Secret Powers

Hi! I am sorry for eating little longer than on my other chapters to publish. I was studying for the many tests I have this week. I have a plan, though. I will start to try to publish a new chapter every SUNDAY. Not Saturday, not Monday, SUNDAY! I know I use time skips in this chapter. I also know that I hate those sometimes, so I will try to only use them when it fits into the chapter. Ok, now that is over... on with the story! Hope you like it! Also, none of the pictures I publish with my story are mine. I get them off the internet.

– your author

“Blair! Blair! Blair!” Was being shouted to me in my head.

“What?!” I yelled.

“Wake up,” Khione muttered quietly.

I rolled my eyes. I just had to tell her to wake me up in time for school. Whatever. I stretched and got out of bed. This day was getting off to a good start! Just to let you know, I was not using sarcasm that time. I had just woken-up on time! This might surprise you, but I have never woken up on time for school. I know, crazy.

Anyway, I got ready. I didn’t know what was going to happen today. I could possibly let out the entire secret that my family has been hiding for our safety or I could accidentally kill someone. Not great odds.

“You’re stressing me out, too. Stop worrying so much! We are going to be fine!” Khione yelled in my head.

“You are right, I am going to be fine. I can handle this,” I reassured myself.

“Good,” Khione said, “Now get to school.”

I would never have pegged her as a school-lover. She always seemed like the kind of girl that would skip-out to go smoke with some friends. Guess you can’t judge a book by its cover.

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“Let’s go, Blair!” My mom yelled at me from the front door.

“Are you taking us?” I asked as I walked up.

“Yes, you aren’t ready for the bus yet,” She answered.

Once again, I rolled my eyes. I was excited to see my friends, and now I have to get driven to school by my mom. This was going to be SO embarrassing! This is a fact that proves that Jax and I are just like normal teenagers. The only difference is a few TINY superpowers. Ok, that isn’t that small. We try to make it, though. We just want to be treated normally.

I had an idea. What if I drove us to school? I already had my license. So did Jax. It would be so much cooler if we got to drive ourselves to school!

“Hey, Mom?” I asked, “Can Jax or I drive ourselves to school?”

“No,” she answered, “Now get into the car.”

“But we are responsible!” I told her.

“Too dangerous,” She said, “You could get into an accident.”

Was she kidding? Her kids have SUPERPOWERS! Getting into an accident is pretty far down on the danger scale.

“We will be fine! The school is only ten minutes away,” I pleaded.

“Fine,” She answered, “But only if your brother drives. I don’t need you to freak out on a person cutting you off.”

“I take offense to that! I said.

*Underlined is Khione speaking through Blair and Italicized is them thinking in Blair’s head. It has that killer frost sounding voice that sounds like both of them are talking. *

I covered my mouth. I couldn’t believe I had just said that.

“Excuse me?” My mom asked with her ‘you are in trouble’ face on.

“It wasn’t me! It was Khione!” I justified.

“Tell her that you will BOTH get grounded if you keep that up,” she told me.

“We got it,” I said.

“I CAN NOT believe you just did that! That is our MOTHER we are talking to!” I thought to Khione.

“She’ll get over it,” She reassured.

“Do you have ANY experience with talking to parents? They do not like kids talking back to them!” I informed her as I stepped into the passenger’s seat.

“Fine, noted!” She told me.

“Thank you,” I said.

“What?” Jax asked as he sat down in the driver’s seat.

“Nothing,” I answered with my cheeks warming.

He shook his head. I sighed in relief. I did NOT need him thinking I had started to talk to myself. That would just add to my already long list of things I needed to worry about.

We stayed relatively silent until we had pulled into a parking spot. Then, I got ready to get out, but Jax stopped me.

“What?” I asked.

“What’s the plan?” He asked me.

“What plan?” I asked back.

“You know, the story for why you left in the middle of the day,” He answered.

“Oh, dad emailed the school and said I had an allergic reaction to the cleaning supplies they used on the dodgeballs,” I said.

