Chapter 10
So sorry I haven't updated in a long time but I was in Hawaii for a marine biology school trip for a week and I couldn't bring my laptop with me. Plus writers block sucks!!! But here it is the next chapter. I do not own 'Hellboy' I only own Amelia, Levi, Felix, Kelly and any other characters that aren't in Hellboy.
The next morning, Amelia woke to find a note on her bedside table. She picked up the note and found that it was from Abe as she began to read it. Dear Amelia, I am off on a mission out of town with Liz and Red and I won't be back until late tonight. I was hoping to be back in time for supper but I most likely won't make it but in the mean time, don't worry and don't wait up for me. Have a good day today and don't forget to practice like I told you. Love, Uncle Abe.
Amelia set the note down as she thought for a moment, why would I need to worry? Is he on a dangerous mission? What kind of missions does he go on anyways? Amelia thought. She decided to ask Abe about it later after he got back as she got up and began to get ready for the day. After breakfast, Amelia wondered where Levi was as he hadn't showed up for breakfast that morning. She decided to find out for herself as she headed towards Levi's room and she knocked on his door.
"Levi, you in there? C'mon we gotta go to school" Amelia called.
"I'm not going" Levi called through the door and Amelia frowned.
"Why not? Are you sick?"
"No, I… I just don't want to go"
Amelia then began to remember the events that happened yesterday and Amelia sighed as she opened the door. She heard Levi groan in annoyance from his bed as Amelia made her way over to Levi who was huddled under the covers on his stomach with a pillow over his head. Felix was on the bed as well as he scurried around on the bed and on Levi's back squeaking at Levi to get up.
"Get up" Amelia said as she reached out and nudged Levi.
"No" came the muffled reply from under the pillow.
Amelia turned to Felix, "is he always like this?" she asked the little animal and Felix squeaked in response making Levi look up from under his pillow.
"Am not!" Levi said to Felix and Felix squeaked at Levi. "Am not!"
"I guess that answers my question" Amelia said and Levi glared at her before pulling the pillow back over his head. "Give me one good reason why you shouldn't go to school today" Amelia said.
Levi lifted the pillow off of his head to glare at Amelia again; "Because after yesterday Drake's just going to beat the crap out of me again plus everyone will think I'm even more of a freak than I already am" Levi slammed the pillow down over his head again. Amelia reached out and yanked the pillow off of Levi's head and hit him with it before tossing it to the side, forcing Levi to look at her.
"One: you're not a freak; you're just like me or anybody else. Two: you shouldn't be giving in to Drake like that, by not going to school you're showing that you're scared of him and that's exactly what he wants. Three: you're only a freak if you think you are. Now get up before I pull you out of that bed"
Levi groaned but got up out of bed and he began pacing around his room as he ran his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"Amelia, I can't go to school like this and neither should you. You're crazy to think that you can just show up and act like nothing happened yesterday when everyone saw what you did"
"I'm not afraid to show who I am, and neither should you"
"Amelia, you've grown up with people liking you all the time. I haven't, you don't know what it's like for me and people like me to just be pushed to the side and not be cared about. I'm made fun of because of who I am; people don't do that to you because they like you and care about you. I never got anything like that ever since I was a little kid"
Amelia had heard enough, she walked over to Levi stopping him from pacing and Amelia hugged his as tight as she could, making Levi freeze for a moment before relaxing.
"You're wrong" Amelia said, "Liz, Red, and Abe, they all like you and care about you. Kelly even likes you too. You're too busy thinking about what others think to see that you are already surrounded by people who love and care about you"
Amelia pulled away slightly to look at Levi, "I like you and care about you" she said and she kissed Levi's still slightly bruised cheek before pulling away entirely. "C'mon, we gotta get to school or we'll be late"
Levi stared at Amelia for a short moment before nodding and Amelia smiled as she left Levi to get ready. After a few minutes, Amelia waited by the elevator with Myers as Levi finally showed up with his backpack hanging over one shoulder and Felix poked his head out of the backpack for a moment and Amelia giggled as Felix pulled his head back into the bag. Myers and the two teens piled into the elevator as they headed out to the car to go to school for the day.
