Chapter 2 Death's Crystal
Dani
I had just showered and dried off when I heard faint knocking. I look around to see if anything was weird in the room before hearing the knocking again. I slowly move towards my window and pull back the curtain and see a human shape on the fire escape. As I look closer I see the figure with clarity. My best friend bloodied and outside with torn casual clothes. I quickly help Damian in, after I assist him I question. He then passes out. I start to panic, I check his pulse and temperature to see if he has hypothermia but to my surprise, he was colder than outside but his pulse was normal and he was breathing. I take his clothes off his unconscious person and put them in the wash. I then clean and bandage his wounds before putting him in some of my clothes. Not wanting to let him freeze I bundle him up on my couch and turn my room's heater up before going to my dad's study and notifying him of our late night guest. I return to my room and turn off the light. As I drift off to sleep I hear shuffling I adjust my position so that I can see the source of the noise and see Damian rolling over before starting to lightly snore. I then drift off to sleep.
-NEXT MORNING-
7:00 AM EST
Damian
A loud and annoying sound frightens me out of my sleep as I tumble onto a carpeted floor. I look around to see Dani already awake trying to hold back a laugh. As I try to stand I realize that I am not wearing the same clothes. Feeling resistance in some areas of my body I realize I have band-aids on. "Thank you for patching me up" I say gratefully. "No problem." Dani says blending his eye-shadow. "I suppose it makes up for that fact that you stripped me without consent." I say jokingly. "Boy don't even go there, I don't like you like that besides I didn't take off your unmentionables." He replies with sarcastic sass. I chuckle before asking if I could borrow a jacket. Heading downstairs I greet Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Dani comes down the steps shortly after and waves goodbye to his parents. "Can we go to the mall? Cuz as much as I am grateful for you sharing your clothes they don't fit me and hug me in all the wrong places." I say getting a slightly annoyed look from Dani. "Fine, I'll pay for the clothes if you pay for bus fare." Dani says. I thank Dani before we get to the bus stop. Once onboard we talk for 10 minutes before Dani asks "What happened last night after I left?" My mood instantly darkens but reluctantly I answer "My dad is a closed-minded person who still doesn't accept the reality that gays exist just like straight people do. I defended you, he accused me, I yelled at him, He attacked me." Dani looks at me with sympathy and hugs me before our stop. Once we exit the bus we walk to the mall's bookstore entrance and head to the back of the store where the small cafe setup is. Dani order's the Oreo cookies and cream frappe and I get the Vanilla Bean frappe with white and milk chocolate drizzle. After we get our drinks we head to Macy's where I grab a white jacket. "Oh, I just remembered do you know why you were freezing last night?" Dani asks. "It was snowing pretty sure snow makes things cold." I respond jokingly. We then continue to sears to get two white shirts and a pair of jeans, before going to footlocker to get a pair of white Nike Air Force sneakers. We walk to Kay's Jewelers at first just browsing before a beautiful ruby necklace draws me in. Like it calls to me with a beautiful song so familiar but so new. I know right then I must have it.
After all of our shopping, we realize that school starts in 10 minutes
After all of our shopping, we realize that school starts in 10 minutes. "The bus isn't coming back, it's too busy for a taxi, and we don't have time to wait for a Lyft or Uber. We're screwed." Dani says slightly panicked. I tell him to calm down and I recall last night. Thinking about how I fell through complete darkness before ending up on Dani's fire escape. "Follow me" I say running to the nearest bathroom in the mall Dani trailing behind. "I think you're old enough to go potty by yourself" Dani says with sarcasm. "We're not here to go to the bathroom I want to try something." I say. I then turn off the lights, pick up the bags, and hold Dani's hand. " "This is weird but not normal weird just weird like witchy weird." Dani says. I concentrate blocking out Dani and all of the sounds from the world and envision school. Just then the shadows pull us in and engulf us. A moment later I am back in the not-so-familiar cold and infinite darkness but this time color is present but I soon realize that that the color is Dani and the bags. I look down and I see light, as the darkness pulls away from the surroundings I see that we ended up in the hallway. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" "WHY WAS IT SO COLD?" "ARE YOU OK?" Dani asks frightened. "Last night I may have unlocked my power, I don't know but I'm assuming because there is no sunlight or any light in where ever I go there is no heat, and yes I'm fine, sorry for not telling you sooner." I say with a hint of humor in my voice. "Well next time give me a warning." Dani says as we get to our lockers putting our bags in and getting our books out. "See you later." Dani says as he heads towards music appreciation. "K!" I say.
Unknowing that his necklace's gem darkened before shining, his shadow flickering before growing ruby red glistening eyes and a wicked smile.
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