He ran with her in his arms to Eliza's house, worried, not sure what had happened, for she had only lost consciousness in his arms.
He insisted on the door being received by Alex, who watched them worried.
"What happened?" She asked, letting him in before calling her sister. "You have to take her upstairs." She led him to a room, where he deposited Kaelah on the bed.
"What happened?What have you done?" Kara asked, genuinely angry and worried at the same time.
"I don't know, she has fainted in my arms," he replied confused.
"Zyan, can you get out?" Alex asked, so he nodded without wanting to, but knowing that was the best for her, so he left that room.
I opened my eyes confused, quite the truth, but I was aware of what happened, I knew it perfectly, wich made me afraid, because I had just begun with this to have to disappear so quickly.
I could not help sobbing, I needed to vent, but I was not surprised to hear my sister talking while stroking my hair.
"Shh, calm down," she said, wiping my tears.
"My ... my powers ..., they are gone" I ended up sobbing.
My sister hugged me against her in an attempt to calm me down, but the truth was she was afraid, too, were they coming back?
She pulled me away from her to watch me, looking at me for a couple of seconds, then smiled at me.
"Kaelah, do you know that happened to me when I started as Supergirl? And Clark, many times, so I can assure you that they will return," she said, stroking my face.
"I'm scared, what if it's like in Krypton?" I explained, panicking.
"No, it's not like that," she said. "I can assure you that they will return." She stroked my hair. "But first you have to calm down and finish relaxing." She smiled. "Come with me, I think they've already arrived," she said, but I followed her without much objection.
When I got to the living room and saw Kal-el, I could not help but run up to him to hug him, getting him to hug me back.
"Hey, did you miss me?" I nodded at his question. "Have you grown up, Kaelah?" He asked, lifting me off the floor. "Hmm, I don't think so." He smiled, leaving me back on the floor before shaking my hair. "I've missed you, Keaks." He hugged me again.
"Clark, be careful with her," she said, who I assumed it was Lois.
"I'm being careful," he complained, stroking my hair. "Well, Kaelah, she's Lois, and Lois, she's the little one in the family," he introduced us.
"Nice to meet you," I whispered timidly.
"Likewise, sweetheart," she smiled at me.
I returned the smile, feeling that I would want to flee because my cousin was about to comment something I would not feel like listening or responding.
"Hey, you're doing a great job like Kryptogirl," he said, looking at me. "I'm proud of you, Keaks." He smiled as I squeezed my jaw. "What's wrong?" He asked worriedly.
"Nothing." I bowed my head.
"No, something happens, what is it?" He asked again.
"I have no powers, they're gone ..." I replied trying to avoid the tears. "I'm afraid ..., I don't know if it is as in Krypton" I looked altered.
"Hey, Kaelah, that has happened to me many times, even to Kara" he said. "Don't worry, they will come back" he smiled stroking my hair.
I could not help smiling back at him, struggling to believe his words, but the truth was that I was afraid that they would not return, that the reality I had previously lived would be present again.
I shook my head to be called by my sister to eat, sitting next to her, wanting to avoid looking at Mon-el, as he was watching Zyan and me.
I closed my eyes the moment my glass fell to the floor, listening as it cracked in thousands of pieces.
"I'm sorry," I whispered, stooping to pick it up.
"Kaelah, sweetie, you're going to cut ..." my sister went to speak, but it was too late.
The blood covered the palm of my hand in just a few seconds, causing me to look at it closely.
"I'll take care of it," Alex said, approaching me. "Come with me, Kaelah," she called.
I stood up dazed, following her to the bathroom to clean the cut, blinking to avoid tears, because it hurt.
Alex watched my hand concentrated, wiping the wound carefully.
"It's not very deep" she looked at me while I closed my eyes, dizzy. "Hey, are you okay?" she asked, so I shook my head. "Okay, hey, let's go to the room, so you lie down while I see the cut," she said.
She helped me up to get there, lying on the bed just as Maggie entered the room, kneeling beside Alex, but looking at me.
"Hey, Kaelah," she smiled as if she was trying to calm me down.
"Sweetie, I know it hurts, but you have to keep your hand still," Alex said the moment I pulled it away, making the tears come back to be present.
"It's okay, Kaelah, you've been through a lot today," she said calmly. "You have to relieve yourself, shh, it's over now." She whispered as she stroked my face.
I closed my eyes, beginning to sleep, as she continued to talk, relaxing me enough so I could fall asleep.
"... and she's out," Maggie said, still stroking the girl's hair.
"How did you do it?" She looked completely surprised.
"It's easy, she's just a kid, she needs someone to calm her." She explaines "Well, it's actually a superpower," she laughed, causing her own laughter.
She finished covering the cut, caressing the girl's cheek and kissing her forehead, surprised that Mon-el was entering the room.
"Kara wants to know how she is," he explained. "Oh, Rao, is she going to get married?" He asked altered, scaring her too.
"Who is Rao?" Maggie asked, but at the moment she was much more concerned with trying to understand what Mon-el had said.
