I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it.
 

    I lurked into the courtyard, avoiding any castaway glances or misleading half-smiles.  I just walked myself into the loom of the shadows, ignoring or at least trying to ignore the fact that so many other children were in this area.  It all went through my mind, remembering the most common gay slurs and where to protect from kicks.  As I lounged against the wall, I shifted the fake wayfarer glasses a little higher on my nose.  I  made the shadows flick and dance across my face as I absentmindedly sat there with no trickle of anything productive whatsoever.
   
    I slipped an ink pen out of my pants pocket and turned to face the wall.  I wrote down the time and date, 12: 33/4-9-14, then a little picture of a cat who resemble the ginger tabby outside of my dorm, Fritjof who is better known as fritter.  I smiled weakly at it before turning back around to face, well... a face.

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I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it.
 

    The face was so close to mine, I fell back onto my butt and looked up with a scarlet face.  I looked down a bit and tried to hide my little wall drawing with my back.  I nervously looked back up debating whether I should reply or not.  "I, uh... nope.  No," I replied, despite the fact that I had seen the exact thing described sitting at the foot of the center fountain.  I looked away shyly, trying to press myself as far back against the wall as possible.  I just wanted to be invisible.

    Despite my thoughts of staying concealed and unsociable with the human, my mind took the option of doing the greater good.

    A long arm of a shadow stretched out to the fountain's base snatching the wallet and dragging it back into my very clammy hands.  My green eyes widened and I looked up gritting my teeth.  "Um... uh... the shadows knew?"  I raised my arm and handed the dusty wallet up to the boy, keeping my fingers at the very edge of the leather pouch.

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I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it.

    I squirmed even more as he bent down to inspect me. "I'm fine. It's okay, my fault."  My speech was barely audible as I tried to properly converse.  My face was red and I was suffocating myself with my own fear.  I nodded as he spoke about my shadow power.  Lucas?  That's cute,  I thought a little grin playing on my lips, but it disappeared quickly.

    "I'm Aki and yeah, I control shadows and puppet strings."  I was able to crack out a response that was long enough.  I demonstrated the strings, by lifting a pale hand and pointing my fingers at a lonely little acorn on the ground.  The silver cords shot out, dancing like sakura petals in the winds as they attached and made the little acorn walk about to its own tune.  I retracted the strings and looked to Lucas, still red in the face.

    "If you don't mind me asking, what's your power?"

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I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it.

    "F-f-fever?!  N-no!"  I hid my face away, but peeked up through my arms at the golden haired boy.  He controlled sunshine.  I almost laughed when I heard him.  Not because it was a bad power, but because of how ironic it was.  I controlled the shadows, he controlled the light.  How could you get anymore opposite than that right there?

    "We have opposite powers," I muttered aloud.  My green gaze scanning over the male in front of me.  I embarrassedly stood up, my short stature embarrassing me further.  I'm so small compared to him!  I can't hide!  I shuffled my feet and looked at my clasped hands.  "Wanna do something?"  I asked in a small voice, my messy black hair falling over my eyes.

    "I mean, only if y-you don't hate me or anything," I said, my voice shaking like a leaf.  I was looking like a beet when I looked at the other boy.

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    I got a little disappointed as he moved away.  I was to awkward for such a happy person to be near me.  I nearly sighed aloud as distance was put between us, but the happy mood of Lucas was slightly relaxing me and I almost broke into a full blast smile when he said he didn't hate me.  "I, uh, well... do you want to just go on a walk?"  I looked up at the blonde boy, a rare smile piercing my pink lips as I looked upwards at a literal ray of sunshine.

    I didn't even bother hiding the redness.  Lucas had already seen the blush, but I was guessing he was too naive or just too dense to actually understand the meaning of it.  I gripped the bottom of my cardigan and tried not to think about how much I just wanted to grab Lucas's hand.  I have some weird fetishes, maybe I should lay off the manga for awhile?  I went off into my own little world, looking at the soft blue sky above myself.  I snapped back in the nick of time before I went totally koo-koo though.

    "I mean, we don't have to walk if you don't want to walk!  I mean... I just not good at deciding, I guess," I played with my hands slightly, not really knowing what to do with them as I tried not to look too sick in the head while fangirling over the guy next to me.

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