CHAPTER 32

TIN

I only heard Vel's voices when we were at the hot air balloon because no one else is close to us. But when we get down and walk among a crowd of people, everyone's voice comes to my brain. It becomes so loud and overwhelming that my head feels like it is about to explode.

With a lot of difficulties, we somehow manage to get back to our room. I barely can walk because I feel so much pain and my whole body trembles so bad, Vel has to carry me so I won't fall on the street.

Even when we were alone inside our room, I still could hear the voices, loud and clear like it's coming from all over near me.

"Make them stop, please... they are too loud!" I'm begging even though I don't know who is loud or even where all these voices come from.

"Tin... look at me, just look at me..." Vel forced me to look at him "Contretate on me and only listen to my voice."

When he said that, suddenly I could hear it, the cleanest voice among all others.

"I love you, Tin, I love you so much..."

It's Vel's voice but he didn't say it with his mouth.

"Can you hear me? Can you hear me say I love you?"

The longer I listen to his voice, the more I only listen to his voice, the other voices gradually disappear.

"I wonder if you know that I love you so so much..."

"I know, I can hear you and I know, I know you love so much..." I answered him. The other voices completely disappear by the time I answer him "And I love you too..."

He hugged me with a relieved face when he heard my answer.

"It's not loud anymore..." I told him.

"Oh, thank God..." he said while caressing my hair and back "It's ok now, you are ok now..."

VEL

What just happened to Tin? None of us can understand it. Why did he suddenly have my ability?

An hour after it happened, he completely lost my ability and can't even hear my thoughts anymore.

We were both lying on the bed, while he tried to regain his strength that was drained thanks to a horde of thoughts that suddenly invaded his brain.

"Is that how it felt to have your ability? All those loud voices coming to you without you can filter them or stop them."

"More or less. I was like that when I'm a kid. My parents and P'Sai trying so hard to teach me how to control my ability while they themselves doesn't have any. It took a lot of time, patience, and effort, until I could fully control it. But even now, every time I feel a surge of negative emotion, I will still lose control of my ability too."

"Hmm... I can imagine your parents and brother also doing the same thing to you to calm you down."

I smile "They did, when I'm younger and can't control my ability yet, they always make me focus on them and their thoughts so I can focus my ability better. They did a lot of research on telepathy to find out how to deal with me. There was a time when I felt really bad for them, they were kind enough to adopt me but all I did was become a burden for them. But when I say it to them I can feel how sad they were. My mom said you are our son, of course we will do anything for you. That's when I realize how much they sincerely love me and how lucky I am to be able to become their son."

He smiled too, then hugged me closer. "I also feel lucky knowing you are here with me when it happened."

"But... Tin..." I tried to ignore the elephant in the room but it's just too obvious that I don't think I can ever ignore it "How did you suddenly have my ability?"

"I'm wondering too, it never happened to me before."

"Really? Never happened before?"

"No..." he was thinking for a second "Actually... a lot of things that never happened to me happened since I have a relationship with you."

I lifted my brow and looked at him when I heard it "Me? Am I the cause of all of this?"

"Sure you are, I become so dramatic and suddenly care too much about you more than I even care about myself. I even dream about various things now. And I also fell completely in love while you said it yourself that a psychopath can't fall in love."

He said that in a joking tone but I myself know how many weird things had happened to him since we started our relationship.

"What? Do you think about what I said seriously? I was just joking." he said quickly, seeing my serious expression.

"No, but what you said is true. We still haven't found out about all the things that happened to you all this time, that weird dream you had a few months ago still has no make sense explanation."

"Or we can just rule it as one of the Enigma mysteries. Enigma is a creature with a lot of potential after all."

"Yeah, but... there's still a lot of limitation in Enigma's potential, but now you just randomly have my ability, literally out of nowhere." I thought for a second then asked "Tin... What is your grandad's ability?"

"Grandad? Same as dad. He's a mimic, he mimic other people's ability that is close to him"

I furrowed my brow "That's kinda weird..."

"What's weird?"

"Your dad didn't mention it like that when he told me at our family dinner. Usually when a child has something in common with their parents, psychologically they'll be proud to mention it, so your dad should say something like 'Oh, I'm a mimic, same as my father'. But your father just said he's a mimic, without any mention of your grandad."

"What is your point?"

"Either your dad didn't have a good relationship with his father..."

"No, as my dad's son and my grandad's grandson, I confirm they have a great relationship." said Tin quickly.

