𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒

01 | The Dark Truth

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗧

❝  Sometimes it isn't the people that change ,    Sometimes it's the mask 🎭 that falls off.❞

They all say love is blind or everything is fair in love and war. You weren't particularly a believer of that. You thought it was all bullshit; magic, love, the ability of being different. The whole idea was ridiculous to you and you would always chant it to your best friend, Zioro, all along your childhood. Sometimes he would agree, sometimes he would deny and you criticised him for not being able to take a firm decision. He would always say it's because you hadn't experienced such things that you happened to call it ridiculous. That you cannot deny anything's existence unless you hadn't been in the same person's shoes. You called him stupid for saying that.... until you felt stupid yourself. 

You were thirteen when you realized you were different. You knew you were different when you started to move objects from one place to another without touching them, make an object float in the air without support. Like a normal teenager you were scared, you felt as if something was wrong with you. That's why you shut everyone out including your parents and family. They simply thought it was because you were going through puberty and needed your own personal space that you refused to socialise. That's why they let you be. But the fact was bright as day.

It wasn't puberty that was freaking you out. 

It was the new power that was freaking you out. 

Hopefully because of the vacations followed by a two year lockdown due to COVID-19, you were able to keep everyone out and become a bit more comfortable with the power you possessed. But when they announced that schools were going to start offline again, that freaked you out. Again. 

When you skipped school repeatedly and refused to talk, the first person ever to approach you was your best friend.  Zioro was the first one to enter your room after years. And he had changed. A lot. It was obvious he wasn't a kid anymore. He was the first one to make you feel at home after a long, long time. You didn't tell him about it back then but rather thought to enjoy his company. 

Back at school, you weren't able to talk to anybody due to the time difference. Everything seemed new to you. The people, the teachers, the way the teenagers behaved. It definitely wasn't like middle school and that's why you struggled to fit in. The only knight in your shining armour at school would be your best friend. So, you followed him like a lost puppy and he'd let you. 

Soon you realised he wasn't someone you knew anymore. That lockdown had changed him. He'd turned into a charming guy and he appeared a lot more mesmerising and captivating with his reddish brown hair and auburn eyes. It made your heart flutter like a feather everytime and the butterflies always followed afterwards. You knew you were into him when you realised the way your heart raced wildly when he was around and you loved that feeling. So you started hanging out more. Perhaps he'd develop some affection towards you if you spend a little time together? He appeared very annoyed at times but you brushed it off. He would never do that to you, would he? It was probably the surrounding people that annoyed him. That took that smile away from him. 

And you wanted to make him happy. It was all that mattered to you. 

So one by one you would try out new things to amaze him. Sending him gifts, inviting him out for his favourite movie or making him his favourite dish, but Zioro never appeared to be amused. Instead he had started rejecting a lot of offers you had made to hang out with him. It frustrated you... beyond measure. Were your attempts so so boring that he wouldn't even hang out with you? But then this new idea clicked in your mind. Why don't you reveal your powers to him? He will probably freak out the way you had freaked out the first time but at least he will find that amusing, won't he?  In curiosity of what you could do and you couldn't, won't he start hanging out with you out of marvel?