The Mirage

The Realization

I didn't go to school today. Matter of fact, I haven't been in school for about two days. I lay on my bed, thinking of everything that happened so far. Everything that happened with Dr. Crook, Sam, Lizette, and especially Jess.

I should have told her. The girl that told me about her reality Without me telling her Mine. I haven't received any texts from Jess, but I don't need to. I don't blame her.

I need to do something. My face went down with the swelling, but I still have marks from the fight. Always reminding me of what happened.

I turned my head and looked at the time. It was 5:30 Pm.

I need to make it up to jess. I decided to grab five dollars from my desk and took my phone. Then, I went to buy some flowers.

I hid behind some houses and lifted off the ground. I flew to Jess's house. Her house looked the same like it always did. I saw one truck parked on her driveway, it was probably her dad's. I flew up to her balcony. It wasn't really big, in fact It looked like it can hold only about two people. Which was perfect.

I saw her laying on her bed, reading some type of book. I took my phone out and texted Jess to look out her balcony. She picked up her phone that was next to her and looked out at the balcony. She gave me kind of a confused look.

She came towards her balcony and opened her door.

"Delivery for Jessica Dane." I said grinning, handing her flowers.

She ignored the flowers.

"What are you doing here?" She said clearly irritated.

"Listen," I said putting the flowers on the floor.

"Jess, I'm an idiot okay? I should have told you. I wasn't thinking, I was thinking that if I didn't tell you about me being The Mirage or something, I would keep you safe. But I'm wrong. I should have told you everything. I'm such a moron. I'm sorry." I said looking at her eyes.

She looked at me, still having no emotion.

"Jess, please.. I really mean it. I couldn't stop thinking about what I di-" I was interrupted by Jess smashing her lips against mine. I was lost with her during those whole four seconds of her kissing me. When she pulled away I still had my eyes closed and lips puckered.

"W-what was that for?" I said obviously confused about what just happened.

"For shutting you up. I should have realized you were just trying to protect me. Plus you aren't an idiot, well maybe sometimes." She said smiling.

We both started laughing.

"Now, go away before my dad see's you." she said before giving me one last kiss.

I lifted off and flew away. Trying to hold back the grin spreading on my face.

The next day, me, sam and lizette decided to train, since it was sunday. I got to Jones's park. Waiting for Sam and Lizette to come.

I saw Lizette coming. She had her book bag on her..

"Where's Sam?" I said confused.

"Sam's grounded for a week." she said irritated.

"Why? Did he steal something from the grocery store again?" I said trying not to grin.

"Well, his mom finally noticed he was on the news when you were fighting The Enforcer. She freaked out that he was in danger. So, yeah.." she said looking down.

"Great, how are we going to train now?" I said.

"We don't." She said looking at me.

"Ryan, remember that Dr. Crook guy?" She said in a serious tone.

"What about him?" I said looking at her.

"While you were on your.." She did a fake cough. "date..I did some research. I found out about some stuff." she said looking at me straight in the eyes.

"What did you find?"

"I searched his name. Nothing really popped up. The only thing that popped up was the Researching For Cures and Solutions Facility. That's about 30 minutes away from here. I found some things.. You might not believe." she said serious.

She opened up her bag and took out some weird documents.

"Before I say any of this.. I have a friend who knows how to hack stuff.. Don't question it.." She said looking at the documents.

I still had the confused look on my face. What was she talking about? Did she find something out from Dr. Crook before I did?

"I searched up the owner of the facility. It showed some random guy but, we also looked at the previous owner before him. This guy looks exactly like Dr. Crook, except his hair color is different."

Lizette showed me a picture of the previous guy that owned R.C.S. The guy from the old picture really did look exactly like Dr. Crook. The guy in the old picture looked like Dr.Crook but 10 years younger.

"Ryan.. I need to tell you something." Lizette said sounding a bit upset.

I looked up at her. She seemed to have a worried look.

"I think Dr. Crook killed your real parents."