Touch – Chapter 4

Touch – Chapter 4 

The girls had headed to the bathroom to clean themselves up while Jackie, thankfully, got dressed to talk to me about what I had just seen.

“Look bro, you can have anyone you want with what you can do, any girl becomes your slave if you want them too”, he spoke with that almost sickening smirk across his face, I knew I couldn’t trust him for a second. “Go talk to Robin, she’ll talk you through all the boring stuff”, he pointed to the elevator.

I simply nodded and walked towards the elevator as fast as I could without making it look like I was desperate to get away from him. Something about him just weirded me out. I hit the button for my exit and got in. The doors shut, also shutting me off from the world for a moment.

I exhaled a heavy breath, I was tense, worried and was just generally not feeling good about this now. I wanted to figure out what was happening but making women into my sex slaves wasn’t really the answer I was looking for, not that it didn’t intrigue me. As soon as he said I could have any woman my mind focused on Jessica, not some super model or Angelina Jolie, my twin sister. The one girl I could never use this on…

I realised I had been standing there for quite some time without pressing any of the elevators buttons. My hand went for the ‘3’ which would take me to my explanation but I stopped. My hand drifted slowly towards the button back to the ground floor, to the exit. I didn’t want to fall into the wrong crowd, who these guys most certainly were, but what would be the point? They went to the same college as me and there was no way to avoid them the rest of my life.

I hit the button and headed down to the third floor, the doors opened to another wonderland. Instead of the more grungy area that Jackie had, this was more like a 5 star hotel. Everything was in pristine condition from the large bookcases to the hardwood flooring to the chandelier, there was a very golden and white theme about this place. It was classy and I almost felt underdressed just standing there.

“Come on in John, I assume Jackie was too ‘busy’ too help you understand” Robin looked up from her book with a slight smirk. I took a single deep breath before walking to the four poster bed that seemed to be coated in silk, this is were Robin was laying. I couldn’t help but run my eyes all over this beautiful young woman.

She sat up and patted the bed next to her, I took the invitation and sat upon the bed that felt as if it were made of angel feathers it was so soft.

“Ask away then John, the more you learn now the better” her voice soothed me and helped me relax a little better, she was the only one of the three I felt a little at ease with. I dragged my eyes away from her supply form, it was time for answers.

“First of all” I started “what is it that we do?” 

“We control emotions, when we touch people” she stated like it was the most simple thing in the world. The statement itself was enough to drop my jaw to the ground though, that wasn’t possible.

“What like magic?” I asked with a hint of sarcasm, it was ridiculous. 

“We’re not completely sure, we think it’s more chemical you know, like that it’s passed through our skin to others when we touch them, though it works through clothes too” again she spoke like it was no big deal.

“So say thats all true, what could go wrong? Like side-effects?” I asked again, if this was what was happening then I had to know what could go wrong.

“The only things we’ve noticed are that if your inexperienced like you are now, then you could not just pass on emotions but absorb them as well” she went on “think back, on your birthday, the first day of your power coming through, a girl pushed past you. She was really upset and when you touched, you got just as upset as she did, but it was only temporary as you may of noticed”

I remembered that moment clearly, “How did you know that?” I said slightly stunned. 

“I just happened to be nearby at the time, it’s how we found you” she smiled back with that gorgeous smile.

“Lucky me” I retorted. “Wait, if this is true then how come nothing like this has happened before?”

“The power doesn’t become useable until your 18” she told me. “I’ve only been using mine for a few months while Jackie and Marco have had there’s for a couple years now”

All I could do was just nod along, it made sense.

“Look John, you may be confused but believe me, this is the best thing that’s ever happened to you. Just practice with it, think hard about what you want someone to feel and just touch them, I’m sure you can do it.” her song-like tone of voice helped soothe me to this life changing information.

“Remember though, you can implant an emotion easier by how you touch.