When the papers spoke about me being able to speak at my age, it took a lot of work for grace to shut them up. We both did not want that to go out too far. I can only imagine what would happen if it went anywhere; people can be and do strange things when something out of their norm happens. Thankfully, Grace made the people who were running the article to forget about it and made it seem like it was a fake. I did know how she was able to do it, but I was glad for it. It was a very....interesting conversation between the two of us, me being 1 and all. Since then, it has more or less been considered normal for me to be what she said "special." There have been a few times where a family would try to come to see "the world's smartest child" even if it was fake, but I would just act my body's age. That was one of the reasons why I did not like adoption day and tried to avoid "parents" as much as possible. Looking at the woman in front of me, I said
"no, Grace taught me how to be kind to others."
"My husband and I have had problems with...certain things and thought that maybe we could give someone a new home," she said to me.
The only thing I could think was really...another sad story to get me. Do you think I care about that shit? It is only when people can get something do they do anything. I would put money on the fact that if someone gave people money to stop world hunger, you better believe it would take maybe a month before the problem was solved.
How do I get this woman off my back without showing too much intelligence? Fuck it, kid style no justu
"I have to go the bathroom" and with that said, I ran off. Not something I am proud of doing, but I do not want to hear "we could be a family" or "maybe we can be your new family. It was nice at first but imagine hearing it every week, after a while, a good thing turns bad I went back into "my" room which was a shared boys room and decided just to study....in the closet.
You are probably thinking, why are you doing that, will for a couple of reasons. One, I was reading College level books and writing some notes, two I did not want people to see me an 8-year-old learning physics, three it was the only place I could go that was somewhat peaceful this and the roof.
Why am I learning physics? Well, for starters I figure the more I learn about why things are, the more it will help me understand what magic is. I was learning other stuff too, but right now, I was on physics. In my previous life, I thought school was boring, but that was due to me being busy all day every day when I was in the military and when I got out of the military. I was always going from one place to the other, so it was nice. I did not realize how boring it was to go from "go go go" to nothing, which is why I took to learning and studying.
Grace would go and get the books I wanted from the library. This was to make sure no one knew about me, being a fucking genius at my age. I learned a lot, some being languages, advanced math, medicine, and others. If people knew what I was learning or hell even knew....hard to say what would happen. I sat in the closet or what I called "my happy place" for a while; the goal was to just hide away from everyone until the left. Not something I am proud of, but still what can you do.
I was really into the book I was reading when I heard someone coming to the closet. I hid the book as fast as humanly possible and glad I did cause right then the door opened. It was Sarah and the woman that I ran into. I was annoyed, to say the least.
"See, my husband likes to hid here, I told you"
"Yes, yes you did, young lady," the woman said. The woman looked at me and smiling I can only imagine the thought in her head being "found you"
Rolling my eyes at them, I said, "I do not like a lot of adults here, so please leave" I was hoping that they would not come in or explore too much in here. I had many books in here; I would usually ask Grace for about 10 books at a time and would return them when I had fully understood them or when they needed to go back.
The woman looked at me smiled and said, "well can I join you"
"No," I said firmly; my secret needed to stay safe, and this woman had a feel to her that I was not comfortable with. Shit, maybe this had something to do with yesterday. An 8-year-old with no magical background able to not only enter the wizard world but also knew about t. My thoughts started to race, and my heart started to beat faster, calm down this is not the case.
"Will, why are you in there," said the woman; before I could reply, Sarah came in and said, "My husband likes to come in here and read his books. Grace said he does not go to school with us because he is special. MY husband is the smartest, and I know it"
"Really?" replied the woman.
"Yeah, REALLY" Damnit, Sarah, any other time I would not care, but really you want to brag here. Normally I thought that it was nice to be bragged about, not sure why. Stupid body and child mind.
"Oh, and pray to tell what kind of books does your husband like to read" she was using Sarah to get info on me. My counterintelligence training came in almost immediately
"I just like to read...I am not very good at it. Grace says that I just need more time to learn than others" I said
"MY HU-" before Sarah could continue I said.
"I do not like large crowds it makes me feel uncomfortable."
I did not know if it was me being paranoid or not but I did not like the woman that was next to Sarah, I also did not like the situation I was in. I was in a closed room, with the only exit blocked. I had a lot of notes about the world and some books in here as well. It was my little "hidey-hole" where I liked to hide my stuff.
We just kind of stood there looking at each other for about 10 minutes before Sarah said
"Amber can we play, you promised"
The woman looked at her while still smiling and said "Oh about we get your husband to play with us".
I thought No means no...when did that change. I told you I did not want to do anything with you so...go away.
"I do not feel like it," I said firmly. I was putting my foot down on this one.
[A/N: HAHAHA...I got off work early today, only to have to go back later today. This chapter was mostly made on my phone, so grammar might be a little bad. Just saying. I will be trying to get more time in for Sarah and the group. Just to let you guys know I will be making most of my chapters on the phone because it would not be good if I used a company computer to post. :/ ]