"How did you know I was going to ask you?" She looked at me in astonishment.
"Intuition, you always do, What was going to change?" I replied with a lie, hoping she would believe me.
I sighed gratefully at the sight of her shrugging and giving me a smile, a fact that meant she believed me. Still, the problem was not solved, because as the seconds passed, more voices entered my head, mixing, without being able to hear any clearly, although the truth is that I did not feel like doing it.
I closed my eyes remembering what they had taught me when I was little, how to block my mind, how to prevent voices from crossing the border, however, it was being much more complicated than the last time I had done it, because I could not get rid of everything of them. If I was honest, I was not ready for this, since I thought it was not going to happen again, so I did not know exactly how to act, how to avoid it.
I remained this way until the only thing that remained in my head was my own thoughts, indicating that I had managed to block my mind enough to hold on for a while, as I felt that I was weakening at times.
I returned to reality the moment the doorbell rang, frightening me, causing my sister's laughter and Alex's concern, yet neither of them said anything before heading for the door and opening it.
"How are my girls?" Eliza asked, embracing them before turning her gaze to me. "You must be Kaelah." She smiled at me.
"Yes, that's me," I smiled timidly. "Nice to meet you," I whispered, rising from the couch to approach.
"Nice to meet you too, sweetheart," she replied back.
I allowed the conversation to drift away soon, to be stopped paying attention, rather, I had changed the subject to finally not participate in it. Besides, my sister's excitement at the chocolate pie was enough to focus on her, to be denied the fourth piece, making her angry.
"Kara ..." I looked at her without wanting to scold her. "You've eaten three pieces, you're going to end her existence" I said to her anger. "No, don't look at me like that. So much sugar is not good, so leave the pie," I said, pushing the plate away from her.
"Kaelah ..." she began to complain. "Please" she pleaded with puppie eyes.
"I said no," I tried to stand firm.
She breathed heavily in anger, folding her arms. At the moment I remembered so much the girl that I had last seen in Krypton, that I skipped some other rules when I was in charge, well, rather, I was the one who allowed it, but when she repeated it in various, sometimes putting herself in danger ..., I could not help but scold her, tell her what was wrong and what was right.
"Wow ..., finally someone who is able to remove the food from you" commented laughing Alex.
I smiled slightly at her remark, especially seeing the look that was casting my sister, who seemed to be forgiving my life.
"I do it for your own good." I smiled at her as she narrowed her eyes.
However, my smile soon disappeared as I felt the voices trying to make a hole in my head. I was trying, I was trying to keep them out of my head, but each time they seemed to get more intense, not allowing them to be thrown out of my mind.
I did not want to get up from the table, to panic, but honestly, I could not find another option, because I had the feeling that I was going to blow my head.
"If you'll excuse me," I whispered, rising from the table, struggling to keep myself on my feet.
"Are you okay?" My sister asked.
"Yes, my head hurts a little," I replied as I moved toward the room.
No one asked anything out loud again, but I could hear their questions in my head, it was really slowly killing myself all this. I let out the tears in my eyes as the headache increased, followed by a ringing in my ears that all I could do was to hear more voices, however, what finally got me to the ground, was the x-ray vision. I closed my eyes falling to the ground, wishing it were over, sooner or later, trying to understand why I could not control it in the same way I did in Krypton.
"Kaelah, hey, what's wrong?" I felt my sister's arms around me, resting my head on her shoulder.
"Make it stop," I sobbed. "Please, Kara, make it stop," I asked.
"What?" She asked.
I tried to answer her, but I could not do it, I could not speak of whispering the smallest word, for the mere thought of what I was going to say hurt me. The pain, the beeping, everything was increasing, feeling as I weakened for moments, as my body stopped responding, falling unconscious in her arms.
No one understood what had been lived in the apartment few minutes ago, which is why they had decided to transfer her to the DEO, to carry out the tests in spite of her, because she was against using her sister in that way, but in those moments, was the only thing that could give them an answer to what was happening.
They had come to the conclusion that perhaps her sister might have experienced conditions similar to those of the powers, but there were so many things that escaped her understanding at this statement, which she did not want to make valid. If it had, why had not it happened before? Besides the fact that the kryptonite still did not affect her, it did not weaken her, it did not even leave a small mark of burn. How was that possible? She wanted to know, for she had to stay away from that stone if she did not want to suffer the effects it had on her.
She sighed more and more nervously, watching her, wanting to have a clear idea of what was happening, wanting everything to be different, for she could not help but feel guilty, she could not help thinking that she could have helped her, taught her to control them.
"When she wakes up, I want you out," Hank said.
"I need to know she's all right, please," she begged, feeling that she was going to cry if she heard a denial.
"The moment you've insured yourself, I want you out," he replied back.
She nodded in confusion, not understanding why he did not want either of them to remain in the room, why he refused her to be with her sister, she seriously did not understand.
I opened my eyes, wanting to close them again, because the same thing was happening again, and with that the voices were returning, again torturing me.
"Kaelah, open your eyes, please" my sister asked receiving a denial on my part. "I know you're scared and I understand, I was also, but we can help you, I just need you to tell me what happened" she said stroking my hair away from my face. "Please."
I denied again without wanting to open my eyes, not wanting to tell her what was happening, I could read her mind, I was listening to each and every one of her thoughts, which were related to me, all the questions she had, to which I had an answer.
I sobbed loudly as I heard the beep again, the one that increased the voices in my head, that only made the urge to scream make themselves present, because I needed to stop, I was not going to take much more. However, there was only one mind that I could not read, Hank's, and I really appreciated it.
"Kara ..., I need to ..." I tried to speak fighting the pain. "I need you and Alex to get out, please" I asked.
"But ..." she began to complain.
"You heard her," Hank said. "I'll let you know if anything happens."
I opened my eyes to look at my sister, watching the pain in her eyes, as if it were hard to believe that she had thrown it out of the room, however, she smiled slightly before leaving this.
"You're a Martian," I said to Hank.
"What did you say?" he asked.
"I can't read your mind," I explained.
He looked at me completely confused by what I was saying, and even though I knew he was going to ask a lot of questions about what I had just released, I closed my eyes and began to have more control over myself.
I sighed, searching for words, I was going to have to give so many explanations …
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Ayrin
