SUPERNOVA

Chapter 14

Nova
"What do you think about this?" Darius asks handing me his phone.

It's been a week since I started my new job and I've gotten settled quite nicely. Me and Darius was on our lunch break at a pizza place across the street from the museum. I've been getting close to him as a friend. We both bonded over our love for art, he was mainly a realism artist.

"That's really good when did you make it?" I say admiring his art.

"Last night."

"What?" I ask surprised

"Yeah, the ideas come to me in my dreams and I wake up to paint it before I forget."

"That's really impressive." I say accidentally swiping to a different picture.

"Thank you."

"Who's this?" I ask curiously showing him his phone with a old picture of a young chubby Asian boy about 5 years old, he was so cute.

"Oh that's my brother."

"I didn't even know you had siblings." I smile.

"Yeah I have a younger sister too."

"You're the oldest?" I ask and he nods.

"Are you the only one that's mixed?"

"No, the boy in the the picture is my half brother he's around my age now probably a year younger I just never meet him."

"Why not?"

"My dad said something about how him and the boy's mother wasn't getting along,  he didn't tell me much."

"Why do you keep his picture?"

"Just for the memory, I have no idea where he's at but maybe I'll meet him one day." He smiles.

"Nova." A name calls for me and I turn to see it was Daisuke.

"Daisuke?" I ask confused by how he knew I was here.

"I have your location remember?" He smiles, I swear he was a mind reader sometimes.

"I came to surprise you with food but It looks like I'm too late." He says with a frown.

"I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, I should have told you." He smiles at me.

"Ahm." Darius clears his throat.

"Oh Daisuke this is my co-worker Darius." I smile introducing them.

They nod at each other not bothering to exchange words or the hand shake dudes do when the see each other. I don't know why but for some reason the atmosphere felt tense.

"Well I'll see you later." He smiles kissing me on the forehead and walks away to leave.

"Well that was awkward." I laugh.

"I'm sorry if I was being weird he's just competition." He smiles and I laugh, I hope he's joking.

"You know, believe it or not y'all kinda remind me of each other; I don't know how to explain it." I confess.

"I hope that's a good thing," he smiles.

"It is." I laugh.

"You ready to head back?"

"Yeah."

"I'll pay so don't worry about it."

"No I can pay."

"No I got it." He smiles getting up ending the conversation.

I shake my head, him and Daisuke could be the same person the way they act. Once work was over Darius took me home. Daisuke would have picked me up but he couldn't because he had to work.

The whole ride Darius would not shut up about how he didn't see the resemblance between him and Daisuke . It was so hilarious I was laughing almost the whole time.

"Bye Darius I appreciate the ride." I say getting out of his car.

"No problem anytime." He smiles.

Even their smile was the same I don't know what he was going on about. I wave him good bye as I walk into the house.

"Mom? Dad?" I call out.

"In here honey," My mom calls from the kitchen.

"Hey, what you making?" I ask.

"Some spaghetti," She smiles.

"It smells good." I smile.

"Thank you, oh and I invited daisuke over for dinner."

"When did you get his number?" I laugh.

"Don't worry about it I work in mysterious ways." She smirks.

"Yeah okay." I say not sounding convinced.

"Where's dad?"

"He's in his office."

"Dad?" I call walking into his office.

"Yeah?"

"What you doing?"

"Just finishing up some paper work."

"Oh okay, I'll leave you to it." I say starting to leave.

"I'm done now, I've actually been meaning to talk to you." He stops me.

"Oh yeah, about what?" I ask.

"Last night." He says with a sigh, my stomach drops it felt like I was in trouble, but I didn't do anything wrong.

Last night I had a nightmare and woke up screaming, I was with Amir both of us underneath a body of water . He had wrapped his hands around my throat I tried to scream but nothing came out until I woke up.

My body erupted in an throat aching scream as I awoke to reality. The water, the felling of drowning, the look he gave me as he continued to tighten his grip, everything felt so real to the point that I thought that I was going to die.

I haven't had one that bad in a while and I had no idea what triggered it. my dad was the one who came to check on me. He wasn't the one for physical affection but he comforted me holding me in his arms all night until I fell back asleep.

"What about it?" I ask my eyes glossing over.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?"

"Yeah I'm okay, I just haven't had one in a while and thought it was real. But nightmares can't hurt me." I smile trying to pretend I was okay, the last thing I wanted to do was make my parents worry.

"I want you to know that you can always talk to me."

"I know dad." I smile giving him a hug.

The door bell rings and I pull away from the hug going to open the door. Maybe Daisuke was here early, as I open the door it was quite the opposite of who I thought it was.

"Hello I'm sheriff Douglas is there a Nova Deseir as an resident here?"

He was a tall dark skinned man with a busy beard and eyes that looked like it's been through every kind of stress.

"You're speaking to her," I smile nervously.

"I have a few questions involving the death of Amir Williams can I come in?"