Now mum knows she loves me. Don’t get me wrong but I wouldn’t say we were in love or are in love as that time; I felt something for her I just don’t know what it was yet especially with all this things going on my head. Maybe I felt indebted to her for the love and care and time she spent on me all those times where it was only mum and me trying so hard to get over all of this.

“This is all too much Mum. I am tempted to ask why you haven’t told me yet all this while but I already know the answer” I said. May’s parents entered the room. Mum had eye contact with Mr. Silver May’s dad and she nodded.

“Hey how are you doing son?” Mr. Silver asked me. This was weird even now it still is when I think about it. He never actually talks much and definitely not to me. I greet him when I go to see May but he just nods and continue with his books. He is a fifty or more years old nerd and so is his wife too. That explains why May is a genius. “Hope you are doing better?” He asked again with a smile on his face this time before I could answer the first question he asked.

“I am fine sir!” I said as formal as I could make it sound. He is hefty and very well built for a man even more than what I could remember of my dad.

“Okay! That’s good. Now let’s go straight to the point” He moved closer and removed his glasses and sat opposite me on the chair Amy slummed into earlier.

“Have you told him what happened” Mrs. Silver asked my mum.

“Not all of it” Mum replied.

“That is okay we will start right from the beginning” Mr. Silver said. “Close the door” He told his wife and she did.

“I thought you needed your glass to see clearly?” I asked because I could clearly remember when his glass fell off when he came to May’s room and he couldn’t see me sneak into her room from the window. He only asked who was there and May answered telling him it is she and she mistakenly pushed the flower vase which I pushed trying to come down the window and got us busted as dad came inside with a riffle thinking it was a thief or so. So he did see me.

“How about the girl” He asked shoving my question out of the picture.

“She can stay I trust her” I said Interrupting whatever was coming out of mum’s mouth.

“Okay son. By the way there are a lot of things that I don’t need that you don’t know about” He smiled.

“Okay!” I said. I just had to say something. “Can’t we take this home?” I asked realizing everywhere was quiet and all eyes were on me. “If this was this serious then we should take it home” I thought to myself and not out loud this time.

“We can’t it is not safe” Mrs. Silver said.

“Yes Liam! It is not safe” Mum agreed. “The house is ruined because of what happened to you four days ago”

I was confused. Why would the house be ruined and what really happened? I had to know. “Why? What happened” I asked.

“We met your mum screaming and begging her to leave you alone. You was suspended in the air and there a strong wind in the house. It took the roof off and displaced every piece of furniture in your house” Mr. Silver paused and at Amy.

“It’s okay” She said. “Go on”

He turned back at me and continued. “You or she said through you these exact words “……………..in very ancient French which means: You are the reason she is fighting, if get you out of the way then she will yield. You were bleeding all over and had no control of your body. “Leave him alone” another voice from you also screamed and it turned out to be May’s. A force dragged you into the stairs and you hurt your head again. There was no bruised anywhere else but your head which was bleeding profusely. So your house is ruined and there is no more stairs for you to trip off from and you are not going back to your house. You will be staying in mine. It has been fortified”

“Wait! Wait! Wait! Who is she that is not May? May said the same thing that there is a voice that controls and tells her what to do. She also said she is imprisoned in herself by someone very strong and powerful. What is going on” I asked. Everywhere was quiet. The name under the stool just came to me and I decided to ask how I would get it. “The stool in my room has a name carved into it. May asked me to get it and ask you about it; but you said I can’t go back. So…” I paused. Mrs. Silver pointed at the stool on the other side of the room. I haven’t looked that way since I woke up.

“You were talking about it in your sleep so we got it from the ruins of your house” Mr. Silver said.

“I thought you said it was dangerous to go there” I pointed out.

“Yes for you it is but for…” Mrs. Silver touched him on his shoulder so he paused. “They need to know. If we plan on getting our daughter back from …. And saving the boy from all of this”

“What do we need to know?” My Mum asked.

“It’s okay Bella” He turned to his wife. “………………”

I didn’t know what language that was and I still don’t know; I guess that was seeking for approval in open secret. It seemed he got the approval he needed. We were burning with curiosity; I couldn’t wait anymore, if they’ve got a solution or something that would end all of this for me and my Mum and Amy then they should out with it ‘cause I am dying to know. “What should I know” I asked.

