Outsiders

Chapter 9

We were sitting on Josh's couch waiting for everyone to arrive, it was about time I told everyone about my real name. "I'm sorry baby, I didn't mean to say your real name, It was the heat of the moment." Nate said, worried. "It's okay Nate, it's about time I told everyone anyways. I just hope they can forgive me for hiding it all these years." I said, looking at the floor. I felt a hand on my shoulders. I looked up and saw Nate smiling. "I may have something myself to tell the group." Nate said. I smiled and looked down. "It's about your dad isn't it?" I asked, quietly. He face lit up and looked down. "Yeah, I thought I would keep it a secret but I guess I didn't hide it that well." Nate said, sadly. "No, you hid it well, I found out by the neighbours back when they called the police about Michael setting the curtains on fire." I rambled on trying to past time as be waited for everyone. Michael, Ali's and Anita's purple cycles formed and formed them. I heard the motorcycles outside, I looked out and saw Winter and Brandon. I saw Asha walking and then we heard footprints coming from behind us. I looked and saw Josh up and moving around. "What's going on? How did I get home?" Josh asked. "I'll explain everything" Nate said, taking Josh to the other room for about 15 minutes, that gave everyone to settle in. Nate came back out with Josh and sat on the couch next to everyone else. "So are you going to explain why you didn't tell us your real name?" Michael asked. Blaze stood beside me, he knew everything, Nate only knew my real name, but Blaze was at my side when it happened. "Alright, it was about one years ago, before I knew all of you...I was walking down the hallways of my old school, Me and Alex were holding hands as we walked down the halls, everyone stepped away from us, knowing if they messed with us they would get punished. I smiled and looked at Alex, he was checking out other girls like usual. I rolled my eyes and continued down to our class. In our first period my ghost sense went off, then appeared Chloe. She attacked the class, just to get me to change, I didn't budge until she threatened to kill Alex and my best friend, Clare. I still didn't budge but I really wanted to change into my ghost form in front of everyone, but I didn't so she ended up killing Clare and was about to kill Alex but I blasted her back and transformed into my ghost form and flew into the air, as I was crying. "What a cry baby, I lose people everyday and I don't cry over stupid deaths." Chloe said, rolling her eyes. I guess I didn't hear this one student call the CIA, but eventually, Elliot and Reid showed up and captured me but Alex fought back against them with his fire power but ended up getting captured too, Chloe had escaped them. They pulled me and Alex to the CIA cars and drove off. After about five hours of driving, they threw us in cages and locked us up in the place. They zapped us, beat us, didn't feed us, didn't let us call our parents to tell them where we were, but one day my mother came and found us, she broke us out and brought us to this town, she decided to change my name to Snow. I had to do it since the CIA knows who I actually am, I changed my looks and even my last name to Royer, which was Baker. During summer I broke up with Alex who changed his name to Blaze." I said, looking at the ground. "We've been through some shit, but we had no choice to change our names." Blaze said sadly. "Then why didn't you tell us?" Michael asked, angrily. "Then we would have to move again because we were afraid someone was a hidden spy but when we found out that you all had power and ran from CIA I guess we just forgot about our real names because we thought we were finally start a new life, no more fights, no more struggles." I continued. Everything was silent. "Do you get why we hide it?" Blaze asked quietly. They all nodded. Nate got up and took the stage. "Um... so you all know that I've been drink most of the weekends..." before he finished I said "Every weekend." "Yeah, anyways the reason for it is because my father had died a month ago from Elliot and he's team. I don't even know why I hid it but it seemed necessary since a lot of shit was going on at the time." Nate said, holding his arm. "Oh god, i'm sorry to hear that man." Brandon said. "Um... I have to tell you all something too. My real name isn't Winter, it's Skylar. The CIA caught me once too. I had to keep my real name hidden but I guess I can tell you guys since we are friends and all." Winter said, nervously looking at Brandon to see how he would react. "You hid it from me? Why didn't you tell me?" He asked her, calmly. "I didn't want to get in trouble from my parents" She said, quietly. We just sat there quietly

Ali and Michael went home, Brandon and Skylar were just getting ready to leave, me and Nate sat on the couch, watching cartoons to calm down. Josh was making supper. "Well cya guys later." Brandon said "Bye Skylar bye Brandon" We all said. They walked out of the house, Nate used his super speed and locked the door and come back to sit on the couch. I snuggled into his chest, and he wrapped his arm around me. "Dinner's ready guys" Josh said, cheerfully. "Oh I can't wait." I said, trying to get up, but Nate wouldn't budge. "Nate? Um... can you move your arm please?" I asked politely. Then his hand started to heat up. "Um... Nate?" I asked, scared. Then his hand was on fire and started to burn me. "Nate!" I screamed in pain. Josh ran over and turned into a small dragon, he pulled Nate's arm off of me and I quickly ran over to Josh and hide under his wing. Nate started to get up and his eyes were glossy. "Nathan Sharp, snap out of his control." I yelled knowing that Justin was controlling him. Then he looked at the door, I quickly covered it in Snow and Ice so he couldn't run off. He looked at me and used his super speed to grab me, he ran over to the door and melted it all, he ran to the buildings stairs, he ran up all of them until we were on the roof. He hung me over the building, I looked below and saw all the cars and people walking below, I grabbed on to Nate's arm to try to make sure I didn't fall. I tried to turn into my ghost form but for some reason I couldn't. "Nate, don't do this, this isn't you, your being controlled by Justin, don't let him win." I yelled. He didn't budge. I heard a door slam open. I looked behind Nate in terror to see Josh standing at the stairwell door in complete shock. Then I felt him let go, I was now holding onto him for dear life. Then his arm started to heat up. "Nate, please, I can't hold on." I said, about to cry. Then I started to slip, then his arm got set on fire and I let go, falling to my death. I looked up and saw Josh jump off the building and caught me and changed into a dragon and flew me into the air. I was super terrorfied on what just happened. I held on to Josh's claws, he flew us back up onto his apartment roof. He placed me down nicely and landed in front of me. "Urg... what.... What happened?" I heard. I looked past Josh and saw Nate holding his head and looked like he couldn't stand up straight. "Elisabeth?" he said weakly. Nate took a step towards us but Josh growled at him and then said "Stay away from her." "Josh? What's going on? Why can't I see my girlfriend?" He asked, confused. Josh transformed back to normal. "Because you dropped here of the building." Josh yelled, angrily. Nate stood there terrorfied on what he just heard. "I...I... did what?" He said, too shocked to speak. "Nate, wait...." But before I could finish my sentence he used his super speed and ran past us to the stairwell and ran down. "It wasn't your fault..." I said, sadly. I felt Josh's hands on me. "I'm so sorry, Snow. I didn't mean to..." "Just shut up Josh... I don't want to hear it right now." I yelled, sadly. I walked away and from him. I walked out of the apartment and walked into an alley. I felt weird and then out of nowhere I changed into my ghost form. "Oh so how you work. Where were you when I needed you." I yelled angrily at myself. Then I heard footsteps. I made a ectoplasmic glowing green ball in my hands so it lit up the alleyway. I turn around until I got grabbed, I felt a needle go into me, a cloth went over my mouth and nose and struggled until I felt light head. I changed back to normal and I fell to the ground. I struggled to keep my eyes open, right before I blacked out I saw think rubber boats.