I finally had time to edit and revise this. I didn't realize it was going to be super long until I looked at the clock. Where I am it's 11 pm right now, oh well. Don't count on it being perfect. Lol.
Unicorni: The guess you made is somewhat true. The only thing I'm saying about it is it's in a future chapter.
Please excuse grammar mistakes or any other errors.
Marcus's POV
"Where are we going?" Cece asked as we get out of the mall.
"You'll see." I say taking her hand.
It was quite a walk through the forest. At times Cece would tightly grip my arm, fear of what could happen. When we finally got to a small pond I stopped.
The water was crystal clear with cattail plants at the edges. It was a small space surrounded by trees. Some of the sunlight can't reach the ground from all these trees, it's dim. The wild flowers are dispersed everywhere.
"What are we doing here?" Cece crouched down letting the water seep between her fingers.
I get down beside her also touching the water. "This is harder than I thought."
Cece turned to me, surprisingly our faces were really close. At least 5 inches apart. As she cups my face I feel her hands trembling. She is totally crushing on me. "You can tell me."
"I do not know what this feeling is. I think I fell in love with you, as in love at first sight." I blurt out looking at her straight in the eyes.
Her eyes gleam bright in the sun. Cece smiles getting closer, now there is only 3 inches of space space left between us. "Really? I thought you didn't or something!"
I take my right hand, stroking her hair lightly. "Of course not. You are a beautiful, unique, special girl."
Cece gives me a hug, resting her head on my chest. I kissed the top of her head. My hands slide down to her waist, Cece changes positions so we are facing each other at the same level.
"I don't know what to say." Cece said resting her arms on my shoulders.
"Just follow your heart." I say planting a kiss on her left cheek. She freezes for a second looking in the other direction. Cece is no longer looking at me.
I act sad of what I did. "Sorry about that you kno-"
Cece turns around, her face wasn't as close as it was before. "It's ok. I don't mind what you did."
I inched closer to her, "so you don't mind if I am this close."
"No, not at all."
"How about now?" Our faces were much closer, possibly an inch or two apart.
Her breathing was getting much heavier, "no."
I was leaning in, so was she. A noise startled her, she jumped and turned around. "What was that!?"
"Calm down, its just a bird." I started laughing, then sudden pain takes over my head. Not as bad as before, but still considered pain.
The more I blinked, the more my vision got blurrier. I let go of Cece and collapse to the floor. "C-Cece I can't see you and... my body is numb."
Another symptom from my breakdown. I tried to get up or move, but I can't. I try not to blink a lot, Cece starts freaking out.
I can barely see her, yet I can hear her. "Marcus! What do I do!?"
"T-There is nothing you can do. We just have to wait." I want to cry my fear out. You can't Marcus, you're an android. If I was human I'd be crying so much. Taking the pain away with tears.
"Marcus, it's ok. Cry." Cece tries to help me sit up. I try to move, but I can't feel my body, so I don't know if I am moving. After moments of trying we both give up. I am still on the ground tired.
Cece hugs me when I'm down. She whispers in my ear, "don't worry you'll be fine."
"No I won't, you don't understand. I don't cry, I can't! And I'm going to die soon." My vision starts to clear up, I can see her better.
She gets up slowly and confused. "What do you mean by that? Y-You're going to... die?"
Slowly, I can feel my body again. Everything starts to feel better. "Yeah, I'm not what I seem. Please don't ask anything. We should go."
Cece was still confused, yet agreed to leave. I get up and look around to remember where we went. We walk through the woods until getting the dirt road. The road leads to another one. Once we walked both roads, we finally got to the main road of Seaford.
"Should we go back or do you want to go home?" I ask her looking to my right and left.
"How about... you can come over! My mom would want to meet you." Cece exclaims with excitement.
I smile, "Let me just call my dad."
Cece nods and I walk a few feet so she wouldn't hear me.
Douglas: What Marcus? I'm busy.
Marcus: Cece wants me to go to her house. She wants me to meet her mom. Haha this is great she thinks I love her!
Douglas: Ok, good she suspects nothing. Make her feel like you care and you must get the trust of everyone.
Marcus: Only two people don't seem convinced.
Douglas: Who? They must suspect nothing!
Marcus: Dad chill. Jack and Rocky will be convinced okay? They'll believe I'm a good person.
