Chapter 2
Luria
My hands were heating up. They had gone too far. I couldn't take it anymore. My hands burst into flames and I punched Andrew. His clothes immediately caught fire and he started running around the classroom like a maniac. I looked at my hands in horror. What am I doing? I thought to myself. This isn't right! I focused all my attention on my hands and eventually they cooled down again. When I looked up again, all my classmates were looking at me in terror. I had gone too far. Just then the teacher walked in with a fire extinguisher. I thought quickly. If they found out that it was me who did it, which they will because Andre was a witness, I will surely be expelled. I couldn't come back. I did the only thing I could think of. I jumped out the window.
"Freak!" I heard someone shout.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw all of the students gathering around the window trying to see what would happen to me. I was sure I was going to die. But some unseen force seemed to grab me and I thought if I survive, I will come back to this school and say my deepest apologies. But now, all I thought was to get out of here. Anywhere but here. By tomorrow morning, this will be all over the news. There's no way I could stay in Austin anymore. And I couldn't possibly go back to my parents. The principle will have already told my parents and they wouldn't want to have a freak like me. No way. I didn't have any plans for the future, but I just knew that I had to get out of here.
