Chapter 47 We Believe What We Want To Believe (1/2)

Laz just stood there shocked faced as Tommy lay passed out on the floor. All the weird vibe from him had disappeared as well the moment he swan dived into the hard wood floor. The coaches were not much help at this point either as they couldn't believe what had happened. The silence was heavy enough to weigh down everyone's thoughts as they had no idea what happened.

Even Laz and Kennedy were fairly clueless as to what happened to Tommy. They knew they were different, but they could feel the difference as a part of themselves. Tommy's changed seemed to have affected his mind as much as it did his body.

Even now, Laz had chills going up and down his back at the thought of those weird marks Tommy had on his face. Even if Laz had experience with weird shit thanks to Joey, this was felt a bit more dangerous than that. It's like the difference between not watching as you step off the side walk andalmost get run over by a car versus have a gun cocked and fired in your face. Either one could kill you, but only one was really meant for you.

This was the feeling Laz got, but it wasn't the only one. Despite the indifference he had on his face, he felt like deep down, he wanted to end Tommy on a dimensional level. He didn't want Tommy to exist. They only reason he didn't act on this feeling was because it was completely foreign to him.

Some people will feel blind hatred and rage for almost no reason and act on it, but they are ones who usually can't control themselves in the first place. Now imagine that the sanest man in the world was affected by the same feeling? He would would probably have many thoughts and feelings about the urge, but he wouldn't act on it. Some might call it control, but it is, in fact, just uncertainty.

Human's like to avoid things they don't understand or know about. It's nature. We like what makes us comfortable. As such, many times we feel agitated or uncomfortable with the unknown. Welcome to the human race.

In Laz's case, standing in the middle of the oval shaped crowd of students in various stages of shock and confusion as Tommy rushed him, he noticed these feelings, but didn't act on them as he knew he couldn't and mentally, he was in control.

The problem would come if, some day, he wasn't. As such, many thoughts were going through his mind right now even though he had no time to really spend on them.

Noticing the crowd of standing corpses and one overly perky, slightly reddened, mute ball of laughter, Laz finally composed himself enough to say the first thing on his mind.

”Well, that was unexpected.” He couldn't help but mentally slap himself for such a stupid line as Kennedy was hunched over and looking like she was having seizures.

”Tommy!” Both Alex and Jesse called out at the same time as they came rushing over. It seemed like Laz's words had finally roused the crowd from their stupidity as the male coach finally came over and the female coach had finally gotten off the phone with emergency services.

”They will be here in 5 minutes,” she called over to no one in particular. The male coach took it as being targeted at him as he walked forward towards Tommy. He didn't know how he had gotten thrown like that, but he felt that things weren't right.

”Alright. Can you boys lift him up and bring him over the one of the mats. Just set him down there. The ambulance knows to come right to the gym so they will wheel him out from here.” The male coach said while directing Jesse and Alex.

As the female coach walked over, the male coach whispered quietly to her. Although Laz was a bit of a ways away, he was still able to hear it clearly.

”Ask them to drug test him. He's probbaly on steroids or something. He shouldn't be that strong considering his size.”

”Ok.” The female coach responded. She actually knew Tommy outside of school and knew he did a lot of drugs, but steroids wasn't one of them. They had more than one encounter in which he enjoyed getting high before having a piece of her well toned ass. Of course she wasn't going to mention a single thing about this to the male coach who had been hitting on her since she started working at this school.

The five minutes passed by quickly while everyone just stood around and chatted quietly. Even if the coaches wanted to dismiss them, there was no point as they would have to stand around until the end of class anyway. There was also no reason for them to resume either game as the students were no longer focused.

Now that Kennedy and Laz weren't being watched by the entire class, the came close to each other and started whispering themselves.

”Not going to talk to my head anymore?” Kennedy asked with a mischievous smile.

”No. It would be too weird to not be talking to someone while everyone else is,” Laz responded while staring at Tommy.

”You know we are not suppose to know each other in school, right?” Kennedy asked while looking over as well.

”Those were your rules. Isn't he suppose to be your boyfriend on the surface? Why don't you go over there?” Laz asked, a bit amused by her actions.