Hello again guys! Now I'm back with the third chapter, and I hope you'll like it. I am REALLY thankful for all the support in form of reviews, it makes my really happy! I still really appreciate faves and follows, as well as more reviews and ideas. Please enjoy! ;) Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, even though I wish I did.
Keefe POV
I licked the DNA strip, and gagged. It tasted like dirty feet. Nice. I grabbed my things and walked towards my telepathy session in the silver tower. I was early to school for once and sat down in the common room in the tower to wait for the class to begin. A couple of level seven girls walked past me and looked at me, giddy vibrating of off them. Being hot and an amazing empath had its perks. When they were gone I picked up my Elwin history notes from my pocket. Might as well study a little while I was waiting right? And yeah, I probably need it even though I am as awesome as I am. When I looked up someone was sitting in the sofa facing me. And not just anyone. It was Foster. I felt my heart do a little flutter as I looked up and saw her sitting in front of me. She just looked so perfect sitting there with her silver cape over her shoulders and all the books in her lap. She was reading a book with a metal bird pin on the cover. In the middle the word "Hungergames" was written. What was that?
"Hey Foster, whatcha reading?" She looked up and looked a little confused. Guess she hadn't seen me.
"Oh, Keefe! Well, this is the hungergames, it's a book from the forbidden cities."
"Were you allowed to bring things here from there?" That sounded pretty stupid.
"Yes I was, but I went and got this book in particular last week."
"Were you in the forbidden cities?"
"Yeah, I teleport there sometimes when I miss home." Teleport?
"Okay..." she was more mysterious than I had thought. "So mysterious miss Foster go on illegal trips to the forbidden cities?"
"Yes, I do, but please don't tell anyone or I'll end up in exile."
"Your secret is safe with me," I said, smirking.
"But don't call me "Mysterious miss F", that's a stupid nickname."
"It's perfect! Your mysterious and your miss Foster, what could be more perfect?"
"Sophie?"
"Shut up, your boring, mysterious miss F." And with that the bells rang and we both walked to our separate classes.
At lunch time I walked towards study hall, which worked as detention hall at this time every day. I saw lady Belva standing in the corner of the my motivation immediately dropped. Ball dancing was most boring thing ever! But I started smiling a little when I noticed that Foster was standing in the middle of the room looking like a angry puppy. I felt rage and disguise from her and I silently wondered what she'd done to be here.
"Everyone, I want your attention! I don't know what you have done to be here, and don't want to either. Today we are going to dance, and I hope your ready because no one will pass!" All color drained from Foster's face. "Please divide yourself into pairs, so we can start dancing!" I looked around the room seeing basically every girl in the room staring at me. Everyone but Foster. She was looking down at her feet while a short guy in a long greasy ponytail stared at her and started walking her way. Foster slowly looked up and her disgusted emotion got stronger. If anyone would have read my feelings I think they might have felt the same emotions as about twenty girls started to walk towards me. But suddenly one girl brake free from the group and started running towards me. Stina. That's when I ran to Foster grabbed her hand and said out loud so that Lady Belva would hear:
"Me and Foster will dance together!" The girls glared angrily at Foster while she looked like I had just said that I wanted her to jump of a cliff and die.
"Well that's perfect!" Lady Belva yelled as more and more of the students found a partner. At last Stina was one of the few who still didn't have a partner. "Miss Heks! You will dance with... Ah, Valin!" Stina glared at Lady Belva and Valin, who apparently was the guy with the ponytail looked dreamily over at Foster. So that was the guy Foster had talked about. The one she believed to be Dame Alina's "little bird".
Sophie POV
Detention. Really? Just because I hit that guy in the face after he tried to kiss me? That's self defense! I didn't even know the guys name for goodness sake! And ball dancing of all punishments! I could have done anything. Clean the hallways, scrub the toilets, slice vegetables for lunch, I'd even clean the cage of the schools imp! But no, it had to be ball dancing the day the girl with the two left feet came. Of course, just my normal luck. The weird thing was that when we were to choose partners Keefe chose me over all the popular girls of Foxfire, the good-looking ones. Well, guess he was just tired of all all the girls running after him. And even though I didn't really look forward to stepping Keefe on his toes, it would be nice to not have to dance with Valin. I had already gotten to much unwanted romantic action for one day. As Keefe dragged me out to the newly made dance floor I realized what we were going to do and started protesting.
"Keefe, I can't dance."
"Is this like with the singing or is it really true?"
"True."
"Well, we don't have much of a choice, now do we?" Keefe had his famous cocky grin on his lips.
"It's on your own risk. Say goodbye to your toes." He responded with a low laugh, and started stepping back and fourth along with the music. I started following him, concentrating hard on the way his feet were moving and tried my best to copy him. He made me spin out to the side, and I almost fell over, but he caught me with his arm and we continued dancing. After a while I got more comfortable and could actually follow along as Keefe made me spin again. As I spun back into his arms he started talking, low so that Lady Belva wouldn't hear him.
