Secret Powers
Chapter 7

Hey guys! This chapter will move the story along more than the last one. That one was just a filler chapter. Also, this one will probably be shorter than the rest. I realize that the chapters are starting to shorten. I think that it will just make it easier to put more detail into each thing if I don’t have a lot go on in one chapter. Also, let me know if there is anything that you want to change. Comment! Add to your library! Happy reading!

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Previously:

“Ready,” Khione answered, “Let’s face the music!”

Now:

When we got downstairs, Khione went strait to the kitchen island and sat down at one of the bar stools. Both my parents were already standing in the kitchen. Khione just took a piece of toast and started eating it while looking on my phone. Wait a minute! I didn’t give her permission to snoop all around in my personal belongings!

“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?!” I asked her.

“Don’t worry! I’m just acting like I’m doing something. If you look, you can see that the screen is just showing the lock screen,” Khione thought.

Sure enough, when I looked, I saw her just swiping her thumb randomly around the lock screen page. I sighed. There was some stuff on there that I did not want anyone replaceing out. Especially with Khione in control!

My parents’ faces were priceless. They were just frozen in shock. This is what I was hoping for: them not expecting this from me. None of them would expect me being rebellious. It took them almost three minutes to come out of their shock. I saw them regain their composure. They put on their angry parents faces. I knew what they were going to do. They were doing to try to get me to change back or get a reaction out of me. I would not let them.

“Just what do you guys think you’re doing?” dad demanded.

“Don’t answer them yet. I want them to work for it more. Let’s wait until mom looses her control over herself. That is when we know it’s working,” I told Khione.

“I like this new you,” she responded.

Khione looked up, smiled, and then looked back down at my phone. I know some might think that I am being a hormonal teenager, and I might agree with them, but that didn’t make it any less satisfying.

Khione’s little show had worked. It had pushed my mother over the edge. Her face went from merciful to bloodthirsty in two seconds. Shocks of electricity started to bounce off her. Now was the time to explain what we were doing.

“Answer you father,” she demanded.

“Alright. We are showing you what happens when you mess with us,” Khione answered.

“And what is that?” dad asked.

“We fight back,” Khione said with a blank face.

I felt a pang of gilt as I saw my parents’ faces. That had hurt them. I had hurt them. What was I doing? No, they deserved this. I just need to hold out for the rest of the day, max, and then I would apologize to them. Jax decided to walk in at this moment. He walked in on us staring each other down. His timing is so ironic.

“What the hell?!” he exclaimed. Khione and I rolled our eyes.

“Language,” dad said without taking his eyes off me.

“Sorry, but what is going on?! Why is Khione in control? Did she force through again?” Jax asked.

“No, Blair let me take control. She knew I would be better at this than her. She doesn’t have the guts to do this,” Khione answered.

I saw my twin’s face fall. He was the person closest to me, even if we didn’t like to admit it. This was worse than hurting my parents. I had hurt my best friend. I hadn’t realized that I had felt so sad until I felt a tear drop down my face. Khione was still in control, but I had felt this emotion strongly that it fought through her composure. That snapped me out of it. I just had to hang on for a little longer and then it would all be over. My parents just needed to learn that I can handle myself and that they were wrong to punish me for something that was not my fault.

“Why wouldn’t she tell me?” Jax asked with a hurt expression.

“This is not a punishment. It is a message that will not last that long, so just hold out a while. Also, I’ll need you to cover for me at school. Say that I’m feeling rebellious to anyone who asks,” Khione said.

“You don’t seriously think I’m letting you go to school like that, do you?” dad asked.

“I didn’t ask you,” Khione said and walked out.

“Watch her,” I heard mom tell Jax as we walked out.

Khione got into the drivers side of the car. I really hope that she knows how to drive like I do. Oh, no! What if she frosts the steering wheel?! I need to get her out of the drivers seat.

“Why don’t we let Jax drive today?” I asked.

“What? You scared I’ll lose control? I’m not like you, I do not have another side trying to break through all the time,” she said out loud.

