Secret Powers
Chapter 10

Well...I have a strong feeling I won’t finish this chapter in one day. I have no idea what this one is going to be about, so I’ll just put whatever comes to mind in the moment down. Plus, I am starting this at 8:04pm exactly. It usually takes me around 2 hours to write and edit a chapter if I don’t get distracted. Therefore, this one will take around 3 hours knowing me. Whatever, I know you didn’t want to read that, so let’s get this show on the road! Ladies and gents, welcome back to Secret Powers! I am aware that was weird. Let’s just ignore it, ok? Ok. Comment! Add to you library! Follow! That’s it. Happy reading!

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“Ahhhh!” I screamed, sitting upright.

I checked my surroundings. I was in my room, and I was safe. Nobody was poking me with needles or cutting me open. I was home.

After the dream earlier last night, I had eventually fallen back to sleep again, but not soundly. I had more and more nightmares about being experimented on. I am so confused right now because of that. What was this, some sort of prophetic power? I hope it is not cuz’ I’m gonna have some serious bad things happening to me if it is. Maybe this has something to do with Khione being absent recently. This is just great! I’m gonna have to deal with this AND possibly being in trouble at school! Sometimes, I imagine what life would have been life if I had been born normally. Ha! Like life was THAT nice!

While I was jumping to all these different possible scenarios, I had been getting ready for school. Of course, I had no idea my body was moving. I was too held up in my own head to do that. By the time I had snapped out of it, I was doing my shoelaces on my black combat boots. When I looked in the mirror, I saw that I was going with an edgy look today. I kinda dig it. I was wearing a red t-shirt, my leather jacket, ripped black jeans, a red plaid long-sleeve on under the jacket, and my signature silver snowflake necklace. I just had my hair down naturally. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to stick with this style. I think Khione had been secretly bringing out the real me. Someone who isn’t afraid to show the style I like more than the good-girl one from before. I was different now that all this drama had been happening in my life. This was something I could control, so I was going to do just that. I was going to be me. Ok, enough with the self-empowerment speech though. Back to today!

“Blair! We’re gonna be late! Come on! You’re gonna have to face the music one way or another!” Jax yelled from downstairs.

I sighed. Guess I should tell him about my weird dreams. He is going to flip!

“Let’s go!” I told him as I ran down the stairs and out the door.

“Hey!” He pulled me back, making himself win at the race to the car.

“Cheater!” I exclaimed as I got in the passenger’s seat.

“Am not!” he said, “Now, what is it you want to tell me?”

“What?” I asked. How did he know?

“You told me that you needed to tell me something important. I heard it when you were upstairs,” he answered.

“No, I didn’t,” I told him, looking at him weirdly now.

“What are you talking about? I remember you saying that you should tell me about some sort of dream or something,” he defended.

“I just thought that,” I said slowly.

Just then, I realization hit me. What if we were getting new abilities. I know what you’re thinking: How could you just come straight to that possibility?! Well, it makes sense. I had started to get these weird, possibly prophetic dreams and he could suddenly read minds! Ok, now that I think about that, it seems pretty far-fetched. Either way, it is the best idea I would come up with. Knowing my weird family, it was true!

“Can you hear me?” I thought.

“Yes,” Jax answered, “But why didn’t your mouth move? Have you started doing ventriloquism?”

“No, but I think I just discovered a new ability of yours,” I said.

“What? I can read minds?!” he scoffed.

I kept a straight face. His face went from laughing at a joke to shocked.

“Think something,” he told me.

“I think I have developed a new power, too,” I thought.

“You have?” he asked, surprised.

“Yes. I think I have some sort of early-warning system for something bad coming. I saw flashes of me being experimented on at the lab. I think it was prophetic. Maybe I can see parts of the future!” I answered.

“Ok, maybe that’s true, but I think it’s a little less impressive than that. Powers are given to people to equal-out something in the world. Seeing the future would upset the balance,” he said.

I hate when he gets all logical.

“Fine, but I can still see GLIMPSES of the future. Your ability to look into people’s private thoughts is pretty unbalancing, too!” I reasoned.

“Yeah, but not as much as seeing the future!” he said.

The universe decided to choose this moment to make us arrive at school. I should have faked sick. I wasn’t ready to go from one argument to the next. On top of THAT issue, I still had to figure out WHY we suddenly developed new powers. We’ve had the ones before our whole lives.

“Get out, let’s get this started. I have a feeling today will be REALLY long,” Jax told me.

“No kidding,” I muttered.

Don’t kill me! I know this was a REALLY short chapter compared to the others! I just wanted to get one published and this seemed to have found a good stopping point, so I chose to go with the flow. At least I didn’t do what I was planning to do: delete this entire chapter and rewrite it. That would have taken a LOT of time.

Let me know if you’re ok with me giving them these new powers! I wasn’t completely sure about it. I was just following my gut, letting the words flow out of me. I know the story is starting to get a little too supernatural for MY liking, so I’ve decided to stop making things weirder and weirder. It won’t be any weirder than seeing parts of the future! I promise!

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