I suppose you guys know of whom I am speaking?
While waiting for dessert I went to the bathroom, “Nico?” I heard a voice say.
While washing my hands I saw an image appearing in the streaming water splashing from the stone sink.
If I squinted my eyes well enough, I could see Percy Jackson’s facial colours in the fluid. I would know as I have- had feelings for him.
I was speechless. I didn’t expect someone to try and contact me this soon.
“What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong!?” I heard my sister’s voice yell, “Where in Hades are you!?”
The air left my lungs. I was unable to breathe. Why did they care? I wondered as I felt myself suffocating slowly.
“I- I’m in-” I could hear the door open. “Hello Nicoló,” I heard Damian say. I quickly put my hands in the sink, to wash my hands and erase the Iris Message.
–
After desert Dick had an idea, “Wanna go see a movie?” I immediately loved the idea of renting a movie. Damian and the others also did.
I remembered that I used to see movies with my mother and sister. Usually they were catholic videos, purely made for us to become believers of their religion. I remembered how scared I felt when it spoke about homosexuality and how horrid it was.
“Nicoló?”
I looked up at Damian, blushing upon realising I began daydreaming. “What?”
“Dick asked what movie you wanted to see?”
I didn’t know many modern movies, as I was born more than eighty years ago and haven’t been in the mortal world a lot ever since I left the Lotus Hotel.
“I- I don’t know any movies..”
“You don’t know any movies?” Jason asked. “Like any?”
“Black Shirt?” I remembered the name of the movie. But I did not know what it was about. I just hoped it wasn’t too out-of-time.
“What is Black Shirt?” Dick asked.
“In 1933 the Fascist Italian Regime led by Mussolini made a propaganda film about World War One and the coming of power of Mussolini,” Tim said with his phone in his hand, he had a simple white website full of black and blue words which he showed the others.
Most of the family had a questioning look on his face.
“My mother,” I decided, “Was a- Catholic, I guess. A really strict one.”
“Oh.”
–
Eventually Dick invited me to their home. “Try to stay away from B,” Jason had warned me, “If he sees another black-haired orphan he’ll freak and adopt you.”
“Okay,” I said, not knowing what he meant.
Dick gave me all the movies he deemed me old enough for. Which were only children’s movies. I wanted to scream at him that I was actually 79 years old, but elected to just hiss instead.
I chose for a movie called ‘The Land Before Time.’ I almost picked another movie, ‘Treasure Planet,’ but when I remembered watching it with Bianca, shortly before she died, on a television we stole, and feared I would be unable to handle such memories.
When we were forty minutes into the movie, I was bored. And then I heard the door opening. A middle-aged voice spoke loudly, “I’m sorry to interrupt your night off, but the Scare.. ry thing you hid in the closet scared Alfred. Who’s the kid?”
“Nico, Bruce,” Jason said, “Bruce, this is Nico.”
I held my hand up to shake his, “It’s a pleasure to meet you,” I smiled, “Batman.”
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