They Called Me FIVE

LANCE

"Oops, looks like break time is over. Let me see your schedule Ava." Meira said, she lean closer to Ava to sneak a peek at the piece of paper Ava is staring intently at.

I looked at mine. I first thought this thing is a scrap with time table given by Dad. But the tour guide pointed out every minute of the campus tout that this flimsy paper is our only chance of knowing our way to school.

I huffed. I'm supposed to not think about significant things like this. But my mind will always wander. 

And will always go back to that one person…

Magnus..

He's alive. Ava is definitely not her sister. I just witness him drop out of the sky. He kept saying he came from the magical realm. He never mention any sister. Only his precious comrades who rely on him so much he's worried how are they faring without him.

No mention of sister came out of his lips…

Which confirms my suspicion. Ava. Is really Moon rose. 

She must have been nearby when I let out that black wave. It blasted Magnus out of our house. Just like how Dad manage to survive it's deadly intensity, Magnus did too. Though scathed and terribly wounded.

Meira said road in Opra. The small town where we stayed. They weren't able to get out of there when Dad and I left for Chicago. Did Moon rose and Magnus followed us here? For what? To kill Dad again?

But if that's true, they got one week to kill them. Yet, they didn't. Moon rose came in just in time to save me. In order to give me the Wayne Rec Center address. And there's that Scarred guy too.

The one oozing with the same aura as Mag… I jolted on my seat. No, the reason its exactly the same because that was Magnus. Which means, they've been watching me closely. Watching me train under Dad and Lista's guidance.

They observe my improvement… Why? To measure my worth? To be my allies? To assess my choices? I'm sure what I did to Magnus is a betrayal to the mission he forced on me. To the mission this Mark shoved on the unwilling me. 

So why…. Is Ava sitting with me on this table as if she doesn't know me? Why… did Magnus approach me, without letting his identity get exposed?

I glance at dead pan Ava. Expecting she's not looking at me. Turns out she's checking me out. When our eyes met, turquoise versus crimson she made a gesture with her fingers. 

I couldn't read them. I shake my head at her. Something in my hair pricks, like someone pulled out a strand. A second later she's holding a short blonde lock that surely looks the heck like mine.

Then the strangest thing happen. As if I'm back into the infirmary bed again. Seeing her face looking down at me, saying 'Happy Birthday Five', this time, I heard her voice in my head. 

"Come to the address after class." Is what she said. 

The doorbell rang and she's up in an instant. Turning away to head to her class. 

"Wai –"

"Lance, what's your schedule?" I stiffen when Meira's grape perfume scent filtered to my nose. I didn't notice her standing beside me. Since when...?

"Cool! We have the same schedule. Let's attend class together." She tugged on my arm. I let her dragged me out of my seat, out of the cafeteria, and into the fluorescent lit corridors at the next floor.

Where our room, 14B is.  I didn't protest to her decision we sat next to each other. I didn't mind the occasional electric current running down towards my stomach when our shoulders bump. 

My thoughts, my worries, Magnus and Moon rose's existence was gone in my mind everytime Meira looked at me with her fluttering eyelashes. She's checking me out. Not the Ava prey eye stare, but the kind of stare that fuels a man's urge to take a girl in his room kind of stare.

It's unsettling, in a way that every cell in my body wants to go home and be with her all night. There's something in her that awakens the sleeping beast inside me. I'm tempted to open the forbidden door. 

I'm tempted to enter the world of adulthood. I'm underage I know. But no man my age can help it when a girl this hot is openly checking you out. The occasional probably intentional slight touch of hand. The tickles that electrifies my very bone. The body melting eyes that seems to call out the other side of me…

Saying, 'I want you to take me. Destroy me with your manhood.'

Before I knew it, my mind was completely wiped out of other thoughts except adult stuff. Like how her skin will feel like if I caress it with my bare hands. What heaven will look like underneath that tuck thin sheet of clothes.

I can't focus on anything. No words from our teacher are coming inside my head. Only her soft breath, her warm hand tracing the veins in my wrist. Every time I looked at her, I'm smoldered at her intensified gaze.

Now…

I'm slowly transforming myself into a pervert, aren't I? To lust after a girl I just met. To easily forget the duties…

Wait, did I have one? 

I glanced at the clock above the whiteboard. The class is about to end. I counted the seconds. Desperate to get out before I lose control of myself and burst out by lust made of madness. 

"Lance.." Meira drawled. I shivered at the sweet feeling running to every part of my body. The shiver intensified and the mouth melting sensations proceed from my stomach down to the lower forbidden parts.

"You wanna…" she inch closer and whispered to my ear. "Come to my house? My parents won't be home. We can have fun all night." 

"Yes," I pant. That's when all my reason broke out.