“Just do this for me, ok? You still can frost the steering wheel,” I said.

“Fine,” she sighed and got into the passengers seat.

“Thank you,” I said.

Just then, Jax got into the car. He looked over at me with a disappointed look. He looked like he was about to say something, but then he stopped. Khione hid it, but I felt another stab of guilt in my gut. This was going to be even harder when I saw out friends. I better brace myself.

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“Just... don’t say anything too mean to them,” Jax told us.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be on my best behavior,” Khione exaggerated.

Jax sighed, “Let’s go.”

We walked to our lockers. Our friends weren’t there yet, but I knew they were on their way. It was about this time when they met us at our lockers. They weren’t there, but someone was. It was the last person I would expect to be leaning against my locker. It was Jason. You remember the dork who I blackmailed me into kissing him in front of the entire school? Yeah, that guy.

When we looked over at Jax, I saw that he had gotten that expression that he has when he’s about to beat somebody up. This would be good. What?! Why had I thought that? It must be Khione’s influence.

“You’re in my way,” Khione said.

“No! I didn’t realize!” Jason exclaimed with sarcasm, “What’s with the new look?”

“None of your business, Smith! Just push off!” Jax told him.

“Whoah there, Mikaels. I was just asking a question. And I’m not going anywhere without an answer. Besides, Blair and I like each other. Isn’t that right, snowflake?” he asked me.

“In your dreams, asshole,” I said.

“That’s right. Now, what’s with the hair and eyes?” he asked.

“I thought I’d try something new. You got a problem with that?” Khione walked up to him.

“No, I think it’s kind of hot,” he answered with a smirk.

“Just go away,” Jax told him.

“I’m leaving! But I don’t think Blair needs her brother to solve her problems. She’s a big girl,” he said as he walked away.

I could practically SEE the smirk on his face as he walked away. He infuriates me so much! Argh! I could feel my hands start to frost.

“Relax, Khione. He’s just a big, self-centered jerk,” I told her.

“Fine, but I’ll get him one of these days,” she got control of herself.

She walked to my locker and got the stuff we needed for today. I guess she’s been watching my routine. I heard laughter start to get louder behind me. I knew that laughter. It was my friends.

“Incoming,” I warned.

Khione turned us around, and put a smirk on our face. I saw my friend’s smiles drop. This time, I was ready for it, so it didn’t effect me as much. They looked over at Jax in curiosity. I could see the worry etched on Caitlin’s face. She was probably thinking up all the worst possibilities of what could have happened to me. It was just like her to do that.

“What’s with white hair?” Lucy asked Jax, looking over at me with disgust.

“Did she loose control again?” Caitlin asked with worry.

“No, someone just decided to be rebellious today,” Jax answered.

“Well then she needs to snap out of it! Did you hear that, Blair? I told you to get your ass out of your little hiding spot!” Cole yelled at me. I didn’t expect that from him.

“Why is she doing this? Is it about last night? What did your parents say?” Lux asked Jax.

“Our parents found out about the tattoo and grounded her. She is trying to show them what she has to deal with on a daily basis so they understand how hard it is to keep Khione in check. They blamed her for the loosing control,” Jax said.

“I can speak, you know,” Khione stated.

“Give us our friend back!” Lucas demanded.

I knew this would happen. My want to make it better with my friends is starting to overtake Khione’s control over my body. I saw my hair start to turn back to brown, so I just took a deep breath and regained control over my emotions. I went back to Khione’s look.

“Tell them it won’t be forever. They just need to hold out til’ the end of the day,” I told Khione.

“Blair says to tell you it won’t be forever. You just need to hold out til’ the end of the day,” she did as I asked.

“It better not be, or I would kick both your asses,” Lucy said, looking at, both, Jax and I.

“Let’s just go to class,” Lux said.

“Yeah, let’s go,” Khione said and walked away.

