《Power》Out of Control
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Back in his room, Terry talks to himself about his attitude change
"Terry? Terry? Nobody calls me Terry."
"It only makes sense the closet you get to someone things like shortening name will be a thing" assuring himself also adding.
"I know it's just weird." Terry admits to himself.
"I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. you've been acting entitled lately using your powers recklessly, becoming more impatient, skipping events of the day just to get to the part you want missing out on important parts of life."
"It's my power, I can do anything I want with it, why not use my power to its full potential. Not using it is like the same as not having it." Terry says, trying to justify his actions.
Terry clarifies and says to himself "I'm not saying don't use it, I'm saying don't let this power control & destroy you."
Having said everything that he wanted, Terry goes to bed worrying about his future.
The next day is the last day of school. Today is the day where teachers don't give out any work and the kids don't do any work and conversate with their friends. In science class, Terry still thinks about his well being, being more aware of his actions, and trying to not go off the rails like yesterday.
Jeff and the other start a conversation with Terry. "Hey Terry"
"Terry?" Terry thinks to himself surprised and now being suspicious of his friend
"Look man I want to say sorry for yesterday." Jeff told Terry.
Confused not being aware of what happens Terry nervously says "Yesterday?"
Jeff clarifies saying "Yeah, kind of letting you out playing Smash Brawl 5000. That was pretty shitty of us."
Relieved nothing to serious tell Jeff "Oh uh no worry I barely even notice"
"I bet how was your date by the way." Mike tells Terry giving him a wink and a nudge
Clyde adds on "It was good, come on, tell us the details."
Terry is silent. He knows that the date was great but doesn't know why it's great. Was it all genuine or was it his powers making it great. Then suddenly a voice speaks out behind Terry "Guys he doesn't have to tell you if he doesn't want to; me on the other hand it was great. Terry was a real gentleman" Sabrina tells the boys while giving Terry a lovely hug behind him then kissing on the cheek.
"Alright Terry!" Mike says excitedly as the rest cheer Terry on implying the two had a special night.
The five of them continued to talk throughout class talking about things like what they are going to do over the summer and throwing a party.
"Finally, the last day of school "We should throw a party." Jeff says to them.
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The rest of the group liked the idea of Jeff saying "Yeah, a big one to forget about all the boring hall room & homework stressful tests & the horrible teachers we had to put up all year."
Terry also liking the idea says to them "How about we have it at my house."
Terry's eyes widened nervously at what he just said. Terry thought it was a good idea to do so; lots of people, big houses, it was perfect but he had no intention of volunteering his house. He was trying to hold back to his impulse urges but some force made him say it through.
"That's perfect." Clyde said as he continued "This will be the greatest party!"
The group makes a game plan about how to set up the party. The group would get the party supplies food, drinks, music, and will go around school inviting people, having the party tonight. Terry would do nothing since it is his house that he is volunteering and has some things to work out.
For the rest of class, Terry thinks about the sudden outburst back there. The feeling of not being in control of his body.
Going to his next, Terry looks at his phone to distract himself. Going through his phone Terry sees that he got a text from mary. He reads it saying that someone has confessed to busting the live stream and scarring the girls. Terry opens a link with the text message that sends him to an article explaining it more in great detail.
"Thomas Wheeler, a 13 kid in California has just confessed to breaking and entering one of the girls from The Shake-Up and crashing their live stream. Thomas Wheeler admitted to the act by Twitter explaining how and why he has done so. The 13-year-old boy's excuse is to promote his own channel Magic Tommy."
Terry, angered by this appears behind the boy. Terry does not take note of the sudden change of location only focusing on the boy who claims to be him.
Terry's eyes begin to glow white as he speaks to the boy "You think it's fun personating people?"
The boy jumps, surprised at his sudden appearance in his room."Woah who are you?" Tommy asks.
Terry's eyes glowing more harder and his voice sounding more aggressive and gravely like a monster and asks him "You think you can take people & claim it as your own accomplishment?"
Tommy getting scares shouts out "Mom! There's a ѕtrаng, kid here!" but Terry tells Tommy "your mom can't hear you. It's just you & me."
