Sovereign-Chapter 4
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The forest was one of the only places I felt as if I was still with my friends. I was alone, feeling the emotions of no one but myself within a large radius. This was the only place I could achieve empathic meditation around the Xavier school, seeing as there were always people almost everywhere. Empathic meditation was the key to my mutation; I needed time when I was not feeling other people's emotions, only my own, and focusing on the emotions of a particular strong memory. I could sit in the forest for hours, just deciphering the emotions of both myself and everyone involved, and since I had grown up in the city, it usually included not only the group but people on the streets, people in the apartments above and below us, a collage of different emotions. If I can decipher all the emotions of that memory, then I come out with a feeling of peace, but it isn't as simple as it seems. I have to understand emotion, not just sense it. The emotions have to be my own as well as the person who I'm reading. I literally relive the memory; I feel all that I did when it actually happened.
The young girl was only 13 years old, almost 14. She was sitting in the living room of an apartment. It wasn't much; there wasn't any furniture except for a small couch and beds in each of the 2 bedrooms, which had been left there by the previous owners. There were 5 people living here; the 13 year old, who's name was Sovereign, A 16 year old boy going by the name Wanderer, 15 year old girl called Giver, Foster, a 25 year old man, and Shift, the baby of the group, who was only 12. Sovereign was sitting on the couch, weaving a bracelet made of colorful string. Her hair hardly covered a tattoo on her shoulder. She had given the man the urge to give her the two tattoos she had for free. She loved them, but hated the fact that she had stolen them, even though he had technically given them away. Now she was raising money for the group, even though she didn't understand why. Giver posed as a girl who wove and sold the bracelets Sovereign was making herself. Sovereign would have done so, but her eyes prevented that. So she made the bracelets with beautiful stitch work and masterful eye, even though knotting string didn't take much thought. There was a pile of finished bracelets beside her, all of them with stitches most of the girls making friendship bracelets in camps couldn't dream of mastering within the timeframe that Sovereign had.
"How do you sit there and just make those bracelets Sovereign?" it was Wanderer who asked the question. The boy was tall, muscular, and had no patience whatsoever.
"Contrary to popular belief, Wanderer, it doesn't take that much thought or effort to knot string," The boy just laughed and sat down, avoiding the pile of bracelets. He picked up one of the bracelets out of the pile, one that was completely black except for the dark green diamonds running down to the bottom.
"I wouldn't exactly call this just knotting string," he said lightly, placing down the bracelet to pick up another, this time one with white, purple, yellow, and blue in a zigzagging pattern. The girl just smiled at him, wondering if he could tell, being a telepath, that she had a crush on him. Not just a little crush, but one of those big ones you can never seem to escape. Meanwhile he was wondering if her empathic abilities were picking up his pure love for her, or if his emotions were just getting mixed into the air.
"Perry, you're giving me a headache," she said suddenly, dropping the string. He turned away, blushing slightly at the-
"Hey kid," A voice rang through the forest, cutting through the memory that I was living. I was so close to finally mastering the emotions in that memory. I growled somewhat angrily and whipped around to see Logan standing near me. I continued to glare at him, pissed off that anyone had disturbed my meditation.
"You've been gone for 8 hours, I just happened to be the one who found you," he grunted, motioning for me to follow him back towards the mansion. I didn't move.
"Mr. Logan, you do realize you just disturbed my meditations?" I whispered angrily.
"I'm fully aware of what you do this deep in the woods, kid. We were worried about you so I came looking," I finally gave in and walked beside him back to the mansion.
"What emotion were you trying to master this time?" He asked softly slightly down the path. I smirked up at him.
"Love," was my answer before I ran a few paces ahead of him. "And I'm not a kid!" I yelled over my shoulder before running back the rest of the way, laughing joyously at the look on Logan's face after telling him that I was mastering love.
-2 days later-
"Will you get dem removed pour Remy please, mignonne?" the brother was back, badgering me about my tattoos. I slammed the screen of the laptop down and looked at him ferociously.
"No, for the last time! Now stop bothering me!" I placed a CD in my laptop and waited for it to load, then began to sing along with it.
"Now I will tell you what I've done for you50,000 tears I've cried
Screaming, deceiving
And bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me
Don't want your hand this time
I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily, defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm dying again
I'm Going Un-"
"ADA! TURN OFF THE HEAVY METAL!" Rogue screamed over the noise made by both my voice and the CD, turned up all the way on my laptop. I laughed and switched the song to one of the two she liked, just so she'd let me listen to them. She smiled and we both began to sing along.
"Playground school bell ringsAgain,
Rain clouds come to play
Again,
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello,
I am your mind
Giving you someone to talk to,
Hello,"
Remy rolled his eyes and just settled into a chair, happy to hear Rogue sing but not so happy to hear her singing an Evanescence song.
"If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake
From this dream
Don't try to fix me
I'm not broken
Hello,
I am the lie
Living for you so you can hide
Don't cry,"
The interlude was particularly long. Remy got up from his seat at the desk neither Rogue nor I ever worked at and gave Rogue a sweet kiss, leaving me with a headache of love with an undertone of happiness that Rogue had learned to control her powers.
"Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday,"
Our song finished and I continued to type as if nothing had happened, still somewhat in the memory I had been interrupted from 2 days ago. I seriously need to meditate more often.
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