Toxin

Chapter ten.

Home sweet home.

We'll that's what it would be if I actually wanted to be here.

After lunch yesterday the group decided that we'll fly back to my home town as soon as they could. That was an hour after we finished eating.

"You ready to see your home town?" Elizabeth asked sensing my nerves.

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be." I replied stepping out of the airport and into the taxi that would take me into town.

I lived in a small town about an hour out of the city. Occasionally my family and me would take the train down doing various things.

"You excited Tessa!" My mother cheered squeezing my dad's hand in her own excitement.

"Yes! I can't wait to climb to the top of her arm!" I replied to my mom equally excited.

"Hunny were not actually going to the statue of liberty, we're going to see a play." My father said smiling.

"Oh my god really!" I exclaimed getting even more excited. "On Broadway?" They nodded. "I have to text Elizabeth"

That snapped me out of the memory. I looked over to the blue eyed beauty, poked her in the shoulder to grab her attention something I used to do with my friend Elizabeth.

"Yes?" She smiled looking at me.

"Mr. Brennie." I said and grinned.

"Who?" She asked. I gave her a dead panned look and whispered:

"You can't hide things from me, Lizzy." I said and she gasped.

"Oh my god Tessa! I feel so stupid! Ugh why didn't I notice before!" She exclaimed gaining the attention of everyone in the packed taxi.

"That maybe because my hair is brown and it's been I don't know 8 years! I didn't even recognize you at first I was just..." I trailed off turning the mood of reunited best friends sour.

"Remembering the past." She finished for me.

"Yeah." I sighed.

"Wait so you two know each other already?" Greg asked from the front seat.

"Elizabeth moved when we were 10. Before then we were best friends." I said.

"I didn't move Tessa, I received my power. I froze my parents and brother. I was so scared and Jenny came to my rescue; she made it seem like my dad got a job out in Cali, however I headed out to Alaska where I met Sarg. Who was in his thirty and surprisingly happy." She whispered the last part. The Taxi driver looked at us fearfully when Elizabeth mentioned her power and killing her parents so casually.

"Shit Elizabeth you couldn't have waited to tell her, now the dude knows! It's bad enough you were going to bring up her." Sarg ground out from behind us.

"Sorry" she mumbled and looked out the window but not before giving me a look I now remember as the 'I'll tell you later' look.

~•~

"Just leave him in there." I snapped at the group who were arguing on what to do to the dead taxi driver.

"Okay! Bossy much...." Tanner said pushing the driver back in the car, the guy’s body further decaying at his touch.

"We need our prints out too especially mine." I said grimacing at the memory of my father's death.

"Okay sweetie we’re going to need your finger prints ... for the investigation." The officer clad in his navy blue get up said going to grabbing my hands.

"I can do it myself." I snapped afraid he would become just like my father had.

"Why would your prints be so important? Asked Stephanie.

"Because..." I began using the same attitude she gave me. "My prints are in the system for... another death like this one. The government will know I'm back either way however they can't prove it was me without my prints so someone needs to use their fire power to melt the car." I told Stephanie pointing to the car.

"She is right you know." Sarg said out of nowhere.

"Fine” she huffed and began to melt the car as Elizabeth made sure to put out any extra fires that started.

~•~

It was around midday when I arrived back to my old place. It looked like someone else lived here. According to yellow pages my mother still lived here.

The outside no longer looked dead as if the house had been abandoned. The yellow grass I remembered was now a dark shade of green, even a small flower garden was put in place with a fountain.

This was definitely not the house I remembered. I ran my bare fingers over the lemon tree leaves that sat on the front porch instantly killing it. Then I rang the doorbell and hid behind the lime tree opposite side to the lemon.

Out popped my mother’s head. She no longer looked dead and frail but healthy and wealthy. Diamonds clung to her ears and purls around her neck as she looked back and forth to see who rang the doorbell. She sighed when she caught site of the dying lemon tree.

"Richard honey what did you spray this lemon tree with? I think it's killing it." She called into the house.

Out came a short fat man who must be Richard.

"I didn't spray it with anything darling." His voice sounded like a chainsaw from all the years of smoking.

"Hmm then what could have done this?" She asked frowning at the tree messing with the stupid plant. I unconsciously gripped the lime tree's trunk in a death grip as it spontaneously decayed in my hands making a shh sound as the tree's decayed partials hit the porches floor.

My mother let out a curling scream as she saw me and fainted. The fat man just stared between the two.

"Mom? Dad? what's going on?" Asked a small boy around the age of 10, now stepping out onto the front porch. "Dad is mom okay?" The boy frantically asked when he saw my mother’s body on the ground.

"She just fainted. Would you bring her inside and wake her up. We have a lot of catching up to do." I said smiling while stepping past the boy into my old home.

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