Adara POV
I grabbed a spoon out of a drawer and a tub of cookie dough ice cream from the freezer jumping up onto the counter and shoving a spoonful of ice cream into my mouth.
"So", I said some ice cream flying out my mouth.
"Now what", I laughed shoving another spoonful of ice cream into my mouth and I watched Michael roll his eyes, he did that a lot.
Now that I was warming up to him everything was starting to calm down, and my mom saying she was working late made everything easier.
"Let's practice", Michael said I looked at him suspiciously.
"Practice what?", I asked unsure.
"To control it", he said again for the second time today like it was something obvious I should understand.
"No", I said digging around in my ice cream.
"You're really annoying you know that?", He said and I rolled my eyes.
"Now the answer is definitely no", I said going to fill my spoon with ice cream but stopped when I had realized he froze my ice cream solid so I was unable to even pull the spoon out, I looked back up at him and narrowed my eyes.
How did you do that?
"Ha. Ha.", I said out loud instead.
"Just come with me", he said laughing grabbing my arm and I tried to ignore the goose bumps that erupted on my skin.
Michael dragged me out the house and after that I just followed him towards the woods that were behind my house and for a second I actually considered that he was going to kidnap me or something.
He seemed to have some habit of dragging people.
"Stand here"
He walked a few meters away from me and I stopped myself from following him and waited, then he turned to face me.
I was still extremely confused as to what he trying to do.
"The goal, is to get the other person too weak to fight back", he said.
I tilted my head in confusion and he rolled his eyes...again.
"First to forfeit loses and you can't physically touch the other person", He said.
How the hell would that work?
"Michael, do you not understand that I literally found out about all this like ten minutes ago", I said to him.
"You'll do fine!", He shouted to me probably sensing my uneasiness.
"I LITERALLY have no idea where to even start", I yelled to him.
I just wanted some ice cream.
"Just do what you did when you were playing volley ball", he said.
"You make it sound easy?", I said.
"It is easy!"
"No it's not I was mad when we were playing volley ball, I'm not mad"
"Just close your eyes and focus on the heat in your stomach, feel it in your hands first and picture it building up" He said and I just pretended to understand him and shut my eyes like I knew what I was doing, but all I saw was darkness.
I took a deep breath attempting to focus on this heat that was supposedly in my stomach.
I pictured it going up my arms and into my hands, but I felt nothing.
I didn't feel anything in my stomach, instead deep inside my chest and inhaled sharply like I was trying to suck it up.
Then I felt it takes over my body, it shot through my arms and made my knees tingle, it was like it knew I wanted it to come out.
I opened my eyes totally weirded out and saw a smirk on Michael's stupid annoying face.
"Now we're talking",
"Loser buys lunch!", I shouted suddenly feeling comfortable with this.
"Whatever"
He radiated a temperature the exact opposite of what I seemed to be radiating and it was like I knew how to control it, like a natural instinct.
I breathed out, my body was so hot that I feared I would actually breath fire.
He breathed out too, a cloud escaping his lips like when you go out on a cold day.
He blew out, freezing the ground around him and the coldness he radiated started to slowly engulf the heat I was radiating and I immediately began pushing back like we were doing during volley ball, and if I recall I 'won' that time too.
He seemed to be a natural, I struggled to just hold onto this.
This "battle" was very friendly we weren't being very serious, hopefully this wasn't us being serious.
I started to get into it, a smile making its way onto my face as I genuinely enjoyed this feeling of strength, of this power.
I slowly felt the control slipping through my finger tips and it was like I had just dropped a glass and I was struggling to catch it before it hit the ground, but it was too late, it had shattered all over the floor and any control, any type of instinct, I thought I had was gone.
It wasn't like I lost it, it lost me.
I opened my eyes and I felt the red in my eyes, if that's possibly.
My skin radiated temperatures that were obviously dangerous, but I pushed all my logical thoughts behind me, Michael's face fell in defeat but I was too focused on enjoying the feeling of power, Michael's face fell and he looked up at me with his worried green eyes and my chest leaped.
I wanted him to be worried, I wanted to dangle his power in front of him like it was nothing compared to the power I felt inside me.
The trees that surrounded him were now leaking dark smoke and it soon ignited with fire.
He lost stability falling to the ground and I surrounded Michael in a circle of fire evaporating any sort of moisture and his ability to radiate cold temperature- became near impossible as heat over took him.
"Adara stop", he said panicked looking around him like he's never seen anything like it before, I've never felt anything like this before, but it felt like I was always meant to feel this way.
I felt heat surge to my hands and I shut my eyes in ecstasy.
"ADARA YOU WON STOP"
"STOP", His voice broke, breaking me from my trance and I fell to my knees weak from the amount of energy I had just emitted from my body, I swore my knees burned through the grass, I fell onto my hands and knees, all the fire went out and smoke rose up, disappearing into the sky, the smell of burnt wood filled my nostrils and the thumping of my heart slowly began to calm.
My head shot up, my breath hitching as I had come to realization as what I could have possibly had just done.
What did I just do?
I was on my feet ignoring the fatigue I felt stumbling over to where Michael lay weak and over heated his core begging to find some sort of way to cool his body down.
I felt it?
I went to touch him but he just hissed as my skin touched his, his body not being able to afford any more heat.
I actually physically could not do anything to help him.
All I could do was sit and wait for him to slowly cool down.
"I'm so sorry", I said sitting next to him.
"Happens to everyone", he managed to cough out and I began to feel the cold radiate off his skin just like it's supposed to.
"You had me scared for a second", he said in a joking tone, I let out a sigh in relief, helping him to his feet.
"That was impressive"
I raised my eyebrows.
"You're insane", I scoffed.
"Scary, but impressive"