Another thing that I'm hating right now, besides being tied down on a stranger's bed in a stranger's room, is how easily I talked about my type. Do I even have a type? The only attraction I've ever felt like this was towards Kage. Does that mean my standards are godly high? Because Kage is très bon. That's the only French I know. Oh wait, I think I know some more. Je me suis fait baiser. Excuse my French.

What does 'I'm going to test you and bend you' mean anyway? Test my powers then physically torture me by bending me over and spanking me? Why would he spank me? Is he insinuating something else? Please don't tell me it's what I'm thinking because I can't deal with pain. Remember? I want a quick and painless death.

"What are you thinking about? Are you trying to figure out how to escape?" Kage asks me.

I didn't even think to think of that. I was too busy being embarrassed by my momentary arrogant self. Where the hell did he come from? What alien took over my body at that moment and why isn't he doing it now so I can get the heck out of here!

"Please let me go?" I try.

"Hmm ... Nope." He stands up from where he was sitting in the chair next to the bed and places his hand on my stomach. "I want to see how your powers work and how strong they are."

"Can't we do this some other day? You already tried once today and I have things to do."

"Shh, stop thinking and start acting," he leans down to whisper in my ear.

He digs one finger into my abdomen. His finger turns into a huge weight that feels like it is digging itself through my shirt and into my flesh. It feels sharp like a knife. Hot like a burner. He's digging into me and burning me from the inside out. I can't cry out. It seems the amount of pain is too much for my voice to even try to take form. I'm in agony.

Another finger starts to make its way into the growing hole. I hear snapping from muscles. I smell the metallic scent of blood. I'm bleeding. I'm going to die. And it's not in the way I want to die.

"You shouldn't have dropped your guard, Jackie," I hear Kage say rather than see him because everything has gone black. I can't see anything.

White flashes appear past my eyes every few seconds and stabs, but I only see eternal darkness otherwise. It's the worst. I don't want it. Why does my other half want to hurt me so bad? Is it the good and bad of Jekyll and Hyde? I'm doctor Jekyll and Hyde is the evil monster side of me. What set Hyde off? I need to calm him down.

I need to be his opposite and balance him out.

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I wake up and the first thing that comes to my mind is that this was the lamest 'villain acts nice to hero but turns around to bite'. And I completely fell for it! I'm sorry but my coping mechanism is jokes. Let me have my humor before you decide to take away my dignity. Not that I have that anymore anyway.

I'm no longer restrained on a bed but I am on a bed. A stranger's bed. Not the previous bed. This is a new stranger's bed. What's funny is that once I got these powers, I'm now finding my way into strangers' beds. And the cruel irony is that I'm still a virgin ... I hope.

I hear the door handle turn and the stranger enters. I peek up at the door from under the covers and sigh in relief when I see Dave. But now I'm confused.

"Dave?"

"Jackie."

"It's Jack," I correct grumpily.

"Whatever." He sits on the bed next to me. "Are okay?"

"How did you find me?"

"You called me."

"I did?" I sit up and pat around for my phone.

"I couldn't find your phone. I didn't have the time to. I had to get away from an angry Kage who was floating in midair and couldn't move. Would you like to tell me what happened?"

"No?"

"Tell me," he demands.

If he wanted me to tell him he could have just said it instead of asking! Gee, these guys are a handful.

"What were you doing with Kage?" he presses.

"I don't know! He forced me to go to his house then he tied me to his bed and hurt me!"

"He tied you to his bed? Are you deflowered?"

"Da fuq? Why would you ask that!" I shout at him, showing my true tomato form.

"You never know. I wouldn't put rape past Kage," he clears his throat.

I stare at him with my mouth hanging open. "Can I go home now?" I ask in a high pitch.

"No."

"I'm a prisoner again." I fake fainting.

"Why do you only do this when I'm present? Don't tell me you like it when I carry you." He smirks.

"Who said anything about that!" I come back to life as a permanent tomato.

"Well, you didn't do that to Kage."

"That's because I know he would kill me!"

"And I won't?" He leans close to me. His height towers over me so I have to look up at him to talk.

"N-Not as much as him."

"I can burn you alive at any moment. You don't seem to remember that my power is just as deadly as Kage's."

"All you talk about is Kage. Are you sure you don't have a crush on K-"

"Wrong. He is not the one I want."

"Who do you want?"

"Definitely not you." He stares me right in the eyes when he says this but he's too close.

"Then why am I at your house?"

"I don't know where you live."

"Then I can get there on my own." I move to get up but the pain in my stomach makes me stop and wince.

"Steady." Dave grabs me and pulls me back to lie down on his bed.

Now that I know it's Dave's bedroom, I feel a little too conscious of the smell. I feel like a girl who intruded upon the male species territory. Even though my room is more of a mess and smells like a male more than his room. I have a problem.

Back to the searing pain in the core of my being. Why the fuck does it hurt so much! This isn't what I had planned. Nothing is what I planned! I planned to wake up like normal and go to school being invisible like I normally am then go home to my friend's house for dinner with my hard working mother. My whole life changed just because I gained the ability to float. I get attacked twice in one day that could have led to a very painful death and I'm surrounded by a bunch of power hungry teens.

It's a cruel cruel world.