"Or... That's not really his actual ability..." I say it slowly because I know Tin won't be happy hearing me accusing his dad about something.

Tin rolled his eyes and his face showed me that he really doesn't want us to keep talking about it "Aren't you stretching it too far...? All of this could be because I just knot you. Like you said, knotting is about permanently connecting with each other. Maybe in my case connecting with you made me temporarily have your ability."

That actually kinda makes sense, but I'm done pushing every weird thing away and make it not a problem. My instinct clearly said there's something wrong about all of this.

"It probably explains this problem, but what about your weird dream?"

He sighs, clearly not impressed by the way I bring up this topic but still willing enough to entertain me so he asks "Do you have any theory about it?"

"What if you actually have the same ability as your dad and grandad but haven't realized it until now?"

He chuckles "That's another stretch. I'm an Enigma and 26 years old. There's no way I just realize about my ability now."

"Yeah, that's why I..." I was about to give a whole ass explanation about what I really think, but when I looked at him, he was completely asleep.

I tried to shake his body to make sure he wasn't just pretending to sleep. He wasn't. He literally falls asleep in a second.

I sigh loudly, he must be so tired. What just happened to him has been so overwhelming and drained his energy. I know it because it has happened to me a lot too.

He is still hugging me tight so I can't move anywhere. I fall back to the pillow while still thinking about a lot of things.

My own ability is not affected at all. I can still hear people's thoughts next door. So he must be just copying it, definitely like the ability his grandad and dad, supposedly, has.

Could he really unknowingly have his father's ability? But like Tin said, he's a 26 years old Enigma, there's no way he just find out about his ability now. And also, if his only son, who he spent all his time and energy to raise, has the same ability as him, Khun Jack will surely notice it ... right?

But Khun Jack himself is still a mystery to me. Since I realize he lied to me during our family dinner, my instinct just keeps telling me there's something wrong about him.

Not only that, but the fact that no one knows how he gained his eternal youth just doesn't sit right with me. People need to stop normalizing all the weird things that happened to the Enigmas as just them being Enigma, there must be other explanations for everything.

I slowly free myself from his hug and get down from the bed. I might not be working as a profiler anymore but my mind and soul are always a profiler so I can't just let it go. I take out my tablet from my bag and start to make my own chart about everything weird that happened recently:

All of Tin's personality changes that didn't match his psychopathic trait. It is practically impossible for someone who is already professionally diagnosed with Psychopathy to develop a personality change like Tin, not even an Enigma. Also, how did he suddenly copy my ability?

Khun Jack, a lot about Khun Jack. Why did he lie to me during our family dinner? How did he get his eternal youth? Is his ability really just as simple as mimicking other people's ability?

Tin's weird dream. If that's not his memory then what is it? Also what did his papa and grandpa talking about in that dream?

And it reminds me of his grandpa's weird mumble during his breakdown that was allegedly caused by his dementia. Somehow Tin's papa and grandpa said similar things both in the weird dream and during his breakdown, all about failing to stop someone doing something horrible. What is it about? And who are they talking about?

At first, I thought I had written down everything, but then I remembered something else, something that didn't directly connect to Tin and Tin's family but got me curious too.

How does Garfield know the organ his aunt received from Chen's Organization was coming from The Thumb Collector's victims?

I've been trying to see him again after our last meeting, texting him, coming to his cafe, even telling Benz to bring him on a double date with us, but every time he always manages to avoid me. I don't want to think for the worst but the only logical explanation I have right now is that Garfield has some kind of connection with Chen's Organization, and I don't know what it is.

I am adding some more details that I know on my chart to see the bigger picture of everything.

Tin's papa was sold by his family since he was young to have sex with anyone who's willing to pay a lot of money, cause him to have multiple abortion since he was a teenager, make him have a damaged womb and problematic pregnancy that leads to his death during childbirth.

His dad blamed his papa's family for everything and having a very bad relationship with them.

And also his dad, despite getting him professionally diagnosed, never wants to admit that he is in fact a psychopath and hides this fact from everyone including his closest family.

Tin's grandpa was really close to his papa, causing him to have a breakdown every time Tin's papa is mentioned. Also, his family has an obsession about having an Enigma as a firstborn for every generation because his uncle suicide.

I'm looking at my chart and thinking, this family is clearly hiding a lot of things, and what's weird is, except for Tin's dad, I can see everyone else's mind and they are always sincere about everything. Yet still, at the same time, I feel like I miss something, but what is it?