Douglas: They better! Ok I got to go. Krane still doesn't know about the kids escaping and the other stuff.
Marcus: Still? But he's always one step ahead? There's another thing I have to tell you.
Douglas: What is it?
Marcus: I had another breakdown
I could hear Douglas sigh through the phone.
Douglas: Ok. Just be careful and tell me everything that happens. Got it? Bye.
I hang up and turn around. That was a little strange that he told me to be careful. It was actually rare that he told me things like that.
I shove the idea to the back of my head and walk back to Cece, who is looking around place. I walk up to her with my hand out. "Are we going?"
This is going well according to my plan... Krane's plan. Sometimes I wonder if he knows how to smile. From what my dad told me, he can't crack a smile. He says Krane likes to get the job done without having a little fun. What a wet blanket. I can see why he yells a lot.
So far Cece is so into me. Logan, Jerry, Kim, and Milton trust me. I just need to convince Jack and Rocky that I am a good person with good intentions. It shouldn't be that complicated.
I just hate that I got another break down symptom. I'd rather be a human with glitches, then to die at an early age with pain and no glitches.
From the things I told Cece today, I can control her from the palm of my hand. She smiles at me, "yeah lets go."
Adam's POV
Chase came down and so did Bree. Tasha had ordered two pizzas. Yes! More pizza for me!
"I can't believe Marcus showed up with our friends." Leo says.
"Maybe he really wants to friends with them." I say eating my second piece.
"Oh yeah totally. That's definitely what he wants to do." Chase takes a drink from his soda.
I roll my eyes at him. "Did you not hear me. I just said that."
Bree stays silent, watching us argue about Marcus. I have my doubts about him, but I can't find the correct words to use. I stay quiet thinking how to put the words in a sentence. Chase stares at me with an odd look. Leo and Bree are paying more attention to the TV than Chase and I.
"What are doing?" Chase asks.
"Trying to figure how to say Marcus is a 2 faced liar." I explain to him.
"You just explained what he is." Bree argues. Leo snickers at her comment, just like Chase.
So far I had eaten 5 slices during the whole conversation. My stomach is calling for more. Right when I'm about to get another slice, Leo slaps my hand.
"Hey! Why'd you do that for?" I ask.
"I want the last slice!"
I looked over at the box and it was the last slice. I glance back at leo, who narrows his eyes at me. We both look back at the piece thats left, racing to get it. Just then it floats up across the room. Leo and I look at each other with confused looks.
"None of you are getting it because I am going to eat it." Chase said as the pizza slice landed on his plate.
"Aw! Come on!" I yell glaring at him.
"You had five pieces! This would be my third one!"
Leo crosses his arms landing on the couch. "Fine."
"No wonder why you're so small." I joke.
Chase looked up from his plate, "I'm 5'8!"
"No, what I meant was— nevermind." This kid thinking he's still going to grow.
I had drank all my soda, ate five slices of pizza and I'm still hungry. "Then what else am I going to eat? There's still a big, tiny hole that I need to fill."
"Big, tiny?" Bree asked drinking from her soda.
"Duh! The space is small, but big for my stomach." I shake my head at them. They just don't understand.
I get up from where I was sitting, heading to the kitchen. Right when I open the fridge door, it pops off. "Awesome! It came right off!"
Leo came running into the kitchen, "what did you do?"
"I just opened the fridge and the door fell off." The door was still in my hand.
"What was that crash?" Bree came in with Chase following.
"Again... his strength needs to be recalibrated." Chase motioned me to go down to the lab. I do not want to be dialed down... again.
Once in the lab I walked into my capsule. "Hey what was my strength number?"
"Apparently the level was risen to a nine. That means I have to lower your level to match your measurements." Chase said typing stuff on the cyber desk.
"Don't need to give me a life story just tell me the number." I comment through the capsule.
Chase rolled his eyes at me. "It was a nine. I'm going to dial you down to a seven, since you've grown."
Chase hits a green button. I stand motionless waiting for this to be over. I get out of my capsule and Leo keeps looking at me. "What?"
"Nothing..."
Leo walks out of the lab. I was also about to, but remembered something very important. Oh yeah! Bionic brother toss!
I smile and storm over to Chase. He turns around not knowing what I was going to do. Once I pick him up he starts squirming around. I manage to throw him across the lab. "YES! I'm still stronger than you!"