“That’s... odd, but it will work,” I said.

“Can I go now?” I asked.

“Sure,” He released his grip on my seatbelt.

We walked together into school: the place of nightmares. As I was walking through the crowds, I felt like everyone was staring at me. I looked over at Jax. He tried to give me a reassuring smile, but I did not feel any better. You know what? I am done. This is just my imagination. Nobody is staring at me because nobody know our secret. There, I am no longer imagining people judging us.

“Ready?” Jax asked me at the door to homeroom.

“God, you sound like our parents,” I said as I walked through the door and to a seat by our friends.

“Wait up!” Jax exclaimed.

When I sat down, our group fell silent. I felt like they were talking about me before we had gotten here. They probably had been, but they had a right to. We had just dropped a HUGE bomb on them that they needed to find a way to cope with. This could just be me trying to not let Khione angry, too. Who knows?

“What’s up?” I asked.

“Nothing much... except that we think somebody from PE saw your eyes turn!” Lucy whisper-yelled.

“What?!” I exclaimed, “This is not good.”

“Who?” Jax asked.

“Jason Smith,” Lux answered.

“Him! Why him?” I asked.

Jason Smith is the biggest jerk around. He is the stereotypical captain of the football team, bully. Our school is just one of the few lucky ones left that have cliques and stereotypes. Yay us! Not.

“I know,” Lucas said with a disgusted look on his face, “He is the worst.”

You see, Lucas is on also on the football team. So, he has to listen to his captain, Jason. It just so happens that Jason likes to pick on our friend group especially, so Lucas kind of pulled the short straw if you know what I mean. Even so, he sticks it out. He refuses to back down like a coward. I applaud him for that.

“You know what? We will just have to get him alone and tell him what happened during PE,” I told them, “I had an allergic reaction to the cleaning supplies and had to run out and get an EpiPen. You guys followed me to make sure I was ok.”

“That is really thought out,” Cole said, “Nice job.”

“I didn’t come up with it, our parents did,” I corrected him.

“Then make sure to tell them I said good job when you get home,” Cole instructed me.

“Got it,” I said.

The rest of homeroom went as per usual. We took role, talked, and then left for first period. I had Economics with Mr. Finn today. This class was an easy A for me. We were learning something, but I couldn’t really focus on it. I had chemistry next, and I was worried about what would happen with all the chemicals. What if my powers were affected by them? You know what, I am not going to anticipate anything bad happening because then it won’t happen. That is my optimism for the day.

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Once fourth period was over, we all met up for lunch. We got in the lunch line to get the slop our school says is food. The line was long today. Just my luck that our friends would have the chance to talk to Jax and I around eavesdropping teenagers.

“So, what are you guys going to do?” Caitlin asked.

“I was thinking about what we could do,” Lucas said, “We can turn you guys into superheroes! We could be your ‘people in the chair’!”

“No. We are just going to go on with life like nothing happened,” I told them.

“What about Jason?” Lucy asked.

I had almost forgot about him. He could have told the entire school a nasty rumor about me by now! We had to get him alone, and soon.

“We are going stop eating and pull him off alone and tell him our lie,” I answered as I was already getting out of line.

“But... it’s pizza day!” Cole said as we were pulling him out of the line.

“Come on pizza boy,” Lux said.

We walked over to Jason’s table. I had not thought this through. He was surrounded by his friends right now, and we had to get him alone. He may be slow, but Jason isn’t stupid. He will refuse to go alone when we ask to speak to him.

“Hey, Jason? Can we speak to you for a minute?” Jax asked with a slight hint of malice.

“Why should I go with you, Mikeals?” Jason asked back.

He was trying to get under Jax’s skin. They had had a sort of rivalry since third grade. I can’t even remember how it started anymore. Honestly, I could care less right now.

“Just get your ass up,” I said.

“Anything for you, ice princess,” Jason said with a smile.

“Don’t make me gag,” I told him, “Follow me.”

