Secret Powers
Chapter 8

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All I felt was pounding pain. My head felt like it was going to explode! I tried opening my eyes. Bad idea. My irises were going to burn off! Why was I in so much pain? Why was I so tired? Oh. It all came flooding back. Me letting Khione take control, all that I let her do, me beating her and then passing out. All of it. Well, crap!

“Errgh,” I muttered as I tried to open my eyes once again.

“Oh! Guys! She’s awake!” I heard someone say. The voice was familiar, I just couldn’t place it through all the pain. That reminds me: ow ow ow ow!

I saw everybody come running into my room, which I had just figured out I was in. By everybody, I mean my mom, dad, Jax, Lucy, Lux, Caitlin, Lucas, and Cole. They must have moved me here while I was unconscious.

Just then, I realized who the person was. It was Lucas. You know, the one who blackmailed me into kissing him in front of the entire school. Yeah, that one.

“What’s the rush?” I smirked.

“Oh, at least we know there’s no brain damage,” Jax said, “She’s back to acting like herself.”

The pain in my head was starting to wear-off. That was the good news. The bad news being that it meant I could hear a certain someone in my head ranting. Maybe THAT was why I had a major migraine once I woke up. She must have been overloading my head with yells while I was useless to stop her. Well, there isn’t must more I could do awake. As long as she was in my head, she had free rain on how much she spoke. So far, at least.

“Ow,” I said.

“Where does it hurt, sweetheart?” mom came over to my bedside.

She must be blaming herself for this. It’s such a HER thing to do. She may act all stern and strict sometimes, but, at the end of the day, she was just worried for her children. Jax and I liked to let her thing we did not know. It made her feel like she had more authority.

“My head, or it used to. Now, it is just Khione ranting,” I rolled my eyes.

“Sorry, but who’s Khione?” Jason asked all of a sudden.

I had forgotten he was here. That was gone now. Now, I was pissed off beyond belief. WHAT was he doing here? Had my friends forgotten what he made me do?!

“He didn’t MAKE you do anything. He just gave you an ultimatum,” Khione said. Great, she was back to talking like a normal alter-ego. I realize what I just said.

“Shut up,” I said.

“What?” Jason asked.

Oh. I had said that last part out loud. I REALLY need to start getting a grip on that. It’s happened too many times.

“Nothing. More importantly, what the HELL is he doing here?!” I practically screamed at my friends.

“Ok..so we’re just gonna go now,” my parents backed out of me room. They knew well enough to stay out of a fight that had me on one side. Especially when I was this mad!

All my friends glanced at each other. They also knew better than to get into a fight with me. Too bad they already had, and there was no going back now.

“Well?” I demanded.

“You see, he kinda noticed that you hadn’t been going to school. And then he saw how weird you were acting before you disappeared, so he decided to come see if you were alright. He wasn’t taking no for an answer, so we let him in. Plus, dad wanted to know what we were talking about when he heard us question Jadson about the little show you guys put on at school. You know how dad gets with boys and you! We didn’t tell him how it happened, and he didn’t really care. He seemed genially scared about you,” Jax managed to say all in one breath.

I honestly had no words. I had expected an answer like, “he barged in here demanding to see you”, but not that!

When I looked over at Jason, I saw him looking at his feet. He was obviously trying to evade my stare. I did not believe that he cared about me. He was such a jerk to me at school! There is no way he actually wanted to know if I was alright. No!

“It’s true,” is all Jason said, finally looking up into my eyed.

“I don’t believe it,” I said firmly.

“You don’t have to. I just wanted to make sure you were ok. I’ll go now. And don’t worry about me telling anyone at school about this, cuz’ I won’t,” he said while he walked over to my door.

I was about to let him leave like that, but...then I didn’t.

“Wait. Do you want to stay for dinner?” I asked, looking outside and realizing it was dark out.

Shock was clear on his face, “Umm...sure.”

“Good. Now, everybody but Jax leave. I need to talk to my brother,” I told them, “We’ll be down in a couple of minutes.”

Nobody questioned me. I sometimes have that effect on people. I can make myself sound so confident.

Once everyone was at a safe enough distance, I let my mask of happiness drop. Jax knew what was going to happen as soon as I had suggested we talk privately. Whenever that happened, we had a fight. It was a known fact. I think our friends just tried to not get roped into it with Jax. I do not blame them one bit.

“What the actual hell, Jax!” I whisper-screamed, trying to not get too loud.

“Just calm down, ok? It wasn’t my fault that he got brought into this when you made-out with him? If you’re looking for someone to blame, go look in a mirror,” Jax told me.

I could not believe him! Where was this coming from? Usually, we had out little sibling fights, but this one sounded like an actual FIGHT. Like, one where we end up not talking to each other. I needed to deescalate this situation fast, but doing that would make me the one caving. I refuse to give Jax that satisfaction of that. So, like any normal person, I let out all my rage and pain and stress that’s been bottled-up inside out on my twin brother. If you haven’t figured this out yet, it did not go well. It was one of those stupid irrational decisions I make without any thought put into it. These either go very badly or they end up helping the problem. Let’s just say that this wasn’t one of those moments.

