Make It There

"So, you decided to come back."
I sighed and closed the wooden door behind me, trying to avoid Pekka's smirk. "Yea..."
"Well, I'm glad you changed your mind!" He patted my back and led me into the kitchen.
Wow, very forgiving.
I sat down at the dining table with Pekka in front of me.
"So, what happened?" Pekka interlaced his fingers.
"Well...I found my missing friend."
"Your missing friend?"
"Yea...I have a friend who's gone missing. I looked for him everywhere. But now I finally found him."
"Oh, cool! Where is he?"
"He left."
Pekka made a confused look. "Why?"
"Because...he tried to kill me."
"Wha? Your friend...trying to kill you?"
"Yea."
"Why?"
I shrugged. "En tiedä." (I don't know).
Pekka looked out the window that was next to him. "Where the heck is my truck?"
My heart sunk. Whoops. "Well, about that..." I saw Pekka slowly turing back to me with a serious look. "It's damaged. Very well."
"Sinun täytyy olla tosissasi." (You gotta be kidding me). Pekka stuffed his head in his arms and groaned. "Tuukka, that was my only way of transportation other than my feet!"
"I know, I know, I'm sorry!"
"How the hell did it get messed up?" Pekka looked back up. "Is the damage even that bad?"
"It's pretty bad. I believe that you'll have to buy a new one."
"How did it get that bad then?"
"Well, my friend, Jonny, slammed into it multiple times, making the truck and me fall down the cliff."
Pekka rose his eyebrows. "And you survived?"
"Uhhh...the cliff wasn't that deep..."
"But the truck didn't survive."
"Not really."
"You owe me new one then."
"Yea."
Pekka looked down at me with an odd look. "What's that you're holding?"
"Oh, this?" I held up the small silver blade that Jonathan pinned me with to the tree. "It's from Jonny."
"Why do you have it?"
"'Cause...he pinned me to a tree with it so that my death would be easy."
"Yikes. You got an insane friend."
"He wasn't insane before. I don't know what happened to him." I sighed and look to my side.
"Can I see it?" Pekka asked me.
"Sure." I slid the blade over to him.
Pekka held it up and examined it carefully. "Does your friend have any powers?"
"Why?"
"Because this came from him, right?"
"Yea..."
"I can feel it. The power."
I gave Pekka a weird look. "What?"
"Didn't you feel it?"
"The power? I don't even know how power feels like!"
"It's like a vibration. Here." Pekka slid the blade back to me.
I picked up the blade and waited. Three seconds later, I felt the vibes tingling my fingers. "I feel it."
"So that means that you have powers."
"What?"
"Do you?"
"Do I have powers?"
"Yea."
"Uhhh..." I felt my face go red. "Yea..."
"It seemed like it, since you survived so many events that a regular person would die in."
"Naaah, my powers can't do that."
Pekka chuckled. "What powers do you have?"
"Um, well, it's kinda hard to explain, but...Let's see, so I have like the ability to control magnetic stuff--"
"And you weren't able to save my truck. Lovely."
I gritted my teeth and made a worried look. "I tried."
"Go on."
"Um, my hand can turn into a gun...And I have these blue disc energy thingies that can come out from me and...yea."
"I saw that one--the discs. But I wasn't sure if that came out from you or someone else. And your hand can turn into a gun. Interesting."
"Yes, it is." I looked up at Pekka. "How do you know about this power stuff and all?"
"'Cause I have some of my own."
My stormy blue eyes widened. "Oh really?"
"Yea." Pekka smiled.
"Which ones?"
"Well...I'm an angel, for one."
An angel? I felt like laughing, but I kept it in. "Aren't you suppose to be in heaven?"
"Call me an earth angel. I dunno, I just have the wings."
I leaned side to side, looking for his wings. "I don't see them."
"Of you can't--they're hidden."
"Interesting."
"Look." Pekka got up.
He began to unbutton his shirt, revealing his undershirt. He took that off, revealing his bare chest. But over that were black straps, positioned like hiking backpack straps. He unbuckled those and threw them onto the table into a pile and...
My eyes widened. Whoa.
There, next to Pekka, were the biggest, whitest wings I have ever seen in my life. They looked so soft and huge and...well, they look so strong and beautiful; many things were going through my mind.
I almost fell back on my chair. "That is so...cool."
Pekka shrugged. "Thanks. You're practically like the only one who knows about this."
"Can you fly?"
"Well...I'm working on that. I just got them."
"Oh. How?"
"From Kari."
I felt my body go num. "Should've known. That's how I got mine."
"Yea, he gives powers to everyone. But not everyone, just some specific people."
"So I take it that he gave Jonny those powers."
"So he also has powers then."
"Yea, I remember. He was able to turn his hand into a knife, a blade. Like how I'm able to turn my hand into a gun."
"Ah."
"You know what?"
"What?"
"It's been bothering me, but...is it okay if I can return back to my house and, y'know, check on my wife?"
"But we're stuck. The truck's gone."
"Then I can take a cab or a train or something. I need to leave sooner or later."
"Do you have any money, though."
"Ohhh...now that can be a problem."
"I'll take you, my treat. Let's go."

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