Lux 1.2 Call to Arms by Jalex Hansen

Author:Jalex Hansen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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Chapter Twelve

Connor

Olujimi had not spoken once in two weeks. Connor had gone out to the warehouse and found him a loft bed, and colorful blankets and sheets that reminded him of Kente cloth. He had hung lights and set up a computer and a TV with three different gaming systems, and stocked a mini fridge with contraband frozen pizza and soda. Olujimi just sat in silence in his room. If Connor put on a movie, he would come back later to find it turned off and Olujimi sleeping in a small ball on the floor, the pink bottoms of his feet clean and tender.

Those vulnerable feet pulled at a place Connor hadn’t known he had, the soft spot inside of him that had wanted a puppy, and a girlfriend, and a best buddy he could tell anything. If he’d had anyone to talk to about it he would have been embarrassed by this nurturing instinct that was oozing out of him like marshmallow fluff.

Since the boy wouldn’t talk, Connor filled the quiet spaces with his own story, desperate to be trusted and understood. He told him how his mother had always dragged out the sprinkler the first day of summer and invited all of his friends over so that they could run through it with popsicles in hand, dripping rainbows in the freshly mown grass. Later they would build tents out of sheets in the back yard and stay up all night talking about girls and guns and cars.

He didn’t even know if Olujimi understood him, but he watched him with wide, brown eyes that slowly lost their dull glaze and constant fear.

Connor hadn’t even tried to get him to use the light, and he hadn’t used his powers in front of him either. He thought he understood that Olujimi thought that the light was the cause of all his suffering. Connor agreed with him on that point.

Only once Connor had caught him following the movement of his arm, watching the Mark, and Connor had met his eyes and said, “I understand it, little brother. I think it sucks too.”

Olujimi seem to get that.

Connor was taking him to a soccer game on the army base today. He seemed to remember that soccer was popular in Africa and hoped that the excitement of watching a little friendly competition with some good shouting matches and a few strawberries would help bring him out.

Connor had played baseball in junior high. “I was never any good. I got up to bat and then just stood there while the ball came flying at me. Just pure, dumb nerves. Half the time I held onto it, and half the time I swung as soon as the catcher caught it. My coach said I should’ve played for the Chicago Cubs. Said I had the curse of goat on me.

“I was the only black kid in drama that year and it was ‘cause I couldn’t do anything with a ball. But here’s a secret, the girls actually like you better if you’re a drama geek.

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