“You ass!” I yelled with no care of volume, “I was out of control, and you decide to blame this one ME?!”

“Yes, I do,” Jax answered with a straight face.

“Well, fine! If you want to play it like that, then...I’m stronger than you!” I yelled.

“At least I have control over my powers! Unlike you.” he retaliated.

“That’s low, even for you,” I said.

“For me? I have been your constant supporter through all of your bad times, and you want to say I’ve been rude?! You know what? Screw you!” he yelled.

I felt my anger bubbling over the edge. I had attempted to keep powers out of this fight, but it was a lost cause.

“Just let me take care of him,” Khione told me.

“No thanks. I got this,” I thought back to her.

“Ok, but know that I’ll step in if this gets rough enough,” she said.

“Got it,” I assured her.

I knew my eyes had already turned an icy-blue. Even when I used my powers without Khione coming out, they still did that. My hands also started to steam with coldness. (A/N: I know that sounded weird. It’s currently 1:00AM as I write this)

“Let’s do this,” I told Jax.

“Let’s,” he answered, getting into a fighting stance where he could blast fire or lava at me.

You see, we have been training together since we were toddlers, so we were pretty evenly matched. If you tell anyone that, I’ll have to kill you, though. It would go right to Jax’s head.

I shot an ice blast at him, and he dodged it. Then, he started heading towards me. Oh! By now I was standing up. I knew what he was doing. Jax was going to try to distract me, and then burn me with his hands. That is how he would always beat me in sparring. This time thought, I was ready for it. As soon as he was about to touch my shoulder, I grabbed his wrist and judo flipped him, holding his arm in a weird angle with his body facing the ground.

“Are you done?” I asked.

“Not even close,” he answered, kicking my legs out from under me.

I was trained well enough to pop right back up after that, but, as soon as I started getting up, Jax held his foot on my stomach. We had never done that. He was playing dirty. If he was going to do that, then I was too. I grabbed his leg with my arms and started to freeze his leg.

“Ow!” Jax yelled, letting me up, “What was that for?! You’ve never tried to hurt me like that! The look in your eyes!”

“Oh, shut up. You held me down with your foot first. This was just payback,” I said.

“Whatever, truce?” he asked.

“Truce,” I agreed.

You see, the thing about Jax and I is, we can go from one extreme to the next. Don’t get us wrong, this fight definitely sparked some future ones, but for now, we were done. Whenever out fights got to a certain extent, we knew it was time to stop. Sometimes people just needed to blow off some steam, even if it was directed at your sibling. We could handle it.

“Let’s get to dinner,” I told Jax.

“Before that happens, you should probably cover up that burn on your neck,” he said.

“What burn?” I asked.

“The one I left when you thought I was trying to burn your shoulder. I’m full of tricks,” he answered.

“Nice,” I stated, face gone of any emotion.

“Don’t worry. I’ll deal with covering up the burn,” Khione told me.

“How?” I asked.

I did not really need to ask that. All of a sudden, I felt a tingling on the spot I was burned. When I looked in the mirror, I saw it covering in ice. It took about thirty seconds, but when the ice melted, the burn mark was gone. All that was left was a small red mark, barely noticeable. I smiled, I could get used to this healing ability.

“That. Was. Awesome,” Jax said, awestruck.

“Yup, but I’m sure you’ll get some cool new abilities soon. I wouldn’t mind not having some of mine,” I assured him.

“Whatever,” he told me.

“Come on, let’s go to dinner. I’m sure they’re all waiting for us,” I suggested.

“Coming,” he answered.

Dinner went surprising well. I had planned on maybe revealing our secret to Jason, but he didn’t seem to be digging into our personal lives, so I just decided not to. Maybe we could go back to school like nothing happened. Hah! In my dreams! My only wish is that Jason would just go back to ignoring me and my group. I can’t believe that this had all starting with a stupid game of dodgeball. Of course it would be something like that in my life!

We said our goodbyes. It had started to get late, fast. Nobody asked about the fight. I am sure there are going to loads of questions another time, but, for now, they knew not to push it. That’s why I love them. Besides Jason!I DO NOT love Jason! Maybe we would have happened in another lifetime, but not now. Not with all that’s going on in my life right now.

Once I had fallen asleep, I got a strange dream. I saw myself, but in Khione’s form. She was talking to me. Trying to warm me. Something about a fight coming. It kinds scared me. Ok, so it REALLY scared me! I had just dealt with learning control, and now I had another thing to worry about? One of these day, I’m going to have a panic attack, I know it.

2348words! I feel like this chapter really opened a lot of possibilities with Jax and Blair. Plus, it dealt with the whole Jason issue. I honestly have no idea why I put that into the story so many chapters ago. I’m pretty sure I had just read a cute Percy Jackson fanfic, and I was on a love high. Whatever! Let me know any suggestions you have. This chapter just kinds flowed out of me. I hope you like it! COMMENT! ADD TO YOUR LIBRARY

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