What was the point? I didn't want to know or care. Something is going to happen within a month or two and I don't know how. I feel as if I don't know anything any more and it's frustrating me. Finn won't say what's 'classified' and Jessie is threatened not to say another word till that day. Quinn? She's not an option.
I woke up early this morning and decided to run to burn off stress. Which helped, by the way. I swerved on the sidewalk, between trashcans and recycling bins and wanted to check out my resting area for a moment to catch my breath.
Once I reached the cliff, I bent over, placing my hands on the caps of my knees and breathed heavily. I crept over to a boulder and positioned my self atop it, gazing at the view that had been hard to look at for a while. I keep picturing colorful lights exploding out of the trees and shrills escaping all of our mouths. Worst of all, by the time the battle had begun, Finn nor my color light, appeared in sight.
I keep thinking back at what Finn keeps saying. Don't think, just do. So I stopped thinking for that very second. And I did what I needed to do.
I wasn't going to be invisible. If anything, my color light would take over the whole land.
"Up! Left, swing right! Kick and headlock!" Finn demanded as I brutally injured the Styrofoam dummy he had brought. I held my position for a couple more seconds till Finn said I was in the clearing.
"Whoo!" I cheered. All this practice and fighting got the adrenaline flowing in my veins, I couldn't imagine how it would be on that day. The day where all of our fates are decided. And that was less than a month.
"Honestly, I kind of just want to get this all over with. I've never been more scared or ready for something in my life," I stated as Finn picked up the dummy and put it back in the car.
"I think you're somewhat ready, better to be over prepared if you know what I'm saying," Finn wrapped an arm around me and we both began walking in the empty park. It was nice to go a couple of minutes without having to think about what was to come, then again, I never know what he's thinking.
"How could this end?" I stopped our tracks, gripping his muscular arm and his eyebrows arched. "I'd rather know now than suffer when the time comes. I mean, could I die?"
"That's not an option right now. The only option is that we defeat Quinn and the rest of them. I'm tired of these stupid laws saying that I cant be with who I want. I'm with someone that I don't even want existing!" Finn tugged on his luscious hair as he grew aggravated. I'm just glad I don't come from where ever the heck they do.
I looked like a statue compared to him, who looked like an ape on a rampage. Some part of me understood why he had these random flip outs. I'd be pissed to if my life came with instructions.
He crawled into a ball, bending his knees in front of him and his elbows mounted on his knee caps. I knelt beside him with a hand rested on his shoulder and tried finding his point of vision. I glanced ahead at the mountains of trees, waiting to be destroyed. No matter what I did, the weight of the world was always on my shoulder.
I began humming to myself as my finger brushed back locks of hair behind Finn's ear. My head rested on his shoulder as I felt the pressure of his connect with mine.
"I always loved your voice."
Singing was something I never considered in my life. Just a waste of everyone's time.
"I never thought about it. I guess, I always thought that even if I did try, there'd be no one to hear what I have to say," My vision was pierced on the birds leaping from branch to branch. Distracting me from Finn's reply, which sounded like white noise at the moment.
All of this was making drown in deeper depression. I have less than a month to live.
The week grew closer as the past 3 weeks flew by. Kurt was preparing himself for his huge role in the musical and unfortunately I'd have to miss it due to a problem I have to resolve in the middle of the woods. I told his parents to video tape the play so that I could watch it when I return, if I do.
I didn't know when this week, but sometime during the day Finn would just sweep me away from my average life and the battle would begin. I was alert in every class, looking out windows and glancing at the door, waiting to be asked to attend the principals office then ditch campus along with the others.
It was fate's turn to decide. How do they even plan these things out? Who came up with all of this mess, because personally I blame them! I glanced at Kurt from across the room, flashing back to all the times he's been there for me. And how I wont be there for him.
After class I heard the familiar tap of his boots scruff against the floor as he followed me to my locker.
"Are you okay? For the past couple of weeks you seemed to not have really been 'here'," Kurt emphasized as I slammed my locker, sending waves of orange to bounce off of each individual locker and exploding a girls textbook once she opened her locker. Fortunately, only few witnessed what just happened. Unfortunately, one of them was Kurt. "What the hell?"
I froze immediately, this is what Finn meant as controlling powers.
I dashed off, not wanting Kurt to start interrogating me. Too bad he usually is number one on the Track & Field team.
"Rachel? Why are you acting as if you committed murder and what the hell shot from your hands back there, are you like some type of Avenger now?" Kurt questioned as I kept swerving through halls, trying to lose him the sea of students.
"It's nothing. I'm fine." Lies.
"Nothing my ass!" Kurt gripped my wrist and pulled into the empty Science lab. He shut the door behind him and began pacing through the dark room. "Tell me what's really going on Rachel, cause ever since you started dating that Finn kid, you've been kind of a mess."
"No I haven't! If anything, I've gotten less depressing!" I brought up as Kurt leaned against a lab table and examined me.
"True. But it seems that you've went from depressing, almost Goth girl to psychotic, shutting out the world girl. I don't like it and I know you don't either. Spill."
