O.k, sorry for the long wait for the update(Hey, that rymed!), I've been swamped with different things lately so I haven't been able to update! Hope you like this chapter!

CHAPTER 5:THE BURN AND POWERS
"So how did you do it?" Zoey asked Maria. The whole gang was seated in the main lounge talking about what had occurred the previous day. Maria was in the desk chair swirling around, Zoey, Nicole and Dana were sprawled on Zoey's bed and the boys were flopped on the couch.

"Honestly? I don't have a clue!" Maria answered truthfully, for honestly she didn't know. Pippin hopped up onto her lap and she beagn to pet him readying herself for the barrage of questions that came next.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"So, you're saying his hair just caught on fire randomly?"

"You must have had some hidden lighter or something!"

"Chase, lighter flames can't jump, like, 7 feet!"

"Has this happened before?"

The last question was Dana, who seemed very intrigued by this whole episode.

"Of course it hasn't happened before! I would have known or seen something!" Logan retorted to her. "Right?" Maria looked very uncomfortable and looked down at the floor as 6 pairs of eyes were boring into her.

"So, this has happened before? Why didn't you tell me!" Logan roared ,outraged.

"Because it was you I lit on fire you idiot!" Maria screamed at him. The babble that broke out as soon as everyone found out that Maria had done this before ceased immediately.

"You mean…" Logan trailed off a distant look in his eyes.

"What? What happened?" everyone called out at once.

"It's a long story, you sure you want to hear it?" Maria asked them.

"YES!" was the answer.

"O.k then."

FLASHBACK

It was 5 years before, Maria and Logan were only 8 and they were playing outside, in their backyard. Logan had just stolen Maria's inflatable shark(they had a pool) and was running around the deck with it. Maria started chasing him but Logan was faster that her. Maria knew running after him was useless and began to cry. All of a sudden Logan cried out in pain and ran towards the pool. He jumped in and when he surface there was a large egg-shaped burn on his upper arm. His t-shirt had caught fire. Their parents thought that they had left the barbeque on and Logan got to close to it, but only Maria knew the truth, and she was going to keep it that way.

Mr. and Mrs.Reese rushed Logan to the ER and got the burn treated, but the wound never sealed and he still has the egg-shaped scar on his left shoulder.

END FLASHBACK

"Oh, my god!" Nicole whispered softly at the end of the story.

"Can we se the scar?" Dana asked. Logan nodded, still speechless on the fact that it was HIS sister that caused the mark on his shoulder. He rolled up the sleeve of his shirt and everyone, save for Maria, took a look at the scar.

"It really does look like an egg." Michael commented, oblivious to the moment of emotional strain on the Reese siblings.

"Shut up." Logan commented sharply.

"So, how did all this happen?" Chase asked innocently.

"Isn't it obvious?" Dana started only to be cut off with a chorus of "NO!"s. "Well, if I can finish!" she said angrily. "I was going to say that obviously, Maria" she gestured at the silent, raven-haired girl at the desk "is telepyric!"

Well, That turned out to be a bit darker than I expected it to be, but whatever! I hope you guys liked it!

SilverBlueangel out!