Her Fate

9

It was snowing when I went outside. Its been three months since I learned who I was. I was used to it now. But I never once felt superior than anyone. The bullying crushed my pedestal. In Arcana, it was the opposite. It was awkward with the weird balance but, i got used to it. I let Wendy be the only one to call me by my first name. We clicked and now we went from normal conversations to goofing off and playing games. On earth, nothing changed other than the fact that it is swim season and I am a competitive swimmer. Of course the remarks continued except I didn't care anymore. Something else I did care for. And it was just another dose of bad luck: Amber joined our swim team this winter. She gave me death glares during beginning practice. I wanted to go up to her and say everything and how it was just one invite and one chat and she was being to stuck up. But, its been months and telling her now wont make her let go but intensify her hatred. We became archenemies for some dumb reason. She had her friends. I had myself. And Jase was out of the picture, at least for her. For me, we bumped into each other so many times. I just walked away before he said anything.

It was another after school swim practice and I was doing my usual laps. We used the towns recreation pool for our practices. One good thing is to see Amber suck. I had water on my side. Obviously and sometimes, now and then, I let my greediness out just a little. But the attention was still all on Amber. The students loved her style even though she sucked because she was popular and they wanted to be her friend. It was finally after practice and i was getting a few more laps in. I had my own goal. I was doing it for people. Swimming is like a zero gravity sport. How cool is that. This is one thing I like about earth. But one is not enough. Amber and I were the only ones left in the pool area. Suddenly her hand grabs my head and ducks me under the water. Now this was not unusual because she had done it five other times before. So immature. I can breathe underwater though and her memory erases this strange phenomenon from her brain. Its a weird thing, this memory erasing thing. So I stay there underwater waiting for that click before she doesn't know what shes doing. So I looked at the floor of the pool thinking of grand thoughts like maybe swimming to the bottom of the ocean or something. But then Amber stopped and I got a gasp of Oxygen. I was face to face with the one and only, guy i always bump into, Jase freaking Galler. He had on a tank top and he was carrying his tennis clothes because he does tennis. I havent talked to him in months. Like I said, I avoided him perfectly. Why was he at the pool and this late? I cant just swim away. I cant teleport. Ill have to get out and look like I'm running like a flapping fish. Which I actually was about to do till i heard something from him. His voice. It was something i would never believe to be even spoken by Jase Galler. This goes against all the rules.
"Your breathing time is amazing. It seemed like forever." Was the first and most shocking words he said. His memory wasn't wiped? Now this was probably a fluke and he probably just saw like the normal 30 seconds underwater so he didn't reach the requirement for his memory to be wiped. But I was just a tense doubtful. I got out. We stared at each other. Were not friends. Run away.
He looked around. "I'm sorry about Amber. Again. But i saw what she was doing and I just came to help." Now it feels like we went back in time three months ago. I roll my eyes but I didn't say go away for something. Maybe all of this was not Jase Gallers fault. He just technically saved me. So my mind went ballistic and i spat out something I would never do.
"Why are you always in last period alone with your hands on your head?" I ask. Now I regretted it the minute it came out. It would seem like I'm stalking him. "I'm trying to avoid you you know and then I just see you there looking like this." I put my hands on my head and look stressed. Jase laughs. He laughs.
"Stress. Life." He said. Jase had a look I have never seen before. Popular people are suppose to look down on you. They're supposed to be laughing. They're supposed to act like they feel bad for you. That's how it looks like when Macy;s boyfriend stares at me. That's how it looks like when Amber looks at me. Jase, on the other hand looked like me. Like a normal person. Even though I am not a normal person but still...
"I see." Was the only thing that came out of my mouth. But I wanted to ask more. What is his intentions. What is he doing. What's on his mind. "You're interesting." I said. And walked past him grabbing a towel and hitting the showers.
"YOU ARE TOO." He said back.