Colors (Krii7y)

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When I woke up, I found myself in John's chest. I carefully got up, changed my clothes, and put my sunglasses on. I walked silently over to Cameron's room where he was still sleeping, but on a new bed with red covers. I checked my phone to see it was seven-twenty in the morning. I walked into Cameron's room and shook him awake.

"John's still here so be quiet unless you want him to know you live with me. It's time for school so get dressed and leave," I whispered.

"Ok," he responded. I left his room and waited for him to leave. Once he did I headed back to my room where John was sleeping. I didn't know how to wake him up so I grabbed my pillow and smacked his face with it, waking him up.

"What was that for?" he groaned.

"It's time for school," I responded.

"Oh, right,"he groaned again.

"Get up, we have to walk to school," I nagged.

"Alright, alright," he yawned as he got up from my bed. After he brushed his hair we headed out of the house and towards the school. As we were walking I heard a muffled scream. I looked at the color and it was a bright red. Cameron? I thought to myself as I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked over to see John had not heard the scream. He turned and looked at me then I bolted towards the scream with John running behind me trying to get me to stop. I followed it around a corner where I saw Cameron's dad trying to pull Cameron into a van. As soon as John had seen Cameron he ran and punched the man in the face causing him to lose his grip on Cameron. Cameron, who was now on the ground, looked over to John who was pinning Cameron's dad to the ground so he could not escape. I ran to Cameron and helped the tall boy up.

"How did he escape?" I asked.

"I don't know, but how did you find me?" he asked me.

"I heard your scream," I responded. Just then a police car pulled around the corner to see us. The policeman who I recognized as the one who was there the night of Cameron's dad's arrest turned on his lights and sirens. He pulled over behind the van and then rushed over to where John had Cameron's dad pinned.

"I got him from here," The policeman told John as he handcuffed Cameron's dad and put him in the police car.

"Right now I have to get him back to prison, but I will stop by your house for a statement of what happened later," the policeman said as he got into his car and left.

"Mind explaining who that was and what's happening," John exclaimed. I looked at Cameron and he just nodded. I could tell he wanted me to explain because he didn't want to.

"That was Camerons dad, who got arrested two days ago for child abuse," I explained.

"Wait, so he was abusing you?" John asked Cameron.

"Yeah, surprise! my life is not as happy as I told you," Cameron responded glumly.

"Why didn't you tell me or the guys? Why does he know we met him yesterday!" John exclaimed. He was getting angry. And I know it shouldn't but that hurt me. I kept my head calm as I let them work things out.

"He found out by himself, I didn't tell him anything! And I didn't tell you because I knew you would react like this! But now I'm happy with my life so you don't need to know about it!" Cameron was yelling which hurt my ears, but I wasn't going to complain.

"I'm sorry, I just don't like seeing my friends hurt," John apologised for his reaction.

"Why didn't you tell us? We could have helped you a long time ago," John asked.

"I didn't want to bring you guys into my misfortune, so I lied to you guys about how fucked my life is," Cameron answered truthfully.

"It's ok, but just know we are always here for you and there is no need to hide anything from us," John stated. I could tell his depression was getting better because Cameron was being honest with him. The black in his voice was slowly disappearing which made me smile.

"How did you find out about this?" John asked me.

"Oh, well my mom and I could see something was wrong with him so we followed him to his house where he was getting beat by his dad, and then my mom adopted him," I answered cheerfully. We then walked to the rest of the way to school while making small talk and joking around. We went to our lockers which were also near each other. I grabbed my math stuff and turned to the other two who had already got their things. Just then I saw the group of bullies and I looked up and Cameron and John who had also noticed them and were looking at them. The leader glanced at me and when he saw me looking at him his expression changed into one of fear as he passed us with his head down trying to ignore us. John grabbed him.

"What is with you? You usually try to trash talk every time you see us," John questioned. The leader kept looking at John's face then mine and then to the ground like he was trying to get away from a monster. John noticed he was looking at me and pulled him over to me and the leader flinched and tried to run away from me, but John was keeping him there.

"Please let me go! I don't want to go near him!" he begged as he scrambled to get away, but John persisted and kept ahold of him until he gave up and stood still. Then the others to our group came.

"What's going on boys?" Mason asked. I could tell whatever he was hiding had gotten worse because there was a lot of gray in his voice. I decided to ignore it for now, because we still had the issue of the bully that is afraid of me.

"Why is he here?" Eric asked.

"He is scared of Jaren and we are trying to find out why," John answered.

"Why are you scared of him?" Toby asked as he, Ezra, and Jay all joined the group.

"If I tell you will you let me go?" he asked in a shaky voice. John nodded. I gave the bully a warning glare. He gulped.

"Nope, I can't tell you," he tried to get away again but failed.

"If you don't I will hurt you way more than he ever could," John threatened. I could tell the bully was thinking, but he must have decided to take his chance.

"He is a monster, before you got to me his eyes turned white and then everything got super loud and bright. I was in so much pain even if it was only for a second," He answered. John let him go and he ran. I looked at the ground. I could feel my eyes start to tear up. I had just made new friends and now they were going to think I am a freak. They all stayed silent.

"There is no way that happened right Jaren?" Toby asked. I couldn't bring myself to look at him. I sighed. I didn't think it would get out again, especially this soon.

"It's true, I heightened his senses for a second so he would let go of me," I answered truthfully. I knew this could either break our bonds or make them stronger, "no one knows about this except you guys, not even my parents," I continued. I decided to wait for a response.

"How does that work? It sounds cool," Mason broke the silence in the group.

"Yeah," Cameron agreed. I looked up to see everyone nodding their heads in agreement.

"Well, I have always had heightened senses since I was born. About two years ago I figured out I could transfer my senses to someone else if they are touching me, but it will shock anyone I give it to because they aren't used to all of the lights and sounds I can see and hear," I explained.

"Now it makes sense why you have insomnia," Cameron replied.

"And why you don't like the cafeteria," Jay added.

"Does that mean your pain sensors are heightened?" Ezra asked.

"Thankfully not," I answered. This made me think about how this could be a development later since new things have been happening with my abilities. I decided not to dwell on it. I didn't want them to know about people's voices so I didn't tell them. The rest of the day was normal with them asking about my condition every time they came up with another question. I didn't mind since last time people found out they called me a freak and ran away. School had ended and we were just hanging out by the lockers when I noticed the gang of bullies taking a kid out to the back of the school. Mason followed my eyes and looked at the others.

"Guys we need to go help that kid," Mason interjected in the conversation.

1534 words. Before I post anymore on Empty I'm gonna get the story line of this story to the same point and time as Empty just to let everyone know. I hope everyone stays safe and keeps a positive mind set about the whole outer world problems. Keep a smile on that face! Loves all y'all and have fun with your free time! <3