Chapter 21: Bond

Tadashi dropped the opened bag of cheese balls he was holding. The orange balls fell and scattered on the carpet. This had not been what he was expecting to see after lunch. He needed to get a textbook before his next class only to find Electrick in his room.

Eli took off the metal suit and it folded into itself like a large origami. It went into the metal box Eli had brought at the start of the semester and kept under his bed. So that’s what had been inside of it. Tadashi’s brain felt like it was going to explode.

Holy sh*t.

Eli was Electrick.

Electrick was Eli.

His best friend and roommate was a superhero.

He pointed to Eli and to the metal case where the suit was hidden. “You!”

Eli approached him warily. “Tadashi.”

“You!”

The other boy nodded. “Me.”

“How?”

Tadashi was reduced to singular words. Anything more was too much for him. He might collapse or die. He didn’t know what would happen.