My first class Computer Science today, so we didn’t have to walk that far. The Comp. Sci. classroom is only two door down from my locker. My teacher is Mr. Barth. He is pretty chill, and he doesn’t require much attention in his class. We don’t even have any tests, either. That’s why I like days where I start off with his class. It gives me time to prepare myself for the day of torture.

Today, though, he was NOT chill at all. As soon as Khione walked in, he stopped her. He just stared at us for a little while until he started speaking.

“Is everything alright, Blair?” He asked.

“I’m fine,” Khione disguised her voice to sound like mine and walked to my desk.

“Real smooth, frostbite,” Cole said as we sat down.

“Shut up or I freeze your arm off,” Khione threatened him.

He whistled. Little did he know that she wasn’t kidding. Actually, he probably knew that. He was just trying to act like he wasn’t scared out of his pants. It would have worked if it wasn’t me who he was talking to.

The rest of the class went by with Mr. Barth glancing at me every two minutes. It started to get annoying. I need to come up with a better excuse if I’m sent to the counselor or something. It would not be good if they thought I was having issues with myself or at home. I do NOT need another thing to stress about.

“I’m gonna ditch the rest of the day. Does anyone want to come?” Khione told my friends as we walked to break.

“No, none of us are leaving. We need to act normal as we can get with you looking like that, so we are going to stay at school. Only two more classes,” Jax told us.

"Or, I could just go home and watch Netflix,” Khione offered.

“No!” Cole yelled, “We are going to get through this day, and then we are going to get our friend out!”

“Whatever, lets juts go then,” Khione rolled her eyes and walked to our next class.

The rest of the day went back pretty basically. Khione got stared at a lot by teachers and students alike. It wasn’t anything I hadn’t expected. She made an extra effort to avoid teachers with worried expressions on because of the possibility of being sent to the counselor’s office. That would not be helpful.

“Finally! I’m so ready to go home and see if mom and dad changed their minds!” Khione exclaimed as we walked out the front doors of school.

I realized that our friends were following us. I thought they were going to take the bus to their houses? Not come with us. It hit me: Jax had planned this. He just couldn’t let me deal with this one my own and let it ride out. He just HAD to fix things. What did Jax not understand about waiting until the end of the day?

“Are they coming?” Khione asked.

“Yes,” is all I got out of my brother. They had something planned, I knew it.

“Ok,” I simply said.

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Khione did not even wait for them to get out of the car. She just left and walked into the house to the living room, where my parents were. Her power was starting to go to her head. I needed to take back control soon. Let’s hope my parents realized what they did was unjust.

“Have you changed your minds?” she asked.

“Yes,” mom answered.

“Really? That easy?” Khione questioned.

“Yes, we have realized that it wasn’t Blair’s fault. It was yours, Khione. So, as a punishment, we are going to temporarily take away Blair’s powers. That includes you. It will only last a week, but it should feel like an eternity for you. It should feel like you’re in a coma,” dad said.

I could feel Khione getting angry. She was going to sent an ice blast out! I had to stop her! No matter how mad I was at my parents, they did not deserve to be blasted.

“Stop! Let me take control!” I told her.

“No! I will not let them take me away!” she defied.

“You asked for it,” I said.

Instead of relaxing and letting Khione control my actions, I forced against them. I felt her fighting back, too. We let out a gasp. It was so hard! Jax and my friend had walked in at this point.

“Blair!” Jax exclaimed and ran over to me.

I dropped to my knees. We were having an internal battle against each other, Khione and I.

“You know you’re weaker than me,” she said.

“That’s. Not. True,” I struggled against her defiance.

Finally, I felt ease. I had beat her! I was the one with the most power all along. Khione was just there to protect me, not to control me. In the end, I would always be the one in control.

I fell into Jax’s arms. I was so exhausted.

“I’m sorry for all the things she put you through,” I said right before I passed out.

The last thing I heard was Jax saying it was fine. Then, it all went black.

That’s it! I can’t believe I just finished that! I was trying to get it done before I had to go to bed.

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