Secret Powers
Chapter 14

Welcome back! I’m a night owl, so you’ll notice that I tend to publish at ungodly hours. It’s fine though, I’ve learned to survive through the day.

I realized that I can’t remember what day I left off on last time, so I’m just gonna say that this is Friday. If you can’t tell already, there’s swearing in this story. No F words, but pretty much everything else. Comment, add to your library, follow me. Happy reading!

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I think that this is one our few classes that we’ve not had any trouble in so far. The teachers strict, but we haven’t had any confrontations yet. I intend to keep it that way!

“So, what else can you do?” Lucas asked me once we had sat down.

He sat on my right, and Jax said on my left. Lucy sits next to Jax, and Lux behind her. Cole sits to the left of her, and Caitlin sits next to him. We’ve been fortunate enough to have all of is sit near each other in this class. Ms. Axelrad doesn’t care as long as we get our work done on time.

“Plenty of stuff, but all of our powers come from heat and cold. It’s funny with us. We’re twins, but we’re almost completely opposites. And don’t think that we just generate fire and ice. I just absorb the heat in the room and turn it colder to the point that I need it to be. Jax uses the oxygen around us to create his heat. Plus, it’s nice that we’re immune to-” I answered, starting to go on and on.

“Blair! I thought that we wouldn’t have to do this! Would you care to tell the rest of the class what was so important that you had to take up my class time to tell Lucas?” Ms. Axelrad interrupted.

“No, no I wouldn’t,” I answered, a little bit of my inner-Khione showing through.

I didn’t care that I had just snapped back at my teacher. This is all apart of the new me! The new me that doesn’t take shit from anyone. The one who is badass.

“Excuse me? Now you are definitely telling us what’s going on,” she said.

“Fine. I was just telling Lucas about my and Jax’s powers,” I answered simply, as if it was completely normal.

That was the intention, though. I wanted to shock her speechless. Since I am “mentally ill”, I can get away by saying things like this. Use what you got, right?

“Oh... I’m sorry, but did you take you medication this morning?” Ms. Axelrad asked, blushing a little.

“I don’t have medication! What are you talking about?” I could see my friends trying to hold in laughter.

“Sorry, Ms. A. Um... our parents didn’t tell her that she’s being medicated,” Jax said, pushing me over the edge and making me have to hide my smile behind my arms.

I savored moments like these. Where I could act like a normal teenager. Well, as normal as we can get.

“That’s fine, dear. Just keep it down over there, ok?” and she continued with her presentation.

“THAT was the best thing I’ve ever seen!” Lucy whisper-yelled over to me.

“I know, I’m the best,” I dramatically flipped my hair behind my shoulder, “Hold the applause, please.”

Class went as scheduled for the rest of the time. We learned about some tiny country in Africa that I would probably forget the name of on the next test. Let’s just say that history isn’t my best subject. It doesn’t have anything to do with my teachers, it has to do with their teaching style. I can’t learn from it! That’s all I have to say about that.

Unfortunately for us, we had our weekly Friday assembly before lunch. That meant that we have to endure a half-our long torture session. Listening to our principal give her speech is a close second to my dreams. Ok... I’m exaggerating a bit there, but it’s pretty bad!

“Please file in quickly students. We hope to excuse you early today,” I vaguely heard Mrs. Martin say as we took our seats.

Once everyone was finally in the auditorium, she said, “I would like to start off with mentioning the amazing courage of one of our students battling with mental illness. She is starting to get better with new medication.”

“Oh, no,” I muttered, already knowing where this was headed.

“This courageous person is one of our juniors, Blair Mikaels. Everyone give a round of applause for her!” she finished.

Everyone turned in their seats to stare at me and clap. Some of looked like they were really applauding, but most of them were just doing it for show. I wanted to die. I started to sink deeper and deeper into my seat. My friends were looking over at me with pity. Luckily, Mrs. Martin went on to another topic pretty quickly. The assembly ended up only lasting about twenty minutes. That would have been good on any other day, but not today! This meant that there was more time for people to “talk” to me. I made a plan inside my head: I would race out the door as soon as we were excused and replace a hiding spot. I would stay there as long as long as possible. Hopefully, this works.

“Now you are excused,” Mrs. Martin said.

I was already out the door by the time she was finished. I quickly ran to my locker. I had forgotten that I needed to get my stuff for my next class: Science. Just my luck that I fumbled with my lock today. That led to people starting to file into the hallway already as I was JUST opening my locker. I should just stop making plans, they always get screwed-up.

