ep 21

"Some girls in my class write their names in their notebooks"

"Brats, that's what they are." I answered indifferently.

"You're a brat too, I'm older than you"

"In your dreams." I said smiling, giving my sister another slap.

"You asked for it!" My sister shouted before stepping forward and unleashing a shower of small fists on my shoulder.

"Ah, stop bothering me." I said loudly.

We arrived at a small apartment in Quens.

"It's huge." My sister said when we got home.

"I told you so."

"The furniture is mine!"

"Hey, there's only one." I said annoyed, going to lie down on the couch.

"How did you get them?" Airi asked while touching the leather of the couch.

"I already told you about the trash"

"but it's new"

"the rich ones you know, maybe they remodeled or something"

"that's great, but what about the stove? It looks expensive"

"same here." I answered while closing my eyes on the huge couch.

"you're the best thief a sister could ever want to have." Airi said looking at my face and leaning back on the couch.

When mom arrived and opened the apartment door she found us both asleep on the couch.

"I wanted to sleep there too." My mother said pouting.

I had to make up another big story about the second huge piece of furniture in the small but big living room of the apartment.

The next day I went to visit Matt after school and it happened.

I saw Matt running towards the docks after arguing with some schoolmates.

"it's today." I said and ran after the boy and when I could get ahead I did.

Just like it would happen it happened.

MATT!

His father shouted when the accident happened.

A cargo cart cut through a container of chemical waste that splashed and the liquid went towards the child's face.

I put my hand out and reached to touch the liquid.

CAREFUL!

Someone from the place shouted, a worker but it was too late.

The misfortune had occurred.

"Shit." I said when I saw how the liquid also hit my face but compared to Matt I closed my eyes.

AHHH!

"AAHHH!" I screamed in pain while Matt Murdock falls to the ground and is unconscious. I am conscious because of the waste burning my skin.

The pain is strong but I can only resist it.

I cannot remain unconscious even if I wanted to right now.

When Matt's father and several dock workers arrive, they find an unconscious child and another in fetal form suffering from pain.

Emergencies arrive and take Matt away.

"Where is the other child?" asks an ambulance paramedic. "I don't know, I was here a minute ago"

I escaped the place, staggering until I fell off the dock.

I swam and washed my face for several hours while I swam to who knows where.

"Save me Aquaman." I said jokingly but I remembered that in the MCU there is someone like that.

"Damn right, Wakanda and their heart flower serum, damn how am I supposed to get that?".

It didn't take long to reach the shore of somewhere.

I open my eyes when my hand touched the ground.

"Weak sensory ability, but it's there." I looked around me, I had better vision, better smell, I could hear better and my body felt.

"It's true, I wasn't afraid of drowning even if the water was cold." My body began to heat up evaporating all the water until my clothes were dry.

"No fear, I lost an important emotion, I forgot about that." I said frustrated but somewhat happy.

"Well, my body doesn't feel stronger." I said throwing a few punches here and there.

"Now that I realize it, where the hell am I?" I looked around and saw that I was under some bridge.

"But what do we have here?" said a somewhat older boy with homeless clothes.

"You guys leave him!" shouted a girl who seemed to be my age, she is on top of the bridge.

I lowered my face and realized that they didn't hear her.

"Grab him!" shouted another guy a little older and very thin but agile.

In an instant they arrived in front of me so I jumped and touched their faces.

GYAH!

"Really, gyah?" I asked smiling.

LET ME GO AAHH!

"What the fuck." I said surprised while holding the two guys.

I jumped in front of them, touched their faces without any fear.

"Now I understand what fearless means." I said seriously realizing something bad and good.

"My body does what it thinks, I calculate faster what to do, the problem is that without fear I can act badly when I am in public."

I made a mental note while looking up and seeing that the girl was not there.

Both guys gave their last breath and I let go of their charred faces.

"I have to get out of here." I said before throwing the bodies into the river and walking away.

When I went out to the road that led to the bridge I found a girl with a screwdriver.

"What the hell?"

"You!" The Asian American girl said out loud, in the distance I can see a backpack with wheels.

"Me." I answered while looking at the girl.

"Run, let's go." The girl said taking my hand and we began to escape.

'Maybe he thinks we are escaping from someone, I can't tell him that I already killed those guys. '

I played along with the girl until we got tired, she looked behind me.

"I think they are not following us." The girl said before looking at me. "My name is Elena.

"What are you doing here Elenea? I mean, you are a girl."

"You are also a boy." Elena said annoyed.

"I mean, why are you so alone?"

"That is not your business."

"You saved me, I was just curious and thank you." I said looking at the girl from head to toe, she seems to be 14, maybe 12 but she has a more mature air.

"Where are you going Elenea?" I asked and she kept looking behind me, maybe in case the guys I killed were coming after me, but she doesn't know what happened to them.

"My name is Elena, my house was stolen and the idiots I was traveling with left without me."

"You're lost."

"No, I know where I am."

"Oh, then I can go with you." I said and we got to where her wheeled backpack was and started walking across a huge bridge.

"Where do you live?" Elenea or Elena asked.

"In Quens."

"What are you doing so far from home?"

"I fell into the lake, there was an accident at some docks, on the 16th I think, something fell in my eyes and it hurt a lot…

I started to tell her the whole accident and how I swam in the river because of the pain and because I wanted to clean the debris that fell on my body.

A taxi honked behind us and a business woman opened the back door.

"Get in." She said and I looked at Elenea and nodded.

"What are you doing here kids?" The woman asked as the taxi moved slowly due to the traffic.

We started talking about what happened to us and the woman freaked out when she saw me but I explained that maybe it was just hot sauce or I would be dead in the river.

Elena and I shared directions and we left.

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