Black or White {on hold}

Chapter 7

    Suffocating. I'm being suffocated by my own world, I don't know what's black. I don't know what's white. It's like everything turned into a world of grey. He can't mean that, your father is dead, or missing, he's not part of some of some weird cult. I don't know where I am. But I can't run anymore. I drop to my knees and cry. I haven't cried in years.

     Suddenly I feel arms wrap around me, and I know they're Asher's immediately, he pulls me up, and we walk a few minutes, all while I cry, and he pulls me down with him and I straddle his lap with my head buried in his neck. I cry for what seems like hours, maybe it was only a few minutes, but when I stop crying, it's dark outside. "I'm sorry." I mumble. I can't even look at him, it hurts so much. "I told you what you are, and where your father is, but now I have to tell you why I'm here."

    He pauses as I get comfortable. I sit with my back against his front, in between his legs. "First of all, are you ok? I know it's a lot to take in." I look up at him, "I don't know, I feel like my world was turned upside down. 'Black or White', not grey," I'm shaking again and I try to calm my breathing, "I'm sorry I'm such a mess. I don't know why I'm crying." He looks at me and smiles. "It's fine, your crying because your scared. Back to why I'm here though, I'm also Vialon, we're a species, meant to protect each other against the cruelty of the world." He pauses, as if waiting for me to take in this new information. "I'm here because we, you and I, are connected in many ways. We have a connection unlike any other Vialon has ever had. Because our parents are the two most powerful families in all of Vialon history."

   Connection. Most powerful families. Connection?! "I have one question." I state and when he nods for me to continue I ask, "What kind of connection do we have?" It's hesitant at first, and I curse myself for being so weak. "I know you felt it when we first met. I did too." I think back to that day, and now that I think about it, I did, I felt attracted to him. I can't describe the feeling but, I felt like my heart was soaring. "When you turn 18, that connection will be so much stronger than before." I blink. Once. Twice. A third time before I ask him another, simple, question. "What do you mean?" He stares at me with sympathetic eyes, and says, "It'll be so extremely strong. It will be like ecstasy. You can't get enough. It's worse for the female partner, always yearning for the touch of the male, always feeling like your on cloud nine." I stare at him in shock, mouth parted slightly. "What?!" I jump up from his lap, and start pacing. I notice he gets up as well, but keeps a distance. Leaves start to fall from their homes on the branches. He looks up, "Danny, please, you need to calm down."

"I am calm." I say shakily as I pace back and forth. "No. Your not. I can feel your emotions. This, this aurora you have around you is a plethora of colors that have nothing to to with calm. It's yellow; worry. Black; scared. But none of the emotions are calm." I had stopped pacing and looked at him as he explained this, that he can feel my emotions, read my aurora. "I'm sorry, but it kind of freaks me out that I'll be, I don't even know what I'll be!" I put my hands in my hair in attempt to calm myself down, but all it does is make me want to pull it out. "Danny, I understand that, but please you have to calm down, your powers are out of control, and if anything else happens it'll end up in branches falling on us, or you setting fire to the trees. Please calm down."

    Powers. Out of control? Branches falling, setting trees on fire? Oh god! "DANNY!!" Asher jumps toward me and we crash to the ground just as a huge branch hits the Earth with a hollow boom, and soon catches on fire.

         Exactly like Asher said would happen. What the hell am I?