Chapter 49: Confession

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Alex shivered. The rain had not relented the whole time he had been sitting at Cody's door, and not an article of clothing on his body stayed dry. He shut his eyes as the rain grew harder. I'm not leaving, he thought. She'll have to talk to me sometime.
Something nailed him in the forehead. He opened his eyes.

Great, hailstones.

I'm normally an optimist but this day just couldn't possibly get worse. Alex hid his head in his hands to shield himself from the hail. Not that it didn't throb in pain anyway, for the past hour he had been blocking off all access to his mind and his headache grew worse by the minuet. At one point it had relented, but that only lasted for ten minutes. Karma enjoyed torturing people who did not let her in. Plus Alex's power still had much developing to do, so it took a lot of concentration and energy to block people out, especially someone powerful like Karma.


Cody still sat at the top of her stairs and looked down on Alex. She worried as she looked at the angry black sky. Cody felt bad before because of the rain, but now it hailed. She shook her head and ran upstairs.


Alex's heart jolted when the door opened. Warmth covered his neck. Cody stood there with two towels. "I was hoping that when it started to hail you'd leave," she said, her voice still shook with emotion. "But you didn't, so come in."


Alex stood up and put his hands in his pockets. "Cody, you don't have to do anything for me, I don't want your sympathy, I just wanted to explain." He said.


"Well the rain's getting in my house so come in anyway."


Alex walked onto the towel on the entryway floor. He tried to avoid her red eyes and face all together. Cody handed him the other towel.


"Talk," she said. "I'm listening."


"Do you mind if I sit down?" He asked sheepishly, the headache grew worse as he shivered.


"Fine," Cody sat down on the stairs, Alex on the towel. "Go ahead."


Alex pursed his lips and rubbed his chin. He needed to choose his words wisely. "That girl you saw," he started. "That's Karma." He paused, deep down he wanted to tell her everything, if he tried to leave things out, it would be lying, and he didn't want to do that. Telling her would be breaking a law, but he couldn't lie anymore. "I'm sorry, there's a lot I need to tell you in order to make this make sense."


"Tell," Cody replied.


"You won't believe me."


"Try me," Cody raised her eye brows.


Alex sighed. "OK, how do I start? I can read people's minds. Now don't object yet," he said noticing the look on her face. "Just hear me out." This is you last chance to do something right with Cody, Alex, don't mess up.