What Have I Become

Chapter 5

I ran as fast as I could to Matthew's house, we normally drive the 6 blocks but I didn't have time to call Ace so I had no choice but to run the whole way to his house, dodging people; pets and other objects on the way over.

I finally reached his street and sprinted to his home, shouting and calling out his name as I made my way up to his door, " Matthew! " I was about to run through his door when it opened up and I ran right into a blockage and fell backwards into my ass again.

" Not again damnit! " I wined and dusted my self off and steadily stood back up and looked at the blockage.

" Hey, watch where your running, you freak. This is a new jersey, and I don't need a little runt like yourself get it dirty. " A gruff voice came from the doorway of Matthew's house.

I tilted my head slightly and recognised the voice instantly, " Hunter? Hunter Wyatt? What the hell are you doing at Matthew's? " Hunter was one of the other team members on Ace's football team, but was else known for being the school's biggest bully. Geeks and Nerds feared him, girls longed for him; he was indeed a jock. Shot black hair, muscular build, and a brain that no one ever wants.

" That's none of your damn business, Lex. Now get outta my way, I've got to get home. " He sneered and walked out and bumped into my shoulders he went, then Matthew appeared in his place.

" It's okay Lex, he doesn't mean any harm. I'll explain when you get inside, goodbye Hunter, I'll see you on Sunday. " Matthew called to the boy.

" Yeah yeah...Sunday, dweeb. " He laughed and walked off down the street and soon out of sight, Matthew was smiling softly and leaning against the frame but soon remembered I was there and snapped back to reality. He was covering his left eye.

" S-Sorry Lex, come in. " He stepped aside and quickly walked on through to his, quite big and modern, kitchen; darting head first towards the fridge and opening the large silver box and taking out arms full of candies and beverages and worming his way upstairs to his room, myself hot on his trail.

" Matthew! Wait! For fuck's same why do you move so fast, even when holding stuff? Matthew, why was Hunter here? Why is your left eye covered? " I fired my questions like darts at him, he just ignored them as we entered his room. A grand room with fine wooden bordering and luxurious styled walls with a polished floor.

Matthew hurried to his bed and lifted a few floorboards and placed the some of the food into the cool and ventilated space below.

" Lex, my apologies, it's just I've been on edge slightly for the past few hours...I barely even concentrated when Hunter was here! " He paced around his room and closed his door and Windows, locking and pulling the curtains over each. " And to answer your question, I take Hunter for tutoring lessons every two days for three hours on Chemistry, Maths and History. " Said Matthew with tired voice and a sigh. " And there is also these. " He grabbed his shirt and pulled it up to reveal a smooth chestnut brand mark just below his neck.

This marking was different from mine. It was shaped like a wide and upside down 'U' with two teeth poking inwards with two smaller ones above doing the same, and a smaller and curved accent at the top.

Next he opened his left eye, I blinked and stared. It wasn't it's usual bright blue colour, but a deep and rich emerald green. It was beautiful yet scary all at once.

" Lex what the hell am I supposed to do!? I look like a freak! I can't have two different eye colours all of a sudden! " He started to panic, " And what about this? " He pointed at the branding, " How am I supposed to hide this from my father and from school? " He took a nearby pack of Skittles and downed the lot and started to chew quickly.

" Look, Matt, it's probably nothing. I remember reading up on something on genetic problems and I think I saw something called Heterochromia iridium or something. It just means your eyes can develop two different colours. It can slightly or...In your case, quite extreme. " I explained and tried to comfort him.

" Quite? Quite!? How is this quite?! My eye has changed completely! This is far from quite, Lex! " Matthew shouted, tears were starting to form in his eyes. Matthew, for once you n a long times, was scared.

I had to do something or Matthew was going to flip out and wreck his room, " Matthew, ho-hold on right there. " I rushed out of his room and basically jumped the stairs he got to his kitchen and hurried to his freezer and got two tubs of ice-cream, two spoons and ran back to his room; opened the tubs with the spoons in my mouth and jumped on top of him and started feeding him.

" Calm...Think of warm brownies and puppies while counting back from a thousand in sevens! " I kept feeding him and could feel that he was starting to calm down and followed the instructions, soon lying on his bed and feeding himself the ice-cream in the foetal position.

" See, Matthew, it's going to be okay. Everything will be okay, you don't need to worry about anything, Matthew. " I patted his head like a dog and sat with him for a few moments until his house phone chimed in from downstairs.

" I'll go and get that, you just sit here and enjoy the ice-cream...And put you shirt on for God's sake. " I chuckled, rolling my eyes, and left Matthew to his own devices and went downstairs and picked up the house phone.

" Hello, Abdomen residence. " I spoke politely and waited for the other on the end to answer.

A cold and raspy voice, one of which that belonged to that of the shadows themselves, " ...It shall burn...This day of the new week...It shall burn to ash...Purify that is evil...Send back what hasn't returned...It shall all burn...Dangers to reveal their true form...Truth shall spill the blood of the innocent and cast the guilty to burn...It shall all burn..."

The line cut dead.