Author's Note: Since we're forgetful people, I'm here to remind you that it's Shawna.
I found Carmen on the front porch. "Hey, we're still your sisters!"
She looked up at me with her sad puppy eyes. "Yeah, but I don't have a power. You guys do, doesn't that make me, you know, adopted?"
Carmen was always smaller. When I was 16, I was 5"5'. Laura was 5"4', but Carmen's only 4"11'. When Carmen was born, she was so light, that the doctors thought she was going to die, right there and then. We would always joke that Carmen was adopted, but she wasn't.
"No, come on. We were just joking." Laura came onto the porch and sat down. "I'm sure you'll have a power soon. Here look." She read from another book she found. "I found this book, it fell with the other one. the cover says, The Charmed Ones.'After their Grandmother died, Phoebe, Piper, and Pru found out that they were witches. At first they couldn't control the powers but soon., they got the hang of it. Then Phoebe, Piper, and Pru fought evil until Pru died.
'At the funeral, Paige came too because she felt she had lost someone too. They reunited after about a week. The three of them defeated the Source(of All Evil). Later they found out that Phoebe was pregnant, with the renewed Source's baby. The Seer convinced Phoebe to go to the Evil side.' Hey!" Laura frantically turned the pages. "There's nothing else here!"
Carmen suddenly spoke up. "Would you look at that!" She pointed at the cover of the book. Before it said The Charmed Ones but now it read The Special Bond. "It changed! See if the inside changed too!"
Laura flipped to page one. "It did...'Carmen, Laura and Shawna have just gained their magic powers after their Mom died.' That's all it says...It's a magicked book...It follows any big important thing we do..."
We went inside and looked into the other book, The Book of Shadows for answers. It said that Carmen should be getting her powers anytime now. It didn't say what power though. I bet she's real nervous. I mean it could be anything...and she could get it anytime, including during school. Thankfully, school's over in a month and senior year is next year.
Now, the end of school is 2 weeks away and Carmen's been waiting 2 full weeks for her powers to come. Today's her birthday. Hopefully, her birthday party will cheer her up. Laura's gotten together all of Carmen's friends, including some we don't exactly like. We've decided to throw a surprise party for her. Today, she'll come home at 9 o'-clock because of her part time job.
Well, 9pm is getting nearer and nearer and she's going to be home any minute now. All her friends are here. Click! was the sound of the door being unlocked.
Creak! The door opened. "SURPRISE!" Everyone shouted as the light turned on.
"Oh my God!" she shrieked. She fell back in surprise. And then the unbelievable happened. A vase next to the door blew up as Carmen fell.
Everybody ran home in a frenzy to get away.
"Wow..." mumbled Carmen. "I came home a little early to tell you I got my power...but I guess you already know! I can blow things up...that's all...You guys can talk to yourselves and everything..."
Oh yeah...Me and Laura...since we both have a mind power, we can talk to ourselves in our mind... it's actually quite fun and Carmen gets a little...well...mad because she thinks we were talking about her. We were...but you know...it was about the party and everything. We really were hoping that Carmen's power would be something mindful too, so we can all talk in our heads...but I guess not.
School's out and Carmen got the hang of her new power. Now, she gets the mail and all the junk mail she knows that we don't need she blows up. In the safety of our home of course.
Carmen told her friends, that someone had planted a cherry bomb in the vase and the inpact was way too strong. I didn't think they would believe it, but they did! I was amazed teenagers these days were so gulliable.
By the end of June, Carmen had gotten another power, orbing (going from one place to another), Laura got orbing things to her hands (she says the thing and it appears in her hand), and I got freezing time.
One surprise after another, in early July, we found that our grandfather, Cole Turner, was our dad's dad. That means that Dad was evil. No wonder Mom left him...
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