Chapter 2

Lola POV

I can't believe that I am in here. In a little two by four, dark and musty cell. Just because my powers are different from theirs they think that they have the right to lock me away for all eternity? It was my sister's idea. I just know it. She was always jealous that I had special powers but she was still seen as the golden child who could do no wrong. But I guess that was not enough for her. She had to be the only daughter that mom and dad paid attention to so she got rid of me.

I don't know what exactly my element is, but I know that I can move things around in the air, but I am not an air user. Or so my elements' teacher told me when I went to school.

My twin sister is Jenny Lazar, yes I am a Lazar, one of the royal families. Even though Jenny and I are twins we don't look alike. Sure we have the same light blonde hair but where her eye colour is a light blue, mine is a dark blue. As if you can see a storm starting to brew in my eyes. It has been known to freak some people out. Can you believe that my own twin would do this to me? Every day as a child when I did something different or out of the ordinary, Jenny would call me a freak or crazy and run to tell our parents what a rotten little girl I was.

That's probably where my hatred for my sister first started, with all the name calling and the glares that she would always send my way when she thought mom or dad weren't looking. I eventually learned to give it back to her, calling her worse names and going so far as to push and shove her out of my way.

I did not think that her hatred of me and my powers was so strong that she would go to the extreme as to convince our parents to send me to a place for Moroi who are crazy! When I get out of here, and I will find a way to, I will find her, wherever she is and give her a piece of my mind.

But, for now, I am stuck in this small room with a toilet out in the open and a bed that is as hard as steel. It might actually be made of steel. Oh, and did I mention that I have to share this small room with another girl? Well, I do! Although that is not so bad, Vanessa Conta is really nice and she is my age too, so it works. She has nice long black hair and kind brown eyes. I don't know why she is in here, but she can levitate things like me. Which is cool, now I don't feel so alone in my crazy powers club, as I call it.

"Dinner time ladies." I heard a guard say as a little door within our cell bars, like a doggie door opened with a clank and the guard slid out medal food trays across the hard floor making this offal screeching noise. I put my hands over my ears to block out the noise, as did Vanessa, who was sitting in her bed across our small cell room from my bed.

The doggie door clanked shout and the guard left out of sight, only the clicking of his boots told us where he was, then there was the sound of a door opening and then slamming shut. At last, all was quiet in the hallway full of cells with other 'crazy' Morios.

I turned my head to look at the food that was just given to us. It was not very appealing to me but, I did not eat dinner the night before and am starving. So I got up from my bed and went over to the tray and picked up one of the apples on it, then I went back to my bed to sit down and quietly eat my apple.

"Is it fresh this time?" Asked Vanessa quietly from her bed across our cell. She was looking at the apple wirily, holding her stomach. Thinking about the rotten fruit that the guards gave us last week and how it had made us so sick that we threw up the little that we had eaten that week.

I tensely took a small bite of the apple, then I chewed it for a bit then I swallowed. After waiting for about a minute to see if I felt sick, and feeling fine I took another bite of the apple.

"No, it tastes fine to me." I replied to Vanessa. After hearing from me that the food was okay, she leaped off her bed on to the ground and took the apple off the tray and took a huge bite out of it.

"Mmmmm..." Vanessa moaned. It had been a while since we had fresh fruit, and Vanessa had really missed it. She would come plain every day about the lack of anything tasty to eat. Fruits were her weakness like chocolate was mine.

When I finished my apple I was thirsty so I stared hard at the bottle of juice on the tray and it lifted up in mid-air and flew towards me then I caught it in my hand and unscrewed the cap and took a big gulp of its contents. "That was refreshing," I commented to Vanessa and held out the bottle to drink the half that was left since we only got one juice.

"Thanks," Vanessa said as she made the bottle fly towards her waiting hands and took a big gulp of it.

We are not allowed to use our powers in front of the guards because then they would beat us with hard sticks for being different or as they call it 'acting crazy'. So we only do this after we have gotten a meal like this because it means that the guards won't be checking up on us for a while. Only the guy in the cell across from ours could ever see us doing this, and he is too caught up in his own world to realize what is going on right in front of him, so we don't worry about getting caught much now. When I first got here and I realized that Vanessa had these weird powers too, we tried to use them to escape, but every time we got caught and beaten. So now we have pretty much given up on the idea of leaving. After all, we have been here for two years, I think.

"Come on Vanessa. We should get to bed we have counseling early tomorrow morning and our councilor doesn't like it when we are too tired to give lengthy responses to her weird questions." I informed Vanessa.

She looked sad but got into bed anyway knowing that I was right. For some reason the people in charge here make us go to these counseling sessions, maybe they are trying to find out what element we specialize in and why it is making us crazy. Or some bull shit like that.

Just as I was pulling my covers over me the lights in the hall shut off, that is the guards' way of telling us that we should get to bed and shut up. I drifted off thinking about how we can't be the only Morois who have this strange power and if we aren't then why are we the only ones locked up?!