Chapter 18 Talith

Chapter 18 Talith

I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling.

I wait when I hear the familiar footsteps and the steps creaking as two people climbed them. I lay there and finally my mom comes into the room laughing sweetly. Dad follows and they smile at me as I sit up.

"Good morning," Mom whispers.

"It's so early. You guys should be at work before you get on trouble," I say and climb off the bed. I'm always worried they'll get on their bosses bad side. They really like their job and I won't let them lose it when it's perfect to them.

"We had to say hi," Dad says.

"Hi," I say and smile widely.

"We can't come and say good morning?" Mom asks and hugs me. As soon as she touched me I knew something was wrong. I let her pull me into a hug though and enjoy it.

"Is something wrong?" I ask curious.

"We won't see you for a while," Dad says softly.

"What's wrong?" I ask. Suddenly I knew they wouldn't be here when...

"We can't make it honey. I'm so sorry," Mom says.

"No it's fine. It's perfect. I just want you guys to keep what you love doing," I tell them.

"We'll be back right after we promise," Dad says. Mom kisses my head and they begin heading out of the door.

"Happy birthday," Mom says and her hand disappears as she walks away.

***

I bolt up from sleep and sit there sweating.

That was the first time they began to go so early and so long I didn't see them on my birthday. But why on Earth would I dream of that?

I climb out of bed and quickly get ready for school.

I was really hoping Zach would be sick today so I didn't have to see what he thought about my outburst last Saturday.

He won't be here.

I scowl myself and the power, running into the kitchen and quickly grabbing an orange and peeling it. As soon as that's done I grab my backpack and run to the bus stop.

The doors swing open as I approach the bus and Cal smiles at me.

"Morning," she says. I smile back and plop into my spot, eating my breakfast for the day. She drives off and I hear some of the kids laughing.

I roll my eyes and knew that they were laughing at a weird video that they saw on the internet.

I look out the window and watch the trees race by in a blur, the sun breaking through the spaces to give a sudden burst of light. My mind wanders and finally the bus pulls up to the school. I hop off and walk around when suddenly my mind totally goes blank.

Susan Beted was going to move to New York soon, Edward Thumble was going to football pratice after school, Rily Make was going to finish her math test later today, Fred Bylern was going to the dentist...

I stop and close my eyes as my head feels like it'll explode.

It's never done this out of the short time I've had it. And I didn't want it either, it hurt so much. It's like when you were sick and stood up to go somewhere and immediately your head throbbed and all you wanted to do was sit down to make it stop.

That was that but twice as worst.

"Hey Talith, are you okay?" I hear Mrs. May ask.

"Yeah, I'm perfect. Just something got in my eye," I lie and look up. She nods and walks past as the stream of students kept coming around me. I look at the ground and the pain subsides as I weave my way through the halls and into math.

How did I make it stop? There had to be someway so I didn't have to always look at the ground. I shake my head glad that it was finally at least tolerable and look up to write down the homework. I groan when I suddenly know Mrs. H's full name, where she was born, who was her husband, and where she lived now. Malany Harrald, San Francisco, and Clark Harrald.

I shake my head furiously and hold it in my hands.

Will it at least allow me to have normal thoughts? Or learn things by asking? It'll be weird to have a project that required to know a few things about a teacher or your choice and complete it without asking them a single question.

The first three periods go by slowly and I sit at lunch, rubbing my head.

"Hey Talith!" a voice yells. I groan and look over to see one of Zach's friends walk toward me.

"Zach is sick, that doesn't mean I gave him the flu," I tell him and lazily stand up.

"He told me about what happened. Know I'll be the one doing him a favor," Tony mutters as he pounds his fists together, an empty threat.

"Look, I don't want any trouble. I said I was sorry to him and I really didn't mean to do or say any of that. Now you, I want to say that because someone told you something happened doesn't mean they want you to take revenge on them while they can't. You think too much of how you'll see to people and do the most horrible things to accomplish it when one time before it didn't end well," I tell him. Tony stands there and stares at me when I freeze.

I just did it again.

"I'm so sorry Tony. I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have said anything," I mutter and shake my head as I take a step back.

"Talith, now you’re really in for it," he says and cracks his knuckles as my head throbs.

"Just leave me alone please. I don't want to hurt you," I say and back away. My head truly feels like it'll explode and I stand there.

Then I run.

I run to the hallway door and into the forest and keep on running. I keep going, sprinting at fast as I can. The pain fades away but I keep running. Nothing will help me, I'm a total freak and everyone knows it and I keep hurting people. I never want to do that, even to my enemies.

I keep running and finally after the sun sets toward the horizon about two inches do I slow down.

I walk by the trees and breathe in and out slowly.

I can't stop the power, I can't turn it off, I just suddenly say things.

So I just don't say anything at all, zip zero.

I sigh and walk around a tree just going in circles.

I can't tell anyone about this. My head hurts too much, I can't stop this, I have no clue what this means, and there's no one on the planet who will ever be able to help me.

I'll be the luckiest person ever if that happened.

I sigh and run my temples from my wishful thinking.

"I wish," I mutter.

Speaking of wishing, I wish I was away from this world. I can't take it at the moment. It's all too noisy.

I lean back against the tree when I close my eyes.

Suddenly, it felt as though it wasn't there anymore...