Let's Play (Sage.)

Sage wouldn’t deny that he was a little excited to train with Cameron today. He enjoyed practicing the use of his powers, and with the two of them having such similar abilities, it made the practice that much easier. They motivated each other to try harder, and Cam loved to show off what new accomplishment he had made whenever they met. Sage rode to the training field on his new motorcycle, enjoying the bright sunny day upon them and rushed to the designated training spot they had chosen.

Cameron had already called out to him and shown him his new trick by the time Sage got there, and he smiled wide in response, eyes lighting up a bit. It was really quite impressive to look at, and it showed a lot of control based on how contained it was.

“Wow! You’ve really gotten better, Cameron!”

He almost wanted to reach out and touch it, but he did not want to distract the other boy in his work. Sage held out his hand and focused intensely on it, trying to replicate the same thing and smiled when several tiny orbs of light formed in his hand and began to float around him like fireflies. His body maintained its usual glow when he was happy, and his emerald eyes watched the lights make their way towards the miniature sun, orbiting it like planets around a star.

Sage was glad that Cameron was amused by his new bike, and he couldn’t help but glow in happiness. He had always wanted a bike, but everyone had told him 'no', due to his clumsiness. However, upon graduating from Hammel, his parents had decided to give him a chance, and he had barely been able to stay away from his new toy ever since. Sage kept the green bike clean and shiny 24/7 and took the long scenic route wherever he went. He bounced a bit in place before responding to Cameron.

“I got it for graduation. I’ve always wanted one, so I’m really happy about it…feeling the wind in my hair and everything just speeds past me...it's great”

Sage left out the other reason he wanted a bike, which was to ride with someone he loved, them holding onto him or him returning the favor. Either way, it was a scene he wished to live someday. He smiled at Cameron, nodding in agreement with him regarding their little performance together, and his emerald eyes looked up to the sky, thinking hard about any new tricks he had learned since their last meeting. However, he was momentarily distracted by Cameron’s hug, and Sage blushed in response, his body glowing warmly and spreading to the other boy as he returned the hug.

“I’m sorry I took so long to get here”

Sage knew it was unbelievable to most that he had graduated from high school, not because of his grades, since they were always spectacular, but because of how young he appeared. He was eighteen but hardly looked it with his innocent appearance.

“Yeah. I graduated not too long ago. I’m attending University of Vermont this Fall. Can you believe it? I’m going to miss everyone here at Hammel, but I’ll come visit a lot”

Sage giggled a bit at Cam’s request to ride on the motorcycle sometime, and he nodded eagerly. He would love to ride around with him sometime and go have lunch or something to catch up. The boy would have offered right then, but they had met here to train and he did not want to disappoint Cam.

“I would love to show you how well the bike runs! And it just cuts through the air like a knife! It’s soooo fun!”

He smiled brightly at him, still glowing inside and out before he gave his full attention to Cam as he prepared to show him his new trick. The other boy stepped back, claiming to be able to become invisible, but when he did not vanish, Sage became confused. Cam did look rather different as he played with the light, but his body was still visible. Sage closed his eyes, wondering if his former classmate needed time to figure it out. Sometimes he felt that being away from staring eyes helped him concentrate.

“Did you get it all figured out? I can open my eyes now, right?”

Sage laughed at Cameron’s comment about his truck. There was something special about one’s own vehicle, no matter how old or new it was, and surely that old truck had some significance to him. The green eyed boy nodded, smiling at the thought of having Cameron as a visitor to the college campus. Sage couldn’t help but blush a bit at the words about the bike and how he looked on it, but he was quick to regain his composure.

He kept his eyes closed as the other boy worked to perfect his invisibility, chuckling a bit all the while. Eventually, Cameron did figure it out and managed to hide himself using photons. Sage opened his eyes upon being told it was safe to open them, and when he turned around, Cameron was nowhere to be seen. The blond clapped in entertainment before waving his arms out in front of him, trying to find the invisible boy.

“Wow! You really can do it! Hmm…”

Sage searched everywhere around him in search of Cameron, but he could not seem to find him.

“Cameron, where are you?”

Sage continued to blindly look for Cameron in his invisible form, and he could not deny he was enjoying himself. It was like an intense game of hide and seek, and he was putting all his skills learned from Hammel teachers to the test. Since there were students who could become invisible more easily, he had to be taught in many different situations where his senses were disrupted. Sight was a big one of course, and although darkness did not serve as much of a problem with his power being easily able to oppose it, other kinds of invisibility were a challenge. This one in particular was not caused by darkness or harm to the eyes , but in fact light.

The boy had never dealt with this kind of invisibility before, but it intrigued him, and that was what he liked so much about Cameron. He was always teaching him something new, even after graduation. Sage liked the challenges the other boy gave him, and he would see to it that he got through this one too.

Assuming that Cameron was within a few feet of him, Sage concentrated hard to manipulate the light just surrounding him and hoped that he would unravel Cameron’s little magic trick. Suddenly, he heard the quiet giggle that came from him, and Sage gasped, twisting around to face the other who had been right behind him. The blond flailed a bit in surprise and fell backwards, his concentration breaking the invisibility falling back over Cameron as it had before.

“Ouch…I found you…”

Sage laughed as he took Cameron’s hand and pulled himself up with the boy’s help. He may have been a Hammel graduate and enough control of his abilities to live normally, but sometimes he simply got too comfortable. At Hammel it was easy to let his guard down let his body glow without restraint, only because he knew it was not strange in the slightest here. When in public, he did try his best to keep from drawing any attention and was in full control of his emotions.

With Cameron, it was easy to just be himself and not worry about anything else. His body lit up as he shook his head at the apology. There was no need to apologize for a bit of fun, and it was only because of his lack of balance that he fell. Sage was a klutz and no matter how strong he became, that would never change.

Suddenly, Cameron asked a rather random question that caught Sage by surprise, and his cheeks became tinted with pink. The boy slowly nodded, tilting his head curiously at him.

“Yes, I have…why do you ask?”

Sage was rather puzzled that Cameron had thought him too innocent for kissing. Was that even possible? Kissing was such a simple, innocent thing, but yet he didn’t seem the type to even go that far? Sage wasn’t quite sure what to think of that. He would admit that one other reason he got the motorcycle was to change people’s immediate opinion of him, but it seemed no matter what he did, he was always just ‘cute’.

His cousin Thyme had always said he needed to lighten up and try new things, but Sage was always content with himself until now. He was about to start college, but no one would have been able to tell with how ‘cute’ he was, and with a new place and new experiences to come, was it time to change himself as well? Sage stared at Cameron for a moment before the next question arose, and he smiled a bit at the memories.

“Well, Zachary Larousse but that was not fun at all…Um…a few other people back at home, but my favorite kisses were the ones I shared with Reece…he was an illusionist and he always had imaginary butterflies fluttering around him”

His emerald eyes gazed up at the sky a bit as he pulled the memories out before they rested back on the other boy.

“What about you Cameron? I know you must have kissed plenty of people, since you’re not ‘too innocent for kissing’”

Sage winked, curious to hear about Cameron. He normally wouldn’t ask people in return, but it was an eye for an eye right? Besides, maybe it was the beginning of a change.