A/N: sorry that her powers weren't introduced properly. I had forgotten to put that in the 1st Chapter rewrite. Sorry! Thanks Aithine (not the character but the person the character was created after.)
Khepyra
CHAPTER 5
Lunch
Tempeste talked to Will and Layla for the rest of the class, telling them about the Wolf Moon. Will already had found a job working with his parents. Layla on the other hand jumped at the opportunity to be a waitress, the fact that it was vegetarian friendly was a large selling point. At the end of class Tempeste gave Layla a piece of paper with directions to the Wolf Moon and the time to come by.
When the bell rang the students shuffled out to go to their Assignment Placement in the building behind the Training Center. This class would be fairly short; all it involved was picking up hero assignments and dropping off analysis sheets at the end of two weeks. Mr. Boy handed Tempeste and Warren their first assignment and wished them luck.
"Find and capture: Ice Capper. Power: Can make snowballs." Warren said out loud to his partner. "This is ridiculous."
"True but it's easy. All we have to do is wait to get a call from the Police Department and then pick this guy up. Easy A. Plus we only get one of these assignments every two weeks." Tempeste said trying to look at the up side for once. She looked down at her watch. "We have an hour before rehearsal. I'm going to get some food, do you want to come?" She looked into the eyes of her new roommate, once again seeing something painfully familiar. She felt him staring back at her.
"I don't..."
"Yeah are you guys hungry? Will and I were just about to get something to eat." Chirped Layla, being overly happy as usual as she addressed her new friend.
"Well, I'm famished. Warren?"
"Sure." Warren gave in, knowing he didn't really have a choice. Layla had a way of winning, plus he was hungry.
They headed to the pizza place across the street from the school. Warren and Will sat quietly as usual while Layla talked to Tempeste about school and shopping for the apartment necessities after their first paychecks. That is, if Layla got the job.
Tempeste liked Layla despite her eternal happy personality. But after a while she started realizing that Layla was upset about something. Tempeste could read people's feelings due to her elemental powers. The power of the fifth element, spirit, allowed her to sense and see emotions. She tuned in a little closer and knew it had something to do with Will. She read Will and saw he was tuned out of the world. 'Normal guy' she thought to herself. As for Warren she couldn't pick up anything in particular; everything was just turned off.
"Well, Warren and I should head to rehearsal now. We'll see you later, okay? If you need help getting there, you've got my cell number." The small group bid their good byes. As Warren and Tempeste went to her car, she wondered if she would ever be able to unlock his mind and look inside. She thought of her uncle, actually he was her mother's best friend and not a blood relative as her father had pointed out too many times. But to Tempeste he was family and she remembered something he had once told her about people.
"A life is a box of secrets. Finding your soul mate is finding the key that fits. You, my little one, are just looking through the key hole."
She missed him. He hadn't been around very much in her life, but when he was, both her mother and her were at their happiest. "Don't dwell on the past. It's done now and there's nothing you can do to change it." She told herself trying to enforce her words.