Chapter 7

Everyone is down in the lab, talking. They aren't talking about the events that happened earlier that day. They are talking about other stuff, random stuff. At about 10:30 Tasha calls down and tells them it's time to go to bed. Leo heads upstairs and Adam and Bree get into their capsules. I decide to follow. 15 minutes later Bree is asleep. I can't sleep. Probably because I'm a ghost. It seems like Adam can't sleep either because he is getting out of his capsule. He walks to the elevator.

"hay hay where are we going?" I him. I chase after him. He has changed out of his sleeping cloths and into jeans and a jacket. When we get up stair it is empty. Adam grabs his keys and heads for the front door.

"Great, I am going to have to save your rear end to? Man you guys have really lost it. I mean I have only been gone one year. How much trouble can you guys get into in a year?" I ask him. But it is pointless because he can't hear me.

Adam gets into his car. I get in the front with him.

"So, what do you feel like doing? Selling drugs to a cop or getting raped by an old man? Or hay maybe you want to do your own thing and rob a bank. I'd be down with that." I joke.

Adam drives for about 10 minutes until he reaches a grave yard.

"Drugs then?" I ask.

He gets out and walks into the creepy place. I'm a ghost and this place is freaking me out. He can he be okay? He walks into about the middle of the graveyard and then stops. We are standing in front of a gravestone. By the way he is acting I don't even need to read the headstone to know what it says.

"Hay Chasey, I know that it's been a year since I last talked to you, and I'm sorry about that but I just wanted to tell you some stuff." Adam tells me. He takes a deep breath and continues. "Last time I talked to you I was…. Mad. I was mad at you for dying. It felt like you were giving up on us. But now that I have thought about it I realize that I wasn't actually mad at you. I was scared. I didn't want to believe it, nobody did. But we all knew you were a gonner. I was scared because I all of a sudden I had to grow up. You had made it so easy to stay a kid. I didn't have to worry about getting up on time. I didn't have to worry about if I exposed my bionics. I didn't even have to worry about what the temperature was like outside. Because you would always make sure we were safe and dress for the right temperature." Adam chokes. I didn't even realize how much they depended on me. Adam looks really sad. He is sitting in front of my head stone. I go and sit next to him.

"Ever since you left it has been hard. We all have to take care of the little things. About a month ago I and Bree went on our first mission since you left. It was a simple mission. An oil field had caught on fire. All we had to do was set out the fire and save the people that were trapped." Adam looks like he is about to cry. "We couldn't think of a plan to save them or put the fire out. Bree went to go and save this man and she almost got crushed by a falling pipe. Chase, Bree almost died because of me! We had to abort the mission after that. 17 people died because we had to abort the mission. We haven't gone on another mission since then." Adam sniffs. Nobody had ever died because of a failed mission. This must have been really hard for them to take.

"Chasey things haven't been the same since you left. Bree keeps getting caught up with these bad boys. Leo has…. He has just did a 180. He hangs out with the worst kids in school and gets worst grades than I did. Mr. Davenport hasn't been able to come up with an invention since you died. Even Eddie doesn't bother anyone any more. I don't know why things have changed so much, but I think it might me because no one has stepped up and become the new leader. But that is going to change. I am going to be different I am going to be the new missions leader. I am going to make sure that Bree and Leo do their homework and dress right for school. I am going to think of the plans. It is going to be hard. But, hay, someone has to it." Adam says smiling. He doesn't say anything else. He just stares at my head stone. At 11:33 I have this strange feeling. Everything is getting lighter. I feel lighter. And then nothing.