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Chapter 6: Invisible: Adam and Danielle

"Don't look at me like that Adam!" If I had a dollar for every time I heard one of them say that in the past ten years. This time it's Julie.

"Jules," I say, "You made a mistake."

"I couldn't stay with Charlie," She says,

"I don't mean breaking up with Charlie," I sigh, "You two should have ended it ages ago. You shouldn't have slept with him."

"I didn't plan it," She sighs. "It just happened. It was amazing Adam!"

"I don't want to know," I say simply. "Just know I think it was a mistake."

"Your opinion is noted," She says and walks away. "Charlie," She says as he walks past her.

"Don't," He says and keeps walking. "I'll be out of the apartment for the rest of the day." He turns. She looks down. "Julie don't," They're in each other's heads. This is going to completely ruin my week. "Everyone," He shouts and everyone takes seats. "Look, Guy's home, he's got some news." Guy stands up.

"Hey everyone," He says. I smile. It's good to see him. "Things are about the same, but uh, I figured out the coding, sort of. It's complicated but the formula's precise now, which means that we can not only know how to find them, but know what their powers are." He looks down, "Our funds came through again, and they're still staying out of here."

"Always good," Charlie smiles. He hates them. Granted if I had been locked in one of their labs for six months, I probably would too. They've always been fair to us though. With the exception of those six months. And he was really out of control then too. "Anything else? We have classes."

"When I finished my research," He swallows, "I'm coming back. For good." We all nod. We knew this was happening, it'll be good to have the team back together. We stand up. Meeting's over.

"Banksie," Charlie stops me, "Can I,"

"Yeah," I nod, "Fine, leave me out of it. I have a session with Danielle, we'll talk later."

"Fine," He shrugs and walks away. He's doing that thing he does where he pretends nothing's wrong.

"You have to focus," I sigh, Danielle looks at me. "You're so close Danielle!"

"Is it true what everyone's saying?" She asks eagerly. She's a busy body this one, no doubt she'll run off and tell Gale Levy whatever it is she needs, "That Julie left Charlie and now she's sleeping with Dean?"

"You know that's none of your business," I look at her.

"But," She says, "It affects me. It affects all of us. Are they leaving? Will they still teach."

"Nothing will change for any of you," I say, "Work on your forcefields." She grumbles something under her breath, then closes her eyes and focuses. She releases a bubble of purple energy around herself. "Expand it," I feel it cover me, "Bigger," I nod, she takes a deep breath it blinks for a minute and then she collapses. I run over to her and help her up, "Are you OK?"

"I'm fine," She mumbles getting her balance. "I don't think I can go any bigger yet."

"That's fine," I say, "We can be done for today if you'd rather," She nods. "Go ahead." She starts to walk out, "Danielle," I stop her, she turns and looks at me, "Don't ask any of the others about Julie and Charlie, OK?"

"OK," She says and walks out. I love Danielle. She's probably the closest thing to a daughter I'll ever have. We found her two years ago, a beautiful, painfully shy, invisible girl. Julie has this theory that more than anything else powers are a manifestation of personality. If a kid wants to disappear, they will, kind of thing. It would explain Danielle, and also Parker. I used to call him Julie, the sequel. I've never met two people with more perfectly identical personalities.

"Did you find anything out?" Gale runs over to me. I shake my head. "I did."

"What?" I ask. She smiles, "Gale!"

"Guy's home," She giggles and skips away, I follow after her. "Just for a few days though."

"Oh," I say and shrug. She's got this massive crush on Guy. It's weird, because even more than the others Guy's like our parent, I mean he actually is a parent. He has a wife and a kid. I remind her of this often. We walk down the hall and we see that new girl, Kaylee laughing with Parker Pierce. "I tried to warn her."

"There's no warning against Parker," Gale sighs and flicks her fingers, creating a small flame. Did I not mention she's a firestarter? "Learned that the hard way."

"His eyebrows grew back," I giggle. She smirks.

"Mm, some of my best work," She nods. Last year, Gale went out with Parker. He broke up with her, saying 'It's just not working babe.' So she scorched his eyebrows off. "Bet Parker knows what's going on.

"Nah, he hasn't had class yet," I shake my head. Oops.

"You know his schedule?" She looks at me. I shrug. "You're not still doing his homework are you D?"

"Just every once in a while," I sigh, "And I help him, I don't do it all." She sighs. She gets it. When Parker looks at you with those deep blue eyes and asks you for something, I mean, really asks you, there's no saying no.

"In that case he owes you," She grabs my hand and pulls me down the hallway, "Come on." We stop in front of them. "Parker."

"Gale," He nods, "Carey, do you two need something?"

"We haven't met yet," She introduces her self to Kaylee, "I'm Gale Levy, this is,"

"Danielle," Kaylee smiles, "We've met."

"Cool," I'd give anything to be as confident as Gale. I've come a long way since coming here, but I'm still completely unable to do things like stand up to the most beautiful boy in the world. "Park, do you know what's going on with Julie and Charlie and Dean?"

"No," He looks at her, "Don't burn my face off." She makes a face at him. Kaylee looks concerned. "I know Julie's been upset lately. And that Charlie wants to get married and she's not sure."

"Danielle said that AJ said that Lizbeth saw Julie coming out of Dean's room this morning," Gale says.

"Well, if anything happened that would be the first place she'd go." Parker shrugs, "Anything else?"

"Mm," She puffs up a fire ball and he shrinks back, "Nope," She giggles pulling it in. "See you." We start to walk away.

"Carey," He calls after me. Pretend you don't hear him Danielle. Otherwise you'll end up writing his ethics paper for him.

"What does he even see in her?" Gale says snottily.

"You still love him!" I tease her. She looks at me. "You do!"

"I do not," She says, "I would have sex with him again though." I blush, and suddenly I hear her sigh, "I didn't mean to embarrass you D."

"You can't see me?" I sigh, she shakes her head, "Damn, I thought I was better than that by now." She laughs. She's so in control, I wish I was.

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