CHAPTER 18 - "And the truth is..."
"I won the first prize... I won the first prize..." Jimmy kept saying to himself. He paused. He suddenly felt guilty. He ran a hand through his hair as he looked down, then at his girl talking on the microphone. "All the proyect was Cindy's idea, not mine..." He realized. "Oh, my god! I've stolen the idea from her thoughts!".
"...and I would like to thank Jimmy. Without him, I couldn't make this possible" Cindy said.
She pointed to Jimmy, and everybody in the hole place clapped. The light pointed to him, illuminating him. Illuminating a sudden fake smile from his face. He waved slowly with his hand. He found the courage to walk to the stage, where he put a hand through Cindy's hips. He then kissed her forehead, trying to keep the most loyable as possible. But when the principal came with the check, he felt again guilty and disgusted.
"No... this is not mine...!".
Without saying a single word, he ran from the stage to open the large doors of the gym building, leaving everybody speechless.
"Jimmy, wait!" Cindy shouted, trying to follow his tracks.
But he didn't stop running. A sudden storm started to cover the entire city. The rain was soaking him, and even as if he could slip and fall to the ground, he didn't care. He reached his lab, but stopped dead in his tracks when he found that Cindy was behind him.
"What's the matter with you?" Cindy shouted, very audible.
"I-I'm sorry, Cindy. I'm a liar. I'm a fake" Jimmy said, still not turning around. "I-I don't deserve to be with you".
"Why?" she asked, softly, feeling a tear roll down from her cheek.
He turned and he walked to her. He put a hand on her left shoulder. "I have something to confess... but I'm not sure you'll believe me... and if you do... I'm not even sure you'll speak to me again".
"What? Tell me! What is it?" she asked, fully concerned. 'Is he with another girl? He doesn't love me? Is he gay?'.
He could hear her thoughts again. She really wanted to know. He took a large and heavy breath. This wasn't going to be easy.
"I-I... I can read your mind. And I can read every girl's mind from this entire city" he said.
He stood, waiting for her to absorb the information.
"You WHAT!" Cindy shouted.
"And the truth is, that car project was your idea. You have it still in your subconcience, but you had never let it out" Jimmy told her.
"I can't believe this..." she said, as she stepped back, her eyes wide open in shock.
She remembered something about that. She shook her head trying to deny, but there it was. It was her idea. She looked at him with a cold glare.
"I didn't expect you to believe all this. And I stole something from you. Something you'll not be recognized at all. You deserved to win the entire prize, not me" he said.
Tears poured from her eyes. "I hate you!" she yelled with all her strengh left. She ran to her house as fast as she could, crying,and slammed the door.
In the other hand, Jimmy moaned and sobbedand slowly walked to his lab. He stepped in front of the DNA scanner and yanked a hair off his head to reveal his identity. The door opened. And he stepped inside, where he jumped to go down the tube. He plopped on his couch. He could feel her in her room thinking bad stuff about him, even if he was in his lab. Tears rolled down hischeeks as his head was hurting from every thought and every move he would do to try to get her back. He didn't know. Unless...
"Another 9.999.999 channels antennae!" Jimmy said, jumping from his seat. "This has got to work!".