My brother went missing about a year ago. My parent's know where he is, I can tell. They just won't tell me. I swing my legs over the bed I was lying on. I'm suppose to be at school, but what my parent's don't know can't hurt them. I get out of my room and into the shower. When I get out I brush my long, like to my waist long, hair. It's black, like pure black. My eye's are green, so my friends at school always call me Harry Potter. I'm not even british, for crying out loud. The phone rings, and I normally wouldn't answer it, but it was my cell, and I didn't see the number, but I knew it wasn't my parents.
"Hello?" I ask.
"Hello, Blake. I am Whisper. How are you feeling?" It asked.
"I'm okay, you?" that's when I fell onto my bed. When I woke up, I wasn't in my room at my house. No, I was in a light blue room with three beds in it, including the one I was on. I was still in my red t-shirt and yellow skinny jeans...pants..not really jeans. I felt my converse on my feet and my hair was dry.I sat up and saw two girls on the other beds, talking to each other.
"Ian? Not at all. How about Gabe?" one girl asks.
"Uhh..no!" the other replied. One was asian and the other had tan skin, dark eyes, and dark hair. They were both very pretty.
"Hi?" I ask. They both turn to me. I can read them easily, like everyone else. They are taking me in, the sound of my voice, my appearance, everything.
"I'm Suki Sato, and this is CJ Ward." the asian girl says.
"I'm Blake Forrest." I say. Suki's eyebrows shoot up and I read her mind.
"You know my brother?"I ask. This must be his school.
"How'd you know I was thinking about Gabe?" Suki asks.
"It's my gift, you could say. Now what is this school?" I ask back.
"It's Tower Prep...for kids with gifts, like yours, mine...Suki's.." CJ says.
"What are your's?" I ask. So many questions play on my tongue.
"I can imitate anything, voice, writing, stuff like that." Suki says.
"I can read different facial signs, ticks, different breaths." CJ explains.
"I'm hungry." I say.
"Good, it's almost dinner." CJ says. We sit there, and then they realize what I'm wearing.
"You need to change before we go out." Suki says. I nod and turn to a big wardrobe closet and open it to find different clothes. I change into sweat pants and a sweatshirt that say Tower Prep on the hip and shoulder. We leave to the cafe after that. The hallways are large and have posters on the walls. There are a lot of people in the hall with us, all wearing red. Must be the school's color. When we get there, CJ and Suki lead me to a table after we got our food, I got a salad, Suki pizza, and CJ a salad too. I sit down and look at my food when two guys sit down in front of my. I whip my head up and look diagonal to see my brother, Gabe Forrest.
"Gabe, we have a surprise for you." Suki says, motioning to me.
"Hey." I wave. I read his mind, seeing his face twist from horror to shock to disbelief, to anger, and finally into surprise, but happiness.
"Blake?" he cries. I nod.
"Why are you here?" he asks.
"Don't worry, I didn't get into trouble, and no, I can't use hypersuasion like you. Does that help you out?" I ask.
"Yeah...I've always known you could...read minds. Hyper aware of everything as a kid, you were so annoying." he started. I grew angry and got up.
"Stop!" a boy next to Gabe says. He's got blond hair and greyish blue eyes. His name is...I scan minds around the room, until I get his name. Ian Archer. Pre flex, knowing before it happens.
"What?" I spit. "I didn't go through a whole year of not having a brother, losing my parents, losing my friends, for nothing! You can't treat me like that if you did the same thing, Gabes! Do it again and I'll tell them about Megan." I threaten, a smirk on my face. He looks at me speechless.
"That's what I thought." I say, sitting back down. Suddenly I'm not hungry, but I don't leave.
"Who's Megan?" Ian asks. I laugh.
"It wasn't a who exactly, more like a...what..."I laugh.
"Don't!" Gabe tries to use his powers but it doesn't work, not on me.
"About three months before Gabe left me with certain people" I cough "he had a HUGE crush on this really nerdy girl named Megan, but she had a nerdy boyfriend, who happened to be my best friends brother, at the time anyway, and I walked into Gabe's room one time and say him making out with a pillow calling it Megan." I laugh.
