08-08-2018, 05:23 PM
His face whipped around at the sound of his name. Two guys walked by, dog on a leash, orange light drenching their faces with hellish shadows. For a moment, Elias was so surprised they were talking about him, that he stared, speechless. Not to mention that a sphere of Rage fire followed on high.
They passed like he was invisible. The inherent slap to his soul constricted his chest. Blood pooled in the expanding chambers of his heart until it threatened to explode. Whispers behind angled hands, giggles and stares behind books, around corners, and behind bathroom stalls flashed like lightning through his mind. He slammed a locker so hard one time that his wrist ached afterward, just to show those assholes in high school he was neither deaf nor blind to their gossip. He reacted then. Instinct forced a reaction now.
He lashed back.
His power came to him like water crashing from the side of a cliff. But when it crashed on rocks below, he turned the torrent against the two pretty faces thinking to taunt him. He forced the air to clap around him like thunder.
"If you're going to talk about me, look me in the face while you do it."
They passed like he was invisible. The inherent slap to his soul constricted his chest. Blood pooled in the expanding chambers of his heart until it threatened to explode. Whispers behind angled hands, giggles and stares behind books, around corners, and behind bathroom stalls flashed like lightning through his mind. He slammed a locker so hard one time that his wrist ached afterward, just to show those assholes in high school he was neither deaf nor blind to their gossip. He reacted then. Instinct forced a reaction now.
He lashed back.
His power came to him like water crashing from the side of a cliff. But when it crashed on rocks below, he turned the torrent against the two pretty faces thinking to taunt him. He forced the air to clap around him like thunder.
"If you're going to talk about me, look me in the face while you do it."