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☄The Apartment☄

Silence.

Man down.

I shot a straight white flame out of my palm. Towards the homeless man. He fell backwards, uninjured though. He got up in shock and ran off screaming the same way he came, I wasn't afraid that he had seen me do what i did because even if he told someone no one would believe him.

I let out a deep sigh and dropped my hand. I hear loud breathing behind me.

Shit. . .shit shit shit !!

I start to panic. He was still behind me. He had seen it all.

"I-I-How." I hear him say, jittery and stuttery behind me. My back still towards him. My eyes open wide.

I slowly turn around and face him. He's sitting on the wet ground. He has an extremely shocked face.

I fucked up. That was all I could think about, repeatedly over and over in my head. And it was true. I stared at him and he stares at me straight in the eyes.

"You-what just-." I cut him off and grabbed his hand tightly and my bag and speed walked down the alley.

"Where are we going ??" I stay quiet as I enter a door on the right side of the alley.

"P-Please tell me w-where we're going." The boy says nervously, holding on tightly to my hand as we raced up the stairs. We finally make it to a black matte door in the dark gray lit building.

I never let go of the boys hand. I hear him panting behind me and slightly coughing. I finally get the door open and walk in. I finally let go of his hand and close the door behind me. I put my back to the door and panted. My heart was at a million and my head was thumping. I look up and see the boy standing a couple feet away from me. I meet eyes with him and he looks away.

He blinks four times in a row and taps his finger on his thigh. Nobody says anything for a good 2 minutes, except for the loud panting that was heard throughout the dark apartment complex. The boy looks around.

"What. . .the fuck just happened?" He asks still shocked. I put my hands over my face and exhale deeply.

I slowly drop and sit on the ground with my back still to the door.

"Shit." I say in a low voice. He walks towards me slowly. He leans down a bit and stretches out his hand, offering to help me up.

It seemed to familiar, just like when I saw him at the mart. I shook off the feeling.

I look at him. Only being able to see his multi colored eyes and half of the scar because of the mask.

I slowly reach for his hand and tightly grab it. He lifts me up with a strong pull. I'm inches away from him with both of our hands still latched on. I pull my hand away and look at him.

"Okay, care to explain what just happened?" He asks surprisingly calm.

-[Jax POV]-

I look at her bright yellow eyes which seemed all to familiar. Her pitch black freckles scattered all over her face, her short black hair coming out of her black hoodie. I know I should be afraid and trying to escape from this 'strangers' apartment but I felt like I wasn't in danger. And I still wanted to know what had happened.

"Okay, care to explain what just happened?" I ask camly fearing I would scare her away, although i should be the one in fear since I just saw her shoot fire out of her hand. Something straight out of a movie.

"Obviously this isn't a normal situation so. . . Let's start with this." With that stated, I stretch out my hand towards her.

"I'm Jax Rhyder, pleased to meet you."

-[Tatsuo POV]-

"I'm Jax Rhyder, pleased to meet you."

Jax Rhyder. . . Jax Rhyder. . . Jax Rhyder. His name replayed in my mind as he stretched out his hand towards me.

I grab his hand and shake it. I pull my mask down to speak properly and his eyes open wide.

"I'm Tatsuo Noir." I stated as calm and humanly possible. That's ironic.

I take my hoodie off of my head and my mask off of my ears.

"A-Although you've already seen and heard some crazy shit since you left the mart, this might just be the craziest thing."

"And that is?" He asks.

"Can you just forget everything you saw tonight?" I ask him, basically begging.

". . . so forget a crazy homeless man almost attacking us but didn't because you shot fire at him..out of your hand?" I hear him emphasize that last and worst part of what had happened, which brought a wave of guilt, anger, frustration and more terrifying feelings over me.

How could you just slip up like that Tatsuo? Why did you do that? Why didn't you just move over? Why did I think there was no other choice? Because you felt like you needed to protect this guy? Because it felt right? What the hell are you going to do n-

Snap! My deep thinking gets cut off by a loud finger snap.

"Tatsuo, are you there?" It sounded so strangely familiar. My name being said by him although i've never met him before. At least i think so . . .

"I'm sorry i just don't know where to start." I state.

"How about we start off with this? How?"