"You little!" Gabe says.
"Not little, I'm older." I reply, still laughing.
"By two minutes!"
"I'm still older." I fought back. I turned around and saw a girl with buttons.
"Oh those are cool." I say I reach out to get one from her and once I touch it, everyone at the table screams 'No!'. I'm confused and then I feel it. The room starts to move and I run out of the cafe. I'm lost, but I keep running until I pass out on the floor. I open my eyes and see I'm in the infirmary. I've got an IV stuck in my hand and the walls are still moving, but the thing is, I can't hear anything. And there are people all around me. I start to get worried, and wound up hyperventilation to passing out again. When I woke up I was surrounded by Gabe and Ian on my right, Suki and CJ on my left. There is an oxygen mask over my mouth and nose. I raise my left hand and rub my eyes because I can feel the IV still in my right hand. The walls stay where they are suppose to and I can start to read people's minds again. I go to talk and find Nurse coming over to check on me.
"Good your awake. How do you feel?" she asks.
"Better. What was that?" I reply as she takes the mask off me.
"Chemica Desin. It stops your abilities. We've cured you though, don't worry. You'll need to stay here for another hour, but then you can leave." Nurse walks away, but leaves the IV in. I turn to the people around my bed.
"The button. This has happened before." I say. They all nod.
"Gabe?" I ask. He looks up.
"Megan's boyfriend dumped her then got hit by a car. It was kinda funny, but it was also bad because he was Chrissy's brother."
"What do you mean, was?" Gabe asks.
"Is. That's why I'm not friends with her anymore." I say.
"Why?" Suki asks.
"She was so sad her brother got hit by a car, but didn't care enough to realize he was still alive. I didn't even know where you were. I kind of blocked everyone off after that." I mutter.
"Blake, when's the last time you were actually at school?" Gabe asks.
"Why?" I shoot up the protective wall.
"Because I know you. Remember when I broke my leg? You disappeared for a week." Gabe says. I sigh. Today is what, December 5th?
"Well?" CJ pushed.
"A while." I say, avoiding the question.
"How long is a while?" Ian asks.
"October." I say. Nobody says anything, then Gabe speaks.
"October what?"
"Umm...3rd..."I reply nervously.
"What happened to you?" He asks.
"You left!"
"Will you be better now?" he asks.
"Get me out of the hospital, let me take a shower, and I'll go to the school." I promise.
"Okay, get Nurse." Gabe says. CJ reaches behind me and pushes a button and Nurse comes.
"Is she ready to go?" Suki asks.
"I think so, don't you, Nurse?" Gabe says. Nurse nods and starts unhooking my IV. I start to get out of the bed, but have to do it slowly, and at that, Ian gives me a piggy back ride. I laugh.
"Here we are." Suki says, opening the door. Ian sets me down and I wave as he leaves.
"You sure you can shower?" Suki says. I nod and grab towels and clothes and shower. Shen I get out, I'm wearing a blue shirt with a red jacket and a brown skirt. I've still got my converse high tops, black. I put them on, and Suki and CJ lead me to our first class, English. I try something. We enter and I start speaking in French. The teacher laughs and speaks back, and nobody really knows what were saying. I start speaking in English then, and ask were to sit. The only open spot is in between Ian and Gabe and in front of a boy named Fenton. I take my seat and hear someone's thoughts. I tense up, and Gabe see's that. I listen and hear a male voice from three rows back. It's saying something pretty interesting, like bad interesting, about me..what I was wearing, hey he just called me Harry Potter!
"If you want to say something to me, say it to my face, and DON'T call me Harry Potter, Markus." I say, not even bothering to turn around. I hear a stream of giggles and smirk. The class is easy, as is the next which is Biology, then Math, everything was easy. Lunch was good, as in fun. I had pizza, but I only nibbled it. After that we had History and then electives. Mine was time with coach. See, when Gabe left, I took up boxing and working out. A lot. When I went to change for my elective, I saw the only clothes for working out that I wanted to wear was a white tank top, white sports bra, and white shorts. But the only shorts I had, were really short. I shrugged and put them on along with white sneakers. I walked to the work out part where i met with the coach and I was the only girl there. I didn't care.
