He thought what he was doing was weird, but he would never have called it stalking, being only 8 years old he had never heard of such a thing. So there he was, crouched behind a bush, peering through the leaves at the boy sitting on the grass in front of him. Breaking into someone's garden was bad, but he wasn't going to steal anything so it was okay, right? He was only there to see how the boy did, well that, it was so cool. As Dan watched, the boy picked up a pebble which instantly started changing colour. Dan stared for a couple of seconds, before screwing up his courage and stumbling out of the bush. "Hi, I'm Dan!"
"Hello, Dan" said the boy, looking far less startled than he should have.
"Aren't you surprised that I just rolled out of that bush?"
"I could see you there, I thought if I ignored you, you'd just go away" said the boy simply, shrugging his shoulders.
"Okay, I was just-"
"Phil!" came a flustered voice from the back door, "Phil what are you- who's this?" said the women, giving Dan a scathing look.
"This is Dan, Mum"
"And what's he doing here?"
"I don't know"
"Then come inside at once!"
The boy (apparently called Phil) gave Dan an apologetic smile before turning towards his house. Dan decided it was time from him to go too. As he began to leave, he heard the women say to her son, "I can't believe you did that! What have I told you?! Don't you remember what happened last time?!"
Phil started at Dan's school the following Thursday, he was in Dan's year and in most of his classes, but they practically never spoke, in fact Phil hardly ever spoke to anyone, he kept to himself. So that's how their relationship continued, Dan desperately trying to strike up conversations and Phil always coming up with a reason to get out of them. Dan still tried though, he watched him from afar, he wanted to know why Phil never talked to him even though he obviously wanted to, he wanted to know how Phil did what he could only describe as magic, but mainly Dan wanted to know why he could do it too.
Strange things had been happening around Dan his whole life, but he had never really thought anything of it, they had all been coincidences. It had never crossed his mind that he was actually causing these things, until he met Phil. When he met Phil things started to make sense. Dan wondered whether they were the only ones in the world, he wondered why Phil could control it when he couldn't; it only happened when he was angry or scared. There were so many things he wanted to know, so little time, he was nearly 11, which meant that in July he would be leaving primary school, in July he and Phil would be parting ways, probably for ever.