Chapter 2: Getting my license

It took us about 45 minutes to get to the driving school. I was so excited that I couldn't sit still as I was waiting for my turn to drive. My mom just sat there as I bounced around listening for my name to be called. I only had to wait about 10 minutes and then I left my mom and Alysa waiting for me when I got back.

It only took around 15 minutes for me to get done with my test and I walked into the waiting area with a huge smile on my face.

"So how'd you do?" The question was direction to me from my mom. From the look on my sister's face she didn't seem like she cared.

"What do you think I passed!"

"Finally I wont have to drive you around everywhere."

"Ha, ha, ha, very funny mom." I replied sticking my tongue out at her

"Well where shall we go to now?"

"Could we go to Pizza hut? We could celebrate her passing." Wow it seemed like she did care and have a voice.

"Umm sure sounds good to me. How bout it mom, ready for some heartburn?"

"You bet ya I am! Lets go have some Pizza Pie."

The three of us headed out to the car with high spirits and empty stomachs.

"Hey Alyssa what music do you want to listen to?"

"Can we listen to 102.3? I haven't heard some decent country in a while."

"Ok yeah sounds good to me I could go for some Andy Griggs."

I started humming one of his songs. "She thinks she needs me"

We never made it to Pizza hut. On the way something terrible happened, cars started being lifted in to the air and then crashed into each other. It seemed as if they had a mind of their own. Suddenly something took over my car and made it slam into another sending me flying out the window. I knew I forgot something. My mom and sister were trapped in the car with other cars that were being slammed into them. I got my breath back as quick as possible and quickly scanned the area. There was a strange guy floating in the air on what seemed like a metal disk. With him were two other weird people. One was totally blue and was a female, the other was a guy and closely resembled a toad in the way he was crouching.

"Toad get what we came for." Ordered the older guy. Just then I realized that he was also wearing some kind of helmet.

"Ay, Ay boss." With out any warning his tongue flew out of his mouth and wrapped around a little girl that was in the hands of her mother. The lady started screaming frantically for her child back but to no avail. The trio took off on their flying disks. A scream from Alyssa reminded my about what was going on. I rushed over to the cars surrounding my family and yelled for them.

"Mom? Mom, Alyssa are you two ok?" I asked in a worried frenzy

"Ell we are trapped and the car is on fire get help!"

With that I started freaking out and just sat there crying looking back and forth from the flames to my mom and my sis over and over again. Suddenly it seemed as if the flames pulled me to them. I just sat there and stared at them wanting them to stop so Alyssa and my mom could get out and to safety. Slowly it seemed as if the flames were growing smaller, they really were. I don't know exactly how it happened but it seemed like I was pulling the flames into my self. My looked at me and gasped right before I passed out.

"I think she's waking up. Ell? Ell can you hear me?

"Mom? What happened?"

"You passed out yesterday after the accident. Wow the doctor was right."

"The accident?" I quickly sat up making a sharp pain shoot through my head and I instantly laid back down. "How did you and Alyssa get out? What is the doctor right about?"

"We broke through the windshield after the flames went out. It seemed as if you pulled them towards you. Do you know how that happened? The doctor told me that your eyes have changed colors. They are now no longer brown, instead, one is blue and the other is red."

" I'm so glad you and Alyssa are save. I have no clue as to how the flames went out or how my eyes changed colors. When can I leave?"

"You are allowed to leave today, after being ejected from the car luckily the only injury you had was a badly sprained wrist. You wont be able to used it much for about a month. The police are trying to hunt down the person who created the crashes they believe he is a mutant. Why can't those thing leaves us alone?"

"Mom do you realize that I may be one. How else can we explain the fire coming towards me and disappearing? There's no other explanation, no other way to show what happened."

" I refuse to believe that my daughter turned into one of those…things. Now get dressed so we can go home you have school in a couple of days."

With that she left the room and I sat there thinking about our conversation. I absent mindedly grabbed my clothes my mom brought me and headed to the bathroom. While there I looked at the mirror to check out my new eye color. I couldn't believe that one was an ocean blue and the other was a vibrant red. "Weird" I said out loud to my self. We later left the hospital hoping we wouldn't be back any time soon.

From that day on weird things started happening. Out of no where fires would start and would only disappear when I looked at it for a few minutes. All of the strange things could mean only one thing, the day of the accident I had become a mutant. Alyssa soon became distant from me and would stay locked up in her room as much as possible. My parents would look at me worriedly and my mom never really liked seeing me any more since I was one of the things she hated most. I did end up getting a replacement care that looks exactly the same but the cd's were lost in the wreckage. That doesn't matter much to me any more as long as my family was safe that is all I cared about. Speaking of their safety, the unpredictable fires scared me. I was worried that one night I would start a fire accidentally and burn the whole house down. My family meant the most to me and I could not let myself be the cause of their death. Each day I became more depressed and I with drew from all of my friends at school. They soon notice what was happening and they abandoned. No one was there to help me work through this, I was alone in a world full of people. Well at least that was what I thought at the time but boy I never would have guessed how wrong I was. After two weeks of this on going torture I decided what I had to do, I was leaving my home to find a place that I might be able to fit into and maybe even learn how to control my powers. Exactly 2 weeks after my 16th birthday I loaded my car with things I needed and stuffed my savings into my purse and headed out of town. I left a note to my family letting them know what was happening.

Dear Mom, Dad, Alyssa

I have seen the pain I have caused everyone with what I have became. I have no way to reverse the process so I left the house trying to find a place for people like me. Mom I am a mutant and I know how much you despise of them. You no longer have to be always on alert because one was sleeping under your roof. Dad, I appreciate how much you tried to help and accept me and I know that its not easy but I can no longer stay here for I fear for the lives of the only people I love, you three. Alyssa I'm sorry that we never were that close and that now I just have another reason for you to hate me. Maybe after I control my powers we could spend time together. That is if you would like to. I have heard that turning into a mutant is passed down by blood so Alyssa may also develop powers but for her sake and yours I hope she doesn't. You don't know how hard it is for me to leave you all, but I have to. It's the only thing I can do to save my family from myself. I love each and everyone of you and I wanted to say thank you for putting up with me over the years.

Forever your Daughter,

Ell