Short Story Battle

The Prelude to my second that you need to know is Ethan has superpowers, there a lot like Danny Phantoms in that they are like Ghost powers, but his adventures get him tangled up in dealing with demons and angles instead of ghost. His Newest best friend Lol (a name I stole—ahem--- I mean borrowed from star treck) knows about his powers to a limited extent (that he’s fought demons with them) any this episode in Ethans life has no fighting or action in it. This short story is about his personal life and a unique situation knowledge from his ‘super’ life has put him in, at least he thinks it does….. just read to find out what I could be talking about. ----------------------------------- Somthing I Read in Book.... Lol finally asked, “aren’t, you gona go talk to her?” Considering who he was just thinking about, and the timing of when Lol asked that question, he figured he knew who she meant, but there was no logical way Lol would know, so he feigned ignorance so as to find out more on just what Lol thought she knew first. If you are not careful around her, she could trick you into telling her about whatever she pretended to already know. “Who?” Ethan asked. “Emily” she said. “No” he responded. After a pause he added “You’re question’s have never been totally random before, why do you ask?” “Though you very skillfully only casually glance her way, if I’m quiet you clearly drift off into thought, sprung from whatever you were staring at as a catalyst” At least she was making it easy for him to argue her thought. “I could be looking at anything over there” “Yeah, but you don’t like outright lying to me and your still being defensive about what you were staring at. So why not talk to her?” He would never win. But he still didn’t want to tell Lol why not, because if there was one person he would care if they thought him to be insane it was Lol. Ethan had come to respect her two cents. On the other hand, if there was one person he could tell this to and they might understand, it was her. She was waiting for his response, probably eliminating possible “why’s” in her head even now. He decided to go ahead and tell her. “You know I’ve had these powers for about a year now?” he started “Yeah” “Well last year I came across a…book, by means related to these abilities.” She waited. “It was explained to me that it contained the names of all the people who were destined for each other, set aside since before creation. Our Soul mates” To Ethan’s relief she didn’t question who it was that explained it two him, he didn’t feel like defending that he had seen an angle. “And you peeked to see what was next to your name?” “Yes” he said, a little ashamed that he tried to find out, but not sure why “What was the name?” “I don’t know, I was stopped before I got to mine, but not before I passed by hers, and it was not next to mine” Though Lol knew of his powers, he didn’t know how skeptical she’d be about angles. To his surprise, her first question had nothing to do with weather such a book could actually exist, or if he simple had a vision or “dream” that didn’t quite bear on reality, but instead… “What’s her middle name?” Lol asked after a moment or two had passed. “I don’t know, why?” Ethan responded. “You said you saw her name in the book, didn’t it show her full name.” “Come to think of it I’m not sure, but am sure I saw her first and last name, I don’t know her middle name so I wasn’t looking for it.” “And you think she’s the only Emily with that surname in the world, and that’s just assuming this book only shows the ‘currently living’ that are set aside for each other?” “Well, uh…, I guess she’s not, it must have slipped my mind to inquire about that when this happened.” “AND you just gave up on this girl you’ve had a crush on when you didn’t read enough to know for sure that name referenced her?!” she said incredulously. He was beginning to feel a little embarrassed for not being able to answer her questions, but at the same time felt a spark of hope arise that he might not have to let go of his desire to be around Emily. But then he remembered his conversation with Raphael and that spark went out as fast as it came on. “Yeah…But…from what was said to me by the…’being’ that stoped me…” Ethan started. “being, do you mean like an angle?” she interjected quickly. “Well, yeah, and he seemed to indicate I was right that her name was not next to mine”, It was after he said this that she asked him a kind of question he was not expecting from her. “Even if that book gave her social security number leaving no doubt who its referring to, you are not taking into account free will.” She said “What?” said Ethan. And then as she said what she had to say next her speech gained passion with each passing word. “God gave man freewill at his creation, a gift not to take lightly or abuse. And the idea that you are ‘predestined’ to be with someone is not scriptural, or something that our just god would do, because then the soles that will suffer eternal fire were designed from the start to suffer that punishment, rather than it be something that they earned from disobedience by choice.” He was caught off guard by what she said, she never said anything until now that showed she believed in god, or that she knew scripture. However he was not as well ‘versed’ as her, and did not know in detail how the scripture outline what she just said. Ethan guessed it sounded right, and he was about ready to agree with her, but he knew what he saw. “Lol….I know what I saw was real, and that it was of those set aside for each other, so I don’t know what I can say about being destined for hell, but at least for your ‘soul mate’ it would seem…” Ethan didn’t even have to finish that sentence before Lol was ready to retort it. “I’m not saying the book you saw was not real. You said it was of those ‘set aside’ for each other. ‘set aside’ and ‘destined’ are not the same thing. I can ‘set aside’ some of my time for you so I can help you study for a test, but before you come over to make use of the time, you decide that you have to go fight a demon. You always had a choice, you could have rejected studying at all, or ignore your responsibility to deal with that demon and still come to study. But just because you chose to or not to make use of my time that dose not change the fact that I set that time aside for you. And likewise it’ll be because of your choice that you never talk to her, not because she wasn’t set aside for you.” Lol finished. Ethan shifted where he was sitting as Lol’s words sank in. That book did say “set aside” specifically. He was still hesitant to embrace that ment it was okay to try and talk to her though but while he was thinking that over Lol had without his notice pulled one of his binders out of his book bag and threw across the floor until it slid near Emily. Lol looked at him with an impatient face “Well go, I pretty much removed your excuses” Ethan got up and slowly made his way to get his binder, He guessed Lol had forced his hand, he was about to really go and do this…..