Thanks for all the reviews! Here is chapter two!
Chapter Two
Dreams
The hotel room where Jessi and Sarah were staying wasn't very big. It had two of the small beds in it, and felt a bit crammed. They were only going to be there a few days, but still, Jessi felt a sense of discomfort being in such a cramped space.
You would think she would like it, the way Kyle liked his cramped tub, but she was different than Kyle, she liked a normal bed, she liked fitting in, in some ways. Her ways of fitting in were very different from Kyle's ways of fitting in.
Kyle was typical in ways that Jessi wasn't. He didn't like showing off his powers and abilities, Jessi did. Kyle wasn't as proud, Jessi was. But in many ways, their oppositeness was what made them so compatible.
It was hard for Jessi to watch as Kyle fell hard for someone like Amanda; she was so very different from both of them. She was of a world of music and gabbing friends. A world without a father, and that was something that Jessi could relate to Amanda in a sense.
Although Jessi had been given a father at one point, he misused her, and she was glad to be away from that. But oh, how her heart wanted Kyle. She wanted to be all his, and he to be all hers. What was so wrong with her wanting that? Why was Amanda allowed to be happy and not her? And there were so many other boys, ones that were like Amanda, good at music and those types of things. Why couldn't he just come into her life and allow Jessi to have Kyle?
As Jessi pondered all of these questions, she once again thought about the plan, and how it had been executed. She was certain that Foss had Amanda by now, and she knew for sure that their powers were soon to be tested, but the question was: When?
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"I don't want to beat her." Foss told Emily.
"Have you gone soft honey?" Emily asked sarcastically.
"No, I just don't want to do it. Ever since we had our daughter…This is someone's little girl, would you want someone to hurt our little girl?" Foss asked her.
"No." Emily replied, looking through the glass and into the room where Amanda was being kept.
"I didn't think so." Foss replied. "Now, I don't want her to get beaten, not unless we are sure that Jessi and Kyle and XVI can all heal her. Can they?"
"I am positive that all three of them can. As long as she is kept alive." Emily replied.
"And what about the search party? Its all over the news." Foss asked.
"They won't find her, but when she comes back, we will be sure that it is Kyle that returns her." Emily replied.
"Why?" Foss questioned.
"It's the safest bet." Emily replied. "Kyle, being the boyfriend, and being fairly good a lying, could say that Amanda was in the woods, at a secret spot that only they knew about. He found her there. We will have him talk to her about it beforehand, so that when people ask questions, she has answers."
"I hope that what we are doing isn't too dangerous." Foss shook his head as he spoke.
"It's safe." Emily reassured him.
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Jessi sat in bed staring out into open space. For the longest time, she had wanted Kyle so badly that she had forgotten to think about her goals, her dreams. What did she want to do with her life?
It seemed that people were always talking about dreams. What were dreams anyway? There were two definitions in the dictionary. One was a goal you wanted to eventually reach, aka, a dream or ambition. The other was what you thought about at night, in an REM state.
As a typical girl of her age, her dreams at night were that of romance and love. She wanted to be with Kyle. But her dreams for herself, for what she wanted to be in the future, those were a mystery, even to her. She was thinking along the lines of a doctor, but she didn't know for sure. She had a lot of potential, she knew that.
Sarah joined her in the bed next to her. "What are you thinking about?" Sarah asked.
"What I want my career to be." Jessi replied.
"Have you given any more thought to the experiment?" Sarah asked.
"Yes and no." Jessi replied. "I know what I have to do. Work with Kyle and the other person like us to heal Amanda. Piece of cake."
"Are you sure about that?" Sarah asked. "Kyle passed out the last time he tried. So did you if I recall correctly."
"But all three of us…" Jessi began.
"May or may not be enough." Sarah replied cautiously. "You need to be less cocky and confident and work on polishing what you know. I will help you in that area."
"Thanks." Jessi gave a half smile and pondered what Sarah had said.
"What do you want your career to be?" Sarah asked.
"I think I want to be a doctor." Jessi replied.
"I think that's a good idea." Sarah agreed.
Both ladies quickly went to sleep after their short and sweet conversation.