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and I'm not sure about the rest yet. But I'll keep you posted, promise.
Serena's POV
As AJ sat up, I looked at her coolly, "You're glowing," I said nonchalantly, "do you do it often?"
She looked at me; her green eyes flickered with energy. "You are too you know. Is it normal for you?" she bit back.
I looked at my hands and they were indeed glowing a pearly white. "What the hell?" I muttered to myself. This was so not happening, there was no explanation about this, except that we were all facing mass hallucinations.
It didn't help that AJ was glowing as well, a steady black.
"Um, where's Gabriella?" I asked suddenly. Usually I would have heard her opinion by now.
"On the floor," she said.
I leaned over, and sure enough, there she was, and what a surprise, she was glowing too! Except she was glowing a deep red, almost the color of blood opposed to black or white. She was breathing hard and shaking, sweat beaded on her brow.
"You okay?" AJ asked her as she scrambled off the tabletop and to the floor. I took her example and came around the table, stopping at Gabriella's side.
"Do you feel it? The power? It's humming, thumping. It's hot; it's cold. It's surrounding us," Gabriella asked as we helped her up.
AJ shot me a look, asking if I knew what she was talking about; I shook my head no. It sounded as if Gabriella was downright nuts, which probably wasn't far from the truth. But what she was muttering was downright strange for her, let alone anybody else.
Half an hour later, we had stopped glowing and Gabriella was back to her normal self, well as normal as she got anyway. We were sitting in the living room, talking. I turned towards AJ, "Hey, do you still dance?" I asked her. When we had been at camp, she could mesmerize everybody by moving her body to the sound of music.
She shook her head, a blush creeping up her cheeks. "Not really. Well I'm not taking lessons. My mom found out about the belly dancing and made me stop. But I do it in private." I looked at her, and her face darkened. "No. There's no way I'm dancing in front of you two."
"Why not?" I pleaded. "It's not like we're going to laugh at you or anything. Seriously, you're good. You got the attention of the older kids, even though we were among the youngest there."
"So? I'm still not dancing," she told my, folding her arms across her chest.
I shot a look towards Gabriella; maybe she could help me. She seemed to get the message and turned to AJ. "Dance, please? Then could you teach me, I've always wanted to dance."
AJ shot me a dark look before sighing and standing up. "I'm not going to 'teach' you how to dance, but I'll try to get you in the groove. If that makes any sense. But put some music on, preferably instrumental."
Gabriella nodded and stood, walking over to the vast CD collection and started rifling through it. "Classical?" she pulled out a CD and sat it atop the CD player and then went back through the collection. "Braveheart?" she questioned and then put it with the classical CD. "Jazz?" went with the growing pile as well.
Finally Gabriella finished and handed AJ a stack of about ten CD's to look through. What AJ ended up choosing was Irish Folk songs. When I gave her a confused look, she shrugged. "It was in my own player earlier. I'm in the mood," she explained to me.
I nodded, getting her point and sat back, waiting for her to perform her magic. She stood in front of us and waited for the music to begin. As the music started, her body began to sway in time.
As her body moved, she started to glow that deep black that had appeared previously. Her movements grew quicker in speed, but stayed cool, calm, and collected. The black aura like thing began to pulse and grow brighter. It suddenly pulsed brightly and then dimmed. At that same instant AJ stopped dancing and stood in front of us.
I looked over at Gabriella, trying to catch her eye, but she was too entranced in watching AJ. "That was bloody amazing, if I do say so myself," Gabriella said finally.
AJ shot her a grin before collapsing into a chair. "Thanks. Now let me just catch my breath and collect my energy. Dancing has tired me out."
"You were glowing again," I commented.
She looked at me, "I was?" I nodded, but she shrugged it off and stood up, motioning for Gabriella to stand. She then turned to me, "Come on, get up," she told me before grabbing my hand and pulling me to my feet.
"But I don't dance! I have no sense of rhythm, you know that!" I complained as she stood me next to Gabriella.
"Quiet you! Everybody can dance, you just need to find the right teacher," AJ told me.
I raised an eyebrow in protest, but stayed silent as she went over the steps she was going to teach us. AJ stood in front of us, the three of us forming a triangle. "Ready?" she asked before turning on the music. It was made up of flutes, harps, and lyres.
