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"Does it look
like I’m wearing contacts?"
    The bright
lights in the coffee shop gleamed on his eyes. He was so close I could feel his
breath on my neck. I looked deeply at his eyes and felt myself being dragged
into the swirl of purple. While his eyes were the same exact color as mine,
they were bigger and had a healthier glow to them. I wasn’t sure how I
would be able to tell if he was wearing contacts but at that moment I
didn’t care. I wanted to stare into his eyes all day.
    Felix blinked
and pulled himself away. I blushed and hoped there was no way he could read my
thoughts. He didn’t question my strange staring and instead stood up.
    "Well, if
you still don’t trust me, I can always demonstrate our strength. Meet me
in the alley behind the shop if you’re still interested. I’ll give
you ten minutes and if you don’t come, I’ll assume you don’t
want to hear more and leave you alone."
    Without letting
me have another word, he walked off, weaving his way through the crowd of morning
coffee drinkers and left the shop. I sat in my chair and stared at the wall for
a minute before I got up to follow him.
    Of course I was
still interested. If there was some way he could truly prove that I
wasn’t entirely human, I had to know. And if there was some way my
mom’s killer was a Zhulik, maybe he could help me hunt the woman down.
Maybe he would even help me hunt down the man that was supposedly my father,
too. If I really did have some kind of super powers, I was going to use them to
get revenge for my mother’s death.
     

Chapter 4
     
     
    I walked out of
the coffee shop, getting a few glares from employees for occupying one of their
tables without ordering anything, and turned the corner into the alley. Felix
leaned against a large truck, looking bored.
    "Alright,
prove your strength to me," I said, walking over to him and crossing my
arms in front of me. I stayed a few feet away, in case this was some kind of
ploy to kidnap me. I was still close enough to the front of the alley that I
would be able to run into the public eye if he tried anything.
    Without saying
anything, Felix turned and placed his hands under the front of the trucks
bumper. He pulled up and the truck lifted a good two feet off the ground. Felix
didn’t even break a sweat.
    I stood in shock
for a moment while Felix gently put the truck back on the ground. He turned and
gave me a questioning look but I had no words. I looked over my shoulder to see
if anyone had witnessed what just happened but we were completely alone.
    "You’re
turn," Felix said.
    "I-I
can’t do that," I said, shaking my head.
    "Have you
ever tried?"
    I opened my
mouth to argue but he was right. I had never tried.  I marched over to the
truck, placed my hands where Felix had and lifted up. I had every intention of
proving to him that I couldn’t do it so that I could go back to believing
I was a normal human. There was one small flaw in that plan.
    The truck
actually lifted off of the ground. I had expected it to take all of my energy
to lift the truck but with just a small amount of effort it was a foot off the
ground. I was so shocked that I dropped the truck and jumped away from it. The
truck landed with a thud back on the ground, causing the alarm to go off.
    Felix laughed as
he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the alley.
    "Let’s
get out of here before the owner comes after us," he said.
    I let Felix drag
me away but I stared at the truck until it was out of view. I couldn’t
believe that I had just lifted a huge truck off of the ground. I’ve seen
men with arms five times the size of mine struggle to lift something that heavy
even an inch off the ground. This explained why I was able to break the tile in
the motel shower, too.
    "Come on,
let me walk you back to your motel room," Felix said.
    "No
way," I said, pulling my hand away from Felix's. "I want to know
more."
    Felix smiled
triumphantly. "So you do believe me then?"
    "I'm still
not sure but I don't