I looked at myself in the mirror, unsure if I really was going to go through with this whole superhero thing.
The suit I was wearing was skin tight, hot, and all black. It was definitely not something I'd be able to move around in, especially in hot weather. It squeaked whenever I moved and it already drove me completely nuts.
But I left the dressing room anyway, since I knew I wouldn't be able to hide out in there forever. If only I could...
When I opened the door, I could see that all three boys and Hank were dressed in suits, and I couldn't help but notice that they all cleaned up pretty nicely, even Anthony. His glasses seemed to be cleaner than they were before, while Dex's hair was actually brushed out nicely. Meanwhile, both Aiden and Hank looked like they belonged in suits.
"You look beautiful!" was the first thing I heard, from Hank. Could he not see the deathtrap I was wearing? "Doesn't she, boys?"
The mumbled their agreements, and Hank elbowed Dex in the side as hard as he could.
"Yes," he answered loudly now, through his teeth.
This wasn't the kind of compliments I wanted. I didn't want forced ones. Actually, I just didn't want compliments at all. It would have been better if I just didn't get compliments from anyone, like usual.
Kristie exited out of her dressing room then, wearing the same exact thing I was. Only, she looked so much better in it. And the boys obviously agreed, because they couldn't keep their eyes off her.
"You know, a picture lasts longer," I informed them, but none of them even heard me.
I really hated these stupid skin-tight suits even more now.
Hank made his way over to me. "Don't get discouraged," he grinned sympathetically as he placed his hands in his pockets, which just made me feel even worse. "You'll win one of them someday."
But that wasn't what I wanted.
I would have felt bad for Kristie if I wasn't really pissed at her. I didn't know how it was like to be ogled by guys all the time, but I knew that she did. But then again, she might have been too stupid to realize what guys were really doing when they looked at her.
But out of the three boys on my team, only Aiden was the one that had real feelings for her. The other two just liked what they saw. It was Aiden that was in for the long run.
Kristie didn't even realize that the guys were staring at her, which just ticked me off even more. Did she always act like this whenever she got stared at? Did she just not react because she was that stupid?
Nay was dressed back in her normal clothes, but she was still sitting at the table while everyone else stood and waited for whatever she was going to say next. I watched them, not knowing what I was supposed to do, and I was almost afraid to ask.
"Um..." I gulped. "What are we doing?"
"You, Kristie, and I are just about to go to the practice course. But, Violet, before we go..." Nay began, gesturing to a cup full of tea that was across the table from her. "Could you give that to me?"
I blinked at her for a second, but then took a step forward. "Yeah, sure..."
"No, no," she denied now with a shake of her head, and I stopped dead in my tracks. "I don't want you to hand it to me. I want you to use your powers."
I just stared at her. "But... but I can't."
I remembered the shattered mirror in the RV. What was going to happen if I splattered hot tea everywhere? I knew that it wouldn't be good, that was for sure.
"Try," Nay pressed on, ignoring my protests.
I didn't even know what I was supposed to do. The only thing I had ever intentionally moved was the brush in the RV, but that definitely didn't end well.
Everyone was staring at me now, which made me feel even more uncomfortable. I didn't know what would have happened if I didn't do as Nay told me to do. I could already tell that he was the type of woman you didn't want to anger.
So I just stared at the cup. I didn't exactly know how I was supposed to move it, but that didn't mean I couldn't try. It wasn't like there was any way I could get out of this.
Move, I told it in my head, as if that was going to do any good. Move, you stupid cup. Just move.
It slid just a little bit, but this isn't what I wanted it to do. Some of the tea splashed out over the top, so I knew the drink wouldn't still be there if I slid it all the way over to her. So I was actually going to have to make it float and move it over to her.
My hands balled into fists at my sides. This was a lot more difficult than it should have been. If I could barely pick up a cup, how was I supposed to fight against anyone? I'd get myself killed!
Dex leaned back and tilted his chair, watching me struggle with a smirk on his face. It really pissed me off how arrogant he was. He was just a jerk and I knew getting along with him was going to be tough.
I ignored the dark boy and focused on the task at hand. My eyebrows crinkled together as I stared at the cup, trying my hardest to get it to move, even if it was only a little bit more.
I was getting fed up. Grinding my teeth together, I focused even harder on the stupid thing. And much to my surprise, it began to float!