As he says this Terry's skin turns black, his mouth starts to widen with his teeth turning long and sharp, his body starts to grow 7 feet with nails turning into long sharp claws. Tommy looks at him with fear as the monster form of Terry gets closer to him.
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"I will teach the consequences of your actions." Terry says as he lifts his finger to his forehead.
horrifying images start appearing in his head, Terry takes great joy watching him suffer until he looks up and sees himself in Tommy's mirror. Seeing his monstrous form. Terry, feeling guilty and scared about what he's turning into, changes back and wipes Tommy memories of what happened then vanishes.
Terry goes back to the cemetery and forcibly summons the ghost of Betsy to ask him questions about the afterlife and if his powers are somehow connected to it. Terry goes in front of Betsy's tombstone and raises him from the dead. Terry brings him out of the ground and converses with undead Betsy.
"Why? Why me? Why do I have this kind of power?"
Betsy answers "It's not a question I can answer but a question you have to answer yourself."
"What kind of answer is that?" Terry asks him annoyed at his answer. "Am I a human, an alien, a god!? What!?"
"You are Terry."
"Come on what's with these answers?" Terry asks, becoming more frustrated.
"You know what kind of answers these are."
Terry trying not to lose control again takes a deep breath. Then thinking about the answers, ask Betsy a very important question.
"Okay last question, are you real, or are you just my imagination?"
Betsy just smiled at Terry, giving him the answer he feared.
Putting Betsy back in the ground dead tells himself "We've got to get a handle on this."
"I know."
"Before it consumes us."
"I know!" Terry yells at himself trying not to break down.
Terry now scared, fearing his wild-growing power "What should we do now" not knowing what to do next he tells himself "Let's just go home &... Damn!"
Remember about the party at his house Terry rushes back home not knowing what to do when he gets there. Walking through the party in his house Terry tries to bring his fears down by trying to enjoy the party but a part of himself keeps pointing out the inconsistency.
"How did they set all this up?"
"How long were we gone?"
"Our sense of time is totally screwed up?"
"Do we recognize half of these people?"
"Can we please just try to enjoy this just because we don't know what's real anymore doesn't mean this isn't real?"
"Hey, Terry over here!" Terry's friends call him over. Terry cringes over the fact they said his name reminding him that this all could be a facade.
Before he could interact with them the song in the house changes into a slow calming one. Sabrina runs out of the group up to Terry asking him "can I have this dance?" Terry, infatuated with her, agrees and takes her hand.
As the two slow dance with their bodies up against each other, Sabrina's head resting on his shoulder, it was completely perfect. Terry just wanted this moment between the two to be real, that the two really do have a genuine connection. As the song goes on the lyrics and melody turning more intensifying to the grande finally Sabrina closes her eyes and leans in for a kiss. Terry tries to force himself to accept it but deep down he can't accept his first kiss being manipulated. Terry stops her and asks her the ultimate question: one that will prove if she is doing this out of her own free will.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. I just need to ask you a very important question."
"Yes, I do love you."
"Not that this question is very odd but just bear with me."
"Okay, what is your question."
Terry takes a second then asks her ��A red flower turns white when it's hit by the light. Water turns to wine when someone drinks it blind the dead stay dead when resting in its bed. What connects these stories together?"
Sabrina takes a moment to think about it before responding. She then answers "By our bond forever."
Terry grew cold as she answered. She was right. She answered a non-cohesive riddle that was made up from the spot and with the answer made up. Now knowing this relationship was fake was his popularity fake. People calling him Terry were really not his friends. His anxiety came back stronger than ever. Terry leaves the party breathing heavily as everything shocked around him but strangely enough people at the party didn't seem to notice.
Once outside, Terry can feel his power going out of control. Terry can see the world literally shattering around him as he tries to make scenes of his life. His mind races thinking is this all a dream, is he even real, then comes to the conclusion that he is crazy. That was the only thing that made sense in his mind. He is crazy and everything that happened in the past week was in his head.
Then the world around turns into a white padded room with his clothes morphing into a straitjacket. Terry looked around being scared and confused. He tried to break free from his straitjacket but could not, he looked at his surroundings crying and screaming out for help. After a few minutes, some of Terry's anguish died down enough for him to realize where he was. Terry breathed heavily as he was trying to mentally process the fact that he is in a mental hospital.
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