Selfish

Chapter 5: Troubled

I sat on the dock and thought back recalling some child hood memories. During winter, I would come out here and skate on the ice. The pond is medium sized and would always freeze over. It was always my safe haven and only mine. There is a field of tulips right next to it and I believe someone planted them for a meaningful purpose. It was one of the most beautiful sights to behold.

Just as quickly the memory was long gone, I was no longer that innocent little weakling anymore even without my powers.

Left with Anthony, I grew up with a shitty step dad while my mother was awol and I was a young kid stuck with a careless step dad that only seemed burdened by me I'm sure he would've thrown me in foster care if he had a choice. I despised him for that and he had told me my mother died after she went missing but she wasn't obviously because I watched her die a few months back. It was just another lie to cover up his faults or maybe it was my mothers doing to escape him instead of protecting us like she claimed. I had so many questions and no answers to my thoughts, just silence, and anger, soon I realized that nobody is worth me getting hurt ever again. Not even her, she was just some girl with not a clue in the world. Why should I care for her, why should I care about her being a threat? I had even given up on finding Axel because I decided I was done with this bullshit after everything I suffered.

In the end, I am going to be that selfish guy that everybody hates, and I didn't mind it at all so why was I still thinking of her? I let out a frustrated groan, I just need to let it go and stop thinking of that girl, after all, I have only one intention with her if they proved her a threat, I would kill her. I would never let someone come up so powerful at a risk between good and evil, and I am so fucking helpless right now and I can't defend myself. I sometimes wished that I never had to be faced with this life but it was the simple fact that my mother somehow developed powers and raised me to control them behind my step dads back before she disappeared. I wonder if my mother had anything to do with my real dad not being able to return or those men, but if that was the case why would her dying words be to find him? As if, him leaving was a good reason and she wasn't at all heartbroken by it. So it had to be because of the men .

That day when my mother was discussing our planned trip to go practice in a more secure place. I didn't know what that meant at the time but when I tried to ask, she would just stay silent and kept preparing me. That was when these men busted in our home and went after my mother Eleanor, my father Axel had tried to fight them off but in the end, there were so many and I was just a kid and he told me to run. And what did I do, I ran like a coward and I refuse to ever be that again. I should've listened to them when they told me that my powers were dangerous. But I was a kid and refused to believe my father, and then I failed them both and made it my goal to get revenge.

That was the last day I saw my real dad, I hardly remembered him. Maybe if I stayed I would've known what happened to him and why my mom took me and ran. I wondered if it was hard for her to leave Axel and why he never came back after that. So only to gain money from my mother, my step dad married my mother.

I remember it still clear in my memory the day I got my revenge after they split us apart and I slaughtered all of them with my powers. I was a furious killing machine, feared by all enemies until Gregory tried to cross me, the one good thing about those months of my mother real death is I got rid of Gregory. Somehow it felt like this wasn't over though, especially with the new addition to the world of power. It was just getting started and nobody is prepared for the road ahead. All I know is that this was gonna be a disaster and I will be ending it by killing that girl if she is a threat. My phone went off and I glanced at a message from Aidan.