"Mom, why did you tell that guy to come over here this morning?" Her mom gazed at her like she didn't know what her daughter was talking about. "Gabe! Why did you tell him to come over here, why did you tell him about me? You know I'm not a morning person and then I get this wake up call from some Virginian who thinks he's so cool because he can skateboard." "Sweetie, I don't even know who you are talking about." Alley just slung the door open and pointed toward the house next door in which Gabe was still playing his video game. "That boy right there, do you not see him? He said he talked to you and found out what school I went to because he just moved here." "Oh, Gabrielle, honey I talked to his parents, but I haven't met the boy before. They told me about him and he isn't a very social person. They said the reason they moved here was so that Gabrielle may get some friends. You should be nice to him. He was picked on a lot where they used to live."

Alley just said whatever and walked upstairs. She got undressed and went into the shower. It was steaming hot just like she liked it. Alley started thinking, how did he know about her school and her name? She just realized she never told him her name. Oh well, she lathered her shampoo of strawberry delight scent and began singing her favorite song. It was a Spanish song entitled "Mi amo". Her friend Trisha taught it to her. She was Hispanic. It was their friendship song. Kind of gay, but then again they didn't care; no one else knew what it meant except for them. She got out of the shower and got ready to go bike riding. She had to pick up her cat Neo to get to the garage door. He is so fat and cuddly; too bad all he does all day is sleep.

After riding up to Zoe's to get some ice cream she came back home the long way. She loved the hill on Power Center Ln. As she was going down the hill she closed her eyes and lifted her hands. Ahh, it felt so free and wonderful. Suddenly she heard a car's tires squealing. Before she could open her eyes she flew off her bike and landed face down on the concrete. She lay there in a daze when she hears a familiar voice "Alley?!? Alley, are you alright?"

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"Dad, I didn't know what she was doing I thought she saw me!"

"Son, you have been telling us for years that you are psychic and now you are telling me you didn't know that she didn't see you? What are we supposed to believe? We can't put you in a hospital because they are too dumb to know their butt from a hole in the ground and we can't even put you in a decent neighborhood like this without you trying to kill the girl next door."

"Dad! I swear."

"Boy, I will knock your face off if you swear anything in this house. You mess up one more time, and you are going to go to disciplinary school and that is that."

Alley felt nauseated and confused. Where was she at? "Ahh, I see you're awake. Here I brought you some chicken soup." She turned her head to see Gabe. "Thanks, what happened?" "I'm terribly sorry, but you were in the middle of the road and I didn't know you had your eyes closed and I tried to stop, infact I did stop, but you ran right into me." "Oh, I'm sorry people usually don't take that street so I'm not used to sharing it with vehicles." She said sarcastically as if it was all his fault and he was in debt to her big time. She knew it was her fault though. Alley looked around to notice that she must be in his room. There were posters of crosses everywhere.

"Are you some sort of freak?" She didn't mean it badly, but it seemed as if he was obsessed with religion. "Actually I am, glad you noticed. Most people just call me a freak behind my back thinking I can't hear them."

"Who were you talking to earlier?"

"Sorry about that, my dad, he just doesn't understand me sometimes."

"He said something about you being psychic? Or was that just me dreaming?"

"Yeah, that's what he calls my power. He is simple minded so all he can comprehend is what I tell him is true, sometimes that is too much to understand."

"So what's up with you? Not to be rude or anything, but my mother told me that you aren't that social, but then you come and talk to me, someone you don't know. Next, your dad is talking about you messing up all the time? I just don't get it"

"I know you don't, you will some day though. Now get some rest, you've got a slight concussion and I don't want to have to take you to the emergency room."

Alley just lay there watching Gabe leave the room. She turned to face the window seeing her brother picking up scraps of metal off of the driveway. She looked closer to notice that what she thought were scraps were actually pieces of her bike. She felt her head and she didn't feel a scratch on it. How was it possible that her bike was that messed up and she ended up with a slight concussion? What the crap was wrong with Gabe? She didn't feel freaked out or anything, but on the contrary extremely interested in who he was and why things were happening as suddenly as they were.