence did to me. We never watched movie together it was new and I just wanted to hold her forever, everytime when she looked my way I pretended to be ten feet immersed in the movie but the reality was her presence was intoxicating to me. I was feeling max happy. When she asked me to buy hamster as her gift she looked so innocent and adorable I wanted to kiss her so bad and mind you I was about to, well on cheeks but her father came barging to complete my half finished sentence after which I was about to peck her but no he had to eavesdrop our conversation and barge in at the exact moment . I am twenty, have a girlfriend and still haven't had a decent kiss, all I do is forehead kiss which I love and am quite content with but looking at her I want nothing but to entangle my soul, mark her mine forever. I have been planning to marry her since I was twelve and I am twenty with the same exact thoughts intensified million folds over years. Her father is a wierd man but he looks after Li as a hawk and protects her from all the nonexistent threats. He gives off paranoid vibes but the man should be saluted to raise Li afterall Li had always been more than a handful to keep her under discipline was one heck of a job and uncle Jo had been doing that with flying colors.
Li was not only handful, she was different in ways only Kevin and I knew and perhaps her father too.
When we used to play catch in the grounds of church she used to snap her fingers and they used to burst in little fire as though her fingers were candles, she used to smile and giggle when she used to be successful to snap fire from her fingers. Kevin and I had to explain her a great deal to not do that in front of anyone. Kevin had been telling her since they were children but Li is the most stubborn girl I've ever seen. When last she showed me fire her hand was covered in one giant flame rather than tiny five flames on her tiny fingers when she was young. My girl harnesses power and I must protect her. Undoubtedly uncle Jo knows more about Li than us and maybe that's why goes off charts to keep her safe. Having powers that other humans don't in this century leads to you being a bag of meat for experiments and uncle Jo seems to know how the world works.
"Hey do the dishes, I had to cook alone while you were with the love of your life." Kevin says throwing a pillow at me.
"Don't tell me you're jealous! I had my doubts since childhood. I knew you were gay!"
I retort cheekily and he throws another pillow at me before zooming in to land a punch.
"Well there's nothing wrong with being gay and had I been one I would have turned you as well." he says confidence oozing from each pore of his.
"Now go do the dishes. You really are whipped with Li ain't you.." Kevin sighs shaking his head side to side dramatically.