Tin is still peacefully sleeping on the bed, and a heavy feeling hangs on my heart. He surely won't be pleased if he knows I make this kind of chart about his family.

He did say he knows his parents are not perfect people and he accepts them as they are, but still... What I have now is suspicion and doubt. His family are the people he trusts the most, especially his dad, he surely won't take it lightly if he knows I have so much suspicion and doubt toward them. He already shows it by the way he doesn't want to talk about all of this.

I'm looking at the engagement ring on my finger, we are officially engaged now, more than that he already knotted me as his permanent pair. We are connected together and forever. I will become a part of his family and I think I have every right to know everything about them. Even though we already promised we won't hide anything from each other, it looks like I have to hide this one from Tin.

TIN

It's weird to wake up without my Vel beside me. When I open my eyes, the day is already bright and Vel is not beside me. I looked around the room and found him near the closet, packing our things. Am I really sleeping that long and it's already the next day? Yesterday was the last day of our honeymoon and I spent half of it sleeping.

I groan on the pillow expressing my frustration and disappointment. How can I just waste such a precious time by sleeping?

"Oh? Are you awake?" I heard Vel asking.

I lift my head from the pillow and answer with a simple "Hmm..."

"How are you feeling today? Do you still hear voices?" He came to me with a worried face.

I shake my head "No, no voices at all."

"Then why are you grunting?"

"I just realized it's the last day of our honeymoon and I spend it sleeping, not doing something else that is more productive."

He rolled his eyes when he heard my reason "Go take a bath and come down to have breakfast. The plane will take off in 2 hours."

"It's a private plane anyway, we can tell them to wait for a couple more hours." I hug his hips to prevent him from moving anywhere.

"No, we need to go now so we won't be late arriving home, we need to go to work tomorrow, remember."

"Ahh... I hate my job..." I whine loudly "Why do I need to work anyway?"

"So you can contribute to society." he kissed my forehead fast "Now, go take a shower, quick."

I grin and ask "Can we do just one round before we leave?"

"Nope, you never stop at just one, and we'll end up doing it too much to the point we'll be late." he rejected me immediately.

"Please... Just one round." I'm begging with my best begging voice.

He smiled then kissed me on the lips lightly and said "I promise we'll do a lot of rounds in the plane, now hurry, go take a shower, the faster we go, the faster we can start doing it."

Vel really knows how to control me, doesn't he? The moment he said that, I quickly jumped up from the bed then went to the bathroom.

We have a quick breakfast, then go to the airport where our plane is already waiting for us.

I still remember our talk yesterday before I instantly fell asleep and I kinda waited for him to talk about it again but he didn't mention it at all. Not during breakfast, not when we were on our way to the airport and not now when we are already inside the plane.

I know Vel well enough to know that he won't just let these things go without any real answer. But it looks like he already forgot about it. Not even a word he mentioned anything about our talk yesterday. I just hope he really did, because I really really don't want him to think of anything else besides building our own family.

We waited until the plane took off and the seatbelt sign turned off, before we went to the bedroom and didn't waste even a second more to do the thing he promised, a lot of it. We need to replace the sex we missed when I'm asleep after all.

3 hours after we fly, the flight attendant knocks on the door to tell us that the lunch is ready. I don't want to go out or put on any clothes when we are in a very passionate sex marathon in the sky, but Vel was begging me to take a break and have some food. His legs were trembling and I could see he was quite exhausted, so I granted his request.

I told the crew to give us privacy and forbid anyone to enter the dining room. I didn't plan to put on full clothes, we are not going to just have lunch in the dining room anyway. We both come out only wearing the bathrobe without anything under it.

We did have our lunch. but I can't just have lunch without doing anything to this sexy body in front of me.

I kinda miss putting my fingers inside his hole. my fingers usually spend a lot of time inside there to prepare him, but now after he produces his own lube, my fingers never visit it again, and I know how much he loves some fingering.

So, as he scoops his soup, my hand travels to his back and my fingers make their way inside his hole.

Of course it's not the first time I touched him while we had our meal, we even had sex in the middle of a meal a few times. We are already at the point in our relationship where he's not surprised anymore with my sudden touch. He barely makes any reaction when he feels my fingers entering him. He only makes a low moan.

He tried to keep eating but the deeper I went, the more he felt good and he couldn't hold his moan. He put his spoon down and decided to fully enjoy my fingers.

