I dont have a main reason to like fire, I just do.
Since I was little I've always had low temperature which in part I blamed it on my birth parents:
Why did they leave me?
Did they loved someone else more than me?
Was something else more important?
Did they hate me or because they loved me that's why they left me?
So being close to fire made me fill that hole they left behind and this made me feel a little bit better. Sometimes I feel I'm having conversations with the fire, it tells me the craziest stories and his adventures from the beginning of the civilization, and somehow I know this are all true, like if when Im being told of them, somehow I feel I've already know them like if I was there, me being with the fire and the fire being me...
When I was little, Nate and I went to a school camp. My favorite part of it was when we gathered around the bon fire to tell stories, I wasn't interested in any of them and while Nate hide behind me scared of the monsters of the stories that were being told, I was just fascinated by the stories the fire had stored for me, each time waiting for me to come back.
Then, Teagan would appear and with a bucket of water killed the fire, MY FIRE,this made me so angry. Everyone started screaming, scared of the dark, I wasn't scared, I was angry that the fire was gone, like a part of me was killed next to it, and all the bad thoughts came back. The teachers sent everyone to sleep early.
I wasn't able to sleep, I couldn't stop thinking about the fire and why he had to die, like why my parents had to leave me...
I stepped outside my tent and went to where the bonfire was, I looked at the rests of what used to be a beautiful warm place, MY PLACE, and I wanted it back, so I just touched the wood left from the bonfire and it just came back to life, I stayed there for hours until the sun rose, talking about the past, present and the future the fire would see, then, when the story of the future started I felt something I had never felt before: FEAR. It wax like a vision a could see through it, I was there, everything around me in flames, flames I provoked, and my brothers lifeless body beside me, then that future reflection turned around and looked at me with tears of pain in his eyes, and he said a word I would only comprehend far in the future: REVENGE...
The next day I didn't tell anything to anyone about what had happened and until this day I haven't...
I opened my eyes Im surrounded by fire again but it doesn't hurt or burn, it never has, but I feel like I'm healing somehow, everything that happened in the party started to seem less scary, just like a memory but somehow a memory is shown to me by the fire a memory that existed in another reality, me making everyone go crazy in that hell of a night, making everyone loose control over their fears while they saw them and they became reality; this was a memory that I was sure didn't happen but it felt so real like somehow it did and I was the cause of all of it.
I was sure that what had happen in the party was Nathaniel's doing, and I didn't blame him, he was just protecting me from a jerk that I was glad he was now dead... Ugh, somehow this last thought made me realize that while being inside the weird cube filled with fire I dreamt with that day long ago in the camp: REVENGE...
That word that I didn't understand before, hoping that maybe this was the only and last time I'd feel glad about...Maybe... Just Maybe....
While I had those thoughts I noticed that my hair white used to be white, is now vivid red, like if it had been painted by the fire that i don't for how long I had been in, the same red as my eyes... Finally...
Then I noticed a woman and a man outside the cube, the man was specifically staring at me with worried eyes
-WTF...-I said- Nathaniel is that you?
-CELINA LET HIM OUT!- Nathaniel said scared for my life to the woman beside him.
-Do not fear dear.-She calmly answered.-His inner element is fire.
Inner element?!
Okay, now they both had some serious explanation to do...
In my dream I remembered once when I was in a schoolcamp and the fire revealed the secrets of the future to me but this future might be more dangerous that I imagined.
What would you do if everything you wanted for you got it in an instant?
Being normal is the only thing I wanted that I’ll never be able to get.
I’ve always known that I wasn’t normal and being like me comes with a price: Never be able to use my powers lightly. But that night, everything changed.
At first I didn’t realize that it was the beginning of a series of events I could’ve never imagined.
And it was all going to be a disaster…
My name is Nathaniel North, I’m a “Wanter” and this is my story…
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