I brought them to the hallway. Nobody was here because it was lunch. We surrounded Jason. For a second, I thought I saw fear in his eyes, but that thought was snuffed out when his annoying smile came back. He is SO annoying!

“What do you think you saw yesterday in PE,” I asked.

“Straight to the point. I like that about a girl,” He said, “I saw your eyes turn blue.”

“My eyes turn blue?! Do you think I’m an idiot?” I said, “Nobody’s eyes can change color. It was a glare from the light.”

“No, I saw your eyes turn and mist start to fall from your hands,” Jason told me.

“I was having an allergic reaction to the cleaning stuff they use on the dodgeballs,” I lied.

“Do you seriously think I believe that? You must think me a fool,” he said.

“Your right. I do think you are a fool, but this time I am not lying,” I told him.

I started to get worried. I thought this plan was flawless. Guess not. I looked over to Lucy for help. She wasn’t afraid to get mean. Lucy saw me pleading with my eyes and nodded her head.

“Listen here, birdbrain,” Lucy pushed Jason against a wall, “We are telling the truth, so you will not go around the school spreading rumors about one of my best friends, ok?”

Jason looked genially scared. Everybody had seen what she could do when she got mad. In Freshman year, somebody had bullied Lux. The bully was said to have had a mental break. Nobody ever saw them again.

“Yes, ma’m,” he answered.

“Good. Now get out my sight,” Lucy shoved him away.

I laughed. I knew she was not going to actually hurt him. Lucy stopped doing that already, but she never told anyone else that. She thought it would be useful to keep the reputation around. Turns out, she was right.

“Thanks,” I hugged her.

“Can we go get pizza now?” Cole asked.

“If you mean to cardboard covered in cheese, then yeah,” I answered.

“At least it it better than the meatloaf,” Lucas said.

“Don’t remind me of that awful day,” I said.

We all started cracking up. We didn’t mind that we got a few weird looks from the lunch ladies when we were getting our food. It was moments like these that I enjoyed the most. Moments when everything else fell away. It was just me and the people I loved. This is where I forgot about all that was happening in my life. I was just a normal girl. Then, it was ruined.

Everybody in the cafeteria got a notification on their phones. Of course, since we are all phone-obsessed teenagers, we all looked. It was an anonymous number that had texted us all. It was a picture of me photoshopped with blue eyes and ice coming out of my hands. After, it said, ’This is who you go to school with. Not that lie,’. Tears started to form in my eyes, but I refused to let the school think this was true. So, I got up and started to, slowly, walk out of the cafeteria. I felt everybody’s eyes burning into my back as I walked away. I started running once I was out the front entrance of school. I did not stop until I was home. I went upstairs, into my room, and laid, face-down, on my bed. I started to cry. I usually try to keep a brave-face that intimidates people on, but I could not hold it anymore. I heard my mom come in. She was probably going to try and make me feel better.

“Hey? You ok?” my mom asked.

“Just peachy,” I answered.

“Will you tell me what happened?” she asked.

“The school knows. Or at least they know I am different. Somebody spread a rumor to the entire school,” I told her.

“Oh,” is all the said.

I thought she was going to hug me and tell me it was going to be ok, but she did the exact opposite.

“What were you thinking?! Now we have to fix a whole other problem!” my mom asked.

“What are we gonna do?” I asked.

“Um... you are gonna go to school with contacts that make you eyes like Khione’s. That way, you can show them it was just a trick,” she answered.

“That is really thought-out. Have you done this before?” I asked.

“You aren’t the only one who has grown up with powers she can’t control,” she answered.

I smiled. My mom was a badass, and I was proud to be her daughter. She has been through this before. The thought had not even crossed my mind. They knew what I was going through. Maybe not exactly, but it must have been hard to not electrocute someone every time they pissed you off.

“School isn’t over yet, so I still have the time to fix this,” I said, “Bye, mom!”

I started to run back to school. I am thanking my dad for making Jax and I work on cardio everyday now.

