Never Bend

Chapter 13 : Magic and desires

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They know more about me
than me.
Annie

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Walking along the quiet college corridor, I struggle to come up with a logical explanation for what happened a while ago. I was so angry that in my desperation I wished my bullies would suffocate, but how on earth did they end up suffocating in real time? Tom's words from two days ago come to mind, along with the strange things that keep happening around me. Am I a normal person?

My shoulder bumps into someone, making me stumble back.

"Hey, watch it!" The person tells me annoyed.

"Sorry"I am already on my way to an unknown destination.

The stares, the chatter on my back. Nothing mattered. I had often questioned my sanity. My therapist had made me believe that I was just using mechanisms to cope with the hardships of my life. That I had invented an imaginary life, but today. How could I believe it wasn't real?

I keep replaying the scene in my mind, but nothing makes sense. Then I realise that my emotions are shifting again. Tom kept saying that he was my shadow, that he was there to protect me, and which side had he been on? He had left me alone, placed me in a golden platter to be eaten by a pack of hyenas.

My foot slips, missing the step infront of me. I hold dearly to the handrail taking in where I am actually located on the campus. I sit on the next step. I don't know where I am or which way to go back.

"Are you ok?" a passer asks.

I nod, avoiding any further question, I randomly pick a destination.

Wandering like a lost soul, looking for an empty place for an empty soul, the edging forest compells me to go into it. Nature has always been my refuge. People grow and change, but trees, are constant and withouth judgement. 

Today I need that. I need a reliable friend to ease my mind. A heavy breath comes out of my lungs. My body folds in two. My eyesight winces. I curse myself. I had been careless and hadn't seek to replace my inhaler. With no medication near by, I had to regain control over myself. Or else.

I look at the trees. I am so close, yet so far at the same time.

"Sanp out of it and keep walking" a voice tells me. I look around looking for the person giving me orders in a time of need. WHo could be that bold. But, there is no one around.

"Try to act a little normal, will you? You look insane right now," the voice continues.

I turn on my heels, expecting to find someone hiding among the cars in the car park, but nothing. I am alone. My palm reaches my forehead, expecting to be feverish, which would explain the vocal hallucinations. Once again my temperature is normal.

"That's because I AM in your head. Just go into the forest and I will explain," the voice tells me, reading my every thought. Was I losing it?

"Haha, you won't end up in a mental institution. If one day you do, it won't be because of me. There are far worse things than me, you know! Deadly things. No. This is child's play. It's called mind communication. Now come and meet me."

I look over my shoulder once more. I am alone, but am I really? Could anyone help me at all?

"I. I have been assigned to help you. What you did in the cafeteria, that's not human. For some reason, your identity was kept from you. Now. Now. We need to assess your powers and what triggers them. Otherwise, you are in danger. Deadly things may come to you. Meet me. Come to the edge of the forest and I will give you answers.