She watched Kaelah's hands in confusion, however, she noticed how he gripped the girl's necklace to watch it.
"Call Kara," she asked, watching as he nodded slightly and left in search of her.
"I'm still lost, who is Rao?" Maggie asked again.
"It's their sun," she answered nervously, especially when she saw the face of her sister, who approached the young girl holding the necklace to observe it.
"It can not be true," she whispered stroking the face of her sister. "I don't think Kaelah knows what it means," she commented to the confusion of others. "It's the way to get engaged in Krypton, the moment the girl renounces the symbol and name of her father" she explained. "I don't think she knows that, she was going to marry Mon-el whether she wanted to or not, so why explain this?" She looked at them with a shrug. "I don't know what to do" she looked at her as if asking for help about it.
"And if you talk to him," she said, getting her to nod.
"Mon-el, stay with her to explain it to her" she asked before turning to them, she was sure that her sister did not trust very much to leave him alone with the girl, so she was hesitating what to do "Come with me, I don't trust much about myself, "she explained, so they returned to the living room." Zyan, can you tell me why you gave a necklace with your family symbol to my seventeen-year-old sister? " She asked rather seriously.
"I ..., the neklace ..." he began to speak.
"No, she's only seventeen, she's a kid ..." she interrupted. "She doesn't even know what it means, she hasn't been able to refuse it or accept it, you've forced her," she snapped.
"What is it?" Clark asked, genuinely confused. "Has he proposed marriage?" he questioned, but she could only nod at him, for Kara continued to speak.
She watched the scene carefully, the boy seemed to want to explain himself, but with her sister's pressure it was rather difficult.
"Can I talk to her?" He asked.
"No," Kara said. "I doubt I'll let you approach her again," she said, watching as the boy nodded unwillingly to say anything more about it.
I opened my eyes dazed, turning my head to the person who was there with me, meeting his gray eyes.
"Hey," he smiled at me, brushing my hair away from my face. "Are you better?" He asked, as I nodded, not sure of it. "Are you going to get married?" He asked, raising a confused eyebrow. "Your necklace, Kaelah, in Krypton when a boy handed a necklace to a girl was the way to get engaged, the moment she gave up the symbol of her family and the name of her father" he explained me getting me to look surprised.
"Why do you know something that I don't know about my culture?" I asked confused.
"Because I was supposed to do it when we met before the wedding, Kaelah," he replied. "You were not educated to choose your partner, but to marry someone you didn't know, whether you wanted to or not, you were going to do it, you didn't have an option" he explained at the same time that I closed my eyes.
"Can I talk to him?" I whispered when I dared to open my eyes again.
Mon-el nodded slightly, so I headed downstairs looking for him, watching the scene in the room carefully, not surprising that my sister and my cousin were at the door without allowing the passage. However, they both turned to me, watching me, but finally letting me pass.
"Why did you do this to me?" I asked, tears threatening to come out of my eyes. "You knew I was not going to deny it, I was not going to say anything about it, and yet, without explaining anything, you did." I blinked, the tears would come to the outside. "My parents were going to marry me with someone who I didn't know anything and now you do this to me ... "I bowed my head.
"Kae, you know me, I'm your boyfriend" he commented as if it were enough to excuse.
"No, I do not, Zyan, I don't know you enough," I denied.
"Kaelah, you don't have to be like this ..." he started.
"No," I interrupted, taking off the necklace. "Give me time," I asked before turning and running to the room, listening as my sister called me, but without stopping, for now the sobs were uncontrollable.
I threw myself on the bed crying, wanting to be alone for a while, to think without having anyone that could condition me, however, the door burst open, frightening me.
"I don't want to talk, Kara," I said without even lifting my head.
"I'm not Kara," Mon-el complained.
I sighed, this was the last thing I wanted, that he was in the room.
I turned to look at him, watching as he sat on the edge of the bed looking at me, while the conversation this morning kept repeating itself in my head.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, wiping my tears.
"Calm you down, be with you," he replied with a shrug. "About this morning ..." he tried to speak, but I did not let him continue.
"No, I get it" I got up. "Your life, my life, nothing else" I said making him nod. "Mon-el, I'm not saying I don't want you in my life, but ... friends, okay?" I stretched my hand to reach his.
"Friends," he smiled, grabbing my hand to shake it. "And now stop messing around with Zyan," he said, hugging me by the shoulders.
I allowed him to hold me, relaxing, listening to his words, trying to forget everything.
When I left him I heard my cell phone vibrate, so I stopped paying attention to see who had written to me. The message was from Zyan, a photograph of earlier moments when Mon-el had hugged me, accompanied by a message, "Now I see the problem", fact that broke me again, however, I restrained myself.
"... what do you think, Kaelah?" Mon-el asked, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" I asked.
"They're waiting for us downstairs, since there's been no Christmas this morning, we're going to do it now, do you think?" He explained again.
I nodded slightly, leaving the cellphone again, to follow him, determined to leave all that aside, at least for this afternoon.
Thank you for reading,
Ayrin
