Flame

Chapter 3

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Claire looked at me with worried eyes "I need to go and buy you a pregnancy test to determine if you're pregnant or not. I have no evidence to say he did it didn't use a condom. But it's likely you didn't."

"Right," I sighed "Do you think I'll be pregnant? And please be honest."

Tears rushed to her eyes as she slowly nodded, the tears falling from her eyes "I have high suspicions that you're pregnant."

I shook my head and cried. She leaned over and placed her hand on top of mine before pulling away.

"Oh dear." she said, looking at her hand before rushing into another room.

She came back in with a rag over her hand "Your hand was burning," she said "It burnt my hand."

"Oh, I'm so sorry." I replied, a worried look plastered on my face.

"I know your powers and I researched to see if I could find anything the other day. I found that supernatural powers are very rare to be born with. They're more common seen in people after they were experimented on," she paused as she sighed "I also found that powers like yours in females are affected when pregnant, basically meaning you can't control them whilst pregnant."

I started hyperventilating as my vision started going blurry.

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I opened my eyes to find myself on Claire's thighs. I rubbed my heavy eyes before trying to get back up. But she gently pushed me back down and told me not to move. I nodded and just sighed.

"You passed out," Claire said "I think you were overwhelmed with information. I apologise for not appreciating that you've already got enough information to think about." she sighed softly as she ran her sharp nails through my red hair.

"It's okay," I said "It's a lot but it's nothing I can't handle."

"No, hun, you passed out. This is clearly too much for you to comprehend."

I moved my gaze to the cream carpet as I tried to think everything through.

Bullying to bully being bullied. Then boring class to principal's office. Then temporarily unable to use my powers to being raped. Being saved and now I'm possibly pregnant.

And this is why I hate Mondays.

"Can I try and get up now?" I asked.

She moved her hand from my stomach as I slowly sat up and moved to her side.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Have you ever lived in a house?"

I looked away as all the visions of my past rushed in my head. Fire. A lot of fire.

"Yeah, before I killed my parents six years ago." I replied.

"You don't have to tell me but why did you kill your parents?" she hesitated before asking.

I sighed before I started cracking my fingers due to stress "I killed them because they killed my best friend," I paused before looking over at her "Why are you asking me?"

"Just wanting to get to know who I'm going to be taking care of," she smiled "There's no judgement." she reassured me.

I smiled before I looked at her hand "How's your hand?"

"Better than before. Luckily it wasn't a third-degree burn so it was nothing that couldn't be fixed."

"I'm sorry again for accidentally burning you."

"Please don't worry, hun, let me just go buy this pregnancy test for you." she said calmly before standing up. I'll be around ten minutes or so. If you're strong enough, you can look around. Just try not to burn anything."

"I promise." I replied.

Soon, the door opened and her car was gone. It's nice having that window to see from.

I first worked on trying to stand up which was fairly easy after a few minutes.

I then stayed by the sofa and took a step forward. I didn't fall. I'm wobbly, but not falling. So I took slither step. Then another. Before I made my way into the room she rushed into earlier. The kitchen.

The kitchen had black and white checkered flooring, walls and countertops. The fridge was a casual white one and most countertops were black.

I left the kitchen and made my way back down to the more so called living room which had a black leather chair and a black leather sofa to match. I kept walking past a table with two chairs. That was more closer to the kitchen but still attached to the living room. The chairs and table were also cream as the walls were too.

Strange how the kitchen is black and white whilst the living room is cream or off white. I'm not judging. Maybe upstairs has more white.

I wobble my way up the cream carpeted stairs to find the bathroom on my left and three other doors, the small corridor leading its way to those three doors.

I wobble into the bathroom to find that it was also black and white checkered, just like the kitchen downstairs. It had a toilet, sink, and a bathtub with a shower head above it. There was a mirror above the sink that had a message carved into the glass of the mirror.

No matter what you are feeling now, you will feel better later.

Technically it's not wrong but that's very sweet. The message was carved in the bottom corner. I couldn't take my eyes off the message for a while until I snapped myself out of my trance.

Oh yeah, I'm looking around.

I slowly turn around and leave the bathroom. I walk into the first door, almost directly in front of the stairs, into a storage room. It was mostly filled with boxes but the room was still clean. There was a windowsill on the left side of the room whilst boxes were stacked more closer to the door and along the back wall.

There's a lot of boxes and I wonder what's inside them. But that'll come another time.

I make my leave from the cream coloured room and walked to the room next door. I walked in to find her bedroom. The room was mostly black with the normal cream carpet and black curtains.

She doesn't like waking up in the morning? Maybe.

I left that room and walked to the last door, a few steps away. The door was closed, unlike the others which were either wide open or partially open. I put my hand on the handle when I heard the front door open and Claire's voice call out for me.

I let go of the handle and made my way back downstairs.

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