His wet hole feels kinda new for my fingers. It usually only wet because of my semen, and now it's also wet because of his own natural lube. It feels strange but not in a bad way. I can definitely get used to this new feeling my fingers feel inside him.

My other hand is free, so I make it busy by playing with his nipple. Since I pierced them, it became a lot more sensitive. A few times he cum only by me playing with his piercing. So when I touch his pierced nipple, he immediately gasps loudly and grabs the edge of the table tightly.

"Are you close?" I ask him, whisper in his ear.

He quickly nodded as an answer.

I smirk, then get down to his super hard dick. Lick it once, then put the full length on my mouth. I sucked it hard a few times, and I could feel his whole body shudder as he unloaded his semen inside my mouth with a loud moan.

I make sure every single drop of it comes out inside my mouth before I let his dick go and swallow all of his cum.

"Tasty?" he asked when he saw me swallow everything without leaving any drop.

"Better than any food on this table." I answer.

"I believe it is."

He probably wants to continue the meal just peacefully and normally after this, but my own rod is raised high now and it needs his attention. He can see it making a tent with my bathrobe.

He sighed then said "Let me sit on you."

I smile widely. He really understands my needs so well. I open my robe, exposing my dick, then he smoothly sits on it, putting it inside his hole, and we stay in this position until we finish our meal.

After we finish our lunch we get back to our room and continue our 'activities' in the room.

We had our dinner at a restaurant in Doha Airport during our transit. Finally, for the first time during this whole flight, we have full clothes on and have a meal while normally sitting down like a normal person. But of course I still didn't want to leave his hole alone. I put a buttplug inside it the whole time we have our transit in this foreign country. I can see he already got used to a buttplug inside him so it barely bothers him, maybe I should put on a bigger buttplug.

So many things happened after our engagement to the point we forgot to tell our families about our engagement. So, while we were in decent condition, fully dressed and not connected to each other, we made a call to our family during our transit.

Vel's parents were very happy with the news, and my dad also sounded excited. Normally, according to the Old Value, both families will make an announcement about it too, the same as the Official Courtship. Just an announcement is enough, but my dad has another idea.

"We need to make a party for your engagement." he said with a cheerful tone on the phone "A party bigger than my Exhibition Opening."

I will definitely say no to that idea. Both me and Vel really like our privacy. During our whole relationship we mostly spend it with just the two of us. We barely attend any social event if our parents didn't force us to go.

And it looks like Vel also wasn't really excited about this idea.

But I know, Vel's parents will be so hype about this idea. And surely they will be very disappointed if they know we didn't support it.

"Yeah... dad... you know both me and Vel didn't really like social events." I said to my dad.

"I know you will say that. But you already said you want a simple wedding with minimum guests because Vel will most probably already be pregnant by that time and you don't want to tire him out with a huge wedding, so think of this engagement party as an exchange for your wedding party."

I feel like Vel's parents will say similar things.

Both our parents didn't really impress when we told them we will get married after he got pregnant, mostly because we also made it a reason for not having a big extravagant wedding.

They want a wedding that will be dubbed as the wedding of the decade. Besides, not every decade our society has a pairing of Enigma and Alpha both from influential old Alpha Families. It's completely understandable that they were disappointed that we rejected the big wedding idea.

So this is actually a really good compensation for both our parents, having a big engagement party as an exchange for our simple wedding.

I look at him asking for his opinion and he just gives me a small nod as a sign that he isn't really against the idea.

"Ok, dad, you can talk to Vel's parents about it." I said.

I can hear my dad's excited voice from the phone "I just hope we have enough time to prepare everything in a week."

We try not to think about the engagement party that will mostly happen this weekend, and continue to enjoy our flight. By 'enjoy', I mean to keep having sex on the plane. We even have sex on the other part of the plane and not only inside our bedroom. I needed to keep the crew away from us when we did it, of course. I don't want any of them to hear or see anything we did. I hate to imagine someone else seeing Vel while he's in a position that I can only see and hear.

We landed safely back at our home country at dawn and we both were completely exhausted. We barely sleep during our 14 hours flight.

When we finally touch our bed at home we fall sleep immediately without showering or changing our clothes.

Of course we ended up waking up late for work. Vel only has one class in the afternoon so he wasn't really rushed. And me, I need to eat my breakfast sandwich in the car so I won't be late.