"You gotta love the bionic brother toss." Bree and I fist pump before she walks upstairs.
Chase gets up rubbing his head, now his hair is all messy. "Do you always have to do that?"
I keep laughing, "obviously, cause its fun!"
"One day I'll get a concussion and it'll be your fault. Ow." He goes upstairs still rubbing his head.
I shrug at the thought, he won't get that hurt. I'm not that extreme, am I?
When we got upstairs the movie had finished. We didn't get to see the ending! Everyone went their separate ways since there was no other point to be here anymore..
I go to my room and get a control from the shelf. Time to play some video games!
Nobody's POV
Kim and the rest get back from eating. They went to the dojo just to chill and talk with Rudy.
"Hey Rudy what's up?" Jack took a seat on one of the blue, stacked mats next to Kim.
"Nothing really since you left. One thing that I really want is Marcus to join the class. I saw the way he took you down Jack." Rudy walked over pointing at him.
Logan gave Rudy an idea. "Hey Marcus is Donald Davenport's nephew. Maybe we can also ask about bringing him over here."
"You're right! Then I can get my money!" Rudy said the noticed there was twins. He was very late on the news. "Woah, two Jacks."
"At least he didn't faint." Kim said while Jerry snickered.
"Hey! Not my fault there are three pairs of twins. They didn't know each other!" Milton lightly screamed at Kim.
Jerry made everyone confused because of what he said. "So if Bree and Chase are siblings, and if Brody and Sloane are their twins. Why are Brody and Sloane dating?"
It took a moment for the group to realize something. Milton was the first to speak. "I can't believe it, Jerry is right!"
Rocky gasped putting her hand over her mouth. "What are we going to tell them."
"I- I don't know." Kim said glaring at everyone.
Meanwhile when Brody got irritated, he walked over to Sloane's house. He prefers to take a walk when enraged by something.
Marcus won't leave them alone. He will stop at nothing until he sees them suffer. Brody would occasionally mumble some things out. "When will he stop?"
One question, is what torments him. What or how will he tell Sloane? I can't just rush to the topic, he thought. If he does, it'll be over faster and that's what he wants. But too quickly can make everything difficult.
"Think Brody, this is important!" He says to himself once more.
Brody finally gets to Sloane's house. He walks to the front door, raising his hand slowly. Shaking, his hands knock on the wood. He tried to look comfortable, yet inside he's full with fear.
Brody waits patiently, you can hear footsteps coming to the door. Sloane opens the door, her face lights up when she sees it's Brody.
"Hey."
Brody tries to simulate to be happy like nothings wrong. "Hey."
He goes in and Sloane closes the door. Sloane's mom checks who it is. Once she sees it's Brody she greets him.
Sloane goes up to her room with Brody following. When they get there, Sloane plops down on her bed.
"What's up?"
Brody sits next to her. "Nothing much, but I did get a horrible surprise."
She giggle at what he said. She lays down using Brody's right thigh as a pillow. Her feet are on the pillows of her bed.
Brody starts stroking her hair. "Are you ready, cause knowing you, you'll stiffen up."
"Yes I'm ready." She positively says.
Brody started talking, "when I went to the dojo today. Guess who was there?"
"Who?" Sloane curiously asks.
"Marcus. He's going after our friends! I can feel it." Just like Brody said, Sloane stiffens.
Her voice shakes as she sits up. "H- how. Why is he doing this!?"
Brody wraps his arms around her. "He wants us to suffer, but I'm not going to let him get near you."
"Have you seen what he can do!" Sloane turns around facing him.
They hug each other, then Brody kisses her. She kisses him back then realizes something. Sloane pushes him away looking at her hands. Brody doesn't know the sudden change she has towards him.
She starts playing with the bracelet on her left wrist. Brody looks at it, clearly remembering when he gave it to her.
Brody was at the dojo practicing with Jack. They both are doing very well, according to Rudy. Also the only guys that are black belts. Rudy went to his office to handle paper work. That's when Sloane came in.
Jack looked at Brody who had his cheeks lightly pink. Jack knew Brody liked her, yet he was just like him. Denying his feelings towards someone. Jack nods at Brody signaling he was going to leave them alone.
Right when Sloane was about to enter the changing rooms, Brody stopped her. "Hey"
"Hey Brody."
