Different - First of A Kind

Chapter 4: Explaination

   I was walking in front of Raven, Aspen, and Lucy on the sidewalk of the street leading to my house. Nervous sweat was all over me as I lead them, and Raei and Aldridge, to my mother.

   I remembered what had happened earlier. Aldridge had magically made everyone fall asleep, except for Reai, Raven, Lucy, Aspen, and I. He said when they wake up, the last thing they will remember is walking to their 8th period class.

   Then, we walked through the halls where we came across a few of the teachers that, for some odd reason, were not teaching. Aldridge had to deal with them by doing the thing he did to the class back at the cafeteria. It only took about a few seconds.

   I could hear Reai and Aldridge talking in hushed whispers behind the trio behind me. I was pretty sure that they thought I couldn't hear them talking, from their conversation. "What element is she? We've never come across anything like her before..." Reai murmured quietly to her partner.

   I could sense Aldridge's shrug as he whispered back, "I really don't know... The way her mind wall is, it's not normal."

   Mind wall?

   'Yeah, that's the thing that keeps people like Aldridge, mind controllers, out of our mind.' Frost answered my question, even though it wasn't directly directed at her. 'Listen.'

   "What to you mean, not normal?" Reai sounded weird, I could tell she was feeling a strong emotion, but I couldn't really tell what it was. I thought it might be... loss, or sadness.

   "You know how mind walls are always brick or stone, or something solid, right?"

   "Yup."

   "Well, when I was trying to mind control her, to see if she was the rare element, I discovered her mind wall is different," Aldridge took a deep breath before he continued with his little story quietly. "Her's is made of feathers and fur. And it's unbreakable."

   'All me, all me.' Frost sounded very proud.

   Reai stopped on her tracks. I turned around and glanced at her, pretending to be confused. "Oh, nothing," Aldridge rushed quickly. "Nothing at all."

   Raei glared at him, "No, it's not nothing. Tell her."

   "I can't! It hasn't been run through with the council, or anyone!" Aldridge looked mad at the way that Raei was talking. "I can't tell her, its not allowed!"

   "You will tell her, or I will!"

   "No, I won't!"

   "Yes, you will!"

   I rolled my eyes at their silly behaviour. 'Why don't you just tell them that you heard?' Frost suggested.

   But then they'll know about my senses, if they don't already know, and you said we don't want that.

   'I said don't tell them about me, not about your senses. Plus, I think they're gonna kill each other if ya don't, so...'

   Fine.

   "Hey, guys!" I shouted. "Break it up! I know what you said, so you don't need to kill yourselves over it! Alright?"

   They both stopped threatening each other and they both stared at me, hard. "How?" Raei asked a simple, one worded question, but luckily, Frost came to the rescue.

   'Hey, look! Our house!'

   I repeated those words almost exactly, "Hey, look, ou- my house!" I dashed across the remaining small chunk of the sidewalk to my house, and then stopped nervously at the gate. I wondered what Mom would think of all this.