Chapter Fourteen: The Letter

Dearest Erik,
After our disastrous summer vacation in Cuba, I've had to return to work. The school year's already started as well, and I have a lot to catch up with. I've already met your friend Jack. He's very talented.

My employers are slightly less than pleased with me due to my poor performance working with you, but I'm reasonably sure I can convince them otherwise. They've started by giving me several students to tutor in political ideology.

While working with you over the summer, I have to admit I begun to enjoy your company and those of your friends more than my own. You're very lucky to have them, and I promise not to steal them.
Alex's powers have improved quite a bit since that snowball fight. I'm quite impressed.
Raven is devious as always, and when we see each other again I shall have to ask her for more pointers.
I'm not sure if Emma's improved her telepathy, and I'm not quite sure I want her to. Tell her that when we see each other I won't teach her anything, since a cook never gives away their secret recipes.
I hope Hank's been working on the plane after its surprise landing. I can't say I want him to improve those helmets, but then again, he has you around, so I suppose it's pointless. Tell him he's by far one of the brightest students I've had the pleasure of teaching, and that I look forward to our reunion.
As for you, Erik, I can't believe I mistook you for a telekinetic for so long. It would have saved me a lot of trouble to have just asked you, and I would most likely have done my job correctly.
However, your company has been the most lovely thing since I came back to the US, and I hope you realize that I was doing my job based on what I thought was right. You were too, of course (I could tell).
Even so, there was one thing that was completely sincere.
You are the reason I am the man I am today. I have not stopped thinking of you since I left, all those years ago, and I know you feel the same (I can tell). But more on these feelings later.
I look forward to meeting you again, as in sure neither of our employers are done with each other yet. When we do see each other, instead of repeating what happened this summer, I pray we can discuss what to do over dinner and maybe a glass of wine.
If you're in the area over the next few months, I'll be going over to Germany (our side) for a few lectures and for my other job. If anything, it would be wonderful to see you at one of my lectures again. If you can't make it due to difficulties getting there, I plan to be back in America soon after, since my employers seem to have a growing interest in the workings of your government.
Although I know you've moved into my house for good, I'll be needing my room back when I come home. I suppose we never did manage to buy a house together, and I never expected everyone else to move in as well, but this will have to do. Besides, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I feel that a summer was not long enough to get to know you as well as I would've liked, so if all else fails and you do not manage to catch me in either America or Germany, I'm planning to take the summer off (mostly). My family (just me now) still owns our house in England, and a friend of mine tells me it will be an uncharacteristically golden summer there.

Sincerely,

Charles

P.S. I think I promised to take you out for an Indian at some point, and I'm sorry that it didn't happen this time, however, there is a rather good place up the road from where we used to live that I'm thinking of taking you to.

P.P.S. I nearly forgot to write this out fully. I love you.