The rest of the conversation with my mother was pretty much expected. We talked about what's been going on at home. As to what's been going on with me here I didn't know if I could tell her much, so I just told her I'm learning more about my powers. I would ask why she never told me about myself but I don't think I should put that on her.
"I want to see you guys, Mom," I say.
"I want to see you too. I don't know when we can see you but maybe it'll be soon."
"What about your health? What's happened with your Cancer? "
"Don't worry, honey. It's getting better. The tumor is shrinking. It's only a matter of time before it goes away."
We both laugh and cry over the news. Mom has been battling this disease for almost two years now. The tumor never really went away and never really grew enough or caused enough trouble to kill her. Mom calls herself "one of the lucky ones" and I believe her. After a while, my back starts to hurt from sitting and leaning against the wall. I say goodbye to my mom and hang up the phone. As I stand up, I think I see a figure move down the hall. When I walk over, I see Jenn quickly trying to speed away.
"Hey! Jenn!" I call out to her. She stops dead in her tracks and turns around slowly. She attempts to look like she was just watching me but fails. I ask her if she heard my phone call.
"No, idiot. You know, I don't always pay attention to you just because you were my friend. You're not that important to me. In fact-"
"OK OK. I don't need an explanation to you're staring." I say, trying to calm the air between us but her face stays emotionless. We stand in silence for a moment.
"I'm sorry," I say, softly but I know she hears me. Her face softens and she quickly looks at anything other than me."
"You know, my parents never really fought for me. I even think that they never really cared that much about me and cared more about their reputation. They didn't want the crazy to be known as their daughter." I can't disagree with that.
"I kind of thought that too when they never really tried to get you back. I mean they pretended they did but I could tell that it was fake." Jenn looks up at me.
"At least you still have your mother and your family that still care about you." She quickly walks past me and down the hallway, in the opposite direction, before I can respond.
Walking back to my room, after hanging out with the othera for a while, I see a calendar on the inside of my door. It shows the schedule for this month. I never really considered the amount of time I would stay here. Glancing at the clock, 8:30, I fall down on by back and stare at the ceiling
I remember the first time I met Jenn. Which was a while after I had met Jonah. It was during summertime before 6th grade and me and Jonah, and our parents, we at the pool. Jonah had dared me to go to the highest bar and dive down. No matter how much of a brave person I was, I completely hated and was terrified of the idea on falling form high points. But for some reason, my almost 6th grader head decided to do it anyway. In front of me one the board, was a, I measured, 7 year old girl who just jumped off and into the water with no trouble whatsoever.
As I inched near the end of the board, I snuck a peack down and, my god, some asshole of a girl said something loud to me which startled. I thought I was gonna fall then. I turned around and it was a girl dressed in a one-piece flowery bathing suit, looking at me with her eyebrows raised.
"Its not that scary, just go."
I looked at her like she's crazy.
"Haven't you ever heard of a leap of faith?" She asks.
I stared at her for a while until my hands slips on the rail and I slowly plummeted to my death. Not really but you get what I mean. I let out a short shriek and hit the water. Swimming up to the surface, I see Jenn falling down toward me and makes a huge splash, getting more water in my eyes.
"That wasn't so bad, was it?" she says, smiling at me. Jonah swam over to us. He tells me "Awesome!" before looking at Jenn. He asks who she is and she says her name us Jennifer and that we should call her Jenn. I look at Jonah and he is staring at her with affection. At least that's what I thought it was. She smiled at both of us. She always liked to smile. From there we became beat friends and eventually Jonah and Jenn started "dating" until she disappeared.
I know that Jenn us nothing like she was before, but I still like to think of how she used to be. These powers ruined her life. I don't yet see what good they can actually do in one's life. Or what good it could do in mine.