"He's walking…and walking…and…quick! He's entering a store!"
Holly closed her eyes as she practiced a new trick she had discovered. Leaning against the wall of the store behind her, she concentrated on the echoes of the wind that was breezing around the corner. Melissa had 'stolen' some of Michelle's mutation, and was with Holly in wind morph. Melissa was wafting around the store, or more specifically, around Matt. Holly heard the wind shifting around Matt, and could see a fuzzy picture of her favourite enemy. She could not quite make out the features of his face, and of course she couldn't see the colours of his clothes, but she knew his height and basic build, and by now she knew what his profile looked like. Holly thought that she might be able to recognize him on a windy day, and wondered if she could see the same way with rain.
"Hm…what aisle is he in? Mozart, flow around the items on a shelf there," Holly whispered, sending a tendril of wind into the store after Melissa.
It was about a week after the mutants had broken into Matt's home. Nothing seemed to have happened yet; Scott and Matt seemed to be like the rest of the teens in thier school: interested in the Halloween Dance that was coming up. Today was Holly and Melissa's turn to stalk Matt, while Michelle and Phil were shadowing Scott somewhere else. Such was the friends' weekends nowadays.
Melissa heard, or rather felt, Holly's message and quickly complied. Holly saw what seemed to be hairs on the shelves; the air-silhouettes looking like exceedingly thin fibres.
"Matt's looking for a wig!" Holly thought, "Does this mean that his dreadlocks are fake?"
Melissa, as she floated, realised what Holly might construe the items on the shelf for, and wafted around the items in a different direction. This time, Holly saw in her mind's eye what looked to be a solid, rectangular block of material. This confused Holly even more; how could something be so thin, yet so large…
"Paper!" Holly almost said out loud, "He's looking for another journal!"
"Hey, you."
Holly opened her eyes.
"Oh! Hey Geordie!" she exclaimed, giving him a big hug.
"What're you up to?" the boy asked. He looked around, "You look kinda weird just standing here, no offense."
"Yeah, I guess I do..." Holly grinned, and Geordie grinned too. Of course she didn't care.
"I'm watching...you know. Matt..." Holly lowered her voice.
"Oh. I see," Geordie nodded, "I'll keep walking to my place, then," he said, and giving her a wink began walking away.
"'kay. I'll see you tomorrow at school," called Holly.
Geordie gave her a wave and kept going. Holly hugged herself with glee.
He's a sweet guy, sometimes, she thought, Maybe I should stop teasing him about Matt.
The store door opened, and the boy she just named in her head walked out, holding a plastic bag.
"Hi!" Holly waved, smiling big.
"Um...hey," Matt nodded unsurely at her.
Oh sh--...he doesn't know who I am. We don't go to the same school... Holly thought, then shrugged it off, Meh. I'm a friendly person.
She watched Matt walk down the road, the same way that Geordie had gone, then blinked.
"Crap. Um...Mozart, follow fast," she whispered to the breeze that she could sense was Melissa, and half ran down the street to her school.
Later, at Holly's school...
"What's up?" Melissa asked, after she had transformed back into herself.
"I spoke to Geordie today," Holly started, then stopped when she heard Melissa snort, "What?"
"Do I really have to hear about your unofficial boyfriend right now?" the chubby girl asked, "Is this relevant?"
"Very," Holly said solemnly.
"Fine," Melissa sighed, sitting down on the school's steps, "Go on."
"I spoke to Geordie, only it wasn't Geordie," Holly explained, "Someone took Geordie's form and spoke to me."
"How do you know? That's pretty serious," said Melissa.
Please be wrong, Melissa thought fervently, A morpher against us is someone to be reckoned with.
"He greeted me with, 'Hey, you', and we both know that that's too cool for Geordie. Not that Geordie isn't cool...just not that way," Holly said, "He also winked at me."
"He may just be having a confident day," Melissa pointed out.
"That's what I thought too, but why was he here? This is the edge of Toronto; Geordie lives like downtown," Holly said.
"He may have been visiting someone, or working on a project with someone. That store was near your school," Melissa argued.
"Ok...then how come his eyes were the wrong colour?" Holly asked.
Melissa looked straight at Holly.
"Are you sure? Explain."
You sound like a teacher, Holly thought idly, then spoke.
"His eyes look brown from a distance, but up close, they're actually green," Holly said.
"Of course you would notice something like that," Melissa smiled.
"Oh shut up," Holly laughed, "Let's go find Michelle and Phil. We have to have a group meeting. Do you still have Michelle's power?"
"Yup. I remembered to keep a link to it this time," Melissa said, motioning to one red thumbnail.
"Lets morph into birds or something," Holly suggested, taking Melissa's hand, "It's easier to control than wind."
The two girls transformed into a fair impersonation of robins, not realizing that yellow eyes were watching them from within the school.
To anyone who was reading this, I am SO SORRY for not writing! ...Namely Gordon. Please do not throw tomatoes or any other object at me. Rocks count as objects. Again, Sorry! I'll try to write at least a chapter once every week. ...that being said, don't expect much.
-Esperwen