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I wonder what went through his mind when the three of us asked him to join us at the sugarbowl? Three screwball girls asking if he wanted to go with them to a teen hangout. I probably will never know. He accepted, and followed us when we took the short walk from the school to the sugarbowl. I treated him to my favorite drink, a Strawberry Shake with Vanilla Ice cream. He was quiet most of the time, nursing the drink I had gotten him, but he offered the most informative tid-bits of information, relating to our conversations. I never realized anyone could hear as well as he could. Maybe his powers were in his senses. Myself, I can move small objects through the air and have a light telepathy, Eric, as you may have noted earlier, can move less solid objects around as well. Angela, well, she has this neat ability to polymorph into any shape she wants! She promised to teach me as soon as she figured out how she does it. What I find interesting is I can usually sense what abilities any person has, yet with Sauron I don't feel anything, he’s almost a void, drawing my powers in whenever I try to extend them into his persona. The four of us split up after about three hours of hanging at the sugarbowl. As I walked home, I couldn’t help but think about why I wouldn’t be able to see Sauron’s abilities. I came up with two things before I reached my apartment, one, Sauron has really powerful abilities and he uses them to block out their knowledge from others, and, two, Sauron has absolutely no special abilities. I immediately threw the second one out, no one has been born in the past century without abilities of some sort. My inability to sense his abilities can only drive me to watch him closer and ask him countless questions.
Its Friday, Hurray! Having the exact same classes with Sauron is still intriguing, its only the second day I’ve known him, but I still don’t know more than a minimum about him. I know what he looks like and that he is very knowledgeable about everything. He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, it’s direct to the point and concise. Unlike me, I like going on and on. Basically today was no different from yesterday, except Sauron didn’t leave lunch early to find his class and he walked with me after each class to the next. He actually got me to class after lunch on time. Angela and Eric again convince me to ask Sauron to join us after school at the sugarbowl. To my great dismay, he politely declined this time and disappeared into the throng of students wandering the corridors.
I tried to follow him after I realized I didn’t have his phone number, or address, which didn’t allow me to contact him over the weekend. I can’t believe I’ve walked these halls looking for him for ten minutes! Eric and Angela aren’t having any luck either. The three of us give up after another five and head out to the sugarbowl. Eric gave me a hard time while we were at the sugarbowl, acting as if I was trying to hog all Sauron’s attention. We talked about him and told jokes deep into the evening.
I spent all Saturday morning with Eric and Angela looking for Sauron’s phone number or address so we could invite him to go to the roller-skating rink with us. We gave up at eleven and headed out to the rink. We checked out of skates, being regulars we just smiled at Fred and he when and got each of our shoes.
When he returned with our shoes, he comments, "We have a visitor at the rink today, why don’t you girls go and introduce yourselves?"
"Guy or girl?" Eric asks, giving her best imitation of a serious face.
"Guy, wearing all black, there," Fred’s hand points to a young man wearing all black , currently skating away from us.
"Ok!" The three of us chime together and rush over to a bench to put our skates on.
"Look how he keeps pace with everyone, yet is with no one." Angela breaths, in respect for the talent that must require.
"I don’t know, he seems to just be enjoying himself. Maybe after we introduce ourselves we can convince Fred to run one of the skate games." Eric’s eyes sparkle at the prospect of one of those games.
"Why do you enjoy such odd games?" A playfully punch Eric in the shoulder.
"You know you enjoy them too… Look he’s coming back this way, can you see if you recognize him?" Eric reaches out and grabs me causing me to mess up my shoe tying.
"Give me a second," I breathe in sharply as I feel that strange emptyness that Sauron generates, "That’s Sauron!"
"Hi, Sauron!" Angela calls from her perch, waiting for Eric and I to finish tying our skates.
Sauron skates over to where we’re still tying our shoes and holds out a hand to Angela. Angela blushes slightly before taking his hand and skating off with him.
"So I’m hogging all Sauron’s attention?" I grin at Eric, who gives me a disgusted look.
Eric and I stay and watch Angela and Sauron on the skate rink and I notice that Sauron seems to be whispering something to Angela. She blushes again and nods before Sauron breaks away from her and skates out closer to the center, and does a kind of dance in the center. I’m mesmerized by the swirling patterns he generates and suddenly realize the slight shifting of his clothing, sparkles gleam brightly on his originally plain black outfit and he dances superbly for a while before skating back to Angela and pulling her into the center with him. I’m amazed to see Angela dance so well on her skates with Sauron as the two of them form extremely complex movements and patterns. Suddenly music fills the air, sweet, flowing, and filled with emotion, I glance over to see Fred watching the duo from the sound station of the rink.
When the song ends, Sauron and Angela skate back over to where Eric and I are waiting, with the sound of applause echoing all around them. Seeing Angela blushing I burst out laughing. Eric slaps me in the belly and I choke on my laughter, and slip into a slight giggle. Sauron still has an odd half-smile on his face, I realize suddenly that this same half-smile crossed his face when Angela called to him. Angela sits beside Eric and Sauron moves out of the way of the rest of the skaters off the rink and stands beside me, looking back to the center of the rink.
"Would you let me dance with you too?" I ask Sauron, standing up to look into his pale purple eyes.
He gives me a slight nod before taking my hand and skating with me toward the center.
"Wait, come this way first," I lead him around to the sound booth, where Fred, waiting patiently, smiles at me.
"Fred, could I get something up beat?" I ask as we slow down by the booth.
"Sure thing, Shiela," Fred turns to look through the piles of disks scattered around the booth.
Sauron and I head out toward the center of the rink. we stand there for a second until a rather high speed beat starts being pumped out of the speakers. Knowing I’m going to be tired after this, I let Sauron start as lead. He leads with a few quick speed building dashes and does a beautiful triple axle on the skates. He quickly skates around me and the two of us start some more basic patterns around the center.
"Let it go," a voice suddenly reverberates through my head.
Startled I falter, forcing Sauron to catch me as I slip, my concentration broken. Looking into Sauron’s eyes as he holds me, preventing my fall, I suddenly feel his power, a true telepath! I could feel something else hiding in the background, but that one feeling was almost overwhelming. It seemed an eternity before he released me back on my skates, I almost wish he hadn’t released me, I could have stayed in his arms forever. The feeling of his power faded quickly after he released me, and I try to finish our dance, but am too deep in thought to dance well.
After our dance, I apologize rigorously to Sauron about the slip and my inability to concentrate on the dance. He nods an acceptance and disappears behind the sound box. Still out of breath I slump heavily on the bench as Eric jumps up and skates after Sauron. She reaches the counter to find Sauron’s skates neatly lined up beside the other turn in shoes, but Sauron himself is nowhere to be found. Eric return to where Angela and I are still resting gloomily.
"I wanted to skate with him too," she whines as she sits back down with us.
"Well, maybe he’ll skate with you next time," I smile weakly, still feeling a bit drained from my experience.
"Well, I want to get some skating in. See you!" Eric jumps up and starts doing laps around the rink.