I walked to my dark blue locker. I had just come from my History class. I'm a Junior in high school, so my locker was in the science hall. The Freshman's lockers were in the History hall. Some had them in the Economics hall. A few of us Juniors have lockers in the Economics hall too. The Sophomore's had lockers in the mathmatic's halls and a few in the English halls. The Seniors had lockers in the Physics and Chemistry hall and a few had lockers in small halls that we use to get around quickly to other classes.
I dumped my books in the locker and pushed a stray piece of my dark red hair behind my ear. I saw a note at the foot of my locker. I picked it up. It was addressed to me, Katie Gardner.
Meet us at the roof of your apartment complex at 7 tonight or we will tell everyone about your special little secret.
~People like you
I shoved the note in my pocket and looked around. I saw Travis Stoll messing around with his jock friends. I've had a crush on him since he moved across the hall in my apartment complex. He never really noticed me, so I just kept my crushing to myself, but he was a joker, he played pranks on people sometimes, not as much as when we were younger, but maybe once or twice a month.
Next to me was a girl named Drew Tanaka. She was the queen bitch of the school and never even gave me a glance. I grabbed my books for the rest of the day and rushed off to my English class. My dark brown combat boots were loose at the top and had a soft click on the tiles of the floor. My dark grey skinny jeans were tight- but not too tight- around my long runner's legs. My dark red, long sleeved top was showing off my thin stomach. I never wore makeup, I thought it would draw attention away from my pretty bright green eyes.
If you were wondering what my secret was, I could grow plants by just using my mind, any thing that grew from the ground, it didn't even take any energy away from me, I could also control the plants. I kept my head down as I pushed my way through the crowds off people around me.
The rest of the day was normal, I came home and my dad wasn't home, like usual. He came home at like midnight every night and went to work at seven in the morning. I don't know how he can live on pretty much no sleep, but he does. My mother left us after I was born. It was just my father and I, even if he was never there. I dropped my keys on the counter and threw my bag on the brown leather couch and fell next to it.
I then remembered that I had to get to mail. I got up from the comfy couch and opened my door while I grabbed my keys and walked out the door. Not looking in front of me. I bumped into something hard while I put my keys in my jeans pocket. I fell to the ground and my butt hit the floor, hard.
"Perfect" I mumbled as I got up and grabbed my keys that fell out of my hand as I fell.
"I'm so sorry- wait did you just move here, I haven't seen you around before" I looked up and saw a tall, lanky, but muscular boy with curly brown hair and bright, sky blue eyes. I rolled my eyes and snorted.
"I've lived across the hall from you since we were seven, we go to the same school and my locker is like, right next to yours" I glared at him. I may have a crush on him, but that was horrible, him not knowing me, but living across from each other for ten years, it stung. He was a head taller than me, but I could still tell I was intimidating towards him.
"I'm sorry, it's just I've never known you, we've never talked" He said. I let out a breath and took the small piece of paper out of my pocket.
"Did you get one of these?" I asked. Holding the corner of a lined piece of paper a few inches from his face. He took the paper and unfolded it, then his eyes drifted across the paper, reading it.
"No" he answered. He seemed truthful, so I snatched the paper back and put it in my black, leather jacket. He watched me as I did. I stuck out my hand.
"Katie Gardner" I said. Looking him in the eye. He glanced at my hand then at my eyes then slightly blushed as he took my hand.
"Travis Stoll" he said. I nodded.
"I'll see you later, I have to go get mail" I sighed as I walked past him and to the elevator at the end of the hall. I turned around as the doors closed to see Travis still staring at me with his cheeks a light color of rose pink. Once the doors closed. I smiled to myself and felt heat rise to my cheeks, it was early winter, so I could just say it was the cold.
I got to the mailbox and grabbed the three pieces of mail we had. They were all bills, so I just grabbed them and walked back to the elevator, it was only me in the elevator again, so I took out my phone and checked for a message from my dad, telling me that he would be home at midnight, like he texted me every night. Sure enough it was there. Since it was still, about, 2:30 in the afternoon, I could do anything I wanted, so once I got back to my apartment, I turned on the TV and grew an apple tree next to the couch and picked one of the ripe, red apples and bit down into it.
There was a knock on my door. I rolled my eyes and ungrew the tree. I rushed to the door and looked out the peephole, it was Travis. I opened the door.
"Did something happen?" I asked. I looked down the hall he was in and saw no fire of blood or anything. He laughed.
"No, but- can I come in?" he asked. I looked at him odd but moved away from the door. He walked in and looked around the apartment as I sat down and continued to eat my apple. He leaned on the wall and crossed his left foot over the right. I propped my feet on the table in front of me.
