Rowen
I was in my gym room in the basement lifting weights like I usually do when I'm bored. After a few sets of 140, I go upstairs into the kitchen to make a strawberry banana smoothie. Through the loud sound of the blender, I hear my phone make a sound and when I look, I see a message from Kayden this late?. I pour the smoothie in my thermal, pick my phone up and read the text,
[be there in 15 very important need place to crash]
I furrow my brow confused what could possibly be so important at this time? I shrug, going upstairs taking a quick, warm ,and refreshing shower and as I walk down the steps I hear a frantic knocking, good thing my parents are away or else they would have been waken up for sure. I walk to the door casually and I see an out of breath Kayden and a frightened little Brice standing on my porch,
"Woah, what's up? What's wrong? " I ask a bit confused.
He stumbles in looking out the door as if someone would have followed the two of them,
"Yo, Kayden what's up? What happened?" I say again as he locks the door, his back to me,
"Rowen you're my best bro, right? anything I tell you stays between us and you won't freak, right?" he says turning to me, frantically, his hands are shaking and Brice is sitting by the door scared out of his damn mind. I look back at Kayden and nod,
"Yes, yes of course" I reply, and he runs his hands through his hair pacing back and forth anxious which makes me anxious, I sigh and put my hand on his shoulder stopping him,
"You hungry? I'll make us some snacks and you can tell me the story, short or long, hows that sound?" I say, trying to sound as comforting as possible, whatever happened has shaken the both of them up pretty damn badly.
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After about thirty or so minutes of me making our burgers and fries, we sat in the living room and started to eat.
"Kayden,tell me what happened," I say with a sigh,
He takes a long sip from his drink and slowly sets his cup down and sighs,
"
Ro' promise you won't freak out, okay?" He said, as soon as he finished his sentence I noticed his leg started to shake, very nervously if I might add,
"I promise" I say, getting more anxious / what could have happened? / he never acts like this,
"Okay, well I haven't been completely...Honest....about a few things, you now all those bruises and marks that I usually always say are from other sports or me being clumsy are really from...my dad, he---"
Brice pops up and starts to speak, a bit angrily and scared,
"Daddy is always yelling and hurting Big brother! He always drinks funny snelling juice and smokes these nasty sticks and gets angry! But tonight Big brother fought back when daddy tried to hurt me by shooting the pretty thing at him! "
His high-pitched voice fills the room, Kayden didnt deny anything Brice said and I try to let this sink in
Kayden's Dad, is a drunkard and abuses him, how long, and why didn't he say anything?
He tried to hurt Brice
The "Pretty thing?"
I finally caught it,
"Wait, the pretty thing? Kayden what's he talking about? " I ask confused. Kayden noded as if he was telling himself "okay " and he held out his left hand. I stare in confusion as I didn't understand what he was about to do, but I watched silently because I did promise not to freak out. He straightened his fingers and a smokey blue light danced around his fingertips, like something you'd read in a book! I feel like I should be afraid or something but for some strange reason......this feels so familiar, it's strange, all I do is continue to be entranced by how the graceful aura dances around his palm and Brice does the same and it feels like we're watching it forever but suddenly he sucks in a breath and shakes his hand as if he burned it,
"Ow! Sorry if I do it for too long it hurts" he says holding his hand
"Like it's overheating?" I say,
"Hmm, yeah I guess that's what you can call it is never thought of it that way" he replies with a nod,
"How do you do that, and I'm assuming the reason your here is because that has something to do why you seem so antsy" I say, he thinks for a moment and nods,
"Yes, I got mad at my dad and shot it at him, I didnt do it on purpose but I was scared and he had Brice! If he finds me and catches me he will kill me, you have to help me" he says, his voice was begging and shaky, his eyes pleading.
"Your dad has resources?" I ask,
"He may be a drunken asshole, but he knows how to find people, he has too many friends everywhere" he says sinking back into the couch. I had no idea about his father all this time he's been being abused at home and his.....abilities, powers but then again why would he tell anyone anyone else would have reacted very differently than me.
"Kayden your like a brother to me, of course I'll help you for some reason this seems oddly familiar, like this has happened before" I say, this feels like some weird deja vu stuff....I don't know why. Brice was starting to nod off so I showed them to the guest room and got them some fresh sheets.
Kayden
The guest room was a little bit bigger than my own room, it had soft blue drapes hanging from the window, a king sized bed with blue and white pillows with sheets to match and a nice blue carpet and a white nightstand beside the bed. I tell Brice to lay down and almost immediately he started dozing off, I start thinking if I should just stay here, or go to school tomorrow, my decision might be the dumbest one ever, but I want to see Zera....
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