Unfiltered Concentration

Chapter Two: Memories and Realizations Within a Power Crisis

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"I miss you; a sky is bland without its Cloud." I cried, nodding my head as if I was agreeing with myself. My door frame echoed another thud; I paid no attention to it, "Cloud, I miss you so much."

A grunt, "Keep missing then, I'm who I am now. Not your plaything and not your friend. If you want to miss then do so, it makes my life easier."

"Then I'll never give in, never refuse to befriend someone who I realize needs me. Don't tell me you don't, because I remember. You think we're all far away, but we are all closer than you think." I refuted. Strands of my hair curled over my face to shroud the tears I held in my puffy red eyes. I'm not letting him leave, not letting him go on like this. Because I know better, he knows better. My eyes stared right at his; he knows of my Taser and doesn't bother running. I'd catch him eventually anyway. Clues snickered from inside his eyes, and I remembered how little of them are white. Alluding to his wide peripherals.

"I don't need you! Shut up, just shut that mouth of yours." He approached me quickly, sitting down beside me with a hound-look on his face. I keep staring, holding his bear with defiance. His blonde hair flipped over his head in a coil that brought out the outer wall of small curls that were oppressed underneath, and within his eyes were his dilated crescents, one of his many signals for lying, and I pretended not to notice. His arms wrapped around me, not daring to touch the one with my Taser.

A hum of electricity entered quickly, "Then make me damn it!" Cloud stared at my arm, "I don't want to do this, but I will if I must. You're my brother and I want the ability to trust you and flat brotherly love. What could be easier to do?"

Cloud breathed calmly; what he's thinking is an ability I want. So many questions would be answered. My room only sneered at Cloud with the cold air of death. I am deathaphillic, and Cloud seems to repulse from me because of it. However, instead of watching Cloud berate me with his mature voice, I notice a metal noise with my concentration. I notice the power failure, I notice the flash of light at me with my concentration. I breathed, reciting mantras to ward it off as Cloud grappled me. My Taser hugged dangerously close to his lower abdomen. My arms snorted and wrapped around him as the rest of me did. "Don't you dare."

"Cloud, get off of me." His large arms held up on my chest; I felt my heartbeat... the buzz of my Taser...the weight of its second battery. Only twice Sky, only twice. I released my bounds. He nodded, standing up from his kneel on my floor and proceeded to the door. His tank top flew in the air of my room as a flag, I found that odd.

I sighed, "Be careful, I love you brother." I didn't dare say my thoughts of whatever that light was. Especially since the power's back on. The hall light gleamed in the hall as the moon. Snarling as a rabid dog, I ignored him while shutting the door. Leaving the system to activate lockdown after I pressed the small purple button. After he left, I stretched and checked myself for any cuts or bruises. Beneath the dark of my curtains and my bed, I checked underneath for out of place materials, anything out of place. Every object, I measured and counted the amounts of everything in my room. Stopping by my computer to activate some music. Leafing through my files to ensure they were exactly in the same place, while touching everything on my desk as I had with everything in my room. I opened my closet to change my long sleeve shirt for a fresh one; the purple lotus flower incense with a touch of ginger, flint and steel, and blank charm paper. My old long sleeve shirt skipped its happy self to the black basket. My seat greeted me as I extended my brush to the special black ink I make, dipping in an embrace of black of nightly death.

Thirty minutes later the whole room smelled of lotus flowers and ginger, the whole room was dark except for the candle lights I lit, and the whole room was quiet other than my breaths. Wasn't Cloud out there? He was, I haven't heard anything from him either. Odd...a chill ran down my spine. What was the thing that did those things earlier? I swear it has to be something; my hands felt sweaty. I left Cloud out there with that thing. Neither he nor Teresa knows anything to save them. I shivered, uncontrollably; I released lockdown and exited my room. Shocking myself today. I sped down the hall to grift on the handrail as if on roller skates, and when the handrail expired, I jolted up, landing on the tile with a thundering crash. A flash of little Cloud dashed across me, my long lost big brother complex roared up and I listened.