I reached school in record time. When I checked my phone to see what time it was, I saw that it was probably the passing period between sixth and the school meeting scheduled for today. I looked for Jason through the crowded hallways, but instead I found Jax.

“Blair, are you ok?” he asked.

“I’m fine, we have a plan, but I need to find Jason first,” I told him.

“He is in the bathroom. I just saw him there,” Jax said.

I left him as soon as he finished. I ran in to the boy’s bathroom with out a second thought to my gender. I had something more important to do.

“Jason!” I yelled.

“Hey there, Blair. What brings you into the boy’s bathroom?” Jason asked.

“I wanted to show you something,” I answered.

I put the contacts in. His mouth dropped to the floor. Well, not literally, but you get what I mean.

“I don’t understand. I never saw you put them in,” he muttered.

“Just because you didn’t see doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” I told him, “Now, tell the school you lied.”

“Fine. Only if you kiss my in front of the entire school,” he smiled.

“What?! Why do I need to do that?” I asked.

“For my enjoyment,” Jason answered, smirking.

“Whatever, let’s go,” I sighed.

Once we got out, I stood right in the middle of the hallway. I was waiting for him. I saw my friends walk up. Their faces were the last thing I saw before he kissed me. It was passionate, too. I tried to pull away at first, but I remembered our agreement. So, I let him have his fun for about thirty seconds before I pulled away. I was bit dizzy, I have to admit. He was smirking. I rolled my eyes.

“Whatever, hotshot. Send out the message,” I told him, walking away.

I passed my friends on my way out. I decided to skip the assembly.

“Let’s go. Ice cream on me,” I said as I passed them.

I laughed when I saw their faces as they ran to catch-up to me. I would have to explain. The only face that did not make me laugh was my brother’s. His was full of hurt. I had just, practically, made-out with his archenemy. I got where he was coming from. Once we got our ice cream and found a place to sit, I talked to Jax.

“How could you do that to me?” Jax asked.

“I didn’t! I only did it so Jason would tell people he lied,” I told him.

“Even so, it looked like you enjoyed the kiss,” I said.

“Ok, maybe a little, but it still meant nothing to me. I promise,” I told him.

“Ok, I’m sorry for even thinking you would like that excuse for a human being,” Jax apologized.

“It’s ok,” I said.

We spent the rest of the time eating and talking about normal stuff. Then, we said goodbye and went home. Jax let me drive home. Things were starting to seem like nothing bad had ever happened. Or at least it was like that until we got home. Jax and I were laughing as we entered the house over some joke neither of us could even remember. Then, we heard our parents tell us to come downstairs to the training room. Jax and I shared a look. Whenever our parents said that, it was either for a hardcore training exercise or we were in trouble.

“Yes?” I asked when I entered the training room.

“We want to ask you guys something,” Mom answered.

“Do you want to become superheroes?” Dad asked with a smile on his face.

“What? Are you kidding? Of course!” I exclaimed.

“Yes!” Jax yelled.

“To start out, you will only do small protools,” Mom told us.

“Do we get suits?” I asked.

“Of course!” Dad said.

I couldn’t believe it! My biggest dream was coming true. Jax and I had been planning this moment since we were toddlers. This was just the thing to brighten-up my life. We spent the rest of the night looking at our suits that our parents made. Each was customized for our powers. Mine was an icy blue and navy blue skintight suit with a utilities belt, an icy blue mask, and black boots. There’s a snowflake on the shoulders. I have blue lips with a slight silver on my cheeks. Of course, when I do this, I will have white hair and icy blue eyes. Jax’s had a full black body suit with some flames on the arms. It has a red mask, too. His is fire resistant, of course. I was having a heart attack, I was going to be a superhero!

Thanks for reading! 3203 words! It was a bit longer than the other chapters, but I wanted more to happen and couldn’t find a good stopping place. I know you probably thought they would become a superhero later in the story, but it just fell in place, so I made it happen. Comment! Tell your friends about this story if you like it! We need more readers. Thank you to the readers that I have already, though. That’s it!

– your author