Chapter 2: Discovery Of Powers

Alex was sitting alone on the schoolyard, listening to music. The loud dubstep music in his headphones blocked out all other sounds, so he did not hear Kylar coming over to sit down on the bench he was sitting, until Kylars smile showed up abruptly before Alex face. Alex got a minor heart attack, and shoved off his headphones which he let hanging around his neck.
"Bloody hell, you scared me badly!" he shouted, still with panic in is voice from the chock.
"Sorry, didn't mean to. What are you listening to?"
"Just some dubstep, but what do you want?"
"Oh, you sound social? What, can't I talk to you?"
Alex relaxed a bit, he needed to stop being so tense all the time.
"Sorry, you was just trying to be nice. But did you need something particular?"
"Just wanted to ask if you'd like to hang out after school?"
Alex started to get a really awkward feeling, he felt a unaware of everything around them. The other pupils in the schoolyard, the boys who played basketball, the girls who were gossiping and chatting.
"What do you mean?"
"Just getting to know each other."
"Right, ok."
"Well, see you later then."
He turned around and went into the school building, which it was time for him to do too, the last lesson started soon.

It was about 15.30, when Kylar and Alex joined outside the school.
"What do you have in mind then?" asked Alex.
"What about just chilling at my apartment? Play some Xbox or something?"
"Right, do you live alone?"
"Yeah, and I don't wanna talk about it."
Good thing he said that, because Alex was just to open his mouth to ask. And he didn't ask because Kylars constant smile had vanished for a second, which somehow stunned Alex. He had just wondered if Kylar had some medical condition that made him smile all the time, it kind of looked like it.
They just had to walk for about 15 minutes until they stood before a grey concrete house, and by all the small apartments it seemed like a student- apartment house. Alex himself lived with his mom and her boyfriend (his parents were obviously divorced) in a pretty big villa with a pretty big garden, with a pretty long hedge. You get it, everything was pretty big. So he couldn't understand how one could live in a so suppressed space as a student apartment.
They took the elevator to the 4th (and highest) flat. Kylar put in a key in the keyhole to room 13 and opened the door.
When Alex stepped inside he got almost claustrophobic, the room was so small so just a small bed, a flat TV, a small table between the TV and bed. And then it looked like there was an opening to a minimal kitchen and a small door to possibly a toilet.
Kylar pushed him inside a bit and closed the door.
"Don't panic, I'm just living here temporarily. I mean, I just moved here, an this was the easiest to get."
"Oh, so you have a lot of money then?" asked Alex. He reliased it sounded very rude.
"You could... Say so, kind of..."
An awkward silence appeared and they say so for about half a minute, both on the bed.
Kylar broke the silence. "Alex, there's another reason I brought you here."
Alex started to get nervous. The first thing was that Kylar was to ask him for a date, which would be the most extremely awkward moment in the entire of Alex life. Not that he thought there was anything wrong with that kind of sexuality, but he surely wasn't interested in Kylar.
"I have reason to believe that when you shook my hand, you felt a really weird feeling go through you?"
Alex was prepared for something else entirely, not a thing like that.
"Yes... Yes I did. What's about that."
Kylar looked at his right hand, stared at it. Alex didn't know what to believe. Was Kylar going to grab him, hit him, strangle him... High-Five him?
But neither of these things occurred. No, instead, a flame bursted out just an inch from his palm, burning with a clear orange blaze. Alex just sat there, stunned, thinking whether to run and grab some water or merely sit there like an idiot and let Kylar burn up, which he did right then.
But the flame did not spread, instead Kylar abruptly closed his hand and it was gone.
"What... The... Hell?!?!?" Alex was really creeped out, what the hell was happening?
Kylar laughed and said: "Now it's your turn."
Alex rises up and went for ye door. But when he took the doorhandle and tried to open, it was obviously locked.
"It's and old house, you need the key to both get in and out."
"Give me the key..." mumbled Alex.
"No, not until you have showed me what you can do."
"I can't DO anything, I'm not a freak like you!!!"
Kylars face darkened, his eyes almost looked like they changed colour from deep blue to more red. Maybe it was just the light.
"Did you just call me a freak?! That's what people have always said to me, freak, freak, freak! Even mom and dad!!! Said that I was the child of Satan, thought that beating me would 'make the demons go away'. That's what got them... Killed... And here I am, thinking that I may find someone who wouldn't call me that, because he is the same. You wouldn't have been able to feel that thing without being this way. You're bound to know something!!!"
"I don't! Leave me alone!!! Freak!!!"
Kylar took a leap towards Alex, putting his hand on Alex head. In just a second pictures went through his head, glimpses of what seemed like... The future. But a weird future, he could see himself, but he was bursting with dark light, he could see dragons, he could see weird creatures, looking like wolfs but with humanlooking bodies.
He fell to the floor, gasping for air, it felt like someone had beaten him with a large stick in the head.
"I told you, you are like me !"
"What... The hell was that?!" whispered Alex still trying to breath.
"Visions, my friend, visions! And that means you can do more! You're bonded to the timeline!"
Alex regained his ability to breath and slowly rised to a sitting position on the floor.
"You're crazy, you know that?! This is but a weird practical joke or something, I don't know, but stop it!!!"
"Even though you had the visions you still don't believe me?"
He took out a knuckle big red crystal which he handed over to Alex.
"Here, take it, timebrother."
Alex took it, even though he didn't want to. It felt dangerous and scary. He just wanted to get out. Kylar was obviously a crazy person who was a threat to him. So he had to play along and follow what he said.
"By the way, what year, month and day are you born?" Kylar asked.
Alex hesitated, didn't wanna tell that to a crazy person.
"1994, July, 13. Why?"
"Oh, my, that's splendid, we are not just timebrothers, we are timetwins! I'm born the same day!!! But now, put the stone in your mouth."
What was Kylar up to now, did he want to choke him with a stone? He really started to freak out, even if he already was that before. But he put the stone in his mouth. It tasted obviously hard, but also a bit bittersweet.
Kylar put a thumb against Alex mouth, in which it started to feel really warm in his mouth, the stone started to get really warm. He stopped himself from spitting it out.
"Now... Swallow."
Kylar pressed his thumb even harder, so Alex did as he said.
His body lifted a couple of inches from the ground, and he saw white light coming from his body, he wanted to scream but nothing but light came out from his mouth. It had to be some kind of nightmare, those things just happened in books and movies, not in real life. Especially not him.
He fell down on the floor (he fell down on the floor a. lot) but this time quickly came on his feet.
"Do you believe me now?" laughed Kylar.
"Yes, could you let me out now?"
"We're timetwins, we can become even stronger by bonding."
"And how do you do that then?" sighed Alex.
What came after surprised him probably of all the things that had happened that day. He felt Kylars lips against his, felt Kylars tounge in mouth.
Alex slapped Kylar over the chin, and backed up against the wall.
"What the f**k are you doing?! Are you gonna rape me now too?!"
"No, just bonding us. It wasn't that bad, now was it?"
Alex turned around and started pulling the door, yelling for help.
"Stop that! Someone's gonna come!"
Alex turned his head. "Yeah, that's the point."
Kylar took two steps towards him, and suddenly, the whole world literally fell apart and instead there was just white around them.