Myers dropped the two teens off at the school and he drove off as the teens made their way towards the school. They were suddenly stopped by hounds of paparazzi and news reporters with cameras as they surrounded Amelia and Levi and shoved microphones into their faces. Levi groaned and muttered something about stupid parasites as he took Amelia's hand and attempted to shove his way through the large media crowd dragging Amelia along with him. Amelia began to feel a little claustrophobic and she didn't like the feeling at all as the two teens were unsuccessful in getting out of the media crowd. Levi could see Amelia's discomfort and he bellowed at the media to move as his voice began to sound like that of an angry tiger. A few of the media backed off but the rest still pressed the two teens for some juicy news. Finally, the principal and a few other teachers came out and were successful in getting the two teens out of the crowd and into the school office.
The principal guided Amelia and Levi into his office and he had the two teens sit down in a few chairs. Amelia immediately sat down as she rested her elbows on her knees and buried her face in her hands. She could now understand why Abe didn't want the media around her and her mother; they would have never left them alone.
"Levi" the principal said, "Could you get Amelia a glass of water please?"
Levi nodded as he stood and left to retrieve the glass of water and Amelia took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.
"You are not used to being swarmed like that are you?" the principal asked and Amelia shook her head in response. "I have been informed of your new abilities as agent Manning is a friend of mine. I know about the BPRD and I can assure you that I will do my best to help you whenever I can"
Amelia looked up with a slight confused look on her face, "you know about the BPRD, sir?" Amelia asked and the principal nodded as Levi returned with the glass of water in hand and Amelia thanked him as she took the glass and took a few sips.
The principal began speaking again, "it helps to know about certain things when you're a principal with students who have special abilities like you two. It makes it easier for the both of us"
"Are there other students like us?"
"Not that I know of. The only ones I know about are the children from the BPRD, there might be a few but they haven't been brought to my attention at the moment. So far, it is only you two that I know about" the principal glanced at his watch, "the bell is about to go soon, you'd better get to class"
Amelia nodded as the two teens stood and left the principal's office and began heading to their class for the day. To Amelia and Levi, walking through the school hallways just to get to class was awkward and nerve racking. Amelia could see most of the other students staring and glancing in the two paranormal teen's direction with weird looks on their faces. They finally made it to their first class and Levi immediately took his spot in the back and Amelia reluctantly took her spot near the front of the class as Kelly walked in and sat beside her.
"I saw the news crew and photographers, you okay?" Kelly asked and Amelia nodded a little.
"Yeah, I didn't think about the paparazzi showing up, I just hope we can get out of the school without them swarming us again" Amelia answered and the two quieted as the bell went and the teacher walked in, beginning the class.
By the time the class ended, Amelia could practically feel almost everyone's eyes on her knowing full well why they were staring. She knew that there were only two people in the room who weren't staring, minus the teacher. The bell finally went for lunch and Amelia had to force herself not to charge out of the class room like a scared idiot as she attempted to calmly stand and walk out of the room with her stuff in hand with Kelly following behind her. Levi caught up with them later on during lunch as the three sat alone at a table in the cafeteria and Levi snuck a few crackers into his bag for Felix.
"How do you do it, Levi?" Amelia asked and Levi looked at her with a confused look on his face.
"Do what?" Levi asked back.
"Deal with all the paparazzi and people staring at you funny if you do something"
"I dunno I've been invisible in this school for so long I don't know what to tell you. The paparazzi come and go with the BPRD, if you're new they'll try and get a story out of you for a few days and then they'll back off until something else happens"
"Great, now I just have to deal with this for a few days I guess"
The teens were quiet again as they ate their lunch and Amelia was surprised to see one of Drake's gang members come over to their table and Levi immediately stiffened.
"Hey" the gang member said to Amelia.
"Um… hi" Amelia answered.
"Amelia right?"
"Yeah, why do you care?"
"I'm Austin and I was wondering if maybe you would… I dunno, go out with me sometime?"
"Why? You and all the rest of your little gang are always picking on my foster brother and then me yesterday. Why do you want to go out with me?"
"I actually wanted to apologize about that, Drake just didn't understand at the time and we promise not to bother you and your friends anymore"
Amelia almost missed the way Austin said 'friends' as if he was saying that Levi and Kelly weren't actually her friends. Amelia thought for a short moment, "So you're saying that if I go out with you, you and the others won't pick on Levi anymore?"
