CJ's Point of View

"7:00, CJ, time to get up" Whisper woke me with a start. Hearing a synthesised voice is depressing after dreaming about a boy like Ian. As I got out of bed and stretched, I noticed a figure lying on the once vacant bed. "Interesting, a new kid" I thought to myself. She seemed short for the usual 15 year old with a athletic build; she had light brown hair that covered the rest of her face and looked like the kid of girl all boys paw after. I genteelly shook her shoulder and braced myself for the usual first day flip-out. The new kid rolled and mumbled something that was incoherent. She pushed the hair out of her face and her eyes shot open to revile a startling periwinkle.

"Who are you? Where am I? What am I doing here?" she said in a rush with her eyes darting around the room.

"I am CJ. We're at Tower Prep. I think I could ask the last one to you, along with ask for your name. Have ever done something that you can't explain but it seems perfectly natural? And how old are you" I responded. I could tell she was cautious about answering.

"Natalie Hawthorn, you can call me Nat. 15 years old. I can read minds. What can you do?" Nat said while sending curious looks at me from the corner of her eye.

"I can read facial expressions and tell what a person is thinking. Now hurry up, you need to get dressed and to orientation, Nat." I said with a smile. I showed her to her clothes and waited for her. As I waited, I was deep in thought about whether or notNat is going to adjust like the rest or be different like me and my group.. She walked out in a normal light blue collared shirt with a charcoal gray skirt, a matching sweater, and a red tower prep hoodie. When she walked up, I started leading her to breakfast. We got our food and I walked over to Ian, Suki, and Gabe. As we sat down, the others eyes were staring at Natalie.

"Hi. I'm Natalie Hawthorn, you can call me Nat." she said awkwardly.

"I'm Suki," Suki said in a perfect mimic of Nat's voice. "I think your eyes are really pretty by the way." This caused Nat's face to turn red.

"Me, too." Gabe said in a joking voice, but then it changed to his Hyper-suasion voice. "You want to kiss me." I saw Nat almost leaning in to kiss Gabe.

"Gabe, stop; I'm Ian." As Ian was talking Gabe threw an apple at Ian's head. As I heard Nat gasp, Ian reaches out a hand and catches it.

"So, you mimic people, you persuade people with your voice, you can react to stuff quicker than most, and you can tell people's emotions by their facial expressions." Nat said as she pointed at each of us in turn.

"Pretty much, personally I think CJ's is the best." Ian looked at me and made an eye contact that made my heart flutter.

"See you later." Nat said then she turned to me," Can you show me were to go?"

"Sure." Nat followed me out of the room.

She turns to me as soon as the door closed," What's with you and Ian?"

I turned around and read Nat's face. Scared, nervous, and curious."It's nothing."

"Not from what you and Ian were thinking about each other" She said with a sly, sideways grin