The people at the office congratulated me for my engagement, including Ping who came to my office in the afternoon just to congratulate me personally. And weirdly, I'm actually in the mood to make a small chat with him, so I ask about his husband's pregnancy.

"Already passed the first trimester so the nausea is less now, but he's been craving weird things lately." he said in an excited tone.

I unconsciously smile when I heard it, I don't know why I smile and it's not even my logic telling me to smile, I just smile because I somehow feel his excitement. And unknowingly I imagine how it will be when my Vel also gets pregnant.

"Not long from now, I guess you will also experience it, husband's pregnancy." Ping said, I guess he can see what I'm thinking from my expression.

"Yeah... I hope it can happen sooner than later." I said.

"If our children are close in age, they can become playmates together." said Ping.

I smile again "That will be great."

Ten come in right after Ping left. And he, of course, has a different agenda than the others.

"So... how was it?" he asked in a curious tone.

"How what?"

"Your knotting process, tell me the details."

"Why should I tell you any details about that?"

"I did tell you the details about my knotting."

"That's only because I've had sex with your husband before he was your husband. His hole and his inside is familiar to me, nothing you need to hide from me."

He pouted when he heard my answer "You really are not fun."

Before I can answer him, suddenly weird things happen to me in a fast sequence that I barely can understand what happened. First I can hear people talking probably from 5 rooms from my office, I can smell some durians than someone brought for lunch, and I can see a very small spot on the glass window that I barely notice.

I immediately closed my eyes and covered my ears. It happened again. I suddenly gained another person's ability. Ping's heightened sense ability. But I'm not knotting Ping, I never even have sex with him, and he is also nowhere near me, so why do I gain his ability?

"Are you ok?" Ten worried, he probably says it in a normal volume but I hear it so loudly in my ear even though I already cover my ears.

"Don't scream..."

"What? I'm not..."

Something else happened that made him go silent. The lights in my room flicker on and off randomly. The computer on my desk also does the same. my phone looks like it's glitching before turning off without anything touching it.

I look at Ten and ask "What are you doing?"

"I didn't do anything!?" he said in confusion and panic.

"If it's not you, then..."

Realization came to me, it's me right? I gained Ten's ability. But I still can hear, smell and see excessively. How did I also gain Ten's and Ping's abilities at the same time?

"Is it you?" ask Ten "Tin, are you doing this?"

"I don't know... I don't know how..."

A light bulb breaks above us followed by the others, the scrapes are flying everywhere and the room instantly turns dark.

VEL

After Tin left for work, I spent some hours alone looking back at my chart. I actually kept thinking about it all the way on the plane but I already made up my mind to not show it to Tin. So I indulged myself in sex to make him believe I no longer have these whole problems in my mind. Not like I'm complaining about the sex.

I sit on the counter at the kitchen looking at the chart, especially the question 'Is Khun Jack's ability really just as simple as mimicking other people's ability?'. I have a strong feeling he hides something about his ability and he most probably hides something about Tin's true ability too.

I remember reading a journal about various mimicry abilities a few weeks ago and that journal actually said something that attracted my attention. One of the most powerful and rarest abilities any specials can have is actually similar to mimicry ability. It was an ability to control other people's ability. They can copy it, limit it by making it permanently or temporarily don't work properly, or even take it completely from the original owner and make it their own. That's just what's recorded in the journal but because the ability is so rare, no one knows its actual limitation.

I wrote 'ability to control other people's ability?' under Khun Jack's name. If anyone can have this kind of ability it must be an Enigma. I can't read his mind, not because he's a psychopath like his son, but maybe because he was limiting my ability.

And his eternal youth could also be caused by this ability. He could be permanently copying someone with a healing ability that is known to have a long lasting life and didn't grow old at all.

I stop myself and laugh when I realize what I'm thinking about. Because even I myself realize it's just too silly.

First, healing ability is at the top list of the rarest abilities in the world. Only a very few people ever recorded having this ability in all human history and no record about any person with that ability is living in this day and age.

Secondly, I know I have suspicion toward Khun Jack but my profiling toward him didn't show any sign that he's the type of person who is scared of death or doesn't want to get old. He never hides his real age to the public and always acts like his actual age. Presented himself with the wisdom and value as someone who already lived for more than half a century in this world. So I don't see any possibility he'll actually try to be permanently young on purpose.

But... again, copying a healer ability is the only plausible reason I can think of right now, especially if he really has an ability to control other people's ability.

