Her sisters had fled before her. She didn't blame them—she was the one who screwed up. When she entered the apartment, they were lounging in the living room but took time to look at her disappointedly, which made Terra feel even worse.

"So Miss superhero is home," Gail sneered and continued to flip through the pages of her Cosmo Girl. Rayne shot Gail a 'shut up' kind of stare, but Gail didn't need to heed it-- she said what she said and that was all she had to say.

"You guys, I'm sorry. It was hard. I'd rather just have not showed them," Terra said meekly.

"And have that smug principal and the lame coach tell authorities about us for 'safety and legal reasons'? Terra, we don't want any cops showing up," Byrn hopped off the breakfast bar with her Red Bull and said.

"Yeah, the cops sucked hard last time they were here anyway. Jeez Terra why did you have to put a tremor through the floor? Now you're up in 'hero' class while we're stuck reading 'Fundamentals of Backup Weaponry," Gail snapped bitterly.

"I thought you didn't care…" Terra pointed out quietly.

"I don't give a damn, it's just that all the cute guys are heroes. I really don't like having to flirt around with some dude who can turn anything he looks at into soup," Gail explained with a huff.

"We just would have liked it if you downplayed it a little more, Terra," Byrn explained as she crunched up her Red Bull and threw it in the garbage.

Terra felt awful. Gail's anger wasn't helping. Byrn made it sound like she had failed. Terra didn't like feeling like she'd failed. She couldn't help that her power was the most destructive, therefore harder to conceal.

She slumped up the stairs and couldn't help but to tear. She hated it when her sisters were mad at her. She threw her book bag on her bed and fell with it to land on the covers. Her tear leaked out of her eye. Suddenly, it was yanked from her cheek and suspended in front of her orange eye. She looked and Rayne was standing in her doorway, controlling the altitude of her tear.

"We're not mad at you," Rayne said and walked in, and made the teardrop land on Terra's desk.

"I know, but your disappointed though. I can feel it; I honestly tried to make a quick bump in the floor but…it was just to hard. I know you, Byrn, and Gail can moderate yours enough but I wish they wouldn't have pressed it; I can't." Terra explained.

"I guess we'll just have to make most. If it wasn't in the laws you have to go to school, or if we didn't have the power, then everything would be okay. It's not," Rayne said. Terra thought it was gloomy sounding. But what better can you expect out of Rayne? Rayne wore a rare smile for once, "Let's just hope Sky High doesn't have pricks like they did at our normal school." That made Terra smile. She liked it when Rayne cheered her up. Her and her sisters were close knit as it was, but she felt the closest to Rayne, even if Rayne was the most reserved.

Terra didn't have any homework since she was moved from hero support to hero classes in one day. She talked to her pet gecko, Slimy. It was totally a misnomer thought because he wasn't slimy at all, more smooth and sleek but she thought 'slimy' was a cute name.

"Your lucky," was all she told him as she fed some live crickets into his cage.

Gail popped into the room then. Terra shared a room with Gail in the two bedroom- one bathroom apartment. Having one bathroom was horrible with Gail. She spent a long time doing makeup and since the shower didn't have a curtain, no one could take a shower while Gail painted her face.

"Hi," Terra said.

"Hey," Gail was ruffling through her book bag. Terra wondered what she was looking for, surly not hero support homework.

"So did you meet any boys today?" Terra asked to cut the tension. Gail whirled around with a big smile and applied lip-gloss to her lips (the gloss was what she was rummaging for).

"I met many," Gail bragged.

"Like who?"

"Will Stronghold,"

"The Commander and Jetstream's son?" Terra asked unbelievably. "HOW?"

"Today in P.E. he was being friendly and introduced himself to me, his purple friend and I guess his girlfriend the plant girl," Gail said with a hint of annoyance at the plant girl.

"So?"

"Well, I tried putting the moves on him but his plant girlfriend snatched him back before I did any damage," Gail huffed.

"You tried putting the moves on the only boy in school who has TWO powers, a hero, and already taken? Jeez Gail you have no limits," Terra noted amazed.

"Of course not," Gail looked her manicured nails over bored like. "Anyway, what do you want for dinner? Byrn is picking up takeout from the Paper Lantern."

"Fried rice," Terra put her order in.

Awhile later, Byrn ran into the kitchen with a bag of Chinese boxes with rice.

"What's the hurry?" Rayne noticed her sister's anxiousness.

"I'm hungry, I want my chow mein!" she said, ripping through the bag until she found her box of chow mein.

"Uh huh, what happened at the Paper Lantern that has you riled?" Byrn looked up with a wide blood colored stare with noodles hanging out of her mouth. She was a nervous eater and Rayne knew that something had startled her. Terra trotted down to obtain her fried rice. She also snatched a fortune cookie and went to the breakfast bar to consume her Chinese Cuisine. Gail walked in a moment later for her order of mushu pork and egg rolls. Byrn watched them carefully in order to avoid being questioned any further by her older sister.

"BYRN!" Rayne snapped for an explanation.

She slurped up her chow mein noodles and swallowed slowly. "I was waiting for the order…" Byrn started. She squinched her eyes trying to remember exactly. "Some kid from our school, Warren, I think he said his name started talking to me…he's a busboy there. So, we started talking and somehow he hinted that he knew what we could do."

Rayne's black rimmed, indigo eyes widened ever so slightly under her thoughtful frown, "What do you mean? What we showed the teachers we could do or what we really could do?"

Bryn shook her deep red locks so they swished around her face, "I didn't have time to find out because the order was up…but damn Rayne, he sure knew a lot for not ever meeting any of us. What do we do?"

"Kill him? Wait…is he good looking?" Gail suggested.

"Oh he's very good looking," Byrn chirped.

Rayne rolled her eyes at their silly boy-talk. "We'll just have to deal and figure it out," she said and picked up her container of egg drop soup and a crab rangoon.

Terra sat at the breakfast bar with them and listened to them talk. They moved to a different subject of conversation. Gail's favorite: boys. Rayne had nothing to add on the issue except the reminder that Lash and Speed were jerks. Byrn had to admit that Warren was a stud muffin, but threatening in his ways. Gail couldn't stop complaining about Will's girlfriend. Terra didn't say anything about Zach, the glow boy. Instead she cracked open her fortune cookie and read the slip of paper—

'Secrets will be found and sacrifice is inevitable.'