I read the text over and over, to make sure it was not true, but it was. Gwen had called up my other two best friends for a girls night out, though there was going to be one guy. I couldn't face those two, they knew me too well and would try to make everything better, only to make it worse and make me break down and cry again.
Suddenly there was a knock on my door. I tensed, since the night out wasn't until tomorrow. I looked at my door confused, but scared. Another knock came, along with a sigh. "Fira, if you do not open this door, I'll just come in." a familiar voice called in.
"Paradox?" I questioned and opened the door to see the man standing there with his metal hand. "What are you doing here?" I asked letting him in.
"Well you see, I was out for a walk when I noticed something off in this timestream." he explained as he looked her up and down. "You should not be wearing that jacket, but the device on your wrist." he thought to himself for a moment. "Oh dear, this is not good."
I was completely confused by this man. "What is not good?" I asked frowning at him.
"Ben's brother, he's no longer with us, is he?" he asked.
Tears came to my eyes again. "Yes, he died." I said as my bottom lip stuck out and quivered some.
"You see, he's not suppose to die. He's tipped the balance." he explained. "Have you been dreaming of saving him?"
"Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?" I snapped as the tears flowed down.
"You have to go back and save him. But not today." he answered.
"Why not!?" I shouted looking at him with anger.
He walked around a corner. "That's for another day."
I rushed around the corner to find him gone. Grief washed over my body like a tidal wave, sending me crashing to my knees. I put my hand over my eyes and started to sob. I hated it when people left me with more questions than answers. Only he did that to me, but only because I let him get away with it, because it gave me a reason to bug him when I wanted to see him.
I felt something odd rush over me, I felt like I was floating suddenly. I wasn't sure what was going on, but my vision started to go dark and my heart was racing from the feeling. This scared me a lot, I wasn't sure why but most likely because I didn't know how to explain it.
I pushed door my backdoor with his arm over my shoulder. My body was so tired from carrying all the dead weight of his body on my own. I went to take one more step, only to trip and fall over. I coughed a bit, then got up and looked at him. He looked like he was only resting after having a long day.
Then I realized something, he wasn't breathing. "NO!" I shouted rushing over to him. "You have to breath!" I turned him to his back and checked for a pulse.
Panic rushed over me, as I tried to think of what to do. I was taught what to do, I knew that much but I couldn't remember how to do it. I yanked at my hair trying to think clearly before it washed over me, and I felt pretty stupid for forgetting something so simple.
I kneeled by his shoulder and quickly opened his mouth to check his airway, but I couldn't see anything. I quickly locked my hands together, and placed my palm correctly on his chest and started compressions. I counted to thirty before giving him two breaths. I waited a second for any sign then went right back to compressions. I don't know how long I did this, but soon he coughed and turned his head to the side.
"Thank god." I said grabbing his hand and putting my forehead to it.
I was so tired but I had to get him to a bed. I slowly got up and pulled him up again and dragging him to my room. I tried not to just drop him onto the bed, but that's kinda what happened when you're running on fumes and are lifting a boy who had around twenty pounds on you, maybe more since it was mostly muscle.
"Fira!" I heard someone yell.
I struggled to open my eyes, and when I did, I saw a girl with bright red hair with eyes to match holding me in her arms. I blinked in confusion as I looked at her then at the guy on my other side.
He had long black hair in a small pony over his right shoulder, he had light green eyes that reminded me of mints. I shook my head some confused, i tried to piece together what was going on, but I didn't remember getting on the floor.
"How long have you been here?" I asked rubbing my head some.
"We just got here, Babe." the girl said with a worried look.
"Fira, are you alright? Have you been eating and sleeping okay?" the guy asked.
"Yea, I… I can't remember what happened this afternoon." I replied.
"Gwen called you last night, you didn't answer. She thought you were going through a moment." Cam explained.
"Then we got here and found you on the floor, something had to have happened." Flamedra said standing up.
I slowly got up. "I don't remember." I replied as Cam grabbed my shoulder.
"Should we take you to a doctor?" he asked.
I snapped right there. "No! I'm fine." I shouted throwing my hands in the air. "Just help me find something to wear, and we can go do whatever Gwen has planed."
They looked at each other but only shrugged. They followed me to my room and started to dig through all my clothes looking for something cute for me to wear. I barely listened to what they were saying to me, but I heard something about a teens club and dancing away my sadness. They didn't seem to understand, nothing would make this pain in my chest go away. I loved him, and I regretted not telling him sooner.
"Let's take off that ugly thing on your wrist." Flamedra said reaching for the tracker.
I snapped back to reality and pulled my hand back. "NO!" I snapped. "It's stays on."
Flamedra looked scared for a moment. "What?" she asked.
"He made it for me…." I started before my voice caught in my throat. I tried to finish but it didn't want to come out, so I turned on the hologram, making her watch it.
"Oh Fira, I'm sorry. I didn't know." she said with a sad look. "It's very beautiful."
After an hour they found an outfit they both could agree on. It was one of my short, strapless dresses, matched with a pair of my black high heeled boots that went to my knees. The dress navy blue and Flamedra liked it because it went well with my body shape, while Cam liked it because it brought out my blue eyes better.
"We're going to be at a dance club for teens, who is gonna see her eyes?" Flamedra snapped.
"I'm sorry, I'd rather her wearing something that covered her more, because she doesn't need guys jumping on her right now." Cam informed crossing his arms with his diva stare. "It is bad enough we are making her do this."
"Oh shut up! For all we know he didn't love her, getting a cute guys attention is the best way to mend a broken heart." the flamed hair girl replied with a smug look.
I started to play with my badge some, until I got the holograph to play. It caught them off by surprise but they watched it a couple times over, before Flamedra realized what he was saying. Tears grew in her bright red eyes as she threw herself onto me, giving me a large, sobbing hug.
