EMOTION AVALANCHE.

Axel was what?

Blue jumping and clapping on my hip jolts me from my startled frozen state.

“I …uh…I thought dad already told you, I didn’t want you to learn it like that.”

“Like what?” I ask Axel, pointedly avoiding the crux of the matter.

“Shouted in your face.”

Aziz has the grace to look embarrassed, it lasts for a moment before his shameless self adds, “Good to rip the wound off at once.”

“Band-aid off you idiot, the saying is ripping the band-aid off,” Rain says moving to scuff Aziz, at the back of his head.

Axel ignores them eyes, intently fixed on me, he looks anxious, was he waiting for something?

“He’s waiting for your reaction,” Someone whispers.

“What?” I ask out loud.

“Oh, great you fried her brain cells,” Andrei mutters moving closer as if to examine my head, I swat him away, mind buzzing.

“There weren’t that many left anyway,” Ok, that I heard.

“Hey!” I yell glaring at Nyx.

“Bad lizard,” Blue mumbles, glaring at Nyx, my baby’s got my back.