No. 17: Emotions

Part 2:
Water and Earth









No. 17: Emotions

Cliff gazed out the window as he watched Kaleigh get off the back of Brandon's green motorcycle. It wasn't that he actually hated the guy. It was just that he didn't like the site of his sister on a boy's bike. Maybe it was just a brotherly instinct, maybe it was that once he had a crush on her, or maybe it was just the fact that he didn't like how she was going off after night fall with guys.

"I still don't like that idiot."
Cliff sighed and looked up at Venn who was standing behind him, looking over his shoulder.
"Don't be to hard on her. She needs someone other than us."
"Hey what's wrong with us?" Venn snapped. "Or at least me. You've got Terra." Venn muttered, but Cliff heard him anyways.
"Wait, what? Terra? What about her?"
Venn rolled his eyes and moved away from his brother.
"Don't give me that crap." He mumbled.
"Venn, nothing is going on between Terra and I." Cliff said moving away from the window. Venn rolled his eyes as he collapsed on the couch.
"I'm serious Venn. You of all people, should know I'm not about to get into a relationship with a girl."
"Well there's always a first time."
"What is with you? It's like you aren't even you any more!"
"I'm not okay Cliff?! I hate to bust your perfect little bubble, but apparently Kale is the only one who's the same as she was before. I, apparently, am a grumpy guy who can't have a girlfriend." Venn snapped at him. "And honestly I could care less about that if it weren't for the fact that you seemed to change as well. It's like we some how switched roles and your life sucks!"
Cliff wasn't sure how to take that. Especially since he wasn't with Terra, but Venn wasn't believing him at the moment.
"Venn we're the same we just have -"
"Save it." Venn growled, jumping up from the couch and walking out the back door. Letting it slam shut behind him.
Kaleigh walked into the room just as the door closed and she looked at Cliff wide eyed.
"What did I miss?" She asked, putting her purse on the counter.
"Uh maybe the fact that you didn't call to let us know you were gone?" He snapped.
She cringed and ran a hand through her hair.
"Yeah...and I feel real bad about that. I was really stressed and - "
"Kaleigh we get it okay? You wanted to spend time with your boyfriend that would have been totally fine with us, but you could have at least told us! We were worried half to death until we finally figured you'd be with Brandon and phoned his mom who confirmed that you were there."
Kaleigh sighed and walked up to Cliff, resting a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry. Honestly. I - something happened and it triggered a huge emotional collapse from me and so I called Brandon because I needed someone to talk to."
"You could have talked to us Kale. That's what we're here for. We have to be siblings for a reason, or else God wouldn't have put us together. We need to rely on one another or it's all going to get screwed up. Okay?"
He brushed her hand off and walked away, closing the door of his bedroom quietly and collapsed on the floor with his head in his hands.
All the anger towards Venn, and the worry towards Kaleigh was boiling inside him and he needed to get it out.
Looking around the dark room, he grabbed his notebook from his bed and wrote viciously for two minutes non-stop. Letting all his emotions out like some kind of dam broke and nothing could stop him.
He groaned under his breath when the ink started to run on the page, but kept writing.
It startled him to see that the ink just kept coming, and coming. He finally stopped and lifted up the pen, it shook in his hand until it exploded, sending ink and shards everywhere.
A weird, foreign feeling was running through his veins like a river coming to the edge of a waterfall, going faster and faster 'til soon he couldn't stop what happened next.
The ink stopped in mid air, in perfect little droplets that hadn't hit anything yet. They just...froze.
Cliff watched in awe as his hand moved on it's own, his left hand gripped a small vile that had appeared out of no where, his right hand moved, the droplets moving with him. He forced the ink to go into the vile, once they were in there he put the cap on and realized it was a necklace. Not sure of what else to do, he slipped it over his head, holding the small vile in the palm of his hand.
He shook his head, his eyes huge as he realized what had just happened.
"No. Freakin'. Way."

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Kaleigh chased after Venn, things hadn't gone too great with Cliff and she wanted to make amends. It was hard to have her brothers not trust her, and she wanted the horrid guilty feeling and metallic taste in her mouth to go away as soon as possible!
Venn was standing close to the forest that covered the back end of the school property. Usually everyone avoids it, but sometimes on the weekends a group of stupid guys would go trekking through there and get lost, forcing the Professor to call the police to go in for a search. But other than that it's usually avoided.

"Venn!" Kaleigh called.
Venn let out a deep breath and tried to tell himself not to snap at her, but things were to confusing for him to think strait.
He was mad at himself for being one of those jealous idiots, and than for snapping at Cliff who seemed to be playing dumb at the moment just ticked him off more. And then Kaleigh decided to ditch and go do who knows what with that guy and she even had the nerve to ride home on his motorcycle!
   White hot anger was boiling so hot that he wanted nothing to strangle something or someone. The feeling was so overwhelming that it took over his mind.
Subconsciously he heard a high pitched screech but didn't do much about it except turn around. He wished he never did though.

Kaleigh was gone from where she had been standing behind him, when he scanned around to see where she had gone he heard another noise, only this time it was more like a choking sound.
He glanced around once more and nearly fell over. His sister was up in a tree, or at least that's what he thought at first. But he noticed her feet flailing for a grip on the bark, and her hands were wrapped....around a vine that had wound it's way around her throat, and it was squeezing tight as his anger boiled.
Her eyes locked with his as the redness from lack of oxygen covered her face.
"...Venn..." She gasped.
His eyebrows rose in shock and horror as he realized that whatever was happening to Kaleigh, was because of him.
"Let...it go..." She gasped.
Anger flared once again in him. How could he just let it go? She had broken that trust bond by first going out at night and nearly getting beaten, and then by ditching them at the mall to hang out with that stupid idiot that kept following her around like a little lost puppy!
   But one clear thought rang through his head. He didn't want her to die. He didn't want to loose anything else of his life, and he also knew that what was happening was because he was angry.
After several seconds passed by, he closed his eyes and took deep breaths, calming himself down and slowly the white hot anger slipped away from him.
A thud was heard followed by deep gasps and he figured Kaleigh was fine.
But he didn't check.
He spun on his heel and ran, as far and as fast as he could.