Chapter Four
The next days I pondered about what I had heard from the Benedicts. While avoiding them successfully I decided to not take it serious and forget about it. But exactly one week later Sky and Zed waited for me by my bike again. To be exact they blocked my way to it. I had to talk to them or I wouldn´t get home. To get home without my bike would be a very bad idea.
"Hey. Could you please let me through?" Damn, I just didn´t want this. "Only if you tell us why you´re avoiding us." Sky looked offended. Why would she feel hurt? We didn´t know each other very well, I didn´t really like her and I didn´t want her to be here. "I just don´t have to talk to you." I shrugged my shoulders. "What did you eat today?" Zed asked. I was close to crying. "Can I please get to my bicicle?"
"Zed...not when everyone´s watching." Sky murmured. Zed made one step aside and I hastily searched my bag for the key. "Look... we´d like to talk to you. In a more quiet environment. It´d be nice if we could meet up at the weekend." "Sorry, I don´t have time." "What´s there?" "I´ve got stuff to do." "Can´t you do this with us? Please? It´s really important." "I´ll see." I shifted my bike on the road and hopped on. "See you."
The following days they didn´t bother me anymore. They only called my mother to ask whether it was okay if I spent the saturday with them. I felt like six and not sixteen. To my disappointment this led to my mother waking me up early in the morning on a saturday again so she could bring me to the Benedicts. I was tired since I had worked on a book about career guidance until late at night. In the car I closed my eyes and slept a while so I needed a few seconds to recognise my environment again. And suddenly I found myself on the Benedict´s couch.
Karla handed us a gigantic bowl with apple pieces, then she disappeared. Yves sighed, then started. "You know what a Savant is?" "Yes." "You know you are one?" "I neither have a savant syndrome nor an autistic disorder nor am I retarded in any other way." "So you don´t know it..." he sighed and started explaining. "Everyone here in the house is a Savant. We all have special abilities. Zed likes to describe it with an additional gear in a car, which makes us faster and better than others." "I´m not a highflier or something."
You know we don´t mean that.
Zed´s voice in my head. "I really don´t get what you mean." "Your abilities make you a Savant. Zed can see the future, Sky can see feelings, Xav´s a healer, Will can sense danger and I´m good with energy." "I´m not..." In Yves` hand I could see a fireball. Oddly enough I wasn´t scared, I even stretched my hand towards it. I was so cold.
"Ey Sky, I´m outta here, don´t tell Sally." The fireball disappeared. "Taiyo, where´re you going?" "Not your business." I saw blood, screams, faces. Then it was over. "Wait, Taiyo, come here for a moment."
It could get interesting. She could be your soulfinder.
A door got slammed. Sky got up. "I go after him. Zed, take this on." And there she left. "Sky..." But she already was out.
Please let him, nothing will happen to him, we need you here.
I was so annoyed. Why couldn´t my head show me reality and only reality? Why did he always have to make something up? A few secons later Sky got back. "You can hear us, you have to admit that." Will said calmly. "Of course, I´m not deaf." This all couldn´t be true.
You know what I mean.
I watched the clock. Why had I to be here? I decided to ignore them all, laid down on the sofa and tried to sleep. Finally they were quiet. But my body didn´t seem to like it. Everything rotated. I turned to the other side after a while, but it only got worse. At some point I really felt sick, started to breathe faster without any way out. I knew the others saw it as they watched me attentive. I hated my weak body and I hated being observed like an animal in the zoo.
Put up your legs.
I wouldn´t make a fool of me. Then I´d rather sit. Everything rotated again.
She´s ignoring us.
Wills voice. They should stop. Everything should stop. I didn´t want this.
She´ll pass out...
I decided to get up. "Sorry, you seem to have got something wrong. As I said, I still got things to do." I took out my mobile phone and wanted to call my mother, but as I wanted to press the green button it disappeared out of my hand again. I saw it hanging in the air. "That´s not funny." I snarled. "Give it back, Xavier."
How do you know this is me?
His voice again. Very good question. But I didn´t want to cope with it or with the fact that I wasn´t surprised about seeing my phone hanging in the air. "Give it back!"
How can she be able to stand? Her energy´s completely low! Xav, how´s this possible?
Dunno. I guess it works because it has to.
"Give me my phone!" I screamed and jumped for it, but I didn´t have a chance.
Where are you, we´re going to eat!
I wanted to go to the house phone, but Zed grabbed my shoulder. I winced. "Let go." Nobody touched my out of nowhere. The Benedicts had violated that rule way too often by now. "Please set down. We just say what we want to say and then you may go." Sky plead. I sat down grudging. "So I´ll propose something. You eat something and then take a rest. Therefore we won´t bother you with this Savant-thing."
You forgot why we brought her over, Xav?!
That was Zed. In this house I was getting insane. "I ate at home. I can relax later. But I have to go now, I´ve got to do." "It´s weekend." "So what?" "And you lie in terms of your last meal." Sky added. "Sky can see lies, so don´t even try." Will said calmly again. "I´m not hungry." "Lie, too." "It´s not." I replied and gave them the evils. "I don´t need Xav´s abilities to see you don´t feel well! You´re completely pale!" "It´s winter!" I looked at the clock. Quarter eleven.
"You said if I listen I can go. So, is that all?" "You forgot the deal." "I don´t take part." "Well, then let´s talk about the Savant-thing again." "I renounce."
Everybody in this house is one. You are one. That´s why you can hear us in your head.
