4 Chapter 4: The Prism Theory

At that very moment, I totally forgot about being appled. I felt like the whole world stopped for a moment. Hundreds of questions popped in my head, it's like when people sing happy birthday to you and you don't know how to respond. This guy was the same height as me, he has this innocent look in his face. I can't read him properly because I'm not familiar with this aura before, but he doesn't look mad. I was so focused on his aura. I was looking if there was a small portion that has a color but there's none. I was waiting if it would switch to a different color, but nothing happened. But before I could continue my Detective Nicholas investigation, I saw someone waving behind him - it was Jensen, doing the airport thing to me.

When I saw Jensen, I realized I was giving that guy a Jacob death stare for several seconds while holding his phone and after bumping into him. Probably not a good thing to do to a stranger. I hurriedly gave me his phone and apologized,

"Man, I'm so sorry. My bad I wasn't looking, here's your phone.".

I tried to give my most sorry face so his family wouldn't sue me or something. Every time our eyes met; I feel like there's a one-sided tension that I feel.

"It's fine, it's fine. I'm sorry, I also wasn't looking at my direction too.",

he genuinely accepted my apology. Well, I wasn't sure if it's genuine, but that's what I feel after reading his face and body language.

"Uh, I have to go now, sorry again." I said to him, so Jensen would stop waving at me behind him.

We went to our directions and Jensen ran into me

"Happy birthday!", Jensen greeted and hugged me with full energy.

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep. Dad won't let me eat yet, he wants us to be all here first, so I listened to music and accidentally fell asleep.", he added.

"I was actually about to text you too, but I got distracted then I accidentally bumped into someone, and it was weird because – ",

before I could finish my sentence, I forgot nobody knows about my ability including my family, so I can't talk about it with them.

"Yeah, I know right?", Jensen replied. I got surprised for a second and looked at him. "He's wearing a Garfield jacket. ", he looked back at me.

"I mean, I still wear Garfield pajamas until now but, he doesn't look like someone who likes Garfield. ", He added as he squinted his eyes.

Suddenly I felt like a fish out of the water that found a waterfall leading to Atlantis. I thought he knew something but what to expect from Jensen, he's as innocent as a lamb. Even if I tell him about my ability, he would probably just ask me what his aura looks like, every 5 minutes or what is the color of a random cartoon character on tv – which is if you are wondering they don't have auras.

After a few moments of walking, and a lot of talking about Garfield, we finally made it to our table. We seated in a table with 6 chairs, one for each of us, one for uncle's stuff and of course one for Jensen's Garfield stuff toy. After few more moments of Detective Jensen investigating the case of Mr. Garfield Boy, uncle and Jacob finally arrived. Thank God, I wouldn't have to listen to him doing conspiracy theories about Garfield Boy leading a cult of ginger cats.

"Sorry it took us so long, there were so many people,", uncle said.

"Maybe it would not take us longer if we didn't accidentally go to the wrong floor", Jacob gave uncle a death stare

"Well, my bad…", uncle said while scratching his head.

"So, the gang's complete now, shall we order our food?', uncle said, trying to change the mood.

We got the menu and ordered our food. To be honest, I'm not used to eating this rich people cuisine, especially these foods that are 7 words long, but I ordered anyway.

Jacob was on his phone again

Jensen was still reading the menu

And uncle was talking to the waiter

After we ordered our food, uncle initiated a conversation

"So, did something happened, while we're gone?"

"I feel asleep and had a dream about Garfield", Jensen replied

"Wow… That's cool", uncle replied sounding interested in Jensen's dream

"In my dream, Garfield married someone"

"Wow, Garfield is finally going to have a happy ending?"

"Not really, something bad happened"

"What happened?", I said out of curiosity

"I woke up!", Jensen said, slamming his hands to the table

Uncle laughed

Jacob gave Jensen a death stare before using his phone again

And I, it's a mix of both

Man, I just want this Garfield thing to end now

Jensen told uncle the story of the Garfield Boy and his ridiculously stupid conspiracy theories about him. After that, it was just uncle and Jensen constantly talking and laughing, me chiming in, in their conversations and Jacob still on his phone the entire time.

Several minutes after the white aura incident, I still can't stop thinking about it. Did my ability suddenly improved? Or was it the opposite?

9 years ago, I saw uncle with no aura and now I saw someone with a neutral white aura. Both happened on my birthday. Will I start seeing white aura on others to? Or will I start seeing other colors of aura? Hundreds of questions popped in my head. My anxiety kicked in again, how many colors are there?

Whatever it is, I feel like it is my call of duty to answer everything. Detective Nicholas will solve all of this. If I solved the meaning of other colors, I could also solve this puzzle.

This job is going to be the trickiest one and definitely not an easy nut to crack.

After a few moments of thinking and looking at the ceiling, I thought of something. Prism, a prism is a triangular glass that produces a mini rainbow when exposed to white light. Maybe, the soul is the white light, and it passes through a prism inside the body, that's why it changes colors when it is an aura. And that is what I call now as "The Prism Theory".