Prologue . . .
Nothing is coincidence, everything is connected, I can see those connections. I noticed when I was really little, around the age of six. I could see how different decisions would affect the situations I was in. For example, when I was eight, a girl in my class knocked the teacher's mug of coffee and it shattered to the ground. My teacher was furious and demanded to know who had done it. I blanked out for a minute and I saw a spider web. Everything in the spider wed branched out from the moment the girl knocked the cup over. I saw if she admitted to doing it she would get in major trouble, the girl was a bit of a trouble maker. I also saw if I said it was me, I suffered no severe consequences; I was a bit of a teacher's pet. I took the blame and just as I predicted, the teacher just said it was fine.
My twin sister has a different ability. She's a telepath and an empath. A telepath can read minds and an empath can read emotions. She first noticed when we were six and my brother was across the room. Out of the blue, she asked why he felt guilty. Then before he even said a word, she said it was okay. At the time we were all confused but looking back it all made sense. (She told me he felt guilty because he had broken our toy.)
We try to use our "superpowers" for good. My name is Veronica, but everyone calls me Vera. My twin sister's name is Maya. We are both sixteen and I am happy to say we are ready. When I was ten I decided to look at the spider web of events and moments in my head. So I locked myself in my room one Saturday and for a whole day all I did was travel down different paths and play out different scenarios in my head. That's when I found out they would find us.
At first I didn't know who they were, so I looked them up. They called themselves the X-Men. I discovered that when we were 15 they would find us. I also discovered we were mutants. So the next day I had my mother enroll Maya and I in: gymnastics, karate, tae kwon do, dance, and any race we could run in. These sports would keep us in shape for when they would come and it would prepare us for what was coming. I didn't tell Maya, she just knew I think it was because she was a telepath and we had a twin bond.
You can't tell Maya and I are twins, sure we have the same curly, shoulder-length, black hair and the same personality, loud and bubbly, but other than that we are completely different. She has indigo eyes that in the right light looked violet, a face with sharp features, and a lean muscular body. I have hazel eyes with flecks of green and gold, a heart shaped face with soft features, and a curvy body. She looks like our father, Mark Sparks, and I look like our mother, Sophia Sparks (nee Greene). We have one brother, Derek, who is two years older and two sisters, Chloe and Sydney, who are three and four years younger than us. We were a happy little family until they came.
The day they came was like any other.