I Need You

I Need You- Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I walked into Mina with her feet up on the desk. Jasper was doing what Jasper normally did, running around like a chicken without a head working on his latest scheme. It was probably going to be another of his normal crazy schemes if patterns held true. This was all normal in my life and I relished in that. Normalcy was a good thing with everything I had been going through lately. I knew that at the end of the day I could always run to Mina. She was chaos in a form in many ways but I needed that. She been my best friend since grade school and more of a sister to me than anyone else. I knew that she wouldn't be happy to see me, especially not the way I currently looked. I was dirty, wet, my makeup was a mess. All in all I looked like something the cat had dragged in.

"Morning Lani" Darren said looking up from the newspaper he was reading.

"Hey" I said with a sigh.

Darrell was Jasper's hired muscle but there was much more to him than that. He was someone they both relied on and with Mina that was saying a lot. She wasn't the most trusting of people but when she did trust, she did so wholeheartedly. It was one of the reasons I loved her the way that I did, one of the reasons I trusted her the way that I did. I knew that if I needed her, she would be there for me. At the same point in time, I knew that she had her opinions about some of the things I did, or more specifically some of the people I dated. They never lasted for long but we both knew that would happen. Gina claimed that she no longer kept track of such things with me because I got interested in someone one week and lost interest in them the next week.

They were all pretty used to my quirks by now, as I was with them. We all had our quirks, the things that made us who and what we were. I was the one who left a string of broken hearts behind me. That wasn't really anything new because honestly I was always looking for something. I knew what I wanted, what I was looking for when it came to man but it seemed that every time I thought I found it, I really didn't. I suppose that most people would say that a week wasn't enough to figure something like that out. For me it was but then again, I was someone most people didn't understand. My abilities were not really ordinary, though I supposed that for some they might be. I could read minds, not the most settling of talents, especially when you're with men who think you're something or someone you're not. Still, it was my ability, my power and it was part of what made me who I was. I wouldn't trade it for the world, though sometimes silence would be nice.

It came in handy, when I really wanted to know something that I shouldn't. Most people weren't used to having to guard their minds because most people couldn't do the things that I could do. I could really hurt someone if I chose to but we never saw a point in that. We never really saw a reason to go that far because I could usually get what we needed pretty easily. I knew that things were what they were and I tried to roll with the punches. I knew that in the end I would be fine, mostly because I always had been. The girls would be there for me when I needed them to be, just like I would be there for them. It was what we did, which was part of the reason that I was there now. Things had gotten out of hand with the last one and I had accidentally brought out the worst in him. What could I say; I seemed to have that effect on people. So he had done something that no one should ever do, he tried to hit me.

No one should ever hit anyone they are supposed to care about, it's wrong on a level that even I'm offended by and that's saying a lot. I'm a villain, bad and dangerous. I embrace the dark side of myself, something that most people aren't able to do. I understand the things that others don't because I've been staring into the darkness for a very long time. Most people claim that if you stare into the darkness for long enough the darkness will start staring back at you. I looked into the darkness and the only thing I saw staring back at me was myself. Most people wouldn't understand that but the girls did and I was grateful for that. They understood the things about me that no one else could and for that reason, among a few others, we would always be together.