"I swear I won't let the others lay a finger on him"
Amelia took another moment to ponder Austin's request to go out with him and his promise.
"Well… I guess one small get together wouldn't hurt" Amelia said and Levi and Kelly's eyes widened in shock at Amelia.
Austin smiled, "Great, so a movie and pizza on Friday night after school sound good?"
"Sure, see you then"
Austin smiled as he said his goodbyes and left back to the rest of the gang. Amelia turned her attention back to her friends and found that they were staring at her in shock.
"What?" Amelia asked.
"Did you not just see what happened just now?" Levi snapped.
"So? What of it?"
"He's part of Drake's gang! How can you just up and go out with one of the guys who beat me up almost 24/7?"
"At least he apologized. Maybe he's different than the others; I might as well give him a chance"
Levi groaned as he rubbed his temples and Kelly just shook her head. The bell finally went for the end of lunch and the three of them gathered their stuff and headed towards their next class.
The rest of the day flew by and Amelia and Levi made their way outside to meet Myers with the car, hoping that they wouldn't get swarmed again. Thankfully, there were no paparazzi and news cameras waiting for them as they hurriedly rushed to the car were Myers was waiting for them. Amelia decided to go back to her room to do her homework and practice meditating again while Levi and Felix escaped outside for the rest of the day. Amelia walked into her room and sat on her bed as she finished her homework for the day and she picked up the 'Nature Wielders' book that Abe had given her. Amelia went over the meditating instructions once more before setting the book down in front of her and sitting in a comfortable cross-legged position. She let her arms drop across her lap as she closed her eyes and concentrated on her breathing. After she finally got the hang of the breathing to a count of seven, Amelia was finally able to try and relax and let the meditating do its job, whatever that was. Within fifteen minutes, Amelia suddenly felt extremely relaxed and thought that she had fallen asleep when her mind was suddenly whisked away to another world.
Amelia opened her eyes and was shocked to find that she wasn't in her room anymore but in an endless green field with a delightful breeze blowing by gently and silently. Amelia looked up and saw a crystal blue sky and she slowly stood up and gazed at the endless green grassy field before her. She thought she heard something, or someone, behind her and she turned but saw nothing. She sensed something behind her again and she quickly turned again just in time to see a faint image of green gracefully disappear with the silent breeze. Amelia sighed and she sat down on the grass as she glanced at her surroundings feeling totally at peace. Suddenly, the image of green appeared with the breeze in front of her and Amelia's eyes rested on the green image. The image was of her sitting the exact same was that Amelia was on the grass but instead of her chocolate brown hair and normal everyday clothes, Amelia's 'other self' had bright green hair like luscious grass with multiple colors of wild flowers scattered in her hair. The 'other self' wore a loose green shirt that flowed freely with the wind and a long dark green skirt that fell freely and loosely around her and on the grass. On each arm, green vines wrapped themselves along the 'other self's' wrists and up halfway up her arm with a single rose that held it all together at the top of the vines. The 'other image' wore no shoes and was barefoot with a wild flower ankle bracelet on one ankle. On the 'other self's' face was an orange and red flower tattoo underneath and near her right eye.
Amelia stared at her 'other self' in shock as she looked her 'other self' over. The 'other self' began to stand and Amelia found herself standing as well in unison with her 'other self'. Amelia reached out to her 'other self' and the 'other self' did the same and the exact moment that their hands touched, Amelia was suddenly whisked away back to her own room in a split second. Amelia opened her eyes and scanned her room for any trace of her 'other self' that she had seen.
Did I really see that or did I just fall asleep? Amelia thought and then she had a thought that made her jump off the bed and rush to her conjoined bathroom and she stopped in front of the mirror. There was no green hair, no green clothes, no vines and roses on her body, no orange and yellow flower tattoo on her face. Nothing. There was nothing that showed her any trace of her 'other self' that she had seen in the field.
Maybe I should read that book some more, maybe it has an explanation of some sort. I hope Amelia thought as she walked out of the bathroom and grabbed the book off of her bed and began reading from where she left off. Unfortunately, Amelia didn't get any time to read the first sentence when Myers knocked on her door calling her for supper. Amelia sighed as she set the book down making a mental note to read it tonight after supper as she headed out of her room and followed Myers to the kitchen to eat.