A/N: Maybe I should point something out…the italics are supposed to be thoughts. That will stay the same throughout. Later, when they are speaking telepathically it will be in italics since technically it is their thoughts. The stuff in single quotes is what they are typing online through aim. I chose a time to write this in and this is it. If you don't like the aim idea, pretend they are speaking over the telephone.
Chapter 3
Kayla wasn't exactly sure what to make of this. Suddenly, she finds out, that whom she thought were her parents weren't, and her father wanted to kill her. Just a great way to spend the end of eighth grade. "So what am I supposed to do about this?" She asked Hope.
"You are going to go to Bridgeton and learn how to use the powers I know you have. And then we will play it by ear. My guess is that if you start using powers regularly, he will find out and come for you. I know that he has been carrying out his plans, just very slowly, as if he hasn't the heart to do much else. If he doesn't come after you, you will probably have to go and stop him. Listen closely though. I don't want you acting any differently. Although I love you and hated to give you up, I know that you found a good home with Joy and Michael and that they love you very much, just like I know that you care about them. I am not taking you away from your parents. Yes, your parents; not by blood, maybe, but in their hearts they are. I just hope that you can find someplace in your heart to love me back." Hope was obviously tearing up at this last bit, so Kayla got up and hugged her biological mother.
"Without you I wouldn't be here," she said. "I don't really know you well enough to say anything else, but I promise, that I love you just for that. So what am I supposed to tell my friends about switching schools?"
"Just tell them that your mom decided that you would have a chance for a better future at Bridgeton than at Firebrook. So let's go sign you up for classes." With that they all got up and Hope teleported them all to Bridgeton School for the Gifted and Talented.
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A few hours later, Kayla, Hope, and Joy returned to the house. Kayla's head was crammed full of information about the school she was going to next year. All of the classes weren't what they seemed. In everyone like English, history, math, science and all the elective classes they learned something else, something magical.
In fact, Kayla was so preoccupied that she forgot something until she was lying in bed trying to go to sleep. "Oh my gosh," she whispered loudly. "I am going to school with Jason next year. Wait a sec. That means that Jason has these gifts, too. I think I need to have a little chat with my good ole buddy Jason."
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Kayla spent the entire morning wondering how she would get Jason alone to talk to him. Then, it finally hit her. The bus.
"Jason," she said while they were at their lockers at the end of the day. "I need to talk to you about something important."
"Um…okay," he replied, slightly startled. "How about you sit with me on the bus and we talk on the way home?"
"Well…I am not sure you want the whole bus to hear our conversation…"
"I've got it!" Jason exclaimed after a few minutes of thinking. "You'll get off at my stop and as we walk to your house, we can talk about…whatever it was you wanted to talk about."
"I knew that if I gave you enough time, you'd think of it eventually…"
"You mean that you had already thought of that?!"
"Yep," Kayla replied, laughing, as she pulled Jason onto the bus.
Ten minutes later, they stepped off the bus. "Okay, Kayla. Spill. What was so important that we had to speak today, and yet that we couldn't talk about on the bus?"
Kayla took a deep breath and tried to ignore the way his eyes glinted and how his mouth turned up at the corners in a half-smile. "Jason," she said innocently, "why didn't you tell me what you were going to be learning next year at Bridgeton?"
Jason, already wary of Kayla's too innocent tone, stopped dead in his tracks when she finished. "Um…I…uh…didn't think it was that important. I'm taking English, math, sci-
"You twit! I meant what you are really going to be learning next year."
"I have no idea what you mean, Kayla. See I've got my schedule right here…"
"Idiot! I have one, too. But I also know what I'm really taking. I know those names are just so people don't get suspicious!"
"You mean you know about the "Gifted and Talented" part?" Jason whispered incredulously, completely ignoring the fact that Kayla practically said that she was going to Bridgeton next year. Kayla just nodded. "You do not know how good it is to finally be able to talk to someone about the truth…wait a sec! You just said that you had a schedule, too. Does that mean that you're not going to Firebrook next year? Please tell me that you are going to Bridgeton next year. I would be great to know someone else who was going.
"Yeah," it was a good thing that Hope and Joy had told her what she could tell Jason. "When I got home from the mall the other day, my mom told me she wanted to talk to me. She explained about the abilities I have the potential for and she said that she thought I should go to Bridgeton."
Jason could tell that she wasn't telling him the whole truth, but decided not to press the issue. She would tell him eventually…
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Later that night, Kayla was talking online to her friends, mainly Sam. 'Um…Sam…' she typed, 'I'm really sorry about this, but my parents decided not to send me to Firebrook next year.' Kayla pushed enter and heard the familiar ding, go off. God bless AIM, she thought.
'Really, where are you going?' appeared on her screen seconds later.
'Bridgeton.'
'With Jason?!'
'Yep. You're not too angry are you?'
'Why on earth would I be angry? I want you to be with Jason more than you want you to be with Jason. And who knows, maybe next year, without me or Kyle in the way, it might happen.'
'Well, thanks for the positive outlook on life.'
'Bye, Kayla. I gotta go.' Said Sam's final message before she signed off.
Kayla spent a few more minutes talking to her other friends when, Jason got on. She remembered a couple of questions that she forgot to ask him about Bridgeton. 'Hey, Jason,' she typed. 'Want to answer a couple of my questions?'
'Sure. But you know, you are able to communicate telepathically with me. You have the abilities.'
'I'm not supposed to try to use my powers before I get to Bridgeton. Someone is going to come help me learn the basics before I go though. That way I am not too far behind.' Kayla neglected from mentioning that her 'tutor' would not be supplied by Bridgeton. But, rather, would be her mother, Hope.
A couple of blocks away, Jason read her message and cursed silently. He had his own motives for wanting to speak mind-to-mind with him before she was trained. Until she trained her mind to think of nothing but her message, her thoughts would leak through and the other person would 'hear' them. He was counting on her not knowing this so he could possibly learn two things from her thoughts. Why she was really going to Bridgeton. And…what her feelings towards him were. Before, when she wasn't moving on with him, he could still like her, but since he wouldn't see her very often, it wouldn't be a big deal and he could move on. But, now that she was going to Bridgeton, it would be harder.
'So,' he typed. 'What did you want to ask?'
'I know it is really stupid and I don't need to worry about it till the fall…'
'Spit it out, Kayla!!'
'Okay. How do I get there?'
'Well, it is a lot like non-gifted people get to school. We take a bus. Although, it takes us all over in the blink of an eye. No bumpy rides.'
'Oh,' Kayla typed. 'I guess I will find out when we go'
'Well, since Bridgeton is a national school, it also goes all over the country.'
"Omg, Jason! Do you know what I just realized?'
'What?'
'Tomorrow is graduation!!!!!!!!!'
'Oh, yeah. Look, my mom is getting angry, I gotta go.'
'Seeya.'