Haylie – A couple hours of healing had done me good, but they could not have been any shorter. It was too bad they were not as long as the hours of time I spent traveling through the forest with a guy that hates my soul and wants me away from his family. Every second seemed like a minute, every minute seemed like an hour, and every hour, it would have been better to spend two days isolated with nothing to do but stare at nature. Even that would not be that bad though.
"So, I have taken notice to how you have the ability to strike Lightning without calling it, like the rest of us have to do, is that not right?" Stark said, the first thing he said to me the entire walk through the forest together.
"Yeah, I guess," I answered nonchalantly, even though "Kill me now"is what my mind said.
Stark glanced at me then looked forward to where he was going. "Be mindful, if you are going to be one of us, it would be best if you were to speak in complete sentences," he said.
Now, he was just aggravating me. "Yes, I shall speak with complete sentences when I respond to you," I said with a tad bit of sarcasm and annoyance.
He shot me a glare and then continued his steady pacing. I shuddered then continued following.
"We are here," he said very low and quiet.
"Here for what exa-" and with that he clapped his hands and shot a daring red lightning bolt at me, without hesitation or a moment to think I blocked the lightning sending an electrical red wave around me from his lightning and my hair shriveled up a little. "OW!" I exclaimed.
He blinked surprised. "Unusual," he said, as if grading me on my performance.
He jumped at me and I quickly jumped out of the way somersaulting on the floor and standing up again and I shot him a glare. "What kind of training is this!" I demanded.
"It is not trailing you freak of nature." In an instant, this calm walk into the forest seemed like a fight for survival to me so with a final blow I screeched and transformed into a wolf and pinned him tightly to the floor. What do you want from me! I asked, through my head.
"To tell you you are putting yourself in a position where you are going to get hurt. . . both physically, and emotionally," he said, in a very serious tone.
I changed human and got off of him. "I can understand physically, you're trying to kill me right now. . . but how. . . emotionally?"
"Okay, how 'in love' are you with Mark?" Stark asked with air quotes around "in love".
"I don't know. . ." I said looking down shyly. "I mean, I like him a lot, that's for sure."
"Don't. . . he's using you Haylie, I never did mean any harm on a human girl like you, but I did all of my actions against you because of Mark. He's using you." His eyes narrowed and he looked down, ashamed to say it.
"Don't you dare say that! That's a lie!" I growled.
"So you think! But tell me this Haylie, did you ever once say 'I love you' to him? Did he ever say it to you!" He shot at me.
"Of course!" I began. . .
Then I had second thoughts. . .
He had hesitated the first time I had ever said it to him. . . and. . . he didn't say it, exactly. But that shouldn't mean anything. I shook my head. "O-of course he has!"
"Oh, well, alright then, I guess if he's had no hesitation he really does like you, because, he's a man who can not say things he doesn't actually mean, Haylie. If he couldn't say 'I love you' to you, then he's lying. . . and getting into this mess we have with Monroe, will ruin your life, and he'll leave you, just like he did to Charlotte," he said.
With that, he was gone, back towards the house.
I wasn't going to be afraid though, Mark really does love me. . . doesn't he? But, he does hesitate. . . what will I do if he doesn't love me? My powers. . . were they all a waste. I looked to the sky.
"Will you tell me?. . . Please, sir. . . the father of the Lightnings, why have you given me these powers? I was a normal human girl, such a cluts, unable to manage taking care of myself, you set me on a course to where I was destroying half the city and now your family is going to leave me. Why did you give me these powers? They will not do you any good Mr. Lightning! I'm. . . I'm not one of your kind, I'm not one of you family, my last name isn't Lightning. I don't have the fighting skills they have, I can't. . . I can't fight evil, especially knowing I have no purpose. . . Just take these powers away from me. . . Take them back!" I screamed to the sky, as tears started to fall down my cheeks.
Just take everything back, so I can have my old life again.
I stormed off, full wolf speed, towards town.
