(Disclaimer: I own nothing, absolutely nothing. It's sad actually)

Chapter 5

Lysander arrived at the gallery first, and began to work on his most recent sculpture. He wasn't sure who it was yet, but so far it was a beautiful sculpture.

Jakia arrived at the gallery to find Lysander working quietly. She walked towards him, her feet making no noise on the smooth marble floor. She stopped just short of being close enough for him to feel her breath on the back of his neck.

"Who is it," she asked quietly. She had expected him to be surprised, but he answered quite calmly.

"I'm not sure, I've just been doing it," he replied.

She watched him intently for a minute, his hands moving in an rthymic motion.

"What was it, that you needed to talk to me about," Jakia said her hands clasped behind her back to hide the fact that they were shaking.

"I-I think you should sit down," Lysander said nervously looking away from the statue for the first time.

Jakia pulled up a chair next to him, her stomach doing steady backflips.

"I don't really know how to go about saying this," Lysander started, "I mean this isn't something that happens to me often. I mean I'm a very sensible person," said Lysander stopping his sculping to stand and begin pace.

Jakia sat staring at him, her expression blank.

"This happens to Tancred all the time, but never me. I don't what else to do, so I'll just go out and say it. Jakia I-I think I'm with you," Lysander said.

Jakia began to shiver as tears rolled down her face.

Lysander turned around at the sound of quiet crying. "Jakia, what's wrong, did I upset you, I didn't mean….I'm so sorry?" said Lysander rushing towards her.

"No, no, it's nothing you did. You're so sweet, but there is something I need to tell you," she said smiling shyly at him,

"O.k," replied Lysander nervously.

"O.k you know that I'm endowed and you have probably noticed that I'm very powerfully endowed, but you don't know just how very powerful I am," Jakia to take a breath and to look Lysander over carefully, " I was born one of three very powerful triplets. My brother my sister and I all had different endowments, but when we were about 5 my brother and sister got sick from a strange flu like sickness and died. Some kind of a way my brother and sister's powers got passed to me. Just after that my mother and I went to Africa to find out how I ended up with their endowments. After awhile my mother decided it was best for me to get an education, and so we moved here," said Jakia locking eyes with Lysander,

"So…so you have 3 endowments?" said Lysander slowly.

"There's more," said Jakia quietly.

"Oh," said Lysander lamely.

"You may have noticed changing colors, well that's part of my endowments. Each color represents a different gift. My brother used to be a mind reader, and whenever he used his gift eyes turned green whenever he used his endowment. Since his endowment was transferred to me it works the same way," said Jaki

"So does that mean that whenever your eyes turn green you reading minds?" Lysander said thinking back to earlier that week.

"Yes and yes I was reading Manfred's mind, well actually I can only read recent thoughts," Jakia said smiling, "My sister was a telechanitic, but not like the twins," Jakia said quickly seeing the dark look that passed over his face, " she could send messages with her mind and like my brother her eyes changed color, her eyes turned blue. Her endowment works exactly the same as my brother," Jakia stopped here and took a long shuddering breath, "I'm going to tell you this but you can't tell anyone and I mean that," she said pleading in her voice.

"I promise," he said gently, reaching out to grab her hands.

"Like my other endowments, my final and most powerful endowment has something to do with the mind. I-I-I'm a charmer," she said holding his hands tightly.

"You mean like a snake charmer?" Lysander asked confused.

"Yes, but not with snakes with people. Whenever my eyes turn purple I can get people to do well almost any thing I want them to. Very few people know about this endowment because after I use it they can't remember what happened," she said tears rolling afresh down her cheeks.

"Oh, I mean wow, I oh," Lysander said shock causing him to trip over his words.

"Aren't you going to ask?" said Jakia her voice sad.

"Ask what?" asked Lysander confused

"If I charmed you into liking me," she said her voice breaking away.

"No, Jakia I know that you wouldn't do that to me, I've liked you from the moment I saw you and I know you wouldn't do something like that," Lysander said pulling her closer to him.

"Thank you," said Jakia quietly

"For what?" Lysander asked holding her close

"For believing in me, and Lysander I love you too," Jakia said pulling away to look at him.

Lysander smiled as he leaned in to kiss her. "You're welcome, but we better get back or matron'll catch us," Lysander said breaking the kiss.

They walked out going they're separate ways with a parting glance and smile

(O.k so this is my longest and favorite chapter, I think it's sweet.)