Changes

It's amazing how quickly a moment blends into the next, a day into a week, weeks blurring into months, months morphing into years...

Life seemed to end after the nickel incident, my hobby grew into an obsession, I withdrew from what friends I had, I had always been a loner to some extent, but rarely passed a familiar face without a smile, I was 'sociable', I did have a select group of friends who were fairly close, but in four months time even they faded.

Sad as it may seem, I hardly noticed, before I was too shy to initiate a conversation, now I didn't care. I still went to school, but found myself leaving the first rows to occupy the back of the class, I could pass an entire day without a word sometimes. Lunch found me in the farthest corner I could find, 'life' was just the interlude between power plays.

Power though was not my only talent, I picked up more then one new trick, knowledge. I was practically a computer now. Math, once my most feared nemesis felt like second nature, that took me only days to realize, as I faced off versus my hotshot math teacher in a game of 'can she make a problem he can't solve', half hour later, I won and was receiving a detention for calling my math teacher a stupid whore ... while laughing.