Chapter 2: Vomit In Your Underwear Drawer
"You guys hear about the party?" Becka asked, plopping down her lunch tray across from Jackson and I. Angel and Nicolas were sitting opposite us as well.
Delilah soon followed and their third roomate, Hope sat next to us. We had only attended Abas for two weeks but we were all close friends. I responded to Becka while Jackson and Delilah made googly eyes at each other. "No, what party?"
Hope answered. "It's in the courtyard, 9:00 this Saturday, everyone's going!" Her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"We're going." Delilah said shoveling pasta into her mouth. She gestured to the four of us guys. "You in?"
Jackson and I exchanged a look. He winked at Nicolas. "Oi, Nic, wanna be my date?"
Nicolas sputtered. "Uh- sorry Jackson but uh-"
Jackson made a fake surprised look and snapped his fingers in a z-formation. "Okay boy, you aint my type anyway!"
Nicolas looked confused and put his head in his hands. "Jesus Christ, what kind of people am I friends with?"
---Saturday-7:00
"That is complete bullshit." Angel groaned.
Jackson stood in front of Angel and I wearing a yellow fedora and suit jacket over a pinstriped shirt.
"You're not wearing that are you?" I asked rubbing my temples.
Jackson shrugged. "Girls dig a guy with style."
"You have no style." Angel said plucking the fedor off his head.
Jackson made a face and took the fedora back. He gave us the finger and plopped down on his bed.
"Nicolas, you okay?" I called knocking on our bathroom door.
"I'm perfecting my look for the women at the party!" he shouted back at me.
"I don't think he's ever been to a party." Angel whispered. He wore a dark brown leather jacket over a collared black shirt.
I just wore an unbuttened collared shirt over a tee that had a falcon playing guitar on it. I didn't go to parties often either.
"Let's pass the time Danno-boyo." Jackson said sitting up. "Give us a trick."
"I'm not your show pony." I said scoffing.
Jackson rolled his eyes and teleported to the closet and tied on a skinny tie.
He teleported back to the bed and blew some hair out of his eyes.
"Do you ever do that to get into the girl's showers?" Angel asked grinning. I rolled my eyes.
"Nah takes too much energy." Jackson said. "I'd be too tired to even get 'happy'."
Angel made a horrified face and we heard the bathroom door open.
Nicolas came out wearing a velvet jacket over a collared white shirt and a matching red bowtie.
"Nice look man." Jackson said bumping fists with him.
I looked at Nic and was impressed. His power was extreme intelligence, I had realized the first day of school. His father lived at his house: a rich CEO of some major company. Nic was born with a mutation in his brain that gave his IQ a boost. A huge boost.
I looked over at Angel who was texting one of the girls he had been flirting with since he got to Abas.
He was still a mystery. I knew nothing about his parents, just that he didn't come from a foster home. I didn't know what his power was either.
"You planning on making a move on Delilah?" Nicolas said sdjusting his bowtie in the mirror.
"Who, me?" Jackson said innocently. "What makes you say that?"
I laughed. "Dude you guys are like perfect."
Jackson rolled his eyes. "Why do you think that?"
Angel smirked. "I see you and those eyes you make at her. Do it bro. Ask her out."
Jackson said "Look, she's hot and all but-"
"No buts." Nicolas wagged his finger at him. "You're asking her out whether you like it or not bitch."
"Well." Jackson said jumping up. "Let's go then."
---9:15
The courtyard was flashing with lights of all colors. People were everywhere carrying plastic cups and dancing to the pounding dance music. We had met up with the girls before going so all of us arrived in awe. Whoever had thrown this had obviously put some work into it. It was, of course, my first party so everything- the DJ, the girls dancing in 'suggestive way', the liquid in the cups that was most likely alcohol- was overwhelming.
"Yo y'all wanna drink?" a ginger haired boy said grinning lopsidedly.
"HELL YEAH!" Jackson yelled running over to the guy. Nicolas followed him and Angel offered a dance to one of the girls in the crowd. Hope broke off to start dancing and Delilah followed her.
Becka stood beside me with her jaw dropped. The party was enough to do that to you. I put my finger under her chin and closed her mouth for her.
"S- sorry." She said, broken out of trance. "This is just so- so..."
"Yeah, I know." I answered truthfully. "What are we supposed to do?"
"Well, Jackson is probably introducing Nic to the wonders of beer... Angel is probably making out with some girl... Delilah and Hope are off somewhere dancing. I think we should do that last one."
I smiled at her. "Me too."
"But but as friends right?" she asked putting her hands in her jeans pockets.
I tried to hide my disappointment. "Yeah of course."
"Oh yeah, okay."
---
We had been "dancing" for about twenty minutes which was pretty much twenty minutes of moving back and forth across from each other.
We stopped dancing, tired. The courtyard smelled like sweat and beer.
