"I guess I would have to explain why I'm here, the son of the country's biggest business tycoon, 'Archer Page'. Devin took his seat next to me on the grass before continuing.
"I have a lot of siblings…each one greater than the last. They all managed to make my father proud in one way or the other. Currently, they're actually managing some of his businesses. Unfortunately, I'll never get to do that. Out of all my siblings, im the dossapointemt. I'm not as smart as them, in fact, I could be considered to be rather dull. This forced my family to turn on me". He heaved out a sigh. He wasn't done yet that much was obvious. I let him go on.
"My brothers and sisters, they're far more intelligent than me, they were able to break global records and make important business decisions and strategies before they even became teenagers. I wasn't like that, like I said, im not smart. The first decision I had to make concerning one of my father's companies made the company go bankrupt. Since then, I have become the black sheep of the family. My father hates my guts, and my mother is ashamed to have given birth to someone like me". He stretched his legs out, crossed his arms against his head, and lay down.
"In exchange for the neglect, they gave me money, they spoiled me to make sure I didn't get in the way. They paid me to make sure I smiled in front of the press. I sort of built this facade through it, that I have a rich dad and that I was untouchable. In reality…if I died…they wouldn't bat an eyelid. That's why I joined the Army program. To prove something to myself, to prove that im not useless". He turned his head towards me in conclusion.
I stared at him for a few minutes, "Thank you for sharing this with me". That's all I could manage to muster up.
He looked at me and giggled, "im not obnoxious ok? And I want to help you. To be honest, I don't think you're weak, you just need to refine that power of yours. Let's train together until the very last day, then you can show those two how strong you've gotten.
I never knew Devin was a good person, I guess I had been judging a book by its cover. I'm not entirely sure if I think he's not spoiled, but I was going to keep him around me. He was my new best shot at becoming strong I would take it.
He stretched his hand towards me, indicating that I shake it. I stretched my hand out and shook his firmly.
"Great!! Training with me starts tomorrow. Don't be late we'll train right here". He said as he turned away from me. "See you tomorrow ".
He walked off the field leaving me in a flurry of my own thoughts. I guess the next thing to do was to go get some rest. The school day was over anyway.
On my way back to the dorm I unfortunately ran into Mathew.
"Beatrix! What's up it has been what? Five days?". He hummed around me.
"No, I will not fight you. Goodbye", I swiftly ran away from him.
Ever since the day we fought last, he's been asking me to fight him again. I say no every time but he hasn't taken the hint yet.
Upon entering my dorm room I was even more unfortunate to see Delight and Daniel in my dorm room. I couldn't exactly kick them out, after all, this was Delight's room as well.
I walked, and whatever conversation they were having came to a halt. They stared at my face as I walked over to my bed and dropped my bag. I wasn't going to leave because of them so they better enjoy the silence.
"Hey what's good", Daniel waved over to me awkwardly. I ignored him, I wasn't going to force myself to have a conversation with him.
He and Delight were sat on, her bad. They weren't sitting next to each other…they were adjacent to each other. Both are still in their school uniforms.
"Look, Beatrix, let's talk about what happened in class ok?" Delight smiled over at me. Her cheerful attitude wasn't going to get her out of this one.
"Look, don't talk to me… I got your message loud and clear. I'm weak. The weak and the supposed strong do not mix. You can continue to have your discussion, I won't listen in". I smiled at them as I put on my headphones and began to listen to music.
I couldn't help thinking more about Devin's story. To be very honest, it didn't totally add up. Could they just have outcasted him because he was dumb? I mean…he has an incredible fighting instinct. That should more than makeup for his lack of brains.
I got my phone out and then decided to do some research.
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After a bit of searching on the internet, I found a super old blog. It had something on the pages. Although it almost seems hidden. After all, I had never seen this news anywhere else.
I read through the blog twice, trying to process the information.
The oldest of the page twins has now been declared dead. It's been confirmed that Devin, the oldest of the twins has killed his younger brother in a fight. Devin apparently could not control his anger, nor could he control his ability, and punched his older brother in the head. Quite literally blowing his brother's brains out. The deceased Dion Page was said to be the greatest mind the Page family had produced so far. This is all the information that we can offer for now. There will be more later so stay tuned.
This thing dated to ten years ago, so Devin must have been seven at that point.
This was crazy…, so Devin was a murderer? Well, I didn't necessarily see it that way. I guess this was just something he had to keep to himself.
I could relate I thought, as I touched the tiny horn hidden within my hair.