“That was pretty bad,” Cole stated as my friends walked up.

“Thank you, Captain Obvious!” I snapped, rushing to get my books out of my locker.

I knew it was already too late to not get at least ONE comment, but I would try everything to stop more from coming.

“Geez! You don’t have to be a jerk! It’s not my fault that your parents said you were getting treatment as a cover!” he yelled back.

“No, I’m sorry. I’m just on edge,” I apologized, closing my locker.

“It’s fine,” Cole said.

“Hey, crazy!” someone from the basketball team walked up to me, “Is it true you’re a danger to society? Can’t control your actions?”

“Don’t talk to my sister like that, you dick!” Jax pushed the jerk.

“Jax, leave it. I can handle myself, remember?” I grabbed his arm before he got himself into any more trouble.

“Yeah, that’s right. Let your sister do the fighting for you, wimpy,” the idiot said.

Jax tried to punch him, but I held him back. I walked up to him and whispered in his ear. After that, he went back to our friends with a smile. I didn’t even give the bully the time of day. I just turned around and started walking to lunch.

“You coming?” I asked over my shoulder.

My friends were in shock. Usually, I would’ve either punching the guy in the jaw or kicked him where the Sun don’t shine. I’m evolving as a person, though. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll get my revenge soon, but for now, I’ll leave the poor guy confused.

“That’s it?” Lucas asked, walking up next to me, “No punching? No screaming?”

“Nope,” I states simply, getting in line for food.

“Just wait,” Jax told him, a smile evident on his face, “You’ll see.”

This is when Jax and I prove that we’re related. We think the same. Sometimes, we already know what the other is going to do in a fight. It makes for an interesting sparring section!

“That’s all your gonna give us? Seriously?!” Lux exclaimed, “You’ve gotta give us more than that!”

“Be patient, young Jedi,” I instructed in a weird voice.

I looked over at Jax. He was smiling at me. I smiled back. It was as simple as that. It was one of those moments when you don’t need words. We just enjoyed each other’s company.

Of course, it couldn’t last long. Jason walked in, that jock from earlier with him. This was the perfect opportunity to get that revenge I was talking about.

“Watch that coke he just got,” I told my friends, making Jax smile. I had already told him what I was vaguely planning.

I focused on the bottle and made the liquid freeze. The guy tried getting a drink, but nothing came out. It was frozen in place. He looked at it weird. My friends, finally catching on, started laughing their heads off.

“Ok, now get ready. It’s about to get ten times better,” I said.

I waiting until the guy lifted the bottle over his head, looking straight into the bottle. He was making this way too easy! I made the ice melt. All of the coke poured out on him. I think I could get used to this!

“Ahh!” the creep screamed.

Everyone in the cafeteria started snickering. I know what some will think: You should’ve taken the high road. Not stooped to his level! In my defense, he had it coming! I just needed to get this out of my system. Playing little pranks like this on people got my mind off the constant worry of my impending doom. The nightmares. I’m such as party-pooper, aren’t I?

“I take back my previous statement. THIS is the best thing I’ve ever seen,” Lucy said.

“You think that’s good, you should see the stuff she used to pull on me before you knew our secret!” Jax told them.

“You have opened Pandora’s box, my friend. Now I HAVE to see these tricks!” Lucas exclaimed, patting Jax on the back.

The rest of lunch went uninterrupted. Nothing special. I mean, unless you count todays lunch special: Mystery Stew! The real mystery being how many people are gonna end up in the bathroom hurling after eating it. The lunch ladies are nice, but they REALLY just need to stick to ordering pizza.

“Let’s start heading to science. The warning bell is about to ring,” Caitlin suggested, ever the mother-hen.

We all agreed to that. Mr. Koch would never notice if we weren’t there on time, but we still got there. Mr. Koch was one of those teachers that should NOT be teaching. He loved science, but he did not know how to deal with immature teenagers. That’s why I really only learned from the textbook in that class. Oh, well. I just need the class for credits.

Nothing of interest happened in that period. Mr. Koch struggled to take role. Then he struggled to teach the class. Then he just excused us early after an excruciating thirty minutes. That’s one less class of homework to do later. I’m not complaining, that’s for sure!

That meant that school was over for us. Mr. Barber, our sixth period teacher, just checks us as present no matter what. Junior electives are in sixth period, and we don’t have electives anymore because of our new schedules. We just have a free period. I for one, just wanted to get home. I think my friends wanted the same thing as me.

“Can we walk? We can pick the car up later. I want to just hang out on the walk, too,” Jax asked.