Does he have other reasons to gain a healer ability? And is there any healer that is secretly alive and exists right now?

I write the two questions on my chart.

And yet... something like this, there's no way nobody in the family knows about it, right? Especially Khun Josh and Khun Jeff, the parents who raised Khun Jack. But, I continuously see their mind and they are always genuine about everything.

I look at Khun Jeff's name and thinking, his breakdown during our visit, I'm still convinced it's not connected to his supposed dementia. What he said during his breakdown is similar to a broken record, something is tempering the record and ruining it...

In human cases, something is tempering his memories and ruining it...

Khun Jeff is a memorist, he can modify people's memory. But what will happen to him if someone uses his own ability on him?

And for that someone who did it to him, I think there's only one possible suspect. I wrote my crazy conclusion on the bottom of my chart: Khun Jack took Khun Jack's ability to temper his whole family's memories, probably also Tin's?

I chuckled to myself seeing my conclusion. It's just too crazy to be true but it also makes sense. What is lacking is the 'why'. Why did he do all of this?

I look at my clock and curse. I didn't realize time had passed so fast that I was almost late to my class. I quickly save my chart, close my table, then rush getting ready to go to work.

Thankfully I wasn't late for my class.

I don't bring my phone to class so I don't know that Ten has been calling me continuously for the last hour. When I'm back to my office, I saw 38 missed calls from him. I have very bad feelings about this. I was about to call him back when another call from him came in, I immediately picked it up.

"You finally pick up!" said Ten the moment I picked up the call.

"What happened? Did something happen to Tin?" I guessed, Ten won't call me this intensely if it's not because of Tin.

"Yes! Something is very wrong with him, you need to come home now!" he said in panic.

I didn't even say anything more and rushed back home.

Since we came back from our honeymoon, I had a strong feeling something like what happened during our honeymoon will happen again to Tin. The call from Ten is like a confirmation for me. I don't even need details about what happened to Tin but I can already guess it.

Ten and his husband are waiting for me in the living room when I enter Tin's home.

"Where is he?" I ask them.

"He just fell asleep 5 minutes ago," said Michael.

I quickly went to our room and found Tin asleep in our bed. I sat beside him and held his hands, it was so cold. I look at his face, worried, because he looks so tired even though he's fast asleep.

Ten tell me what happened at the office.

"Yours and Ping's abilities?" I ask him after he tells me what happened.

"Yes, it was really hard to bring him here. He was calm when we walked to the parking lot. But when we were on the way here, he went wild. Every time we pass by, the traffic light keeps changing in seconds, ATM machines spit out money randomly, Billboards along the way glitches and dies. It's really hard to drive a car while fixing the damage he did to make sure no one gets hurt. And he keep saying everything is too bright and too loud..." explain Ten

"It happened again..." I murmur to myself.

I look at Tin and caress his hair softly. If Ping is nowhere near him when he is copying his ability then my theory is probably true. He has his dad's ability but it's not just a simple mimicry.

"Again? Something like this has happened before?" ask Ten.

I sigh "Yes, during our honeymoon."

"Then it's the right thing for you to call his dad, honey." said Michael.

I quickly turned to Ten "You call his dad?"

"Of course I did. His dad knows him the best. He'll know what we need to do." said Ten.

"He's probably already on his way here." added Michael.

I don't know why my survival instinct kicked in instantly. I stand up from the side of the bed, then go out to look for my tablet.

With a confused look Ten asked "What are you doing?"

"I need to use the bathroom." I said as I go into the bathroom inside our room with my tablet in my hands.

My mind is working so fast that I myself barely can follow it. What will Khun Jack do if he doesn't want anyone to know about what happened to Tin?

All I have on my chart is just suspicion without any actual proof, but again, my instinct tells me I probably won't remember about all of this after I meet Khun Jack today. And that's why I have to keep every suspicion I put on my chart safe. Away from the possibility that someone will delete it or I will somehow delete it myself.

I took out the memory card from my tablet and put it in the only place that I can think of is safe for the time being, inside a box of pregnancy test kits.

Me and Tin each put one pregnancy test kit in our bathrooms at our houses. We promise to only use it when we know for sure I'm already pregnant. That pregnancy test will only become a tool to give us proof.

I keep my memory card there because all the change that happened to Tin was marked by a big change in our relationship. His weird dream happened when I seriously got mad at him for the first time. His random copying ability happened after he knot me. I just hope when I get pregnant some big change happens again that will make me remember what I wrote in this chart.