I was going to die either way, right? Me and Finn against all them. I was hopeless.
"Finn and I aren't really humans, we're immortals that descend from a long line of them, well at least he does, I'm a newborn and because I was reborn when I jumped off a cliff, I have cause a disruption in their dystopian society and called for a war between Newborns and the Partners in Defense. Sadly, since I'm the only newborn, its me and Finn against Quinn, Jessie, Brody, Santana and Tina. I don't know if I'll live, I don't know what will happen to me, but sometime this week, things can go for the worse and I could be deteriorated," I summarized as Kurt stood with a blank expression on his face.
"What kind of crack has Finn been giving you?" Kurt seriously asked.
"I'm telling the truth Kurt! I know it all sounds crazy but I could possibly die within a week and nobody would know why, except for you," Rachel spoke as Kurt folded his arms and paced around the room.
"My best friend has super powers and might be killed because of it. That sounds like a reasonable death," Kurt sarcastically spoke.
"I can prove it to you," I cheerfully said, hoping that whatever she did, worked. My eyes glanced around the room and smirked once they fell upon the chalkboard.
I forced my eyes shut. This was my first time attempting tricks without hand gestures. It was all about focus and concentration. I pictured the chalkboard in the room and held it in my mind, imagining the chalk to rise and begin writing on the board. I'm not sure what was happening on the outside, but if I thought about it too much, my concentration would break.
I wrote a sentence saying "Believe me now?" on the board in white letters and took a deep breath before opening my eyes and finding Kurt with his arms folded giving me a weird expression.
"Am I supposed to be seeing something?" Kurt rolled his eyes as he moaned. Why didn't it work? I know I'm no Finn, but I should have at least done something.
"No." I simply said as Kurt faked a smile and exited the room.
I walked slowly behind him, wanting to disappear in the sea of students, leaving me embarrassed. Once I shut the door, I saw Finn leaning against the wall, shaking her head.
"My sweet, Rachel. You know there's nothing you do that I don't know about," Finn informed as he engulfed me in his arms and I absorbed the heat from his chest.
"Let me guess, you did some type of trick to where my powers drained as I wasn't able to show Kurt," I guessed as I wasn't completely angry, maybe Kurt didn't need to know. Even if I thought he did.
"Actually, it's the other way around. You did the trick right, I just made sure that Kurt was shielded by it," Finn mentioned as his hand caressed my back, pulling at the tips of my hair.
"Well thanks, now my friend thinks I'm crazy," I teased.
"I'm afraid you did a pretty good job of doing that yourself," He grasped me to his side as we strolled down the empty halls with a couple of students rushing to lunch.
"Finally, lunch! And thank god it's Wednesday, they serve something actually edible today," The first time I was eager to go to lunch, Finn pulled me to the side as other kids beat me to the lunch room.
"We won't be visiting the cafeteria for the next few days," Finn informed as he leaned against the wall, showing off his gorgeous biceps that were distracting me from his voice. "It's said that if a person's power is triggered and the cause of the trigger is around, it might set off some negative signals and effect our reputation."
"So you're saying that if I enter the cafeteria, the whole student body could be in jeopardy?" I asked, trying to un-confuse things since no one else would. Finn replied with a nod as we decided to eat out in the courtyard for the next couple days. On the day before Kurt's huge play and our big battle, Finn and I rested in each others arms on the roof next to my window. My head was tucked into the crook of his neck.
"How do we know when we have to begin?" I asked quietly.
"They try to keep things somewhat normal, so they set off a rainbow with everyone's colors and when a color appears, it means that person is present," Finn explained as the wind lightly brushed against my skin, causing chills to trace down my arms, creating goose bumps.
Every second, minute, hour and day seemed hazy. I barely slept that night, flopping back and forth between sides to sleep on and constantly repositioning the blanket. When I woke up, rubbed my eyes, brushed my teeth, changed my clothes, showered, ate breakfast and skateboarded, I couldn't escape that fact that the day had come and there was no possible way to avoid it.
I had tried to live like a normal teenager during English. Throwing balls of crumpled paper across the room, saying 'that's what she said' to every word the jocks said and laughing my ass off with Kurt. I exited the room with a grin that spread from ear to ear. It felt like the world was going in slow motion as I strolled down the halls and felt my hair lightly bounce on my back.
I saw Kurt pass me up as he sprinted to lunch to find a good seat and once he disappeared, Finn's figure showed up and it set a negative charge on me. My smile faded as he gave me the 'it's time' look. I sighed as I shoved my books in my locker and made way towards the double doors. Before we set foot out of this school, Finn reached out to me and for the first time, I didn't accept.
Whoo! Update! Sorry for the wait, i promise to update more frequently. For now, the battle begins from the next chapter till the very last second. And i really wanna set up a tumblr so if anyone out there is tumblr savvy i need help ASAP! Alot of tension coming up and some heartbreak but who knows where it leads. Sequel maybe? Please Comment!