Chapter 6: Clear Answers and confused thought

Thanks for the review.Having mad sugar moment and listening to bohemian rhapsody not a good mix. oh well toodles.

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Boredom. My life is full of it. Monday night and I was stuck in my room painting my nails and singing. Or "Wailing." as the eoh affectionately called it. I was listening to Queen on rerun. Sad. I know. But the madness of bohemian rhapsody suited my mood. Plus it drowned out the hoover.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality
Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see,

I was still in a daze and slight denial from the day's events. Perhaps it was just a hallucination? I mean It couldn't have been real could it? Maybe I should lay off the caffeine.

I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

And anyway, those guys were pranksters from the sounds of it. So he probably fell before he got to me, too much exercise probably. And what that jerk said he knew what I was. Whatever. Probably his sad idea of a joke. Woo hoo right hand done. What a relief. Now the left hand, the hard part. The hoover seemed to be surgically attached to that woman. She'd been at it for an hour now. Sheesh. House proud? I think not, try paranoid.

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro
Magnifico.

Uh oh. The hoover had stopped and the eoh was calling my name. Mentally I went through all the possibilities. Anything broken? No. Dinnertime? No. Late? No. Punishment? Maybe.

"Alexandra Brown, come out of that…that room, Now! We have a guest!" Oh. Right.

I stomped down the stairs and stalked into the living room. To find a pretty, (but snobby looking), vibrant red haired girl smiling brightly at me. I recognised her from school, she was very popular and I was slightly shocked to see her here. Aunt Lilly seemed ecstatic she seemed to think that this seemingly 'perfect' girl was a friend of mine. Yeah right. I was brought from my musing with a bang as bohemian rhapsody blared and the girl stood up to introduce herself,

"Hi Ally, I'm Jean."

Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go

I smiled sheepishly, "Right." Was all I said, not feeling the need to say much more. The eoh bustled through to offer biscuits, disgustingly cheerful.

"I'm here to talk about your gift." I looked at her slightly taken aback, the eoh seemed even more cheerful.

"Oh yes, Alexandra always was a clever child."

"No, you misunderstand me. Ally has a gift, which she discovered today. She is able to absorb water vapour from the atmosphere and become a gas herself." Aunt Lilly looked shocked to say the least; I sat down and just, well sat.

"Wh-…How?" she asked faintly.

"Its in her genes, she received the x-gene hereditarily. Like me, I have gifts," she demonstrated as I arched an eyebrow and looked at her sceptically, she levitated the plate of biscuits and carried on "And so do others at the professors Institute for gifted youngsters, its where I live. We can learn together how to use and control our wonderful gifts, not abuse them or use them wrongly. And if you let us we can teach Ally too."

Aunt Lilly looked like she was about to faint. the institute sounded familiar and then it …they're gunshadshot at Rosie and me! There was no way I was goingto that mad place who knew what else went on there. Jean looked from me to the eoh and in the heavy silence and the eoh's outburst received her answer, I didn't say a word.

"I will not allow my niece to go to an…an institute for the mentally unsound! How can you suggest such a horrific thing, that Ally is….?" She couldn't bring herself to say mutant but glanced at me briefly. Unfortunately, my face conveyed the truth, "Well, even is she is I will deal with her…abnormality. I am more than capable! So please take yourself elsewhere!"

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me