Jinx was in a bad mood.
And there is only
one way to get out of bad moods: work them off.
So that was why she was in
the training room blasting robots with an emotion-energy whip. It was invisible
to the eye, but Jinx felt it solid and real in her hand as she drew it back over
her head and let it fly. The robots knew it was real too. Every time the whip
hit them they'd explode.
Jinx sighed and turned off the program. She watched
with disinterested eyes as the cleanup robots came in and carried away the
remains of the robots. She let the whip dissipate in her hand and left the room.
Her mood was in no way improved. She gave a frustrated growl she stalked out
of the school and onto the grounds.
She watched boredly as the basketball
game some of the other kids were playing with little interest. She looked down
as she felt something rub against her ankles.
It was a little black and gray
kitten. Jinx bent down and picked it up.
"Hey Kitty." Jinx said softly.
The kitten purred in reply and rubbed it's head against her
cheek.
"Friendly little guy aren't ya?" Jinx asked grinning.
The kitten
gave a small meow and looked at her with innocent eyes. Jinx laughed. Happiness
radiated off the kitten like rays of the sun. Jinx definitely preferred animals
to humans. Animals emotions were truer and more distinct that the jumbled up
human emotions.
Jinx snapped out of her reverie as she heard someone yell,
"Cloudy!"
Jinx saw a young girl about thirteen running toward them.
The
kitten gave another soft meow and jumped out of her arms. It ran over to the
girl and jumped into her arms.
"Thank you so much for finding Cloudy!" The
girl said happily.
Her emotions screamed relief and happiness like a neon
sign.
"That's all right he found me." Jinx replied.
"You're a very
naughty kitten Cloudy," the girl scolded shaking a finger at the kitten but she
didn't seem the least bit angry.
The girl smiled at Jinxed, "I'm Raine and
this is Cloudy."
"I'm Jinx." Jinx answered.
Raine smiled again, "thank
you again for finding Cloudy. I'm sorry but I must go or I'll be late for class.
Bye!" The girl ran toward the school carrying Cloudy in her arms.
Jinx
smiled, "nice kid." Her bad mood had vanished.
Jinx found Logan in the kitchen eating a bowl of soup. He grunted as he she came into the kitchen.
"Hello too." Jinx replied sitting across from him holding a cup of tea in her hands.
She had become an expert in Loganese.
They eat and drank in silence. Draining her cup of tea Jinx stood up, "I'm going to take a shower. See ya later."
She set her cup down on the counter and walked out of the kitchen.
Jinx turned the water onto warm and held her face up to the water. She closed her eyes in bliss. Opening her eyes she bent down and squirted some shampoo that smelled like tropical flowers onto her hand. She worked it into a lather in her hair then rinsed. She turned the water up a notch.
Suddenly she stiffened. She could feel the tiniest thread of memory sneak into her thoughts. Clenching her jaw she screwed her eyes shut knowing there was nothing she could do to stop it.
:: The girl screamed as the man reached down and snapped her arm like a twig. She felt a momentary flash of pain before the bone mended.
The man wrote something on a notebook he held and did the same thing to the rest of her limbs.
The girl closed her eyes trying to block out their emotions: excitement, amusement and calm.
I hate them! She snarled silently.
She turned her head away from them and looked out through the window at the stars in the sky.
Someday. Someday soon. I will pay them back for everything they have ever done to me. She promised silently. And when I do they'll regret ever messing with me like some science experiment. ::
Jinx opened her eyes she knew she was crying but she couldn't tell. The water was mixing with her tears.
The water.
It was now ice cold.
Jinx turned it off and stepped out of the shower. She wrapped a towel around her body and another one around her hair.
She opened the bathroom door and went into her bedroom.
For once she was glad that the school had given her a room with a bathroom and shower she didn't want anyone to see was crying.
She pulled on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. She worked through the tangles in her hair with her fingers. When it was relatively tangle free she opened her glass door leading to her balcony.
She laid down on her back and stared up at the stars, loosing herself in their multitude.
Sometime later she fell asleep.