Somewhere deep in my head it made click. I saw a lot of pictures rushing through my head. Maybe I wasn´t insane? Maybe my head hadn´t made this up? These voices weren´t just some irrational wishes but real? Could this be true? I felt sick and my breath fastened again. "Will, Xavier, Yves and Zed Benedict, why´s the table empty? And where is Taiyo?" In all the hectic I wanted to grab for my phone but it got away.
Don´t forget the deal.
This was insane. "Xavier, give back the phone. Really, I don´t look for a few minutes and you treat her like this. You want something from her, not the other way round. Be friendly." Karla scold them. "I told you without Phoenix this wouldn´t end well." Sky looked down shamefaced. "Well, Rylie won´t run away." Karla said and smiled. I wasn´t sure about that..."Sit down, sit down sweetheart."
In the kitchen the dishes flew through the air but I wasn´t surprised at all. It smelled nice but I got sick from the smell of food. "You have to eat something." Xavier told me quietly and sat down next to me. I was happy he talked normally to me and didn´t push me further. "I´m not hungry." "You are, you just don´t recognise it anymore. When did you eat the last time?" "Yesterday." She isn´t lying. "When?" "Lunch?" "Poor child, you have to eat if you want to grow!" Karla scold me and handed me an extra serving. I hated when people picked on my height. It could be very useful sometimes and I had had to learn how to live with it. People remembering me of its disadvantages wasn´t what I needed. Usually I liked Bolognese, but today I just didn´t want to eat. "Please, just eat as much as you like." Yves whispered. Tiredly I picked in the food on my plate. Chewing was exhausting.
"What did you do the whole night if you´re this tired today?" Sky asked. I was relieved they didn´t bother me anymore. "I read." "What do you read at the moment?" Sky wanted to know honestly. "This and that." I evaded. Sky sighed. "School stuff?" Why did she let it sound as if it was a crime? I nodded and bent my head. "Doesn´t it taste good?" Karla asked worried. "No, it´s good." That was the truth. "I´m simply not hungry." Evil looks from everywhere. I realised Taiyo still was missing. "I´ll eat." I sighed. The next minutes passed by slowly. Nobody said something and it took me a while to eat. After a few bites I didn´t feel hungry anymore at all, but I couldn´t say if it wasn´t the opposite. It made me feel sick, but I realised I couldn´t stop eating yet. I needed half an hour to eat and I felt fat before everyone seemed to be content. I got even more tired, so while the others cleaned the table I lied down again.
The door opened. Taiyo entered the door, completely wet and muddy. I heard the screams. I saw blood, so much blood. The smell of iron...and then I felt all the pain behind it. Run. It smelled like Taiyo. I was awake immediately. He turned after me, then left the room and I got tired again. I only heard the others entering the room, then I fell asleep.
I bet this was Taiyo.
She was completely exhausted, this hasn´t anything to do with Taiyo.
I don´t like how he´s distancing himself from everything.
Let him, he´s gone through a lot.
I couldn´t differenciate who was talking.
So she can accept flying phones but not the rest?
Maybe she represses it. Something´s on with her, she´s always alone.
"Stop talking about me." I murmured angrily. "I knew you hear us!" I heard Sky scream happily. "Of course, I´m not deaf."
Guys, she´s awake! And she can hear us!
I opened my eyes. Only Sky sat there, a book in her hands. "Where are the others?" I asked confused. "Will and Yves are skiing, I don´t know where Xav is at the moment." "But... I heard them." "Yes. In your head." She smiled brightly and typed against her forehead. I didn´t understand anything. "You´re a Savant." "Savant." I echoed. Nothing made sense.
I grabbed for my mobile phone which layed on the table. "Savant syndrome, also known as autistic savant." I read the definition from wikipedia. "A person with a developmental disability demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal." I cited further. "How did you call my girl?" Zed growled. "You call yourself like that." A look at the watch told me it was half past two. I had slept way too long. "I have to make a call, sorry." I explained and searched for my mother´s number. "You don´t really wanna go yet?" Sky looked sad. "I´ve got to do." "That´s not true."
I don´t see her colours anymore. Her voice is...unvoiced. Something´s wrong with her.
I didn´t want that, didn´t want their care, they should let me go. "I don´t wanna be here anymore." That was the truth. I wanted to press the green button but suddenly felt sick. My hands felt too weak to hold my phone anymore. With a loud bang it dropped on the floor. "Rylie?" "Oops." I commented the situation and stared at the phone. "It fell." Speaking was bad as well. I had to get this okay, but I doubted I could stand. I had to put up my legs. At home this happened often, but not here. I really didn´t want to make a fool of me.
Xav, where are you?
Maybe I was lucky I thought and tried to get up. Bad idea, my legs gave up hold.
She needs some air.
I doubt she´ll get that far...
Put her legs up!
"No. I´ll go outside." I wanted to grab my phone, and then everything went black. Game over.
I´m so sorry I wasn´t able to upload a new chapter! I´m just stuck with the story and needed a complete break from it to get some new ideas, that´s why I didn´t translate it for a while now, too. But now I´m back and will upload a chapter as soon as I have the time!
So what do you think of Rylie now?
Llamacorn: Well, I also thought Zed would hate everything and everyone, but I don´t know, have you read Zed´s Story? There he says that before he was so hateful about everything because he saw so much cruelty in the world due to his gift, but finding Sky was like lightning up his world. Of course finding your soulfinder won´t change your whole character but I thought it was enough to make him kinda nice to others, especially with Sky around. I still will keep your opinion in mind!