ABL 54: Our First Date

My heart violently beat against my chest as I stared at those huge bronze doors; who could open those anyway? Maybe this was a mistake. I couldn't remember anything at all. All that I had studied was gone the moment we arrived here.

What was a leader? The role of a leader is to be a big meanie in front of people because they cannot deal with their own emotions and find it better to bottle up their feelings. After all, they think they deserve to be heard. That didn't sound right.

Okay, to be fair, that was a hard question; maybe I should try explaining the phenomena of the eye theory—I knew that one. Purple eyes were purple because they were powerful beings? Oh God, I'm failing!

I told them I couldn't do it, I told all of them, and they convinced me I could. Fuck all of them!

"Breathe," Miall said as he turned my head and made me face him. Suddenly, all the anxiousness was replaced with butterflies when I saw him smile. "There you go, you'll do great," he whispered, pressing his lips o