Open Finished Rageful Resentment

Slam! Alec threw the door shut as he trudged off. God, his mom made his blood boil sometimes. She always treated him as though he was a child, not that he was a fully grown adult. Now that he was twenty, Alec was desperate to move out but his plans didn't go ahead as he had planned. How dare she belittle him by ordering him about like he was some sort of servant to carry out her responsibilities.

His rage brought him to the park; somewhere peaceful and away from home. A nearby tree met his fist in an attempt to take out his anger, blood starting to seep from his knuckles. Of course, this was a regular occurance; something small and seemingly meaningless being blown out of proportion. Alec's mum was a kind and gentle person but sometimes, things would be misinterpreted. The littlest comment could be taken as an attack - disrespectful. There was a lot of rage pent up inside him, rage that occasionally exploded by the tiniest spark.

After assaulting the tree, to which only he seemed to be phased by it, he leant his back against the trunk, slumping down until he hit the floor. Heavy breathing starting to become regular again, his expression also became neutral, though a fire still raged in his eyes.

Lost in thought as he watched people walk by, Alec jumped when a seemingly younger girl landed beside him. Had she been in the tree he was punching? She was a very pretty girl, her hair a striking coral color, and only a couple years younger than him, by the look of it. He took her hand and shook it firmly. "I'm sorry about disturbing you. I'm Alec," he replied. Adria had a caring face but he had never seen her before. He was not about to tell a stranger about his problems. "And I'm fine."

Why was the girl up in a tree? There was something about her that somehow stirred that anger up a bit inside him; the fact that she seemed so elegant that it was annoying. He wasn't going to be outright rude to her, though. That would be rude.
"So you haven't been here long, have you? I haven't seen you around."

Alec just shrugged at her comment. Talking to someone wasn't really what he wanted to do at that moment in time. Though he had a feeling this girl wasn't going anywhere. "You're a newbie then. I have lived here my whole life," he explained to her. In a way, he sort of hated living in Manta Carlos. He was an outsider on an island of outsiders. That was the irony. Alec never really fit in because he wasn't out of the ordinary like everyone else.

"I'm twenty," he responded. "What about you?" Gears started to turn in his mind as he began to think. Adria clearly was not human; she had a sense of regality about her. The way everything she did just seemed to be so elegant. "What are you?" The words just escaped his mouth. "I mean, if you are alright telling me." He had to stay polite, though he wanted her to tell him whether she wanted to or not.

"I know it well enough." He often wandered around on his own a lot, though almost everywhere he looked, there was a reminder that everything else was so 'special'. "There's not that much to see really." Walking through the woods was his favourite. Everything was normal in there. Like him. No carnivorous flowers like the forbidden forest or demons walking by; just him and the wildlife around him.

Alec was right in predicting they were of similar age, though she did not seem fully convinced, herself. He didn't remember seeing her around college or even seeing her before at all. Did she decide to not go to college? Then he remembered that she literally just told him that she arrived just over a week ago. Things that didn't seem so important tended to slip from his mind. "So, are you goin to join the college here?"

Adria claimed she was a human but was 'blessed' as though you weren't 'blessed' with being just human. You had to have 'gift' or 'power' to be relevent, words that just seemed to boast how everyone was better. He hated it and there was always that one question that people always asked. Sure enough, so did the girl sat before him. "I am just human," he told her casually, as though it didn't matter but an underlying sense of bitterness hid itself from sight.