Telepathic Love (Naru x Mai)

Chapter 1

Telepathic Love:

Chapter 1:

Italics denote thoughts.

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Naru irritably slotted a book back into place on the bookshelf in the top floor library of his university. The noise inside his head was making him deeply regret coming to the library at such a busy time. Unfortunately, he had desperately needed a book for a paper so a visit to the library had been unavoidable.

He could feel a major headache coming on and his concentration slipped momentarily at the first occurrence of pain meaning that a barrage of thoughts exploded in his head. There was a group of students converged around a bookshelf in the next aisle. Their thoughts were not happy.

I need alcohol to get through this.

Why did I ever come to this university?

I've run out of money to get weed. Shit

I hate group assignments. Fuck them.

I'm going out clubbing after this.

He winced and gritted his teeth as he slipped back in control. Those thoughts hadn't been the worst he had ever heard. It was just that occasionally the negativity was too much. Sometimes he didn't know how he had got through the past four years without going mad.

He had attended sixth form college in England and had made the decision to transfer to Japan for university in hope that it would improve his situation. Granted, he took a few seconds to translate the thoughts he was hearing into English and writing with Japanese characters took a lot of his concentration, but he hadn't experienced many changes that had changed his outlook on life or distracted him from reading minds.

His twin's death four years ago had sparked his ability to read thoughts. Before that incident, all he had been able to do was exchange thoughts with his brother. When his brother had died, he could hear everyone's else's instead. His adoptive father had hypothesised that Gene had been like a barrier for his ability and now that barricade was gone he had no choice about what he heard.

After a month of suffering he had gained some control over it. If he concentrated hard enough he could forget about his ability and drown out everything. The problem was that it only worked for short periods of time and he was slowly becoming very disdainful because he knew everyone's innermost feelings.

There were lots of girls at his sixth form who were infatuated with him purely because of his looks. Someone who he had thought of as a casual friend was only friendly with him because he knew always knew the answers.

He breathed in deeply to stop himself from remembering those moments. It was all in the past. He relaxed and felt his control slip firmly back with no audible thoughts. Perfect.

Then he felt someone tap his shoulder. He flinched and turned around to see a girl with caramel coloured hair and matching eyes standing behind him looking at him curiously. She looked to be about his age and she was holding a few library books.

"Are you all right?" She asked seemingly in concern.

Is he really okay? He was standing there for a while and he looked stressed. Maybe it's a last minute panic?

Naru blinked in surprise. He had heard her thoughts without meaning to. He must have slipped up. The problem with the theory was that he couldn't hear anyone else's.

"I am fine, there's no need to worry," he assured her. "Am I in your way?"

He looked again at the books in her arms. He was probably preventing her from putting the books back. That was why she had showed concern for him.