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At the moment I’m standing on top of the world… well not really, but close enough, I’m sitting on top of the John Hancock building, Boston. I shivered slightly in my jacket, as the winds started to pick up. I looked down at my watch. Eight o’ clock… Man Mom’s gunna kill me… I thought as I look down over the city of Boston, seeing the setting sun reflect off the thousands of glass panels on this huge building. And I looked farther, seeing cars rushing place to place, seeing the buildings tower over each of the people walking by. I always came here when I was unsure about something, like today for instance. I was unsure about my… condition, about how I couldn’t ever go to a pool, about how I hid it from my friends, and family, and how I never let anyone get too close to me, on the count they might notice the slight bulge of my shirt caused by my fifteen foot long wings folded under it. And this was a place where none of that mattered, the only thing that ever noticed me up here where birds, and well, they didn’t mind if I laid up here and kept my wings wide open.

I looked down at my watch again and sighed. Picturing the fit my mom would have when I got back, ever since I was five she’s had this strict policy about me being home by seven. I was fifteen, and tired of that stupid curfew, but I tried to make it sometimes, because I'm cool like that. It would take me twelve minutes to make it home if the wind wasn’t going against me, and maybe less if they where blowing in my direction. I sighed again, and jumped off my favorite perch. I let myself fall the first hundred feet before opening my wings, and I yelled out in joy as I felt the air lift me up again. I flapped my wings flying higher and higher, and I kept going until I was a hundred feet above the building I was just sitting on. And I flew in my homeward direction, loving the feeling of the wind beneath my wings, and the fading sun lighting the clouds that I almost touched.

I arrived home thirteen minutes later and landed in some trees in my backyard, perfectly, and almost soundlessly. Then proceeded to walking through my back door and into my kitchen. So far no scream… err, good… I looked around and saw a note on the fridge.

Dear Patrick,

I'm going to be working late today, there’s leftover Shepard’s pie in the fridge, be back at about midnight.

Love always, Mom

Lucked out on that one! I thought gratefully, and somewhat guilty at the same time. I felt bad that my mom had to work until midnight. I sighed and reached into the fridge, getting out the pie and put it into the microwave for thirty seconds. Should I go back flying for a bit? I thought to myself. I have time… hmm…

I walked over to the T.V and flipped it onto the news. I didn’t normally watch the news but I felt like doing something different that day.

“And in other news, there has been a fire at Marian high school to day. School for anyone who goes to Marian high school will be canceled The source of this fire is unknown and no one was hurt-“I turned off the T.V and ran to the phone to call my only friend. And yes I said ONLY FRIEND… I’m not very good with people with my secrete and all… ah well. “Hey Pat!” Kaitlyn said in a cheery tone.

“DUDE!! There’s been a fire at Marian! Schools out!” I said. A pause…

“Did you start it?” she asked with a smile in her tone. I had always been a little pyro, I enjoy fire… ah well.

“Nooo….” I said in a childish voice, “but still! No school! Woo!!”

She laughed, “Well, can I come over? If there’s no school we can watch a movie, I got 10,000 B.C and way to much junk food for one person, mom went over board with her shopping again.”

We did this all the time, for the past 8 years we had been friends. We where more than any best friend or boyfriend girl friend, we where beyond that, even more than family. At school we where both put in the “loner” category at school, I ended sitting next to her at lunch and after that we’ve been friends.

“Sure, my moms not here and I got some fireworks we can set off after the movie to, you in?” I said half laughing, Kaitlyn wasn’t a pyro like yours truly but I was trying to get her there.

“Sounds like fun! Be over in twenty minutes!”

“See you then!”

It’s weird… you would think that some one like me couldn’t have a normal life with friends or in my case, one friend, but still. She never asked me anything I didn’t want to talk about and I did the same to her. It worked well.

The phone rang once again, I picked up. “Yo.” I said into the receiver. “Patrick! Get out NOW!” was the response. Doctor Hicks, the only person that knew my secret. “What’s going on?” I asked in surprise. “Patrick, leave your house now! Get out! They’re after you! I’ll meet you at 178 Lincoln Street, please, go now...” the line died and I was left alone with the dial tone. I called Kaitlyn to tell her she couldn’t come over. “Sorry I’m not here right now, please leave a message and your number and I’ll call back if i want to, tchau!”

Damn, i thought to myself while leaving a message saying that my Mom called and I had to go to help babysit one of the people she worked for. It happened often enough to work as a good excuse, but still, i was hoping that Kaitlyn wouldn’t want to tag along, which also often happened. I brought my cell just in case she called and booked, if Doctor Hicks said leave, I left, and somthing about the way she said ‘they’re after you’ didn’t make me feel safe at the moment.

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