Jarek.
When Keisha said those words to Leilani on the day we finalized our rejection process, I didn't count it as anything. I had just brushed it off as words of a bitter woman, but then, afterwards, after she left my office and told me in her words that; "We'll be seeing each other soon because of my new freak," I couldn't help but think about it.
From that day, I began to pay closer attention to Leilani and her mannerisms, but nothing seemed off. I then began to think back to all the moments in the past that she'd acted out of line.
The times she'd manifested weird traits that didn't feel normal— like tearing down my car's door, picking up heavy objects effortlessly. Hell, even though she never told me what happened that day at her house, I suspected that her weird surges of strength had everything to do with the reason her fridge had been on the floor even though she'd told Maya and I that it had simply fallen.
I sighed.
