Chapter 8

As Summer bent down to check Aaron was OK, he grabbed her by the hair and started throwing her around. Sarah, Caleb and Kate came rushing over and tried to pull him away but they were all quite disorderly and it just made it more difficult to separate them. Summer then yelled out and surprised everyone as they were all knocked back by an invisible force field. Aaron let go of her as he too stumbled back in a drunken stuper. Summer backed into Reid and he could swear that her eyes had become some creamy white colour, but when he blinked they were a warm chocolate again.

"You Bitch!" Aaron cried as he blundered under a tree, "You might wanna keep your lil sis on a tighter leash,Caleb. Keep lettin' her off and she could..."

There was a crack in the tree as Reid's eyes flashed black. A branch fell from it and came crashing down on Aaron...

Sarah screamed out, covering her mouth and Caleb wrapped an arm around her. Summer ran towards him as he twitched under the large log. She got an idea as she saw the weeping wound enveloping Aaron's chest.

"Pogue can I borrow your lighter? I can't see a lot." She asked and he nodded and chucked it to her. Summer turned her back to the rest of them, her eyes bleached over as she lit the lighter and put her right index finger into the flame; it didn't burn. She then pushed off the log with her left hand (leaving a burnt-in hand print that she didn't see at the time) then touched Aaron's wounded abdomen delicately with her left index finger.

The wound began to heal as the flame crept slowly over it. Summer had never used her powers to this far an extent before, and was usually careful not to. She began to loose it. She gritted her teeth and squeezed her eyes shut as she fought the urge to loose control. One tear of blood leaked out of the corner of her eye and the wound healed over. As she let go, Aaron's eyes snapped open. He scrambled up, terrified and ran away with trembling legs. Summer's eyes returned to their original brown as she panted and everything went black. She realised what had happened a few minutes later when she started to hear voices standing over her. She was still completely paralysed and unable to open her eyes, but her senses were on red alert and focused on each voice she heard.

"Is she gonna be OK?" She heard Pogue asked, although she had no idea who to.

"I dunno." She heard Caleb reply, an obvious sense of worry and urgency in his voice, "Reid this is all your fault."

"How is it my fault I didn't touch her?" Reid protested outwardly.

This cannot be good Summer thought as she listened on.

"Whatever, Reid. We all know you were the one who dropped the branch on the boy." said Tyler who sounded surprisingly angry.

"Maybe so but I didn't touch Summer, that happened after he got up, didn't it? I had nothing to do with that." Summer listened as Reid silently relished in the fact that they didn't have an answer. Then she heard frantic footfalls as the girls reproached.

"We've cleared the area." Kate informed the group.

"We have no idea where Aaron wen-" Sarah seemed to just stop talking. At first Summer wondered why until she felt a tiny, warm hand move her face slightly to the side.

"I-is that... a tear of blood?" she asked as her voice shook. Summer knew now was the time to get up. She mustered up all her strength and sat up. She flicked away Sarah's hand and wiped away the tear as if she still thought that the fight was on. Obviously that was what she wanted them to think so they would put their minds on helping her rather than asking her why she was crying blood.

Still flailing and putting on a totally believable show, Summer's arms were stopped by Caleb and Reid. They both calmed her (or at least they thought they did which was the whole point) and let her go. She got up by herself and stumbled around a little, apparently dazed.

"Wh-what happened?" she lied brilliantly. Caleb was sure to answer this question.

"Reid dropped one on Aaron so you went over to help and passed out," he said, glowering at the blond, "Don't worry, Summer we talked to him about it and assigned blame to him."

"Oh c'mon Caleb how old are you, 4?" Reid asked, rearing Caleb's mood.

"Just shut it both of you!" Summer cried, honestly not in the mood for a rumble, "I just wanna go to bed so lets head back to the dorms."

They all did start walking back to the dorms, seeming to forget the accident and focus more on Reid and Caleb's new beef. All except for Sarah. She new that there was something strange going on about Summer, and she was going to work out what it was.

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