Episode 69
Sarah knocks gently on the door of the room Cassie is, coaxing her to open the door, but she won't open it. Sean stood beside her and watched her call unto her name several times.
“Let her be, she will come around, she just needs to be left alone for some time,” Sean said to Sarah and she gave up.
“Text Brian about Cassie,” she said to him and he took out his phone to do as she said
She walked away from the room. “Where are you going?“ Sean asked her
“To see Mum, where is Chloe?“
“I don't know, mind if I tag along?“
“Of course, you can”
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Kyle hastens his steps to meet up with Chloe after saying his piece of mind about Carter to the elders. Immediately he reached up to her, she was looking around and he asked, “Who are you looking for?“
“Sarah, Cassie? Where are they?“
“I don't know, but can I show you something?“ He asked instead. Of course, he wouldn't regret it.
“What is it?“
“Let me show you instead, come on,” he said as she placed her hands in his and they both walked up the stairs and they got to a door to a room he opened it and stepped inside letting her follow his lead before stepping aside for her so he could close the door.
Starting at the wide room in awe, “Your room?“ She said to him, and he admitted to himself regretting taking her here.
“Yeah, but that's not what I want you to see…” he said nervously, seeing how uncomfortable he is getting, she smiled and said, “I want to see.“
“Oh, okay, it's right there,” he said as he walked to a door she didn't notice was inside the room, opening it, he beckoned her to come over and she did.
Starting at the paintings on the wall she gasped in awe.
“This is beautiful, who paints them?“ She asked and then gasped again realizing the answer to the question.
“Wait, You did? Do you paint? You are an artist.“
“Yes I am, you seem so surprised”
“Yeah, You don't look like someone who could draw, you don't look like an artist” she replied
“Yes I am, what do I look like?“
“You look like a basketball player. I mean, you are tall, not so tall though like 7ft or stuff, but you are probably six feet five, four? Three? I don't know, and you would rather ditch class to be on the basketball court at school, I mean you are always fond of being in the basketball room, so, hence my conclusion.“
“I used to be a popular artist in my previous school until I was cancelled.“ He said, after a small smile
“You were cancelled? Why?“
“It's a long story.“ He said sitting on the only available couch in the room, Chloe followed suit
“Then make it short, I wanna hear.“
He sighed, all the memories he was forgetting rushed in again.
“At my former school, I used to be one of the most popular kids in school, not because I'm in sports like every popular kid, but because I was a very good artist, I was very good at sketching, painting… I had a girlfriend, she wasn't part of a cheerleader team or anything, she was just a regular scholar kid whom I met and fell in love with, we dated for four good years before we parted. She was the ideal girlfriend for me. She was unique, reserved, quiet, and pretty, she wasn't wild like most girls, call her beauty with a brain. When we started going out, I cherished everything about her, her body. Personality? Everything about her is what I cherished and she was super shy. Soon after she got popular and known as my girlfriend and in the fourth year of our dating she changed, she started putting on excess makeup to school, left her former friends to form a clique with some wild girls, and started putting on skimpy clothes and stuff…
“I asked her why she is doing it, why did she suddenly change, you know what she replied be with? She said, Life is too short, let me enjoy myself to the fullest. This was the same person who was an ambassador of modesty, Decent dressing. I asked her if she could still enjoy herself without changing a bit of her, and she said, this is my appearance from today henceforth you better get used to it or I'll dump you, now this was the first time she is going to threaten me with a breakup. We were obsessed with each other so no one made the mistake of ever spilling anything about breaking up. I went to meet with her parents and they said they were surprised by her sudden change they tried talking to her about it but she wouldn't listen. Weeks later a picture was posted on the school's social media platform a nude picture, and a few posters were pasted in school. Who's a nude picture? it's Maya's, my girlfriend. The picture went viral and she came running with tears crying, those girls framed her up and posted a nude, now she denied it wasn't her nude that it was photoshop, I believe, not like I've seen her naked ness before, everyone believes that can't be Maya nude, because she is reserved and always preach modesty. Then I make a disclaimer post about the picture that it wasn't real and it was taken down, and the school authority suspended the culprit, I was glad I had my girlfriend back until she started keeping something away from me, we hardly see, her excuse was she was studying, at that time I already had my powers. One day I decided to pay a surprise visit to her house, I teleported there, my parents weren't home, so I went up to her room, as I was getting closer, I don't want to admit what the sound coming from her room is, I barged in, well it wasn't locked, to find my girlfriend stark naked with another guy, my best friend, having sex. She wasn't even aware that I'm in her room until I screamed her name and I stomped out of the room. Someone I thought was a virgin, wow…
“I got home and my heart was aching really bad. I loved her. I thought that was the end, but this girl had the effrontery to tell everyone that I raped her! She thought I was going to tell everyone about the sex, as soon as I got home, news of me raping fly around, I thought it was just a prank until I was arrested and detained, I told them everything I know, excluding the part where I caught her cheating. Investigations were carried out, they found some sperm remnants on her, did some tests, the result came out and I was clean, and released. She was questioned why she raised false alarms at me but she wouldn't tell them the truth of what happened. Her parents dropped the charges after much pressure from her and shame because they made a lot of threats at me.
I resumed school, but I was surprised the news of me, being clean wasn't heard, I met with the school authority and complained, that everywhere I go, I'm being tagged as a rapist and I don't want that, the principal to take it up, addressed the student and tell them the whole truth that it was all false accusations. Well, another rumour started flying around that my Dad being wealthy, bribe the cops, school authorities, and the doctors that I did it. I know it was all her, all this while she has started her relationship with my friends, I asked her one day why she was doing it, she had no reasonable answer, all she was was she thought I was going to blab about her sex with everyone, so she shoots her shot first. I lost my muse, I lost everything, Dad was the only one there for me, I lost control of my emotions and my power, the rumours weren't only within the school it has flown to a different school I have competed with in the aspect of Arts. Now I lost everything and slowly I crawled to my shell. When I couldn't control my powers, Dad told me everything about Wales, and Elvers, and urged me to get my mind busy with something else which is saving humanity. He sent me here, and that was the end of my sad love story…”
“Woah! That was indeed a long one, I'm sorry…”
“Nah, you shouldn't, be I feel great now, maybe all I want is to voice it out to someone, and I did, I feel relieved, I have bottled up my emotions and the truth all this while, I didn't tell any one about her cheating except you, not even my Dad, so I feel great.“
“Now, enough of the sad story, that wasn't what I want to show you, nor tell you” he added standing up and walking to one of the big drawing sheets that were covered with a white cloth, he removed the clothes to reveal a very beautiful sketch of a girl.
“You sketch me?“
“Yes.“
“It's So beautiful, I look so pretty here,” she said running her hands at the portrait of her.
“No that was wrong, you are much prettier than the portrait”
“Really?“ She said not taking her eyes off the portrait as she stared at every single detail she could see. The ray of sunlight shone at her, and the way her hair shaped her small face.
“This is beautiful, can I keep this?“
“Of course, you can. It's yours now, I found my new muse and it's you."
“Really, thank you.“
TBC…