Inspired by the X-Men comics. Any ideas and people who Marvel has used is entirely coincidental.
Hidden Angel
Chapter 7
I've never been in this much pain. I've actually never been in much pain, except for when my wings started to grow. It started in the middle of the night. I woke up in a burning sweat and I felt like I was getting stabbed in the back. My mother came in and realized what was happening. She told me that I passed out from the pain.
When I woke up I had wings on my back. It felt weird. I could control them with little difficulty. I tried flying, but before I could get off the ground my mom told me I needed to get inside so I wouldn't be seen.
I haven't tried flying since then. I don't even know if I can, to be completely honest. But now, I couldn't focus on that. I had to try to stay conscious.
"What do you think you're doing?" I heard someone yell in my direction. I was able to move my head enough to see that it was Marcus shoving his way through the crowd. I felt surprised to see him. I thought he was like all the other jocks of the world, mean and uncaring. But, I guess I was wrong about him.
"He needs to be dealt with, Marcus! We don't need a freak like this in our school!" My attacker said.
"You can't just go around attacking people. This needs to stop. Now." Marcus said back to him. I felt a hand on my shoulder,
"Avery, can you get up?" Marcus said to me.
"I think so," I said. He tried helping me to my feet, but it was a struggle since I was in so much pain.
Once on my feet, Marcus cleared a path through the crowd and led me through the halls until we got to the nurse. He helped sit me down, and then went to shut the door.
"What's wrong with him, Mrs. Riley?" Marcus said. The nurse came over to me, and just looked.
"He has two broken ribs, and the cuts above his eye and on his lip need stitches."
"How do you know that?" I asked her. She didn't even touch me, just stared.
"Well, this school has more mutants than the people think," she started, "I have x-ray vision so it certainly helps me being a nurse. I can also take away the pain people feel." With that, she put her hand on my ribs and within seconds the pain was gone.
"That should help with the ribs, but I'm afraid that's all I can do. If I take away the cuts on your face, people with think something is going on. I can't risk being exposed. I'm sorry."
"It's fine. Really. I didn't expect you to do this much for me, so I'm really grateful."
"Avery, can I trust you with something?" Marcus said, looking at me. I nodded.
"Of course. You did just come to my rescue after all."
"Well," Marcus said, "You're the first teenaged mutant I've ever met...Aside from myself."
I looked at him, astonished. "Wait, so you're like me?" I asked him.
"Yes. I don't know what you can do, but I'm also a mutant. I can compel people to do what I want just by talking to them."
Wow. I felt taken completely by surprise. I would never have expected that Marcus was a mutant. He seemed too popular to actually be a freak. Too ''on the in".
There was a knock at the door and Vanessa came in.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," she said, "But I got told that Avery was getting dismissed."
Marcus came over and whispered in my ear, "I told the office that you and Vanessa can go home now. I noticed that you guys were talking a lot so I figured you could use a friend now."
"Thank you," I told him. Vanessa walked me to the office, and we both signed out.
When we were outside, she turned to face me.
"Avery are you okay? I'm so sorry about what happened. I wish I could have done something. I-"
I stopped her. "It's really okay, Vanessa. It probably looks worse than it feels. But, um... I don't know if you have anything planned now, but I was wondering if maybe you would like to come over?"
"I'd love that!" She said enthusiastically. Then we started to walk. I didn't call my mother because I knew she wasn't home. James was probably at my house so at least that would ease my nerves of being alone with Vanessa. I can't believe that even after a day like this, she could still put a smile on my face.
