In the midst of heartbreak, new bonds are forged.
At the end of their first year at UA High, the students rely on their tight friendships and hard work to get through finals. New alliances and friendships are made between the outgoing hero classes a...
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A cloud of fog hung low in the air, refracting the midday light. The air was still brisk as we approached the manor. "House" didn't feel like the right word, not for a place like this. Rocket had explained to me that it used to be his parents' funeral home, so "manor" felt more appropriate to me.
As he led me up the long, winding driveway, I marvelled at the way the mist curled off in his wake. Knowing we were heading to a funeral home and cemetery, the way he walked so confidently forward made me uneasy. It was like he was in his element, and though I knew that to be true, it didn't make me any less fearful of my visit.
Even so, he cut a clear path through the fog, leading me forward with surety in his step. I'd only ever seen that this past weekend when we were fighting robots at Reina's. He looked so happy and comfortable, just like now.
Strange as it was to say, I felt intimidated by the guy.
The whole group of Support kids was strange and bizarre, but I felt as though I at least understood the rest of them to the point they stopped being so scary. Rose was just intense and wanted to win. I knew that she didn't mean any real harm by her feud. Dani only looked scary, but he was actually really chill. Not to mention, his subtle and not-so-subtle roasts made it easier to warm up to the guy. Double was a sweetheart, no way around that. The moment I got over the fear of him being a new person I had to converse with, I had no trouble hanging out with him. Snake was just all around pretty chill. I got the vague idea that she was dangerous, but I knew where I stood with her. Rocket, on the other hand...
As he walked before me, golden eyes trained ahead, he looked dangerous in a way I couldn't describe. I might've been training to fight villains along with some of the most powerful people my age in the whole country, but he harnessed a different sort of power. I was always put off by the supernatural, but he lived alongside it with no fear.
I couldn't figure out whether I admired the guy or needed to put more distance between us.
But that would defeat the whole purpose of why I came here with him. He had wanted to make it up to me for the grief his ghost family had put me through the previous night. He claimed that they weren't all that bad, one of them had just taken things too far.
Walking up the gradual incline of the driveway, I glanced behind me. The road was so far away that the fog hid it. Rocket and I were walking in a bubble of limited visibility, which only added to the eerie atmosphere. If it were summer, I would've taken off my shoes and illused into the ground as I walked, using Echolocation to sense my surroundings, but it was the dead of winter. I couldn't even take my gloved hands out of my pockets without getting cold.
We had taken the train from the center of Musutafu to the outskirts of the city. Still in a relatively populated area, I expected him to live along a main road, which I suppose he did, but his family had seemed to build their house on the only plot of countryside in the entire city.