We started moving, my jerky movements mixed with Gabriella's unsure ones and AJ's flowing. Somehow we all fit together and made us a pattern. Faster and faster we dancing together, power seemed to grow and pulse and the three of us started to emit those funky-colored auras like things. They pulsed in unison before flashing and then they blinked out.
We slowed, eventually stopping and we sunk to the ground: our bodies, minds, and souls thoroughly exhausted.
"Does anyone else think we just did something big, like really major?" Gabriella asked, her breath labored.
"Yeah, maybe we raised the dead," AJ suggested.
I gave her a sharp look, "That is entirely impossible. Don't joke about such things."
She sighed, causing Gabriella to laugh; "Don't you think the idea of impossible is gone? In case you didn't notice, something big happened tonight, a lot of big things happened in fact. And I don't know about you, but something's happening."
Gabriella looked at us, "Something big is happening all right," she sat up, her eyes still trained on us though. "And I have a feeling we're in the middle of it."
"Great, so we're some higher being's playthings?" AJ asked
I looked at her, "You don't believe in higher beings, remember."
She shrugged, "I know that, it just sounded like something that should be said. Nobody said I had to believe what comes out of my mouth. Now I'm bushed, hey Gabriella, have any munchies I can munch on. A girl needs her strength you know."
"Yeah, and it doesn't hurt that your stomach is a bottomless pit. Just don't eat everything in the fridge, okay?" Gabriella asked as she dragged herself to the kitchen. AJ and I followed after her.
We sat in the kitchen; we looked at each other. "Look, I don't know about you guys, but I want to keep everything on the down low. Let's not tell any body about what happened tonight, okay?" I asked.
The other two nodded, but Gabriella looked like she was about to say something, and finally she did. "Look, if we're going to do that, I say we make a bond, no secrets."
She held out a hand, palm up. I placed my palm next to hers and we looked at AJ, who looked nervous, but put her palm next to ours. "No secrets," she muttered and then looked at us. "By any chance, have you guys been having really weird dreams?
Author's Notes: Okay, it's a bit short, but a lot better than last chapter, considering I'm not half asleep while writing this. Unfortnuately I'm out of ideas, and I don't like the sound of that. *sigh* And I have a bit to put it before I can offically say this is done. But if any of you have any ideas, please send 'em my way!
Serena's POV
As AJ sat up, I looked at her coolly, "You're glowing," I said nonchalantly, "do you do it often?"
She looked at me; her green eyes flickered with energy. "You are too you know. Is it normal for you?" she bit back.
I looked at my hands and they were indeed glowing a pearly white. "What the hell?" I muttered to myself. This was so not happening, there was no explanation about this, except that we were all facing mass hallucinations.
It didn't help that AJ was glowing as well, a steady black.
"Um, where's Gabriella?" I asked suddenly. Usually I would have heard her opinion by now.
"On the floor," she said.
I leaned over, and sure enough, there she was, and what a surprise, she was glowing too! Except she was glowing a deep red, almost the color of blood opposed to black or white. She was breathing hard and shaking, sweat beaded on her brow.
"You okay?" AJ asked her as she scrambled off the tabletop and to the floor. I took her example and came around the table, stopping at Gabriella's side.
"Do you feel it? The power? It's humming, thumping. It's hot; it's cold. It's surrounding us," Gabriella asked as we helped her up.
AJ shot me a look, asking if I knew what she was talking about; I shook my head no. It sounded as if Gabriella was downright nuts, which probably wasn't far from the truth. But what she was muttering was downright strange for her, let alone anybody else.
Half an hour later, we had stopped glowing and Gabriella was back to her normal self, well as normal as she got anyway. We were sitting in the living room, talking. I turned towards AJ, "Hey, do you still dance?" I asked her. When we had been at camp, she could mesmerize everybody by moving her body to the sound of music.
She shook her head, a blush creeping up her cheeks. "Not really. Well I'm not taking lessons. My mom found out about the belly dancing and made me stop. But I do it in private." I looked at her, and her face darkened. "No. There's no way I'm dancing in front of you two."
"Why not?" I pleaded. "It's not like we're going to laugh at you or anything. Seriously, you're good. You got the attention of the older kids, even though we were among the youngest there."
"So? I'm still not dancing," she told my, folding her arms across her chest.
I shot a look towards Gabriella; maybe she could help me. She seemed to get the message and turned to AJ. "Dance, please? Then could you teach me, I've always wanted to dance."