"I'm gonna get us some drinks." I said gasping.
"Nothing alcoholic for me." she said.
"Wouldn't dream of it."
I walked over to the table full of beer and sodas and picked up two Cokes.
I grinned as I walked past Jackson who was obviously drunk, flirting with Delilah. Hope was standing by the table talking to Nic, drinking a Root Beer. Angel was nowhere to be seen.
"What's da matta babe?" I heard a gruff voice say. Looking up, I saw Becka cornered into the wall at the end of the courtyard. Towering over her was a tall, skinheaded guy with muscles sticking out of- well, his entire body. He had one hand on the wall beside Becka and a beer in the other hand. He was blocking her way.
"I'm just gonna leave now." Becka said politely with a hint of fear in her voice.
"No no no no babe." the guy said, taking another swig from his beer. "Stay with me, lets have a little fun."
Something inside of me snapped. He had no right to act like that to Becka.
I pointed my arm at the cup in his hand and the beer flew out into his face.
All it took was a little squeezing of the cup.
He looked surprised then angry. But he didn't turn around. He looked at Becka. He dropped the cup and put his other hand on the other side of her, blocking her from my view.
He was drunk alright. I concentrated on one of the bricks above them and it melted into a ball of concrete, and fell on his head. There was a loud thud and this time he looked at me. Becka looked worried and relieved at the same time.
"Who the hell are you?" he asked throwing the brick aside.
That should've at least knocked him out. I was starting to get a feel for this guy's powers. Not to mention the brick flew far when he threw it.
"Someone who doesn't like that shit you were pulling."
He made a face at me and grabbed for my shirt. I jumped out of the way but didn't have time to dodge a massive punch that knocked me back about five feet. It took all I had to not fall.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE!" He yelled and caught an uppercut to my jaw. It felt shattered. This time I fell to my knees.
He looked down in triumph. But I grinned. Behind him had teleported Jackson, who no longer looked drunk. He kicked the guy's legs out from under him and as he fell I pointed my arm at a light on the end of a pole. The light fell and the metal pole formed a crude set of handcuffs with no chain and no lock (hey what do you want from me?).
The handcuffs formed around the guy's ankles. I struggled to get up and high fived Jackson.
The entire party crowd cheered. I hadn't even realized they were watching. Even the DJ had take. A break from playing music to clap for us.
"Now if you excuse me Imma go vomit in your underwear drawer." he said smiling but holding his stomach. He ran off.
I hobbled over to Becka. "Hey..." I said smiling. Then I winced. My jaw felt like crap. In fact my entire body felt like crap. She was about to say something but I collapsed before she could and everything went black.
---
"I think he's awake." Nicolas was leaning over me. Hope rushed over and stopped me from sitting up. I was on my bed. On Jackson's Jackson, Becka, Delilah and Angel sat. They were watching Hope in fascination.
"This might sting a bit." she said, pushing her hair behind her.
"Can't hurt anymore than it does now." I said through gritted teeth.
She shrugged and waved her hand over my jaw.
"ARG" escaped my mouth but she continued. Her hand was glowing blue now and the pain began to numb into a soothing content sensation.
When she eventually drew back her hand and it stopped glowing I blinked. It felt almost perfect.
"It should be sort at worst." Hope said. "Drink some water, it'll help."
I sat up slowly. My legs ached but it wasn't nearly as bad as before.
"That was amazing." Nicolas said fascinated.
Hope shrugged "I've been able to do it for as long as I can remember. But it's been getting more effective lately."
I took a sip of water from a bottle that they had put there for me.
"What time is it?"
"About three in the morning." Jackson said checking his watch.
"Thanks for the help back there mate."
I said the last word in a mock Australian accent.
He chuckled. "You must be hungry, I'll go get you some food from the mess hall."
"I'll come with you." Angel said standing up.
"Me too." Nic and Delilah said at the same time.
They walked out the door and Hope sat down on the foot of Jackson's bed.
Becka came over to my bed where I swung my legs off and made room for her to sit.
"And that's my cue to leave." Hope said standing up from the bed. "But I have to make sure the healing effect doesn't wear off... I'll wait in the bathroom. I'll just uh brush my teeth."
"You can use Jackson's toothbrush!" I called after her. She rolled her eyes and shut the door.
Becka looked at me. There was a fairly awkward silence for a minute.
"Thank you." she said finally. "For getting that guy away from me."
"You're welcome... This is why I can't leave you to get a drink for five minutes."
We laughed and she put her hands behind her.
"JUST KISS ALREADY!!"
She jerked up and I looked to the bathroom door.
"SORRY!"
Hope came out embarrassed. Becka and I's faces were both red.
So yeah that was chapter 2! Drop a vote or a comment if you liked it Rollys!! [By the way if you'd like to be in the story comment your name, a bit about what you look like and your ideal superpower!]
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