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Chapter Two.
The Broken Clock.
Grace and Lucy-Ann made their way home from Lucy's school. Lucy chatted on and on about her day to her older sister who listened to every little detail. It was late in the afternoon and already beginning to get dark. Lucy stayed late to tutor younger kids. All the way back, street lights flickered to life and apartment lights illuminated. They were just about to reach their apartment complex when all the lights blared fiercely and then blacked out completely.
"What in the world…" Lucy-Ann started.
"William," She and Grace said in unison.
THE APARTMENT.
"Wow," Jake said to a frantic William, "You're gonna die."
"You don't think she'll really kill him, do you?" Lorena asked nervously.
"She might not have to," Ben said. "Looks like Sparky might have a heart attack."
William was worked up into a fit. He was pacing around the room anxiously while his friends watched on with grim amusement. The charred and broken pieces of a once beautiful antique clock lay on the floor of the blacked out room. Will caused a stray blot of electricity had hit it right before the blackout. Chuck was leaning over the shattered pieces of the clock. He reached over and rubbed one of the gears on the floor. The clock must have somehow channeled a blot into a power socket which was strong enough to black out the entire city.
Britney came running in bringing a gust of wind with her. "So I just checked, like, every store within, like, 15 miles of here and couldn't find another one like it," she said at a mile a minuet.
"Don't need to," Chuck said smoothly as he cleaned off the gear. "It looks like the pieces are fine, just smudged and darkened a bit. If we can clean, polish, and repair it, it will be alright."
"Yeah? And what about the black out?" Will finally said. "Grace is probably suspecting me. You know how upset she gets when we lose control of our powers and if she comes home and finds her clock destroyed…"
Anne looked up. She'd been in an almost sleep-like state listening to her friends. "About Grace…"
"WILLIAM!" Grace came busting in through the door and right up to Will. "What did you do?"
William was 6'2" and Grace only 5'4", but somehow she seemed much taller when ever she went into her "fearless leader" mode. The only one without powers, but still able to hold authority over them all. She stood there, arms crossed over her chest glaring at Will waiting for a response. Will starred over her head, but could still feel the burn of her eyes on him. Everyone else in the room began to slowly move towards the door. They didn't want to miss anything, but were ready to run if they needed to.
After what seemed like hours, Will finally looked down at Grace. "I guess I just got a little too worked up."
"Worked up?" Grace "Will, you know how dangerous you are when you get 'worked up.' You still don't have full control of your powers yet. What could you have gotten worked up over anyways?"
"Lorena walked by." Tom whispered before he got smacked.
Just then, the power came back on and made the tension level go down. The rest of the gang, no longer afraid that their lives were in danger, came back in the room.
"I know," Will said relaxing a bit.
Grace's hard expression softened a bit, "Honestly Will, sometimes I think you do this to me on purpose." She turned to leave him and finally saw the shattered clock. All the relief that had filled the room disappeared in an instant.
"He is so going to die now." Jake whispered to Chuck.
Lucy-Ann came to stand next to her sister and stare at the once beautiful clock. "Will, what did you do?" She said sadly, "You know how much this clock means to us."
"No! I mean, yes, but Chuck says it can be repaired! Please don't be mad at me Grace." William pleaded.
Grace stood there with an almost emotionless expression on her face for a few minuets. At last she sighed and turned to Will. "It's okay. You didn't mean it."
"So you're not mad?"
"No."
"Sweet!" he exclaimed and all traces of remorse vanished from his face. He lifted Grace off the ground and hugged her then turned to Tom, "I'm good, let's go!"
"Where?" asked Lucy-Ann.
"Out!" Tom replied leaping unto the ceiling and then crawling towards the door. "Anyone else coming?"
"I'll come!" Lorena shouted. She raced over and latched herself onto William's arm.
"Beef? Steel?" Will asked.
"Nah," Ben said. "I've got somewhere else to be."
"I think I'll stay here." Jake said.
"What about you Cilara? You have plans?" Lorena asked Britney.
"Yes, actually." She said while flashing a grin and Ben.
"I not going," Anne said lying down on the sofa, "Too many people freak me out. You have no idea the kinds of stuff I see when I'm in public."
"How do even know we'll be around lots of people?" Will asked her. She leaned forward to stare at him. "Oh, yeah. Phsyic."
"What about he rest of you?" Tom asked.
'Sorry, have exams to study for" Lucy-Ann responded.
"And what about you my fearless leader?" he asked.
Grace was still standing silently by her broken clock. "No." she said, "Go have your fun, just don't make have to come and bail you out of trouble, again."
That was all the answer they gang needed. Within five minuets they were all gone.
"No ever waits for my response." Chuck whispered quietly to himself.
Note: Hello again. I'm calling this little bit of writing "Brain Vomit." It's just something I needed to spit out so I could on with the rest. So here's what the plan is. I promise in the next two installments I will 1.) Give back stories, 2.) Tell about the clock and 3.) Have some actual characters in. if you want to help with back stories please message me!