“Well! It’s a long story and a shocking one, a rough road to a place out of the ordinary” He paused as if to check if he’s got everyone’s attention and then continued. “Let’s with you” He said looking towards me. “May sent you a message through what you thought was a dream but it wasn’t. She got into your head and left you a message. She is learning very fast although the hard way”

I was too confused already, I couldn’t get all this to make sense. “What are you talking about and what do you mean it wasn’t a dream?” I asked.

“Who is learning fast?” Mum asked immediately after me.

“Wait! Slow down. You will ask a lot of questions and you will get answers. What I am about to tell you will change your lives forever. Are you sure you want to hear me? I’d understand if you are not ready”

“If what you will tell us will help save my son then you can go on” Mum spoke my mind.

Amy was quiet and motionless. It was like she was stuck where she was sitting down. This was all a surprise to all of us but I it was too much for Amy; she was uncomfortable.

“Amy!” I called her and put my hand on her shoulder. “Are you okay?”

“I guess!” She answered.

“I know you to be a strong girl. I need you to be that for me now. Is that Okay?” I asked. I knew all of this was almost too much for her. The first night she spent with me she experienced something extraordinary and she saw firsthand what happens every time I had a head injury and am brought to the hospital. I didn’t want to drag her into all of this but if she wants to stay then I need her at her strongest. Right from the beginning I couldn’t do all this alone. Like they say “Alone you are strong but together with the ones you love, you are unstoppable” So I need all the strengths I could get.

“Yes! Yes! I am okay” She said and it relieved me.

“Okay Mr. Silver go on” I said with the brightest tone I could get out of my throat.

“Atta boy! That is the spirit. Gather up all the motivation you can now because you are going to need it” He said. He stood up and walked towards his wife who hadn’t sat down since they came into the room. They looked into each other’s eyes and nodded and then turned to us. My heart rate increased. “Why did they need to stand up if he said he was going to just talk or just tell?” I asked myself in my head.

“Okay son! I am Mr. Silver and this is her mother. Right!” He asked.

“Yes sir!” I answered.

“We want to prove that we are and only you will know” He said.

This was getting creepier than I thought. I considered pissing in my pants but that is a bad idea.

“How?” I asked and the most awkward and bizarre thing I had ever seen happened. May’s parents held hand and began to shed skin. Literally they shed skin but the old one burnt off of their skin. They turned into two very young people I had never seen before; about my age or so. I was 20 now and the people I was seeing now are also in their twenties.

“What are you?” Mum asked. By now she and Amy were hiding behind me already. I have to say this, being a man is not easy. I was literally not well and both ladies are hiding behind me and I had to be the man and not move at all as if I wasn’t scared but I was scared to stiffness. What I saw and was still seeing freaked the locomotion out of my bones and I couldn’t move.

Mr. Silver walked towards me and the ladies whimpered.

“It is okay” He said. “It is still me. Liam”

I couldn’t say anything but nod in agreement that he was the same old man than shed skin into a very young and handsome man; don’t get it wrong I will never turn gay but he is really handsome.

“May I” He said and I nodded again having no idea what he wanted to do.

He placed his hand on the back of my head and I felt warmth that sent shrills all through my body and suddenly I didn’t feel the pain in my head. I felt the back of my head with my palm and I couldn’t feel the scars that were supposed to be there.

Amy and Mum were still behind me. I turned and saw the look on their; they were scared and frightened. They saw the whole thing that happened behind my head.

“What are you?” Mum managed to mutter.

“I am Mr. Silver still by the way” He said. “Do you recognize me?” He asked mum.

“Yes! I do” Mum replied with a shaky voice. “But how is this possible” She asked.

“Well, a lot of things that you don’t think can be are possible and you will learn about it and a lot of it”

“What did you do to me?” I interrupted.

“I healed you” He answered.

He went to his wife and stood beside her; my guess is he is waiting for us to digest and come to terms with what just happened.

“Are you angels” Amy asked.

“No child!” Mrs. Silver finally said something other than just stand in front of us and weird us out. “We are not worthy of that endowment. We are nocturnal animals with special gifts and abilities like what you just saw now and many more. I know you all are freaked out and very scared but we won’t hurt you or caused you any harm”

“We are not human in case you are wondering” May’s dad said. “We will tell you the whole story about what we are and how we came into being if you say you are ready”

“How are you this young again” Mum asked after gathering almost enough air to empower her guts.

“We were always young we never grow old; not past this again” Mrs. Silver said.

“Okay! This is so not the way I would ever imagine my day at the hospital to go. I never thought I would know anything of this sort; if this was how my destiny was planned then so be it. “Okay I am ready to freak out more” I said. “Are you with me” I asked my mum and Amy and they nodded simultaneously.