Charismatic Dynamic.

On Camera

Me and Micheal followed behind Jandel who was skipping around in front of us.

I glanced off the side of the overpass, cars.

"A nice view, isn't it?" Jandel held my hand. 

"It's okay." Micheal huffed. 

Jandel leaned over the railing, "Come close you two." 

We stood in silence. 

The sky faded from a black to a discolored blue that I could barely make out on the other side of the highway. 

We watched the cars fly by. 

Jandel slumped, "Satisfying, right?" 

"Somethin' the matter?" Micheal replied, leaning closer to him.

Jandel combed his fingers through his hair. 

"I have something to ask." Jandel turned to me,

 "Why is Sydney dead?"

...

"W-what?"

"Daniel killed her." Micheal answered. 

"I mean, I know that." Jandel threw his hands up. "It's just that I don't want police showing up at my damn door questioning me about shit."

"Did that happen?" 

"What do you think?" 

"Sorry." 

"Did you two not think this would happen?" 

"Dude," Micheal grabbed his shoulder, "we framed someone else." 

 Jandel pushed him off, "I'm still their main suspect."

"Jandel.." Micheal was taken aback.  

Jandel tightly gripped his own hair and paced around, "I don't want damn detectives questioning me about my involvement in shit!" he laughed, "You guys are horrible."

"Dude its fine, they don't have shit on you." 

He paused and silently walked forward, dragging his feet. He starred at the flow of traffic, "Just tell me what happened, in detail."

"I-uhm." I looked down, "I went over to her dorm and I said I had a crush on her-"

"You seriously lied about having a crush on her?" he glared at me.

"Sorry." 

"No, continue." he motioned with his hand.

"Afterwards..I forced my way inside and..killed her." 

"That's it?" 

I shook my head, " I-I positioned her body and I took some lipstick and wrote "Frozen in Time" on the mirror." 

"That won't convince the police of shit." He put his head down and chuckled.

"I shouldn't have told him to do it." Micheal replied.

"Yeah you shouldn't have." 

He turned to me, "What did you do after that?" 

"Me and Micheal..." I bit my nail, "went out to eat." 

"Ah." he gave me a warm-looking smile, "Then?" 

"Then I went home."

"Did you two?" he smirked and pointed at Micheal with his left pointer and me with his right, "Plan this out before hand?" 

Micheal looked away and juggled a small pebble between his feet, "Not really." 

"But you planned it though, somewhat." 

I nodded. 

"Why do you need to know all this?" Micheal raised his voice.

"I mean...the police literally think I killed someone." 

"Yeah but..."

He tilted his head, "I wanna know what I'm being accused of." 

"Why are you recording us?" I took his phone out of his back pocket.

"You were recording us?" Micheal stepped back. 

Jandel gripped my collar and shoved me, my back bending over the bar, "I'll push you off."

My heart sunk.

Micheal shouted, "Are you fucking serious?!" 

"You don't understand, I need that phone back." 

"Hah, so you can snitch on us to the police?" 

"If I'm still a suspect, then I will."

"Jandel, this hurts." I pleaded.

"Then give me the phone."

"Jandel.." I slowly looked down. 

The ground seemed even further away than before. I shivered. 

"Give. Me. The. Phone."

"Get off of him." Micheal shoved him. 

"Stop!" Jandel gripped his bicep forcing him down with him while prying the phone out of my hand. 

"Auchh.." Jandel winced.

Micheal kneeled on his stomach and raised his right fist, left open-palmed pressing on Jandel's forehead. 

I crouched. I almost died.

"Jandel you fucking idiot-" 

"Stop! If you punch me now, I'll die, I'll seriously die!"

My eyes fixed on his arm, his power activated again.

Micheal hesitated. 

"Seriously let me go!" Jandel tried to wriggle from under him, pushing with the heel of his foot.

"I can't, stop moving-ugh, promise you won't tell the fuckin' police!" 

Jandel swallowed hard. 

Micheal pulled at his arm, "Gimme! O-Ouch! You bitch!" Micheal loosened his grip. 

Jandel head butted him and pushed away. 

He looked down at me "Smile, you're on camera." he giggled before running off. 

"Jandel! You piece of shit!" He threw a nearby rock. "Ugh.." Micheal rubbed the side of his jaw. 

He looked towards me then back to where Jandel ran off, "You saw that, he bit me. He bit me, head butted me and then ran away. God this kid." 

He scooted closer to me, "Can you stop being so fucking useless." 

"Mm?"

"I mean-that kid almost killed you." he tugged at his collar, I could see the sweat dripping from his scalp.

"And I just saved you, how do you wanna' be strong but you can't even defend yourself." he nudged me.

"Wil-will he tell the police?" 

"Are you even paying attention to what I'm saying?" 

"Sorry." 

"You should be sorry, all you do is apologize and get us into crazy shit, Jesus christ your fucking stupid." 

I looked at him. 

"We wouldn't be in this shit-hole if you didn't kill her."

"Sorr-uh-oh." I stopped myself. 

"Why do you even want to gain more powers? Does it make you feel more manly or something?" 

I looked away. 

"Well you need it, right now you look like a fucking girl." 

He got up and held his hand out for me, "Don't worry, Jandel's annoying but I still trust him."

I pulled myself up, "Mhmm."