The Disclosed Secret

Chapter Three ~ Wings

I could ask the same thing to you" I said, raising my eyebrows.

"I come here sometimes to get a bit of peace" he answered finally.

"Me too"

He smiled.

Wait what?!

Lawrie Johnson smiled. At me?

"Are you ill Lawrie?" I asked.

"What?!" he said, frowning.

"You smiled at me?"

He chuckled.

"And now you're laughing?"

He shook his head dismissively, still laughing. I grinned. It probably wasn't often that Lawrie Johnson smiled. I though about mentioning the note again but I didn't want him to get angry so instead, I walked over to him and sat gingerly beside him on the itchy grass. We sat for a few minutes in an awkward silence when I spoke.

"So, I've never seen you here before" I said.

"It doesn't matter, it's none of your business anyway" he grumbled. Now he was angry again. Suddenly I was too.

"You know what Lawrie?! I meant what I said back in school, you're so mean to everyone. Doesn't it bother you that you have no friends. It'd bother me of I were you!" I yelled.

"But you're not me!" he shouted.

Suddenly, at the bottom of the small walled-in field was a small explosion of white smoke and glitter.

"What the hell was that?" Lawrie asked, standing up and walking cautiously towards it. I followed him. There was a whispering in the air.

"Lawrie. Charlie" a whispering in the air said. Our eyes widened. Gold and silver small beings flit around us.

"What the hell Lawrie?"

"What do you mean, it's not me?"

Lots and lots of small beings whizzed around us in a tornado and they exploded into glitter. The world shrank around us. We weren't in the field. Were we? I looked around and there were large green poles around us. Until I realised. It's grass. I looked at Lawrie and he looked back at me, equally horrified. He had wings! I looked behind my shoulder and saw a similar gauzy pair of wings, identical to his, on my back.