“Sure, sounds fun,” I answered.

“What are we doing?” Lux asked.

“We’re walking home,” I told her.

“Ok, just as long we get to play with your guys’ powers along the way,” she bargained.

“Fine, but only small things,” Jax agreed with a sigh.

We love our friends, but sometimes they don’t know the dangers of our powers. We love them, but they drive us crazy. If there weren’t any dangers, we would be all for practicing all the time, but we’re not in paradise. There are people who would want to exploit us for our powers, and they won’t stop at anything to get them. For now though, we don’t mind doing little tricks that could easily be hidden as cheap magic.

“Yes!!” Lux exclaimed, “Did you guys hear that? We get to play with their powers on the walk!”

I rolled my eyes. This would be a LONG walk home.

It’s about a fifteen minute walk, and five minutes in, we had already started using our powers. Our friends tried to wait for a little white, but they had the control of babies.

“Give me your hand,” I instructed Cole.

“Ok...,” he said, skeptically offering me his hand.

“Relax. I’m not gonna freeze your arm off!” I said.

I made a giant snowflake appear on his hand. He seemed amazed by it. Just wait until he sees what I’m gonna do next.

I made the snowflake come off his hand and float in the air. I started twirling around him until it eventually exploded in a cloud of frost.

“That was so pretty! Now Jax’s turn!” Lucy said.

“All right, all right. Let’s see... what can I do?” he said.

Suddenly, an idea popped into my head. I went over and whispered it in Jax’s ear. He looked over at me with a smirk. I knew he would love it.

“Stand back, I don’t want anyone’s hair catching on fire,” Jax warned in a playful tone.

Everyone else backed away, but I didn’t. He was just joking. I knew his fire wasn’t a real danger to anyone unless he wanted it to be.

He held out is fist, and then he opened it. Standing on it was mini dragon made out of fire. It was sitting and staring up at us in curiosity. Suddenly, a little burst of fire erupted from the dragon’s mouth. It was so tiny and cute, trying to be ferocious. I even started giggling. Soon, everyone else was giggling along with me. Jax closed his fist again and the dragon was gone.

We did a couple other little tricks for our friends. I even let one of them pick something out for me to do. It was a simple thing: cover the grass field next to us with frost. I didn’t let it last long, of course, but it was fun for the moment.

Before we knew it, we were standing next to our house. Time flies by when you’re having fun, am I right?

“Mom! Dad! We’re home!” I yelled out as we stepped across the threshold

Nobody answered. That was weird. Usually when they leave early, they’re back before Jax and I get home from school. I looked over at Jax question. He just looked back with the same expression.

“Hello? Is anyone home?” I called out again.

No answer.

“It may not be the best time for you to come over, guys. Why don’t we just give you a lift in our dad’s car, ok? We’ll call you later,” Jax said.

“Oh, that’s fine. Let’s go,” Caitlin answered.

Our parents usually just drive together in our mom’s car to work. That meant that the other car, more commonly known as dad’s car, was left home. We would drop our friends off at their houses, and then one of us would drive the other car from the school home while the other drove dad’s car.

Our friends live in the general area around us, so it didn’t take long to drop all of them off. Caitlin was the last stop. She was the closest to school.

As she was getting out, she said, “Don’t forget to call us, ok?”

“Yeah, I promise,” I assured her.

“Ok, thanks for the ride. Even though the hang-out session was short, it was fun,” she told us, “Bye!”

“See you later!” Jax yelled out the winder as we drove away.

We ended up deciding that I would drive our car home. Jax and I parked the cars, and headed inside. Once again, our parents weren’t home. We didn’t think much of it. Maybe they were working on a project late. It wasn’t the most UNUSUAL thing in the world.

Jax and I made some cold pizza for dinner. We decided to just eat it while we started our homework in our rooms. Once I was finished, I went to go into Jax’s room to say goodnight before I got ready for bed. I knocked on his door, but he didn’t answer.

“Jax?” I asked, “Can I come in?”

Again, there was silence.

“Ok, I’m coming in!” I warned.

I was expecting him to be answering because he was planning on jumping out and scaring me, but that isn’t what happened. I found him tied up on the ground.

“Oh, my god! Jax! What happened?” I ran up and started to untie him.

He was trying to tell me something, but it was muffled by the gag.

“Here, let me get that off you,” I pulled it off.

“Behind you! Trap!” he screamed, but it was too late.

I felt a little pinch on my neck, and the world went dark. The last thing I saw was a person dressed in all black standing over me with a smile on his face.

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