AJ shot me a dark look before sighing and standing up. "I'm not going to 'teach' you how to dance, but I'll try to get you in the groove. If that makes any sense. But put some music on, preferably instrumental."
Gabriella nodded and stood, walking over to the vast CD collection and started rifling through it. "Classical?" she pulled out a CD and sat it atop the CD player and then went back through the collection. "Braveheart?" she questioned and then put it with the classical CD. "Jazz?" went with the growing pile as well.
Finally Gabriella finished and handed AJ a stack of about ten CD's to look through. What AJ ended up choosing was Irish Folk songs. When I gave her a confused look, she shrugged. "It was in my own player earlier. I'm in the mood," she explained to me.
I nodded, getting her point and sat back, waiting for her to perform her magic. She stood in front of us and waited for the music to begin. As the music started, her body began to sway in time.
As her body moved, she started to glow that deep black that had appeared previously. Her movements grew quicker in speed, but stayed cool, calm, and collected. The black aura like thing began to pulse and grow brighter. It suddenly pulsed brightly and then dimmed. At that same instant AJ stopped dancing and stood in front of us.
I looked over at Gabriella, trying to catch her eye, but she was too entranced in watching AJ. "That was bloody amazing, if I do say so myself," Gabriella said finally.
AJ shot her a grin before collapsing into a chair. "Thanks. Now let me just catch my breath and collect my energy. Dancing has tired me out."
"You were glowing again," I commented.
She looked at me, "I was?" I nodded, but she shrugged it off and stood up, motioning for Gabriella to stand. She then turned to me, "Come on, get up," she told me before grabbing my hand and pulling me to my feet.
"But I don't dance! I have no sense of rhythm, you know that!" I complained as she stood me next to Gabriella.
"Quiet you! Everybody can dance, you just need to find the right teacher," AJ told me.
I raised an eyebrow in protest, but stayed silent as she went over the steps she was going to teach us. AJ stood in front of us, the three of us forming a triangle. "Ready?" she asked before turning on the music. It was made up of flutes, harps, and lyres.
We started moving, my jerky movements mixed with Gabriella's unsure ones and AJ's flowing. Somehow we all fit together and made us a pattern. Faster and faster we dancing together, power seemed to grow and pulse and the three of us started to emit those funky-colored auras like things. They pulsed in unison before flashing and then they blinked out.
We slowed, eventually stopping and we sunk to the ground: our bodies, minds, and souls thoroughly exhausted.
"Does anyone else think we just did something big, like really major?" Gabriella asked, her breath labored.
"Yeah, maybe we raised the dead," AJ suggested.
I gave her a sharp look, "That is entirely impossible. Don't joke about such things."
She sighed, causing Gabriella to laugh; "Don't you think the idea of impossible is gone? In case you didn't notice, something big happened tonight, a lot of big things happened in fact. And I don't know about you, but something's happening."
Gabriella looked at us, "Something big is happening all right," she sat up, her eyes still trained on us though. "And I have a feeling we're in the middle of it."
"Great, so we're some higher being's playthings?" AJ asked
I looked at her, "You don't believe in higher beings, remember."
She shrugged, "I know that, it just sounded like something that should be said. Nobody said I had to believe what comes out of my mouth. Now I'm bushed, hey Gabriella, have any munchies I can munch on. A girl needs her strength you know."
"Yeah, and it doesn't hurt that your stomach is a bottomless pit. Just don't eat everything in the fridge, okay?" Gabriella asked as she dragged herself to the kitchen. AJ and I followed after her.
We sat in the kitchen; we looked at each other. "Look, I don't know about you guys, but I want to keep everything on the down low. Let's not tell any body about what happened tonight, okay?" I asked.
The other two nodded, but Gabriella looked like she was about to say something, and finally she did. "Look, if we're going to do that, I say we make a bond, no secrets."
She held out a hand, palm up. I placed my palm next to hers and we looked at AJ, who looked nervous, but put her palm next to ours. "No secrets," she muttered and then looked at us. "By any chance, have you guys been having really weird dreams?
Author's Notes: Okay, it's a bit short, but a lot better than last chapter, considering I'm not half asleep while writing this. Unfortnuately I'm out of ideas, and I don't like the sound of that. *sigh* And I have a bit to put it before I can offically say this is done. But if any of you have any ideas, please send 'em my way!