"What's up? I mean it's weird, we just met and now you seem like I'm the only one who you can talk too" I laughed. He looked nervous. He walked over to me and I moved my feet so he could get to the couch.
"So while you were walking to the elevator, I saw a small rose pop up on the ground where one of your feet stepped… do you have superpowers? I mean like some people have them, others don't, we don't really pay attention to them, everyone treats them like a threat because they have something we don't, but are you one of them?" he asked me.
"Damn it, I can usually control these things- don't tell anyone!" I whispered to him. He put his hands up.
"Don't worry, I'm one too" he whispered. I smiled in relief and jumped on him. I hugged him.
"I can't believe it, someone can finally understand me" I cried on his shoulder. He patted my back awkwardly. I pulled away and wiped a tear that was falling from my eye.
"So you can grow plants?" he asked. I nodded.
"Any plants, even ones people haven't found yet, then I make them disappear, it doesn't even make me tired" I told him. He nodded.
"I have super speed, I can also teleport, but they're the same thing, really" he shrugged. I laughed and he was suddenly by the fridge then back to the couch.
"It's good to have a friend who understands me" I whispered. Even if a little part of me hated that I said it, I smiled at him and he smiled back.
"Are you going tonight for that thing on the note?" he asked me. I nodded.
"I don't really have any friends, but no one makes up horrible things about me, I like it that way, it's how I've lived my life, so I don't want this to get out and for people to bully me for being different from them, I've always been invisible, I like it that way" I told him. "So, yes I'm going"
"Okay, well, tell me what happened, it sounds sketchy to me" he got up and pulled me up by my hand. I let it go and turned to a spot on the floor that was cleared. I thought of the words, Cherry tree, and it started to grow in front of me. Travis came up next to me and stared at the tree then reached his hand out and picked two cherries that were connected at the stem. He split them and gave me one. I smiled as I popped it in my mouth and shrunk the tree.
We grinned at each other as we chewed the cherries and then I spit the seed out in my hand and walked over to the trashcan and used my foot to push on the small lever that pulled the top up. I tossed the seed and stem in the trash.
I pulled my leather jacket over my shoulders and slipped on my combat boots. I grabbed my keys and locked the apartment behind me and glanced at Travis's apartment before heading to the roof of the building. Once I got there, five other people were waiting there.
Two boys were holding hands. One was blonde, he had grey eyes, I noticed as I got closer to them. He had cropped hair and wore designer clothes on, it wasn't hard to tell he was gay. His, what I assumed, boyfriend had light brown hair styled upwards. He had hazel eyes and had a simple black northface, jeans, and white scarf on. They both looked about my age, maybe a year older.
There was a girl who looked maybe 15. She was African American, but had bright gold eyes. Her hair was like dark chocolate. She had a jean jacket that was the same light denim color as her jeans. She wore a black scarf around her neck and another layer of a thick jacket over her jean one.
Next to her was a girl my age with blonde hair curled like a princess and the same grey eyes as the boy. They might be siblings or cousins. She had on a dark grey hoddie with black skinny jeans and black ugg boots.
The final person was also a girl. She was very pretty. She looked to be some part native American. She had choppy brown hair and eyes that seemed to change color, from brown to green to blue to grey, they were beautiful. She had on thin black leggings and a dark blue zip-up hoddie. She had on uggs like the blonde girl.
"Did you guys call for me?" I asked once I reached them. The blonde girl was intimidating, but I wouldn't let it show. She stepped towards me.
"I called all of you here tonight, including my brother and his boyfriend, my name is Annabeth Chase and I have superpowers like you all" she held her chin up, she was a little shorter than me, but I was a little tall for my age. The brunette girl came up to me.
"I'm Piper" she stated. I raised an eyebrow.
"Just Piper?" I asked her. She looked at the ground and nodded. "It's cool, you don't have to tell us, by the way, my name's Katie Gardner"
"Hazel Levesque" The youngest girl's voice was shy. I smiled at her, kindly and she smiled back. The two boys came up next.
"I'm Malcolm and this is my boyfriend, Mitchell" the blonde boy said. I smiled at them.
"I love when people are openly gay, it makes me happy that people are so open about themselves" I grinned. Malcolm gave me a nod and Mitchell flashed me a smile.
"Well I can turn invisible" Annabeth informed us. I nodded.
"I can grow any plant then ungrow it, even though it's not really a thing, but it doesn't take away any energy" I shrugged.
"I-I can summon almost anything, I'm really good at gold and rubies, stuff like that" Hazel said. She was about three fourths of a head shorted than me. I could tell she was cold, from her shivering, I took off my gloves and handed them to her. She smiled and thanked me before carefully pulling them on.
"I can make people do pretty much anything by using my voice" Piper shoved her hands in the pockets of her jacket. "Can we go inside somewhere, I'm freezing" she whimpered.
