Landon, who is right behind Lex, gasps. “Oh, my brother. Nooooo, you don’t want to be friends with that one. That one’s weird. Only I have the power to befriend his weird ass.”
“I will fuck your ass up,” I warn him.
“You couldn’t touch me,” he says, and the instant I turn invisible, he slides some training equipment in front of him as though it’s some kind of barrier.
When I become visible again, the smirk is smacked right off his face when he sees me holding August above my head.
“Let me touch you or I’ll make you regret the day you popped out of your momma’s womb,” I threaten.
“Don’t bring my momma into this.”
“Nah, I’m just gonna bend your Chronobender.”
“I’d rather you didn’t,” August says while submitting to his life of being in my arms, held above my head.
“This… This is for you, August. Don’t forget I love you with all of my heart. This should show you the amount of love I feel for your sweet, sweet soul,” Landon cries as he reaches out a hand and lets me touch it. I try to hand off August but Landon hastily shakes his head.
“Please, don’t put him in my arms again. His penis weighssooooomuch that I can’t hold him up,” Landon says. “It’s his massive penis… that’s why he weighs too much.”
“He looks like a man who has an understandably significant schlong,” I agree as I dump him onto Lex instead.
“I feel so uncomfortable about all of this,” Lex whines, setting August on his feet.
“I brought my lucky doll if you’d like to stab him some to feel better,” August says as he holds out a doll that has been stabbed over every millimeter of its body.
“We had some really stressful meetings before we came here,” Landon explains. “He’s not a serial killer, I promise.”
I turn back to the matter at hand. “Nolan, let us return to business.”
“What were you guys doing? I want to do it too,” Lex says.
“I was forcing Nolan to control my mind.”
“Sounds concerning and like… maybe something we shouldn’t do,” Landon comments.
I shake my head. “When you can’t control your power, it learns to control you. Nolan, when I appear, grab on to me. Understood?”
“Yes, but it’s going to be easier because I can follow the sound of your mind, whereas if someone really can teleport, that won’t be an option.”
I contemplate that before deciding that if I could learn to hide my footsteps and how to hide my sounds, my emotions, and everything else it took to be a perfect assassin… why can’t I hide my mind?
“Well… let’s see what I can do about that,” I say as I clear my mind and disappear.
“What’s he doing?” Landon asks.
“Making himself unreadable to Nolan,” August explains.
“Is it working?” Landon asks when I appear on the far side of the room.
Nolan isn’t fast enough, and I’ve already moved on. “It… is.”
“It does make me wonder… that day back at the pond… were you actually that easy to hit?” Landon asks. “Or did you just really want me to touch you?”
I slide in behind him. “I love it when you touch me,” I whisper.
“August! He made me shiver and not in a good way!” Landon cries.
“You can control me,” Lex says, annoyed I’m hogging Nolan’s attention. That’s when I notice that the man is dressed head to toe in red.
