"How long have you known about your healing factor?" Principal Powers asked from behind her desk, staring at some files strewn amongst papers. I chuckled as I started to pick at my chipped nails.
"The minute I pulled the pole out of my stomach." I replied while looking at my nails then back towards her.
"You're already sixteen, how could you just now be getting your healing factor?" She asked herself, tapping her chin.
"Look, lady. I don't know, okay? I'm not really in the mood for a conversation about powers right now. I was close to death out there, and lost someone extremely close to me."
"Lash?"
"No! Not Lash; not like that's any of your business, any how."
"You're just like Tabitha, attitude and all."
"Don't compare me to my grandmother!" I stood up and grasped my hair in my hands on both sides of my head, attempting to hold back the tears. "I don't need anyone else to tell me that I'm going to turn out like her."
"I didn't say that, Amazon."
"But you're thinking it."
"I think you need to see something." She stood up from her chair behind the desk and walked out of the room, signaling for me to follow. She stopped in a long hallway that I'd never been in before; the walls were covered in glass trophy cases, barely any room for more to be put in. Her heels clicked off of the floor as she walked slowly towards one of the trophies. "Did you think that your grandmother was always a villain?"
"Yeah, I always thought so." She cleared her throat and shook her head at me, then let out a single laugh.
"I went here not long after she left. Everyone thought she was going to be one of the best heroes to live, including your grandfather. She was for a while… She had a picture perfect family, one kid with another on the way, she was the hero; and than the worst happened. Her best friend committed suicide after being raped. Tabitha blamed herself for not protecting her. She vowed that night that she would murder the man in the most gruesome way possible; and she did. On the anniversary of her death, Tabitha set out on a rampage. She changed her costume and killed the man, I'd rather not say how, but just know that it was horrible. But it wasn't enough for her, she killed more and more. She felt that the life of a villain was much more… rewarding."
"Mom never told me that." I could see the tears in Principal Powers's eyes.
"Did you ever wonder why Tabitha and I are friends, even after she became a villain?" I shook my head and she continued. "My older sister was her best friend."
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay." She sighed and wiped away the tears. "I understand why she did it; she was much closer to Susan than I was. I thought about taking the same track as she did, but she turned me away from it. She taught me that being a villain wasn't the best thing for me, that I should help people before they turn out bad."
"Which is the reason why you're a principal…?" She nodded her head.
"Exactly. Now I want you to promise me something. If you ever make the same decision she did, don't do it for money or out of greed. Do it for the reasons you want to."
"I promise." She smiled at me before walking away.
I was sitting in my bedroom, thinking about all of today's events. Lash kept calling my cell phone, but I put it on silent and left it lay on the pillow with my back turned towards it. He was the last person that I wanted to talk to right now. I heard a knock on the door, and yelled for my uncle to get it, not wanting to leave my bedroom with mascara smeared down my cheeks.
"Amazon, it's for you." I heard my uncle yell from the doorway downstairs. I sniffled and wiped underneath of my eyes.
"Just send them up." I shouted back, taking the headache relief pills from beside my night stand and slipping two into my mouth before I took a sip of water. Ever since Amelia left I've had constant headaches that slowly escalate to migraines. There was a knock on my bedroom door and in two seconds it opened and shut and Speed was standing in front of me.
"Why aren't you talking to Lash?" First words out of his mouth and I already wanted to punch him.
"Because I don't have to." He chuckled then looked at my face and sighed.
"I see that you're as torn up about this as he is."
"He's upset?"
"First time I've actually seen him cry, he didn't even cry when Harvey used to hit him." He paused and looked down. "I don't know if I should be saying this or not, but he said that he loves you." I shook my head and let out a cold laugh.
"He doesn't know what love is, I don't know what love is. People around our age can't know… its just infatuation."
"No it's not. He threatened to commit suicide, don't let him do it. I know that he's important to you."
"He shouldn't threaten to give up his life because of me."
"Then don't let him. Plus it's not because of you, it's because he doesn't have you."
"Like I said before, I'm done with him. He was fine before he had me."
"But he was still friends with you!"
"I'm sorry that I'm not allowed to be upset about this, but it's not my fault. He asked her to homecoming and she said yes."
"There's a reason behind all of that."
"Tell me what it is then!"
"I can't! What don't you get about that?"
"Maybe it's the fact that it involves people that I once cared about!"
"Amazon, just leave it."
"I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because maybe I am in love with him... Did you ever think of that? Maybe I just don't know how to deal with it so I push it to the back of my mind." The last part I whispered to myself.
"God. Just tell him that!"
"I don't know how, okay?" I started crying and put my head in my hands. "It broke my heart to know that he's going to homecoming with her. I don't even like thinking about the girls that he's dated in the past. It doesn't matter now."
"Yes it does. It could mean life or death for him."
"Speed."
"What?"
"Get the hell out of my bedroom."
"Not until you call him."
"I will. Just leave." He smiled at me before walked towards the door.
"Good. By the way, I know what I said before. But I take it back, go to homecoming. Stop him from make the biggest mistake of his life." With that, he left, before I could even ask him what he meant. I picked up the phone and dialed Lash's number, but when he answered I sighed.
"Don't say a word. I want to tell you that I do care about you, okay? It's possible that it is love, but I don't know. I don't want you back, because I don't know if I can still trust you. You didn't tell me and you broke my heart. Just… don't kill yourself, okay?" I basically whispered the last part of it, while letting my tears hit the phone.
"I won't, hearing you say all of that makes me think about it. Amazon, I love you."
"You wouldn't have asked her if you did. So no… you don't." I hung up before he could say anything else. I started crying even harder and dropped the phone.
"I'm such an idiot." I whispered to myself looking up at the lights in my room. "I am in love with him."
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Hehehe. I would like to give special thanks to SailorBoo and Trickster707 for their reviews.
I posted this one early : ). Yay.
This one is one of my favorites. Woohoo.
Ooo and - I wanted to spell it airlume because I like it better. :P
The finale is next, but I'm going to need to rewrite it, because I don't like some of the things I put in it.
I've already started the sequel. It's called "The Adventures of the Scarlet Vixen and Styx."
So keep a look out for it once this story is finished. :D
-Cwarnic93