Due to my surprise, I almost dropped it, but I refused to let myself fail this quickly. It continued to float closer and closer toward Nay, but it was getting more and more difficult. My head was starting to hurt. This was too hard for me. I couldn't do this!
And just like I thought, the cup went tumbling down back onto the table, shattering into a million pieces while tea spilled everywhere.
I felt my blush crawl up my neck. I knew that it wouldn't end well, but I didn't think it would be this bad.
Nay dabbed at her face with a napkin. "Not bad, not bad."
I stared at her as if she was insane. Was she joking? That was horrible? There was now tea and broken glass all over the table! She thought that that was good? I was afraid to know what bad was.
"You've got to learn to control your powers," Dex commented before anyone else could say anything, not even looking up at me as he fingered one of the shards that had flew everywhere as he still leaned back in his seat.
"Shut up," I snapped at him, and my wrist twitched. And within the next second, Dex's chair fell back with him in it.
Aiden snorted, but stopped himself from laughing when Nay gave him a look. I just stood there, since there was nothing else I could think of to do.
Dex didn't get up right away, and it almost frightened me. I was sure he didn't think it was funny like Aiden did, but I really hoped that he wasn't angry. It wasn't like I meant to knock him over; I couldn't even control it!
"Try using your hands next time," Nay advised now as she stood up from her seat and headed toward the door. I assumed Kristie and I were supposed to follow. "It'll be much easier for you if you start out using your hands."
Kristie followed after our female mentor, as did I. I looked back at Dex as we were leaving, just to make sure he was okay, and he was muttering something under his breath as he pushed himself up, rubbing the back of his head.
Nay was silent as she led us down the hallway. Kristie practically skipped, while I was pretty much sulking behind both of them. Anyone could tell that I wasn't looking forward to this. I was still trying to get used to the fact that I wasn't locked away in a dark room anymore...
"Both of you will go inside there," Nay began as she pointed toward one of the biggest doors. "I will be upstairs observing you both behind protective glass."
For some reason, that made me feel really nervous. Why did she need glass to protect her? What exactly were we going to be doing?
We parted ways and entered the room that she had pointed out. I was surprised when I saw how big it was, and it almost made me nervous. We were obviously going to be training, but I couldn't help but worry about how difficult it was all going to be.
"Ready?" she asked over the speakers, all the way up from that safe room that Nay was in. I knew I couldn't tell her the truth, that I really wasn't ready and I didn't think I ever would be, so I just stayed silent as Kristie nodded. "Ready, go!"
The redhead sprinted off in front of me, and I immediately lost her. I could barely move, because almost immediately, a knife came whizzing right by my ear.
I was done for. There was no way I could survive anything like this!
I lunged, hitting the ground with a loud bump and sliding across it for a couple of feet. I let out a shout when more sharp objects came whizzing over me, and I almost told myself that I would be waking up at any moment and this nightmare would be over.
Pushing myself off the ground, I tried to move forward. But when I felt a growing heat on my arm, I nearly let out a scream.
"Fire?" I shouted, ducking under the spouting flame so I wouldn't get burned. "What the hell is with this?"
I couldn't see where Kristie was anymore, but it wasn't like I was worried. She was probably having just as difficult a time as I was. She may have been even worse than I was, if that was possible.
But when I finally looked up once the fire had stopped, my jaw dropped when I saw Kristie nearly through with the course. I was so shocked that I nearly got stabbed by a flying knife and didn't even budge.
What pissed me off the most was that Kristie looked like she knew what she was doing. I was trying my hardest not to get killed, but she was just morphing and shifting into different things that would protect her from whatever was being thrown at her.
"Come on, Violet," Nay urged through the speakers. "Kristie's almost finished with the course and you've barely even started yet."
How did she expect me to know what I was doing when I had just found out I had powers that day? I knew that Kristie had found out that day as well, but her powers seemed a lot easier than mine.
I wanted to just give up. I wanted to go home. This wasn't for me, and everyone knew it. I didn't like being around people and this training was just too hard. What was the point of this? To get us killed?
I forced myself up off the ground, still not ready even though that didn't matter. Kristie was practically already done, while I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing anymore. Not that I really knew what I was doing in the first place...
My wrist twitched suddenly once again, and right away Kristie was tripping over nothing and falling to the ground and scuffing her elbow up really bad.
I thought she would get right back up, but she didn't. She just sat up, saw the scrape on her arm, and then wiped at her eyes. I gaped at her, surprised that she was on the brink of tears. How badly had that hurt?
