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Chapter 2

"Linkin!"

"Stevens!"

"It's good to see you Mr. Linkin."

"You too Stevens."

This is the first thing Iggy and I encountered when we walked into homeroom. Aid walked over and sat on one of the desks and put her feet on the chair in front of her.

"Linkin, this is Max and her brother Jeff. They just moved here." Mr. Linkin sat down at his desk and put his feet on it.

"Max, Jeff, nice to meet you guys. Where did you move here from?"

"Colorado." Iggy said. Mr. Linkin nodded with approval.

"BLAKE!"

"ADRIENNE!" I turned to see what the screeching was about.

"What's going on?" Iggy asked quietly, leaning down closer to my ear.

"I think one of Aid's friends came in and by the volume of their screeching, they haven't seen each other in a while."

"Ah."

"Sorry guys!" Aid turned and said to us. "This is my best friend, Blake."

"Hi." Blake said to us, smiling.

"So! I forgot to tell you." Aid said. "On the first day of school, we have a pep fest. It's basically a pep rally, our school just refuses to call it that. Each grade sits together and they wear their grades color. Freshman have grey, sophomores are white, juniors black and seniors wear orange!" I looked around the classroom seeing that everyone was wearing an orange senior shirt. Some people, like Blake and Aid, were wearing all orange. "You can sit with us if you want." Iggy answered Aid for me. "Yeah, as long as Nick can sit with us."

"Of course! I actually ment to as-" Aid was cut off by Linkin handing her her new schedule.

"AP English again Stevens? You better work harder in there than you did last year. I don't want to see those grades when you can do better than that. Some with that HP Physics." Aid nodded as she let her head hang.

"Yes sir, I plan on it." Linkin nodded as he continued to pass out schedules. When he gave Iggy and me ours, I read off Iggy's:

1) HP Physics

2) Economics

3) AP English

4) Art of Film

5) Culinary Arts

6) Pre Calculus

There were some difficult classes it looked like... My schedule, I thought, wasn't too bad.

1) Pre Calculus

2) Physics

3) English

4) Art of Film

5) Government

6) Comp Sports

WTH is Comp sports? Aid came over and asked to look at our schedules. "Cool! I have Art of Film with you both, gov with you, Max, and then physics and English with you Jeff. Max, I t also looks like you have English, math and gov with Blake." Good... That means I will know people.

"Ok!" Mr. Linkin shouted. "Time to head down to the pep fest!" Everyone in homeroom started walking down to the main gym. About half way there, we ran into Fang and Jake. Fang just slung his arm around me without saying anything. I gave him a questioning look.

"Guys behind you were checking you out." I silently laughed at Fang's overprotectiveness.

The pep fest was fun alright. I got to know Jake, Aid and Blake a bit more. After the pep fest, we headed to first hour. Since Blake was in Pre Calc with me, we just walked together.

"Where did you and your family move here from?"

I replied with the first place that popped into my head. "Colorado."

"Nice! How are you liking Minnesota?"

"It's alright. It's pretty flat, but we haven't been here very long." We were quiet for a bit before I remembered that I needed to be learning more about Adrienne. "Aid seems cool. Tell me a bit more about her." Blake smiled sadly.

"You should have seen her before." I decided to play dumb and ask: "Before what?" Blake was quiet for a minute, as if she was deciding whether or not to tell me.

"Well, it's no secret around here about what happened to Adrienne, so I don't think she will get too mad at me for telling you." Blake took a deep breath. "Back in June, about two weeks after school got out, Aid and Jake went to a park near Aid's house. Jake got a call from his mom saying that his sister had an allergic reaction to something and that she was in the hospital. Aid insisted that he go to his sister, and that she would walk home in a little bit. Jake left and she started texting me. I think that she was walking home when these guys walked up behind her and covered her mouth and nose with a chloroform soaked rag. I was the last person to talk to her." Blake took another deep breath.

"Jake blamed himself the entire time, saying that he should have insisted on taking her home. We spent almost two months looking for her before she called her mom. She was three hours north, in a city called Duluth.

"Aid told the cops about this laboratory that conducted these experiments on her. I think that the only person she told them to in detail was Jake." Blake and I got to class, and took two seats next to each other towards the back. She said hi to a few people, but as soon as we sat down, she continued her story.

"Before she was kidnapped, Aid was this huge ball of light. Sure, she had her own issues, depression and stuff, but when it came to her friends, if any of us had a problem, it became her problem. If anyone was sad, she would do everything in her power to make them happy because she has spent half of her schooling career depressed and she didn't want anyone else to feel that way." The teacher came in then and quickly went of this year's syllabus. After, she gave us the rest of class to talk.

I turned to Blake. "Aid seems like she is still like that."

"Aid has been in every school play and musical here since 9th grade. She went to an elementary school that specializes in the arts. She's been like my sister since the second day of school our freshmen year, and I can tell you, it's all an act.

"I've talked to Jake a few times since Aid's been back, and he told me that she's called him at two am crying, because of the nightmares. She is suddenly terrified of fire and water when she used to love them both. Sometimes, if you look closely, you can see her tense up when someone she doesn't know gets too close. She has panic attacks constantly and her depression has gotten worse. It kind of makes you think about what they could have done to make her like this." Blake smiled sadly again and as the bell rang, I thought, 'trust me, I can'.

The rest of the day went by slowly. I had 3 classes with Fang and lunch with Nudge and everyone else. Turns out, Nudge was becoming friends with Jake's sister. School got out at 2, so Nudge, Iggy, Fang, and I went home to wait for Gasman to get out at 2.40 and Angel to get out at 4.30.

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Adrienne sat at the dining room table with a glass of water and an unlit candle in front of her. She rested her hands on the table and set her head on top of them. She sat and stared at the water as a perfect sphere of water rose above the glass. Aid let it hang there for a while and just stared at it with a blank face.

The feeling of absolute terror when she woke of in a dog cage will never leave Aid. The scars on her stomach from when the scientists cut her open without any anesthetic as they failed to increasing her healing will never go away. The super hearing, smell, and speed from the canine DNA she was injected with can't be ignored. Her ability to control the elements, (not matter how cool it would have been to be able to do four months ago) was now hated, because it was given to Aid forcefully and painfully. Reading and communicating through minds was interesting though.

The nightmares and flashbacks haunt Aid. Being in school, surrounded by people was awful. Thankfully Jake was there to help.

Aid let the ball of water splash back into the glass. She slowly moved her attention to the candle and stared at it as the wick caught fire.

She hated this. She hated what that lab did to her.