He didn't know what else to say and just gave it her. She read what was engraved on it."Best friend."
"I would of gave you a necklace, but that was all I could afford." He nervously chuckled while scratching the back of his neck.
"Brody it's lovely." She placed it on her wrist, then hugged him. He smiled to himself knowing that she possibly has the same feelings.
"You still have that?" Brody asks.
"Of course, but that's not the point!" Sloane snapped at him. They both wanted to tell each other without hurting the other person.
Brody didn't want to hurt her, but he had to do this. "Sloane I've been thinking about our relationship and I think we—"
"Should break up... I know, I was planning to tell you that." Sloane didn't want to do this, they had to. For their own good.
"What's your reason?"
Sloane held back the tears. "We could possibly be related."
Brody felt a lump in his throat. They. Are. Over. "We can still err- be friends."
"Yeah... friends." She awkwardly says.
There was an awkward pause between the two. Brody stands up walking out, before he left Sloane said bye. Sloane's mother goes the door where Sloane is.
"So what happened?" Sloane's mom didn't know yet.
"Mom we... broke up."
She let out a small gasp. "Oh."
Before Sloane goes up the stairs she tells her mom, "I need to be alone right now."
Once she gets to her room she slams the door shut. All she could think of was to hug her knees tight to her chest, sitting in a corner of her room, rocking herself back and forth. She can't contain the tears any longer, they come trickling down her face.
All she wants is a normal life. She has it and it's not how she imagined it.
Marcus's POV
Cece couldn't wait to show me her family. She opens the door of her hotel room and I see her mom and some kid. He must be her younger brother.
"Cece who's this?" Her mother asks.
"This is the guy I told you about." Cece sat on the couch, she notices the kid and shoos him away. He doesn't listen.
Cece's mom walks up to me with an unsure look on her face. "So you are Marcus..."
"Marcus Davenport." I shake her mom's hand. "May I ask what's your name?"
She says, "Georgia Jones."
I let go, sitting next to Cece.
Cece turns to the boy, "Flynn go away."
So that's his name. Flynn tells Cece, "Come on! Can I at least introduce myself and tell him what happened to that Chase guy!"
"Fine." She huffs and rolls her eyes.
Flynn starts introducing himself. "I'm Flynn, Cece's little brother. Are you two dating?"
I nod my head and he starts laughing. "No seriously."
"We are and how do you know my cousin?" I ask with one eyebrow up. I could see Cece blush.
"Woah your Chase's cousin!?"
Cece said, "I thought he was your brother?"
"Its better off that we know each other as cousins." I said a little harsh to her. "Sorry."
Cece shook her head. The table was almost set up for lunch. Flynn and his mom sat on the right side of the table, Cece and I on the left.
"Hey where's your dad and Logan?" I ask sitting patiently.
"I think he's getting something at the store. Logan should be here soon." Cece kept eyeing Flynn.
Their mom was placing the lunch on the plates. By looking at her, she does not cook. Obviously I didn't tell her that, it would give too much away.
We were having 'homemade' pizza. With really it was frozen store bought and heated. Everyone was seated that's when Logan came in.
"Hey guys... Oh hey Marcus. I didn't notice you there for a moment." Logan waved, then went to his room.
"Sorry about him, he's like that." Georgia says.
"It's fine Ms. Jones, we're really great friends." I say trying to eat the food.
"Hey are you going to eat that?" I look across from, Flynn had said that. His mom smacked him in the head.
"No it's fine, I'm not hungry anyway." I give the piece to Flynn, he eats it like an animal.
Cece leans next to my ear whispering, "I wish you didn't see that."
"Trust me I've seen worst." I reply looking around.
Everyone else kept eating. We talked while eating. Logan came back here to get a slice. Their dad eventually came from where he was.
~30 minutes later~
I checked the time on my phone, it was getting late.
"Oh wow time flys by so fast. Sorry, but I have to go. My father wants there before it gets dark out." I lie, getting up.
Flynn whined, "aw, we didn't get to play any video games."
I laugh at the statement. They all said bye and Cece followed me out into the hall.
"When do we see each other again?" She leans on the wall by the door.
I lean close to her whispering in her ear. "Soon."
I move away walking to the stairs. When I get to the stairs I use my super speed to go home. Instead of using the main doors, I use one of the back doors so nobody would see me or feel a rush of random wind that's left behind.
