I jolted awake to see myself in... a living room?

It wasn't just me and the five people that were with me in the truck either. There were four other people. Two of them were smiling and looked to be in their thirties or forties; one man and one woman. The other two appeared to be just watching and they weren't smiling. They looked to be only a few years older than me; one guy and one girl.

"Now that you're all up, we can began introductions," the woman said smiling. "First of all, I would like to welcome you all to your new home."

What the hell? Our new home? That made it seem like we were never leaving.

"This land is surrounded by a force field that none of you can break through," she said looking us each in the eye. "Not even with your powers."

Powers? What the hell was up with the powers? Were we talking about money? I mean, to many, money was power.

"Now," she said clapping her hands together once, "who wants to begin?"

The way she said it made it seem like she was a kid in Disneyland, and she was listening to hear which ride was the best. It was like she didn't know that she had just broken the law and kidnapped five teenagers. At least I think they were all teens.

"How about you?" she asked turning to the red-headed guy.

He looked behind him like he expected her to be talking to someone else. Then he just turned around and looked at her with narrowed eyes. Suspicious and frightened eyes. Can't blame him.

"Fine then," she said pressing her lips together to form a tight line. "My name is Jane Milston and this here is Logan Clarx. We operate this place and determine what goes and what does not. Everyone here listens to us or there are consequences. These are our assistants: Tina and Adam. Any questions you have you can ask us or them."

Logan Clarx was the man that looked to be forty-something. His hair looked a little peppered and he had a little bit of wrinkles in his face, but that didn't make him look old. Now, he was a big man and not big as in fat either. He seemed like the kind of guy that could accidently break your arm just by shaking it. Looking at him, I could sense a sort of strength like that despite the lack of huge muscles.

Jane Milston was a petite woman who looked to be somewhere in her thirties. Her hair was a honey blonde color, she wore thin wire glasses, and she had a nice smile. If she hadn't just kidnapped me and all these people, I would have said that she was a nice person.

Adam and Tina looked related. They both had brown hair -Tina's longer, of course, and darker- brown eyes, but Adam had thin lips and Tina had pouty ones. Adam was inches taller than Tina. Twins, I would guess.

"And you, my dear," Jane said turning back to red-head dude, " are Gill Soloman. You have two sisters, Ashleigh and Laura. You've gotten top honors since you were in fourth grade and you have had perfect attendance since sixth grade. You've only broken one bone in your body, which was in third grade. You broke your arm. Your mother is a real estate agent and your father is a lawyer."

There was an uneasy silence as Jane looked at at Gill like,See?

I was kind of afraid now. I mean... had they been watching us all of our lives? That's just a little freaky, y' know?

Jane looked at the girl who had been sitting next to Gill. Or rather, placed next to Gill.

I saw her gulp from across the room. "Nina Portson," she said licking her lips nervously.

We all turned to look at Golden Boy, who was sitting by himself in a La-Z-Boy chair. "Evan Carvey," he said looking Jane straight in the eye.

She didn't stare into his. She looked straight at the dude with painted on hair.

He glared at her with hatred in his eyes. "Chris," he said coldly. Yeah, he looked pretty pissed off.

I was next and for a moment I couldn't speak. I opened my mouth and nothing came out. She was smiling at me with this strange look in her eyes. A look that she didn't give any of the others.

"A.." I began then stopped. A? My name didn't start with A. "Zoe," I said clearing my throat. "Kaplan," I added.

Jet Black Hair Dude looked at her boredly. "Brecker," he said.

My guess was that that wasn't his first name.

For a while, Jane looked at him with narrow eyes. It was like she was trying to see right through him.

"Well done," she said with an amused smile. "Now we all know each other a little bit better."

"What the hell are we doing here?" Chris suddenly asked angrily.

"We brought you here to enhance your powers," Logan said stepping up for the first time, "and to chose the weak from the strong."

"What powers?" I blurted as I jumped up, not being able to handle the fact that I was so lost. I didn't expect every eye in the whole room to turn and look at me blankly.

Logan smiled a wide smile. A wicked smile.

"The lovely Miss Kaplan," he said coming towards me. He stopped in front of me and raised my chin with his fingers so I could met his eyes directly. A chill went up my arms. "You, my darling, have been a mystery to me for over eleven years."

I looked up at him coldly. This bastard has been watching me for eleven years? That's more than half my life. And then he had the nerve to call me darling? What a freak.

His fingers sent a cold tingle through my body. One that mad me feel sick. I felt like he was... like he was trying to get inside me or something. It hurt me. My brain began to feel like it was pulsing.

Logan smirked at me and that made me mad. I slapped his hand away suddenly pissed off. This guy was doing something to my head and he was enjoying it.

"Go to hell," I whispered.

He began to laugh amused. "So, Zoe, how's your mother?"

I began to narrow my eyes but they widened instead as I remembered the fire. By Logan's laugh, I had a pretty good idea how the fire started.

I shook my head and backed away from him. "You won't get away with any of this," I said my voice low, trying to stay in control.

"Won't I?" he asked stepping into the middle of the room to face everyone with an amused face. "According to the world, you're not kidnapped. You're all dead! No one's going to come looking for you. There's no place for any of you to go. This is your only home."

I guess the look our faces sent him into another laughing fit and Jane into another set of smiles.

Chris jumped up. "We won't let you get away with any of this!"

"And we will stop you, whatever you're doing or planning on doing," Gill said matter-of-factly.

Evan stood up. "And we can beat you because together we're more powerful than you are," he said simply.

"Oh?" Logan said in a mocking way.

He waved his hand and suddenly all of us who were standing were sent flying across the room and into a bookcase.

Ouch.

Apparently, Trevon and Nina were the only smart ones of this bunch.

As we struggled to get up, Jane turned to Tina and Adam and whispered to them.

"Adam and Tina will now show you to your rooms," she announced loudly as if flying across the room had affected our hearing. "And no more funny business. We wouldn't want you to get hurt."

God, you'd think we were in some kind of fun camp except without the fun. Or the camp. So I guess it was more like we were in prison. Or something.