This is not a great plan. This is Tin's house, what if I end up using the pregnancy test kit at my own house and didn't find the memory card here? Or, what if I or Tin find it before I get pregnant and we don't understand what I wrote inside it? Most importantly, I don't even know if it's necessary for me to do all of this.

But my gut feeling tells me to do this and I know my gut feeling is never wrong. If this is really necessary I believe my instinct will lead me to find this here and guide me to understand everything.

When I finish putting the memory card inside the box and put the box back inside the cabinet, Ten knocks on my door.

"Khun Jack is here."

TIN

I'm in another weird dream again. I'm in the dream this time, but it was me when I'm a toddler. Again, I don't think this is a memory because I don't even remember I have this memory.

I was in my room, with my dad, still wearing my kindergarten uniform. My dad looks the same as he is now. His dark blue hair looks so blue and bright under the sunlight that comes into my room through the open window.

I come closer and realize what little me have been doing. I make my toys fly around me and I show it off to my dad.

"Look dad... now I can make everything fly..." little me said with a proud voice.

My dad on the other hand looked panicked and grabbed my hands with a strong force.

"Did you take another person's ability again?" he asked in a stern voice.

"I did, it was my classmate Pim's ability." little me said without any hesitation.

My dad sighs with disappointment "Why? Why did you take it? I already told you, you can just copy someone else's ability and keep it, you don't need to permanently take it away. When you take it away like this it's the same as if you stole it from its rightful owner and stealing is not good."

Little me look annoyed and pull away from my dad's hands "Why just borrow it if I can own it? Besides, you also take away grandpa's ability, daddy. Why, you can do it but I can't? You are not being a good example as an adult."

I was surprised. Is this scene in front of me even real? Is my dad the real cause my grandpa can't use his ability anymore?

My dad's face is a mixture of disappointment and worry. He pulled the little me closer to him again and said with the same stern voice "I'm sorry but I can't let you have this much power in your hands."

"Daddy, let go, you're hurting me." little me said in a panic voice as he felt my dad's hands getting tighter and tighter.

"I can't take it away from you so I'll just hide it, don't worry, I'm not gonna leave you with nothing. I'll leave you with the ability that is most useful for you."

I don't know if the scene in front of me really happened in the past or not. I have no memory of it. But if it did happen, did my father really do this to me?

"It's really like what they said, when a clairvoyant dreamer see the past then it's the truth, and when they see the future then it's certain."

The voice coming from behind me, I immediately turned around and there I saw my dad stand right behind me. Not the same dad that I saw on the scene in front of me. Even though they look exactly the same, I know this dad is my dad, my current dad from my current time.

"Dad? How can you get here?" I ask him.

He sighs then looks at me with a serious look "I know that someday as you get older you probably will manage to get your real ability back but still, this is not the way I imagine you'll find out. Maybe we shouldn't talk about it here."

Suddenly my surroundings turn into fog and everything around me becomes blurry. A second later I jolted awake on my bed in my room. I looked around and found my dad sitting beside my bed. His face is calm but he still looks at me with the same serious look that he has in the weird dream.

"Dad? How...? Why...?" I'm super confused, is this dad really the dad that talks to me in the weird dream? I came to the dream with Vel before and the Vel in my dream is the same with my Vel in the real world, so does it also occur to my dad here?

My dad tilted his head a little while he looked at me "It must be so confusing for you, right son? Suddenly you gain all other people's abilities?"

"How...? Did Ten call you?"

"He did, that's how I'm here now."

Maybe because what I just saw in my weird dream, or maybe because weird things keep happening to me, for the first time I feel some kind of fear when I'm with my dad.

"It's ok, son, you don't need to be afraid. I'm here now." He softly brushes my hair but I don't know why I instinctively avoid his touch.

I somehow don't feel safe near him, not until I get some answers "What I just saw, in that weird dream, is that real?"

"Why do you think it's real? It's not in your memories right?"

"Yeah, but it feels real..."

My dad smiled, the kind of chilly smile that I never saw before "Then it must be real if you feel like that."

Hearing that I backed away from my dad. The silence around me suddenly feels so eerie "Where is Ten? Where is Vel? Are they here?"

"They're here, but they won't remember any of this, same as you will soon."

Now I feel real 100% fear toward my dad "What do you mean?"

"I'm sorry, son, one mistake made me bury myself in a lot of lies and I can never come out of it, only can bury myself in more lies."