I gulped, finding it hard to breathe. I couldn't believe that I had just done that to her. It was my fault that she had gotten hurt, and I hadn't even meant to. I spun around, ignoring whatever was flying at me, and I made my way over to the door to get myself the hell out of there.
Once I had forced my way back into the hallway, I found it easier to breathe again, even though I was getting choked up by tears now instead of the smoke and the guilt.
"Violet," I heard a voice call after me, but I didn't stop as I continued down the hallway, looking for the exit. "Violet, stop!"
I don't know why, but I did. I stopped and turned around, my chest heaving in and out as I stared right back at Nay, who seemed to have had some trouble trying to keep up with me.
"This is not the place for me," I almost shouted, tears burning at my eyes. I wiped at them with the back of my hand, not wanting to show weakness. "I'm just a freak! There's nothing special about me... I can't even control these stupid powers!"
Nay shook her head, taking a step toward me and placing her hand on my shoulder. I cringed, not used to the human contact, but I didn't push away from her. "You have better control than you think, Violet," she informed me. "You just have to believe in yourself a little more. You have control."
"What are you talking about?" I demanded, angry tears still threatening to fall. "I hurt Kristie, and Dex!"
Nay shook her head again. "You hurt them because you wanted to hurt them."
"Wha..." I breathed, not believing what she had just told me. "What are you saying?"
Nay let out another breath, turning me away from the practice course, down the hallway, and in front of the room where the boys were having their tea party. Instead of going inside like I thought we would, she sat me down on one of the benches in the gigantic hallway.
"You hurt them because you wanted to," she repeated once we were situated, as if that was going to explain everything to me. She continued on when she noticed I wasn't following. "You were mad at Dex earlier for what he said about you controlling your powers. You were mad at Kristie for almost finishing the course when you hadn't even started. You wanted to hurt them. You just didn't mean to."
This wasn't making me feel any better, if that was what she was thinking. This was just making me feel even worse. My entire life, I hadn't ever intentionally hurt anyone or anything. But now, I had hurt two people in the past hour.
I didn't want to think about what had happened in the RV on the way over here. I had thrown Aiden into the wall and had hurt him. I didn't mean to, it just... happened. It always just happened when I never mean it to.
I sniffed now, wiping the eyes with the back of my hand again. "I'm scared," I admitted, and I was surprised that I had let it come out of my mouth. Why was I opening up to woman that I had just met? "I just... don't know what I'm doing."
Nay gave me a sad smile, and placed her hand on my shoulder once again. "I understand," she informed me. "We've all been in your place. Finding out that you're different is really scary. And some people just handle it differently than others. Kristie is bubbly and social, while you're... not. Her powers are also a lot easier than yours are."
I stayed silent, not knowing if she was going to continue on or not. What she was saying made sense; I never would have thought that telekinesis was an easy power to work with. Once you got the hang of it, sure, but not right away.
"You should go to your room now and rest for a little while. It should make you feel better," Nay informed me with a nod. She suddenly handed me a key and then pointed down the hall. "You're in room 3B, along with Kristie."
Of course I was going to have to room with her. That was just me freaking luck... Knowing her, she was going to yak the entire time and I'd never get to sleep at all. This was sure wonderful...
But the room was nice, I guess. It was about three times the size of my old bedroom, and my bed was even bigger. I couldn't help but smile when I saw that the blanket I had been brought here in was now folded nicely on top of what I assumed was my bed.
I plopped down, just letting out a breath. I still felt like this was all a dream. It just didn't feel real. I felt like I was going to wake up in my small, dark room at any moment and no one I had just met would be real.
About fifteen minutes later, the door opened again to reveal Kristie. I suppressed a groan, knowing I couldn't complain because this was her room as well and I had no right to kick her out of it.
No matter how much I really wanted to.
"So..." Kristie started annoyingly, swinging her feet back and forth after plopping down on the side of her bed. "What do you want to do?"
"Why don't you shift into a brain?" I muttered, having no intention for her to actually hear what I had said. "You need one."
Imagine my surprise when she actually did.
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I'm sorry this is so late. I've been swamped. A couple weeks ago, my phone was stolen and it had all my outlines on it, except for this story. But that'll help me out later, I guess...
And I really don't like this chapter. It's just short and badly written to me. Sorry, guys. :/
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