"So, why are you in detention Foster?" My cheeks grew red, a little bit of embarrassment, but also a lot of anger towards the guy who had gotten me into this mess.
"You don't even wanna know." I said, bitterness sinking into my words.
"Yes I actually do. What have you done?" There was a slight bit of worry in his glare but I ignored it and shrugged.
"Okay, I hit a guy. In the face. With my hand... and I still don't feel bad for it..."
"Wow, I didn't know you could be that dangerous! How is the guy, and what did he do?"
"He'll probably going to be all fine when Elwin is done with him, but he had a pretty red mark after my hand on his cheek when I left, so I think it hurt pretty bad. As for what he did, he tried to kiss me."
"Really? Who is he?"
"Well how could I know? I've never seen him before!" There was some desperation in my voice.
"And he just kissed you? Like that? What an idiot!" I was really glad that he understood. After a while I remembered another thing.
"What ability do you have?"
"Why do you wonder?" He suddenly looked interested and amused.
"We met in the silver tower, and I just thought that you were probably there because of your ability training and then I just wondered what ability you have manifested..." Shut up! Why did I have to rant at this particular moment? Right in front of Keefe? Now he was full on smirking.
"Um, I'm an empath." An empath!? That meant he could probably sense everything I was feeling right now and-
"Chill Foster, and yes I can feel your emotions. The thing is that your emotions actually are stronger than others and I don't have to touch you to be able to read you." Great... "But now I'm curious, what is your ability, and when did you manifest?" Oh boy, time to let him know I'm a freak.
"I'm a telepath," Keefe started nodding but I cut him off. " and an inflictor, a polyglot and I can teleport. Also I manifested when I was five. And my brown eyes are because of the alicorn DNA in my body." Now he knew. He was just staring at me with an open mouth. Then slowly his lips curled into a grin.
"Mysterious miss F, you're only getting more and more mysterious the more I get to know about you. My cheeks grew hot and i looked down at my feet, just to see that we were still dancing, and i was pretty good!
"I can dance!" I whisper-yelled to Keefe who just smiled.
"I knew you could." Then the bell rang, and Lady Belva sent us to our afternoon session.
When I got to Dame Alina's office for our singing lesson I saw Keefe who was reading a note on the door.
"Looks like we won't get to practice today! Dame Alina writes that she had to 'do something'."
"What? But we have to practice! We don't even know what song we're going to sing, and it's only like two months left!" We would never be ready in time. And I didn't really like the idea of missing time with Keefe. Wait what?! It's not like I liked him or anything, I just wanted us to be as ready as we could for the summer dance.
"Chill Foster were going to be fine."
Fine? FINE? We have o be perfect or my reputation will go from 'loser' to 'super-loser', and I don't want that!"
"I'm sorry but your forgetting that this isn't my fault."
"Oh, sorry," I was a terrible friend. We were friend right?
"It's okay. You know we could like meet after study hall or something and think of a song to sing, and maybe practice a little..." I could tell he was a little nervous.
"Yeah, that sounds good..." I was kind of nervous too.
"Can we be at your place? I mean if you want to..."
"Oh, yeah absolutely!"
"See you then, then..."
"Yeah I guess..."
"Bye Sophie!"
"Bye!" Something felt a little weird. Keefe was nervous, and struggled to find the words. That was so unlike him! And he had used my first name for the first time...
Keefe POV
I mentally face palmed myself as I walked away from Dame Alina's office. Why had I been all awkward and...weird, around Foster? And why did I call her Sophie? When you give someone a nickname you stick with it, that's the deal! Ah, man that was bad... And the Keefster was never "bad" around the ladies! But here's the deal. My dad was angry at me again, so I couldn't go home, and today the Vackers would have some kind of family dinner, so I couldn't go there. And when Foster started babbling about how we would never be ready to perform at the dance I got an idea. It probably shocked me as much as her when I asked her out loud, but I actually didn't regret it. Maybe it could be fun! I started to think about when I danced with Foster. She had looked so surprised as I told her I was an empath and her emotions went straight to her famous embarrassment, and her cheeks turned red. Guess she was a little scared of what I could have felt...
Anyways, was it really possible to have as many abilities as she had? And to manifest that early? And she was half alicorn? That girl was really a mystery. And when she told me that guy traded to kiss her, I don't know but I kind of wanted to find that guy and kill him. Because he had made her angry and got her into detention of course! Nothing else...
That's it guys! Hope you still like the story. And I want you to know that I will use any ideas from you guys, if I think they fit in the story. I got the question to put characters from the fourt and fifth book, and I promise I will, but right now I can't. 'Cause the thing is... I haven't read those books yet! Ahhhh, I know, and please don't hate me, but I have ordered the books online and they are just taking forever. If I'm lucky they'll arrive on Christmas Eve! Marry Christmas! So I'm waiting like crazy and then I will include some more characters. Bye guys!
