"Saying hi, you know this is how I always greet you," he replied quietly, "I'm here because you've been missing for almost two days now, Mr Canderson said you were at home resting,"
"How did you get in here? Did my parents let you in?" I whisper.
"No, I broke your door down, where are your parents, by the way?" he asked inquiringly.
"I dunno, ugh, shush, you're making my headache worse," I answer.
"Erm," Xander murmurs.
"What?" I ask.
"Wh--Why is Matthew downstairs?" he responds.
"Wha--huh?" I stammer.
"Yeah, he's downstairs, playing Halo on your Xbox, and doing pretty well I might add." he says.
"Huh? Can you, uh, ask him to come up here please?"
"Yeah, alright"
Xander walks out my door and I hear his footsteps descend the stairwell. I wait to hear footsteps climb back up the stairwell, instead I just see Matthew walk through my door, his feet make no sound on the wooden floorboards, which was impressive, since in my current double hungover state I could hear everything as if my ears were being ripped open by the vibrations. "You asked for me," he said it as a statement, rather than a question.
"Uh, yeah, I wanted to talk about what happened before," I respond.
"What about it?" he asks.
"I- uh, What happened?"
"I saved your life," he said.
"Damn, I was really hoping that it was a dream,"
"Trust me, so do I," he said.
"What do you mean?"
"That was your first encounter," he explained "Exposure to the less joyful side of the world,"
"Well not really, I have been to Yemen before, no one there is very chirpy," I reply.
"No, I don't mean like that," He briefly pauses, "Your first time encountering something that "Goes bump in the night" so to speak, by all means you should be dead, the fact that you aren't is, well, worrying," he ended.
"If you wanted me dead then why did you save me?" I ask angrily.
"Don't misunderstand me," he says apologetically, "I want you alive, it's just that normal people die in a matter of seconds, either during or after the attack, due to a special residue these attacks leave, the fact you are alive means, well, I don't know what it means, you could just be resistant to it, and the poison will eventually kill you very painfully,"
"Oh, that improves my mood so much," I said sardonically.
"You could be part imp, however unlikely that is, or this attack caused you to unlock powers of your own," he said.
"Like what?"
"I don't know, the powers range from shooting laser beams and super strength to the ability to become translucent or grow your nails at a slightly faster rate,"
"Can you answer me one question?" I ask
"This is hardly your first question, but yeah,"
"Why do I feel like I have a double hangover?"
"That's probably because you are hungover,"
"Yeah, but it got worse after the attack, I feel like a need a new brain" I reply, "A nice, prosthetic brain,"
"One of the effects of exposure, it makes you... Funny for a while, and sometimes reflects what your power will be, although some people have multiple powers and it only reflects which the first one will be, after I was first exposed I was bouncing off the walls in a fit of hyperactivity,"
"Why can't I have that?" I demand.
"It affects each person differently, in Mr Canderson's case he went into a phase where he went almost completely and utterly nuts, spouting random garbage like your friend Xander,"
"Careful, that's my best friend you are talking about there," I warn. "Wait, Canderson has powers?" I say, shocked.
"Don't try to threaten me, you can't really do much in the state you are in now, and yes, he can read minds, and during that period of exposure he was spouting whatever came into his mind, really, someone knocked him out and he was still talking,"
"Huh," was all I could say.
"In any case, you should get some rest now,"
"But--"
Thwack. Matthew kicks me in the face knocking me out cold.
Lol, family guy reference.
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