"Fira! I'm so sorry!" she cried like a big baby.
"It's okay, you didn't know." I said patting her back some. "I'll still wear the dress. I was gonna wear it on a date with him, but now I don't think I'll get that chance."
Cam smiled and gave both of us a hug, as I couldn't help but cry some. These two love me too much they would burn the world for me if they had to. They both cried with me before I was forced into wearing makeup, but it was only light make up for once.
The bass is always the loudest thing about dance clubs, I can feel it messing with the rhythm of my heartbeat, which made me nervous. I walked around some, Gwen seemed to be having some fun letting go. She really needed to do that once in a while. But when no one was looking, you could see that she missed her cousin.
"Why, hello pretty lady." a young man said with a sly smile.
"Um, hello?" I replied not sure how to do this.
In truth, I have never flirted in my life that I know of. I spent too much time studying medical books, and kicking criminal butt with Ben, Gwen and Kevin. I mean, me and Albedo had moments to ourselves were we made jokes at each other or tried to help the other understand something, but I never found that flirting since we were good friends.
"Would you like to share a dance?" he asked with his hand out.
"Huh, no, I'm just enjoying the music and lights. I don't dance, unless you count formal ballroom dancing." I informed with one my serious faces, so he'd leave me lone.
"But you look so sad, one dance." he said with a sad look. "Are you sad because your boyfriend didn't bring you here?"
Without a bat of an eye, I swept kicked his feet from under him, catching his colorful drink and bumped it onto his head, then knelt down to his level. "You listen here dick head, I don't have a boyfriend, never have I been kissed or on a date before either, but that's because they guy I wanted to do those things with, is dead! Now if I were you, I'd pick up what little pride I have left and go home to mommy." I stood up and walked over to Cam.
The guy quickly got to his feet and charged at me. I didn't even get to turn around, when Cam grabbed his wrist, which held a butterfly knife. I looked at him in shock for a moment, as a darkness took over my eyes. "Cam, get rid of this man. He's due to get a little drunk." I stated in a matter of fact tone.
"What should he have?" Cam asked.
"What ever this places will serve him. I want nothing done to him by us." I replied walking away.
Cam lets go of the guy and followed me. I felt a small headache rise behind my eyes. I groaned and rubbed my temples some. I wasn't sure what had happened but I swore I suddenly knew how that guy ends up at the end of the night. I was confused on how or why but I brushed it off and tried to have fun with my friends.
We were walking down the street by midnight, I looked like a drunk, but I wasn't. This is how I get when I'm having the time of my life, forgetting all my cares in the world. I did end up dancing some, that was really how I got carefree. But I wasn't too careless, I didn't kiss or dance with random guys.
I was out in the middle of the road, spinning with both hands above my head, one hand had a bottle of root beer. I don't remember much of what happened next, since I recall some bright lights heading towards me, then the rush I had felt before Cam and Flamedra showed up.
Bright streams of light came from the certains, making me roll over. I felt like my bones were made out of cinder blocks as I moved in any way shape or form. I tried to remember how I got home, but nothing came to mind, until I got a flash of memories in my head, ones that had never happened.
In one I did finally wear the dress on a date with him, another of having a family christmas with both of our families. A few fights, apologizes afterwards, surprises, sad moments that I couldn't explain. They made my chest so tight yet light.
"So this is what it must feel like to be crazy in love." I say to myself as tears run down my face.
There was a knock on my door. I quickly dried my face, as the person entered. I was a bit surprised to see it being Paradox, with Flamedra and Cam behind him. I blushed since I was only in a oversized shirt and underwear, so I pulled the covered over my shoulders.
"Paradox?" I asked looking at him with a strange look.
"It's time, it happens tonight Fira." he states looking at his watch some.
Cam came over to me. "Are you okay?" he asked with a worried look in his mint green eyes.
"Yeah, I just feel really tired and achy." I replied.
"Fira, you were out for four days. It's the afternoon right now." Flamedra informed. "What happened to you? You were fine that night."
I looked at her with disbelief and shook my head some. "Nice try, but I would have noticed if something was off about the time." I retorted then looked at my clock to see it was passed five in the afternoon. I flew at the clock and looked it over, to make sure no one had messed with it.
Then flew to the window, to see the setting sun. I looked shocked for a moment before I realized I was no longer covered. I quickly shoved all three out the door. "Let me get dressed and you can explain what I'm suppose to do afterwards." I shouted slamming the door shut.
I slide down to the floor and took a few deep breaths. Tonight is the night, I'm gonna get to see him in person again. My face heated up some as my heart raced so fast, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack. I started to laugh some, while I threw my closet open, I went looking for my old heroing clothes.
It was a black v neck tshirt with a brown leather jacket, plain. A pair of tight, but not skinny jeans, with a boot cut flare, then finally my beat up pair of heels, they were only an inch tall, so yes I could run in them. The ones I wore to the club were about three inch heels, and I could still run in those, but not as fact as two inch or one inch. I felt I was missing a keep part to the outfit. The two belts, but I have to throw those out because Ben wrecked them by pulling on them too much to drag me to Sumo Slammer related things.
I smiled at myself, until I noticed the shirt was smaller than it used to be. I was still five foot tall, but I forgot my chest size has changed since the two years I last wore this outfit. I sighed some, but I was gonna have to deal with it, since these were my best fireproof clothes that I owned. I zipped up the boots and opened the door.
A/N: Sorry for the long wait, I did redo a part in the first chapter. I'm also behind in my other Ben 10 fic I know that but give me a small break. I work two jobs and go to highschool still. So I have homework and other things to do, as well as seeing friends and family. I will try to get the third chapter out soon though!
