MOMS

Nathaniel took off his glasses and shook my moms hand. Silvia, my stepmom, looked at him gaping. "Oh. My. God! I'm such a fan! You and Myles, are my favorites, oh my god, can I have your autograph?"

"Ma."

"It's okay, you're Mackenzies mom, I don't mind signing it."

"Actually she's my stepmom, my mom's wife. Her name is Silvia, so make sure you write that." My mom grabs my face and gives me a kiss on my cheek. "I missed you so much, so is he your boyfriend?"

"Mom, I'm straight." Nathaniel looks at my mom and smiles.

"Hey you don't know, love sneaks up on you, I thought I was straight until I met Silvia." I sneer.

"I could never date this goof." I said pointing at Nathaniel. He wraps his arm around my shoulder and smiles at my mom. "Snow, don't say never, I could be really romantic if I want too." My mom laughs and I roll my eyes. Silvia grabs my moms hip and starts walking away, and I follow them.

I look at Nathaniel who's on his phone. Reading a text sent from M. "Who's that?" Nathaniels frustrated face relaxes into a fake smile. "Nobody important." he lied. I halt in place and grab his phone. "Who is M? Don't lie to me."

"Mackenzie, it's nobody you need to worry about, but you're kind of cute when you're angry." I give his phone back and I move away from him. I start to speed up and my mom knows exactly why I'm in a rush.

At the airport waiting for the flight, was horrible. All the emotions surrounding me, was suffocating. I tried to keep my composure and I did, but as soon as my plane was announced I was out of the room. Sitting In coach was also hard but once Nathaniel brought me to first class everything I was feeling went away.

The toronto airport wasn't as bad as LA, but having to feel peoples emotions for almost 12 hours strait strained me and I was a couple minutes away from a mental break down and, or an anxiety attack. Both of my moms knew about my empathy. Nathaniel didn't know and I wanted it to stay like that.

The longer Nathaniel thinks of me as a normal person, the longer I'll could stay with him. Because like everybody else I've told ran away. Because I was to much work and I was a freak.

I didn't think Nathaniel could leave me like that, but I didn't want to take the chance. I've barely ever had friends. I've only went to school up until the 7th grade, I started home schooling because everybody's emotions were hightened during puberty and I wasn't able to handle that. I never went to high school and I did online college courses, majoring in the arts. But I was never able to be out in public for a long periode of time.

When we got into the car, my moms were worried. "Guys stop." I say bluntly and Nathaniel looked at me confused. "Why are they worried?" He asked.

"Their not, we have a psychic connection, I was telling her how annoying you were and she said she thought you were ugly, and she's right." Nathaniel gives me a dirty look and I laugh. I fall asleep on the drive to my moms place. The exhaustion of feeling all the emotions slapped me in the face and I fell asleep instantly.

I woke up in my childhood bed. Nathaniel was looking through my drawers. He was holding up a dirty magazine and I threw one of my old pillows at him. He drops the book and laughs. "It is so you to like old porn magazines."

"Those are eight years old, I moved out when I was six-teen." He looks on my walls and see's posters of singer's, actors, movies and records that were glace framed and never once been played. The music I listened too in the early 2000's was hip-hop.

Nathaniel looked at one and then looked at me. "I didn't know you liked James O'Rose." He said pointing at the record. "Actually that was the only album he wrote that I liked." I commented. Nathaniel lied down on my bed and his legs were hanging off the end. I lied down beside him.

"I'm still tired, I must have jet lag." Nathaniel sat up about to get off the bed. I grab his arm. "You should get some sleep too there isn't a guest room so sleep with me." I said letting go of his arm. He smiles and lies down beside me.

I was grateful, I never felt comfortable with another person near me, but being in another persons warmth was something I wanted to cherish. I closed my eys and after a few minutes Nathaniel still hasn't fallen to sleep. "Another thing you don't know about me Mackenzie I have insomnia, I can't sleep on a whim like you can." I open my eyes and Nathaniel jumped.

"You know you're right, I don't know much about you. How long have you had insmonia?"

"Since my junior year of highschool."

"Myles told me you and him go way back. How long?"

"Freshman year, we were friends off the bat, and he was one of the only ones who didn't mind being around me." He explanied.

"What's your favorite color?" Nathaniel laughs and he replies yellow. I ask him to specify and he says topaz yellow. I smile because those were the same color as my eyes. I push him and I continue to ask questions.

"Favorite animal?"

"I like them all, other than ostriches."

"Why?" I say laughing.

"The last time we went on tour we went to a zoo, and an ostrich chased me. I'm scarred." I laugh at Nathaniel. The image of him running from a bird made me laugh harder. And after a long line of questions, Nathaniel sqinted his eyes and looked at me smiling. "Anymore questions Snow?"

"Who's M?"