Grey Axaeus

Collin 3

Writer's note: Eh, writing action stories is just easier for me, I guess.

Grey Axaeus

By: 8R3D_P3N

(I don't have a set update plan, but I'll try to keep it fairly consistent.)

Collin 3

Halfway through Collin's first class, Chemistry, Axaeus began pacing around the classroom looking at the other students. The room was silent because of a test that they had today. All that was heard was the gentle scratches of a pencil on a piece of paper. One boy Axaeus took a particular liking to. He paused at his desk and leaned down to study his face. He was pale and had short dark hair. His eyes were dark like he hadn't slept the night before. Collin was watching Axaeus study him but he eventually shook his head and looked back down at his test to focus on it.

The class concluded itself and the class began to leave. The dark haired boy, both Axaeus and Collin noticed, had made sure to be the first one out. Collin had never really paid much attention to him before, but Axaeus's interest in him sparked an interest of his own. Maybe it was because Collin was bored and had nothing better to do, but there had to be a reason that Axaeus stayed so long at his desk. On the way to his locker to retrieve books for his next class, Collin pushed his arm up, pretending to stretch and pulled on Axaeus's clothing; he was gradually floating above the crowd of children, close to the ceiling.

“Hm?” Axaeus looked down at him. Collin simply pulled his phone out of his pocket and held it to his ear, pretending to talk to a real human.

“So what was up with him? Why were you looking at him so long?” Collin said plainly. Axaeus looked down, confused.

“You're talking to me?” Axaeus said slowly.

“Yeah. You know, the one with dark hair?”Collin talked on, eventually reaching his locker and beginning to insert his combination, setting his books on the floor to do so.

“I've seen him before.” Collin lowered his eyebrows as Axaeus answered. He opened his locker and began transferring books.

“Where?” Collin asked quickly.

Axaeus closed his eyes and seemed to focus before answering. “Last night...”

“What?!” Collin questioned further, now slightly scared of what the answer would be. Still moving, he shut his locker and started walking towards his next class, English.

“As I was sitting on your floor for several hours, I let my eyes close for long periods of time. When I do that, I see lots of things. All in a rush. And he was there. Except there was something... He was holding something.” Axaeus explained as Collin walked into the classroom and sat down.

“Okay. I'll talk to you later then.” Collin lowered his phone from his ear and slid his thumb across the screen, ending the fake call. Afterwords he put his phone back in his pocket.

During this class, Axaeus chose to sit beside Collin's desk on the floor and close his eyes, seeming to go into a trance. He didn't move and he didn't make a sound—he became an object. Collin figured that he was trying to see the dark haired boy again.

Collin shifted his focus back to his schoolwork. Although, all that they were doing in this class today was reading The Scarlet Letter, so it was easy for him to lose focus and start thinking about the dark haired boy himself.

Then again, perhaps a more interesting subject to contemplate was Axaeus again. “When he closes his eyes he sees things?” Collin thought to himself. That was an odd development.