"How much do you work out, Forrest?" Coach asks. One of the guys scoffed.
"Never, she's a Forrest." he said. It was Markus. I laugh.
"Every day, plus karate on Tuesdays and Thursdays and boxing the rest. Gymnastics on Wednesdays, swimming Mondays." I say.
"Yeah right!" Markus says. I laugh at him. Ian's there, watching silently.
"Go get gloves on, Blake. Ian you're her partner. Boy, sit down and learn. Markus, I wouldn't mess with a girl who could pound you." Coach says. I smile. I go get gloves on and Ian gets the hand pads on for where I'm suppose to punch.
"When you're ready." Ian says. I nod, and turn to Coach.
"I need to do something to warm up, alright?" I ask. He nods. I tell Ian to move and I focus on a ball. I put it on the wall and I look at Ian.
"I am going to grab the ball with my foot. Got it?" he nods. I breath in. I start by walking to the other side of the long room and running, roundalf backhand springs, arial, and when I land, I've got the ball balancing on the top on m foot. I smile and throw the ball to Coach. Ian comes out and I start punching the targets, softly at first, he smiles. I start doing it a little bit harder, and harder, to the point to where he's staggering backwards. Someone throws a ball at my back. I whip my hand to my back and catch it. I stop and turn, sweat dripping off my back.
"You can't be that good." Markus says. I laugh.
"Ian, give Markus the targets." Coach orders. I smile and start in on Markus, punching the targets. He tries moving the targets, but I get them every time. I stop, finally tired. I back up and turn around to see a lot of the guys just watching.
"Well?" I ask.
"I'm impressed, Forrest." Coach said.
"Can I go get changed?" I ask. Coach nods and Ian follows me, his room near mine.
"You're good." Ian said.
"Thanks. I'm guessing your not bad if Coach had me against you." I reply. I stop because I'm at my room.
"See you in a little while." Ian says, continued on to his room. I showered and changed into jeans and a sweatshirt. Suki and CJ come in and bring me to this room, filled with different artifacts. I look at all of the things and then Gabe and Ian come in. I look at Ian smile. He rubs his stomach, where I accidentally kicked him today... I laugh.
"What's so funny?" CJ asks.
"She kicked me!" Ian whines. I laugh even harder. I have my hair in a pony tail right now, but it kinda hurts, so I take it down. I go to the desk and see they have school work layed out.
"This stuff is so easy." I mutter.
"I thought you didn't go to school." CJ said.
"She doesn't need to. She scored a higher than the perfect average on her SAT's." Gabe said.
"I'm a certified genus! Unlike my annoying little brother." I tease.
"Hey!" Gabe starts.
"I wouldn't dude. She's pretty tough. And she hurts if you get into a fight with her." Ian says.
"What exactly happened today?" Gabe asks.
"I was the only girl in the work out group thing." I explain.
"And...? You did gymnastics last I knew. Training for the Olympics. What happened?" Gabe asks.
"Again, you left. I took up boxing and karate." I say. Gabe looks scared.
"Anyway, we have something to talk about." Ian says.
"Like what?" Suki asks.
"Coach took me aside today. He wants Blake to join the gymnastics team...but he also wants her as a buffer." Ian says.
"Can't I do both?" I ask.
"Yeah, but buffer is only guys." Gabe says.
"I'll figure it out." I murmur. We get our work done and the next day Ian takes me to buffer practice.
"Coach!" Ian yells. Buffer is like street hockey with a ball and a puck and the stick has a hockey stick on one side and lacrosse on the other. Coach has me strap on skates and the proper padding. I'm ready to go and Ian plays defense as I try to score. I score a lot and then other guys start coming in, helping me, pushing me, and I still get enough to win a game.
"Blake! Your on!" Coach yells. I smile and when I get my skates and pads off, I run and hug Ian, and then back away and blush.
"Sorry.."I stutter. Ian grabs my hand and we run to the room.