A Recognition

"Hey, Elliot! Look, it looks like Emily is enjoying her date. She looks really happy." Alice said that with excitement on her face. But to me, the scene I saw in front of my eyes was not good at all and for some reason, my heart felt tight seeing it.

"Is it possible that I'm jealous? Hahaha... that's impossible, right? I came here for one reason, I'm worried about Emily because she's my best friend, that's it." I muttered to myself inwardly because there was no way I would dare to say that openly when Alice was beside me. She might laugh at me if she heard my inner voice.

"Waah, look, look, Brother Rico is holding Emily's hand. What is he going to do? Perhaps Emily has accepted his love and they're finally dating."

I couldn't speak a thousand languages seeing the scene in front of me that was hurting my eyes more and more. Then I don't know what this feeling I had... it was really hot, so hot that I could feel it on the top of my head. I saw that the man grabbed Emily's shoulders and started to bring his face closer to hers. I couldn't hold back the heat that I was already feeling. Then without realizing it, my body moved and my feet stepped on their own towards the chair where the two people were sitting.

"Elliot, what are you doing? Where are you going?"

I didn't care about Alice's words at all, all I wanted to do right now was to get there as quickly as possible and immediately take Emily away from there.

Arriving in front of their seats, I held Emily's hand. Then pulled her away from there. Looking at her expression, I'm sure Emily was very surprised to see me there. So far, she didn't say anything and didn't put up any resistance when I forcefully took her away from her date's place. Then suddenly Emily let go of my hand and started talking when we were far enough away from the park. We were in a fairly quiet place now.

"What are you doing, Elliot?" Her eyes were glaring, clearly angry.

I cleared my throat softly, "I just don't like seeing a guy you've just met so casually touching you."

"What do you mean? Did you forget that we were dating?"

"But I think he went too far, Emily"

"That's none of your business, is it? You're nobody, Elliot. You're not even my boyfriend. As you said, we're just friends. So, you shouldn't interfere in my personal life. Anyway, have you forgotten? Weren't you the one who told me to accept his date?"

I couldn't reply to everything she said because everything she said was true. I could only respond with silence. Then Emily walked away, starting to move away from me. It seemed like she intended to go back to the place where the man was still waiting for her.

"Wait, Emily, please don't go back there!" Of course, I couldn't just let her go.

Emily stopped walking and she turned back to me. "Why not?"

I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to answer because I dared to forbid her like this. However, in a situation like this, I realized I could only tell Emily the truth. Saying what I was feeling so desperate to forbid her to go like this. "Because it will hurt my heart."

Emily's snorting voice flowed, "Even you don't like me at all so don't tease me like that."

I walked quickly to her then pulled back her hand and I sharply looked straight into her eyes. "No, Emily. I'm sorry, but now I realize I..." I gulped for a moment before continuing, until I finally said, "... like you."

"Don't joke around at a time like this."

Her words offended me so I unconsciously raised my voice, "Do I look like I'm joking?!!!" I snapped at her slightly because I was annoyed by her distrust of me.

Emily looked into my eyes for a long time and it seemed like she was starting to believe me after a long period of deliberation. Suddenly she came closer to me and hugged me without any prompting or permission. I was surprised by her bold action.

"Do you like me, Elliot?"

"Ahh... hmm... yeah." I'm sure my answer sounded very dubious, but it didn't seem to affect her, because she tightened her embrace even more.

"I like you too, Elliot."

Is it possible for a 14-year-old boy to remain silent after receiving this kind of treatment from the opposite sex? And the answer is, NO!

I was both relieved and happy to hear her confession. I returned her hug and I slowly held her tiny chin. I lifted her head and I looked into her eyes for quite a while. Just by looking at her beautiful eyes, I could feel her sincere affection for me. To be honest, I'm still unsure of my feelings. Is it true that this feeling that is always looking for Emily is love? But I'll try it, I'm sure with Emily I can get answers to my doubts.

***

Emily and I have now officially become lovers, we have agreed to formalize our relationship after the incident in the park yesterday. I determined in my heart, I will always protect her. As usual, Emily and I walked together after school but this time it was unusual because we walked hand in hand. When I was enjoying the warmth from the touch of Emily's hand, suddenly a strange feeling that I had never felt for a long time appeared again. Suddenly a scene flashed in my head. The scene showed a location not too far from here. I felt that someone was calling me. I could feel his presence, my mind seemed to be connected to the mind of someone in that place. But that someone I was sure wasn't Fredert or Krad, but someone else who I seemed to have met before.

"Elliot! Elliot, are you okay?"

I regained my consciousness thanks to Emily's call who seemed to be worried about me. "Oh, yeah. I'm fine." I flashed a smile so Emily wouldn't think anything bad had happened to me. I continued my journey with Emily, but that feeling came back and got stronger. I felt curious about who the person was there and I decided to go to that place to make sure.

"Sorry, Emily. I just remembered there's a place I have to go, you go home first."

Emily looked surprised that I would suddenly say something like this. "But..."

"Never mind, you just go home. Later tonight when I get home, I'll call you. Bye, Emily."

After saying that, I hurried away to the place that appeared in my head earlier. I didn't understand what was happening to me lately. I've always felt my mind connected to other people and this has been the case ever since that incident. Ever since I was able to turn back time to save Emily who was hit. Is this because my latent power was successfully awakened? And could what I'm feeling be a sign that I'm connected to people who also have special powers like me? I need to make sure right now.