We Are The Infinite

Jack

        "I can tell you for a fact that he'll say no."

        You know, it really irritated me when people didn't listen to me. And my friends were no exception. Here I was, using my power for this girl, and she kept on pestering me about some jock on the football team. I didn't just hand out my wisdom freely. Usually I charged for it. But I didn't want to see my friend get hurt.

        "You're lying to me! At the party he seemed totally into me. He was practically on my lap!" Rie was almost screaming at me now, and I held up a hand to calm her, as I didn't want the teachers to get a whiff of this conversation.

        Sure, Bryan Yoskavitch, the all Russian quarterback for our team, seemed like a nice guy. But I've seen the guy's mind, and I can tell you that all hell could break loose, and something tells me this guys thoughts would scare it away.

        "He was drunk, and he was focused on your body. I wouldn't ask him out if I was you." Rie was practically on the verge of tears now, and I could see the defiance in her eyes. I let out a sigh, knowing that she was going to go against my judgement. Not that it was judgement. It was fact.

        Bryan had been disgusted with himself after the party for what he was doing to Rie, and he had been avoiding her for days. Rie thought it was because he was embarrassed and shy, but I knew the real side to him. He blamed her for making him go that low. He blamed her for him becoming a drunk horny asshole, and now he was avoiding her like the plague.

        Guys like him made me sick.

        It hurt me to do it to her, but I knew what I had to do. I began to prick at the edges of her mind, still hesitating on whether I could betray my friend like this. I figured it was for the best, and entered her mind.

        When I found her memories of the monster, tainted with her love and lust for the man, I got rid of them. I figuratively threw them away, deleted them, made it so that she had no recollection of the man except for the name.

        It looked like years washed over her face, and for a slight moment, I was proud of what I had done. Then I felt the itch at the back of my head. The itch that whatever I was doing, whatever reason I had this power... It was wrong. I looked around the hallway, getting the familiar feeling that someone was watching me, judging... I hated it.

        But oh, the power.

        It was great. I could do anything. I could make the teachers forget to give us homework, and that was only a small thing. I could find out all of the answers to a test. I could start wicket rumors, and all of them are true. I can see who people like with a simple nudge.

        I was a god. But not in The Infinite.

        The Infinite was the only place I felt normal, and I admit, that was kind of a blessing sometimes. It was difficult, thinking I was the only one with abilities like these. But the others... Their powers were as great as mine, if not greater. It was almost intimidating... I didn't want to meet them in real life, that was a fact. I liked being in control, and I had a feeling that if I tried to get into their minds, I would end up dead on the side of the street.

        "What were we talking about?" I snapped back to reality, looking at Rie. Her eyes were clear, and it put a smile on my face to see that. "How we're going to be late to class. Let's go." I say, pushing her away from her locker. She lets out a laugh, and my phone vibrates in my pocket.

        I pull it out, expecting something like, "Hey, the teacher's gonna notice you're not here." I usually laugh at those kind of things, as I could just erase the teacher's mind. But this was something else. This was something else entirely.

        "Meet me at the entrance to the forest, at exactly five o'clock." ~Amelia