The Miracle boy
School was a blur for William as it was most days. Most of his classes bored him from easiness. The only interesting or challenging classes were his AP and senior level classes. He would have wanted to take only these classes but as a freshman he was not a priority. So he sat through intro to writing and algebra writing down his dreams in as best detail as he could. He did not want to forget a moment of it all. Especially last nights dream.
William had friends but not as many as his mother wished. He could sometimes be withdrawn and he was very picky about who he trusted. Also the fact that he was in so many higher-level classes did not help him socially. His friends consisted of a few guys who all were in his classes. They would get together to play video games, do homework, watch video games, and an occasional game of pick up basketball. They were well known around his house as he was at theirs.
He had only confided in one of his friends about his dreams. Talon had been William's best friend since before he could remember. His childhood had been filled with backyard camp outs, star wars reenactments, and comic books with his best friend. In the past few years William had truly started to feel different. Anyone who had known him knew that he had been different his whole life but puberty brought his own attention to this.
It was just small things that didn't even happen all the time but whenever they did he and those close to him were reminded of his unknown birth.
The first time his parents noticed he was different was when William was only 4 years old. He was outside playing with the dog. The dog, Bennie, was getting old and was losing his vision, which caused him to sometimes trip while running. This very thing happened on that day but the difference was the way the dog landed on it. They could tell the moment he hit the ground that he had most likely broken his paw. Considering the dogs age William's father knew that it was the dogs time. William sat there crying begging to save the dog. As his father went to make arrangements William sat there with Bennie. He took hold of the dogs mud slicked paw. As he moved it a moan came from the dog and William petted his head.
"I will fix you."
As he said it a warm feeling spread through his hands and the dogs paw. William just sat and watched. Within a few seconds the dog was moving to get up and ran looking back to see if William was following.
His mother and father went to the porch upon hearing their son's shouts of joy. They just stood there amazed and at the same time frightened.
It was stories like these that he shared with his friend. Talon had even witnessed some strange events. When they were 12 years old on a camping trip William started a fire with nothing but his hands. After that trip the boys began research to find out what he could be.
They found an old newspaper that had been shut down at some point but still had online files. The website was old and hard to find but it was also very interesting. It was called 'The Lone Gunmen' and it held many different secrets from around the globe. Ideas on government conspiracies, aliens, and technology. Talon and William loved reading their old articles and wished they could meet the men who wrote them. They told stories that were sometimes too amazing to believe. Ancient space ships in Africa, microchip implants in alien abductees, and a secret coalition of men who ran the world. To the boys all of this was science fiction but sometimes at night William would see visions of these things and for a little while would be convinced that what the men wrote was true. He wanted so badly to believe.
As the teacher droned on William pondered all of these thoughts. Soon his eyes started to close as he began to feel the lack of sleep. Almost as soon as his eyes closed the dreams started. This one was terrifying. He was with a strange woman in a strange car. He could hear himself screaming out and felt total panic in his chest as he wondered where his mother was. The woman murmured different comforting phrases to him that went unnoticed. All he could think about was his mother. The next moment he was in a strange place surrounded by people. He still found himself looking around helplessly for his mother when a sudden explosion surrounded him. He watched as some kind of craft flew out of the ground and away. He did not care though because he just wanted her. He screamed with everything he had and suddenly her face appeared over him. Her cheeks were covered in tears and she held him close making promises that he would never be in danger again.
A shove woke him from this nightmare and he awoke to find the entire classroom looking at him.
"William are you alright?" His teacher asked with concern written on her face.
William looked around at a loss to explain what had just happened so he just shrugged, "Yeah I am ok. I just did not get a lot of sleep last night. Sorry." He shifted awkwardly in his seat avoiding eye contact with everyone as the lesson picked back up. He just kept his head down until class was dismissed. William bolted out of the classroom narrowly avoiding his teacher who he could tell wanted to talk. He pretended not to see the stares of his fellow students and tried to ignore the whispered comments. He could hear snippets of the student's thoughts as he burned a path toward the bathroom. It was always at the most stressful moments that this particular gift chose to make itself known and he hated it. He rushed into a stall and covered his ears knowing it would do nothing to help. He heard someone else come into the bathroom and stayed quiet hoping he would not be noticed.
"Will, you in here?" Came the voice of his best friend. "What happened? Did you have another one of those dreams?"
William slowly stood up and opened the stall door, "Yeah I did not sleep much last night. This one was a nightmare. It was awful. But really I don't want to talk about it." William looked down at the ground as he relayed this.
"You don't have to. Wanna skip out? I have some interesting new information anyways that I think you might want to see."