"Concentrate!!"

"I'm doing it as much as I can" 

" Look, you are new here so I'm going easy this time. I'm your mentor. You do as I say if you want to live, or you leave this room and never come back. Your choice."

He nodded. Although he hated it, he knew she was right. It was do or die. 

"Good. Now concentrate!! Focus your mind on the task at hand. Think about nothing else. Let's try again."

He did as he was told. He forgot about everything but the task at hand. After a few minutes, it seemed to work. The birds stopped flying, the leaves stopped rustling. Though it was only for a few seconds, he'd finally done it. 

He'd stopped time.
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Mark was a normal kid. He thought he had the best life ever. He had everything. Loving grandparents who treated him as their own. Friends who were there for him wherever he needed. He never wished for anything more than what he had. He was happy.

All that changed when he met Claire. She was the kinda person who grows on you. She opened the path for him to a life he never knew was destined to have and he discovered that he was so much more than merely normal.

But now his secret is out and his life and the lives of those he loves are in danger. Now he has to choose between his family and his destiny and the fate of the world depends upon his choice.

Timeless Teenagers

They were already in the car and he couldn’t do anything about it. Mark felt like a ball of frustration. He’d always been the go getter, the traditional popular guy in school who could do anything with just a snap of his fingers. Of course, it wasn’t as easy as it seemed but he’d never given up. 


Why was he giving up so quickly now? He tried to understand his own thoughts. He knew a part of it was the danger to his friends and family. He also knew that wasn’t all, his dad played a key role in his decision. 


He’d honestly thought he didn’t care about his father until her heard about him from Claire. Then, some hidden part of him came to light, a part he didn’t particularly like. This voice in his head kept telling him, my dad wasn’t who I thought; I didn’t know him at all. 


An unexpected derailment