"My place is just downstairs, my dad doesn't come home until midnight, so we can go in there" I offered. Piper nodded along with Hazel and Malcolm as they hurried to the stairs. I stayed behind them and walked next to Annabeth.
"How did you know about us?" I asked her. She turned her head towards me.
"We all go to the same highschool, Malcolm and my mother worked us so much to make us smart and clever, so I figured out about the three of you by your actions, you distance yourself from everyone else, so no one will find out about you, Hazel did the same and Piper's a cheerleader, but unlike the rest of the other girls, she doesn't look as happy, she might like it, but I think she thought someone would figure her out, so she became a cheerleader to blend in, but I was talking to her for a school project and she has power to her voice" Annabeth explained.
We got to the room and I unlocked it for them and they walked in before me. I looked at Travis's apartment and smiled. I knew he was watching, so I flicked him off and walked in the apartment.
Once I got in they were all seated on the couch, waiting for me. I looked out the window, which was most of our wall, the sun was almost set. I walked over to an empty chair and sat down.
"So Malcolm and Mitchell, you guys haven't told us your powers yet" I said.
"I'm a thecnopath, meaning that I can control anything that electronic in any way" Malcolm said. I grinned.
"I can shoot webs of electricity out of my hands, fingers, eyes, pretty much anywhere" Mitchell smiled.
"So, Annabeth, why exactly are we here?" I asked her.
"We're all outsiders right? Different, so I thought we could come together and train our powers so we could help lower crime in New York and maybe let people know that people like us aren't bad and shouldn't be punished for it" Annabeth was using hand gestures a lot.
"Well, I wouldn't mind putting more practice into my powers- but where are we going to practice?" I asked her. She smiled, it wasn't a kind smile but one that said 'I know just the place'.
"We can use the roof we were just on. I can make the whole roof invisible so they don't see us" She responded. Piper clapped her hands together.
"Well, this is awesome, now we can all have friends like us" she grinned. I smiled back, but I could tell Annabeth could read through me like a book. She cocked her head to the side.
"Do you already know someone who has powers?" surprisingly Malcolm asked me this. I nodded. I got up and went to the door and looked out the peep-hole.
"I don't know if he wants to come, I mean he goes to our school, but he has all these things to do, he's on the football team and has tons of homework-" I was nervous.
"Katie, go and get him, then bring him here" Piper's voice was like the most magical thing ever, I nodded and walked out of the apartment. I walked over to Travis's door like my legs were being controlled. My hand knocked on the door. I used all my strength to use my other hand to cover my mouth. Travis opened the door and looked at me oddly. I heard the door close behind me and Malcolm came out with Hazel.
"Come on" Hazel dragged me back and Malcolm got Travis, who was confused on what he was doing, so he was reluctant.
"I'm so sorry" I whispered to him. I knew it was him because he told me his brother was gone at a boarding school for boys a while away. Once we got in the room everyone introduced themselves and afterwards Travis grinned.
"Why would you be sorry about this, there are more people like us, this is awesome" Travis grinned as he hugged me so tightly that I couldn't move. He even picked me up.
"I can't breath, Travis" I whispered. I could fell his cheeks become red against mine and he set me down. "I fell like a rag doll" I laughed. I could hear Hazel chuckle.
"So Hazel's a freshman, Malcolm and Mitchell are seniors, and Piper, Annabeth, Travis, and I are juniors" I counted off. Malcolm kissed his boyfriends cheek.
"My dad's never home, so we can just meet here" I shrugged. Travis was at the fridge suddenly.
"You guys have almost no food" he complained.
"That's because I grow my own food, dinner tonight was fruit salad" I said.
"I think this place is perfect, it's close to the roof and no one's ever home" Piper looked around. I felt close to everyone already.
"Yeah, it's perfect, you guys can come whenever you want, it's not like anyone but me does, it's lonely" I said. Hazel smiled.
"That's great, my mother is never home, same with my dad, but he lives on the other side of town" she said. I smiled lightly.
"Yeah, we could walk here together" I offered. She smiled in response. Travis's stomach grumbled. Piper and I smiled in attempt to keep from laughing, it didn't work. Annabeth started laughing so hard she turned invisible. She had the powers of the invisible woman, but more badass. I grew him some grapes and he happily ate them.
"I honestly thought we weren't going to get along, sorry but we're still calling this club the six" Annabeth laughed. Travis smiled showing us grapes and we all started to laugh.
The day was one of the best days of my life. I met friends who got what I was going through.
Yes, this is my new story, about them in the mortal world, fighting off crime and eventually people who were planning to wipe out the whole island and they fight it while trying to stay out of the public's eyes.
Hope you guys will like this.
Love you guys!
~WhenWeMeetAgain