I was only five years old but I remember her face perfectly, she looked beautiful and elegant, she had hazel eyes and long brunette hair. She looked calm and caring even though panic was present on her face as well, she was composed.

That was the last time I saw my mother. She was leaving me to stay with my uncle. After dad died, we only had each other. At the time I didn't understand how she could leave a five year old child behind, the child who depended on her and not even look back. Though, I didn't realise then by leaving me. She saved my life.

The paladins were after me because I am a jumper; I can teleport myself to anywhere I can visualise. Whether, it is the opposite end of the room or the opposite end of the world. I can teleport through walls and doors into any place I want and that is why the paladins kill us…

Well try.

They believe only a God should have that power, they are a religious organisation started in the 1600s. This war has been going on for centuries and neither side is backing down. They've developed their weaponry; guns are worthless against us we can teleport away in an instant so they have electric rods and ropes. The electricity stops us from teleporting and when electricity passes through us we start to deteriorate almost as if we are fading in and out of existence. Knowing our weakness they use this and kill us when we are at our weakest. I had to find that out the hard way, I had to learn. David helped me learn.

My uncle was in a state of depression after his wife left, my aunt. He wasn't a very conversational person and my aunt couldn't take it. Though he is good friends with our neighbour; we even went on joint holidays when I was younger. I never enjoyed them, they were often just fishing holidays and I hate holidays. The only holiday I enjoyed was when we visited Sicily in Italy. Our neighbour had a child my age, a couple months younger than me, called Alice. She was around a lot because she was an only child of my uncle's good friend. Alice and I became typical childhood best friends, the friendship bracelets included. She was just easy to be around; she has short brown hair and warm brown eyes. She is beautiful.

My childhood was pretty average until I was about 12. When I first teleported (jumped), my uncle, Alice and I were on our way to the supermarket; Alice always loved coming shopping with us. She enjoyed making sure my uncle and I had healthy food and pizza wasn't ordered every night.

On our way a lorry trying to dominate the motorway swerved into the backside of the car, where I was sitting. It was almost as if it happened in slow motion I could see the lorry coming towards me. I thought I was sure to be dead but before I could be touched I was outside on top of the car in front. Looking down on the car crash just below me. As if I wasn't in the car at all. I was frozen in shock for a second looking at my uncle and Alice's heads hit their air bags. I quickly got down off the car and checked to see if they were alright. Luckily, they escaped with only a couple of bruises. Most of the damage was at the back of the car, any mortal would have died in seconds. Alice was very thankful that she won the argument to sit in the front of the car, that day.

Wanting to find out what happened to me that day; I tried to make it happen again to prove to myself that I wasn't crazy. After several attempts I managed to do it again and I teleported to the other end of the room. It felt like I wasn't there and I for a millisecond was invisible and then reappeared across the room almost falling over. Alice took it upon herself to help me learn how to control my jumping because all you have to do is think about being in a familiar place and you'll be there, within a second. She decided to help me after I was once walking home from school with her tired and wanting to go to bed and then I was there. Coming to terms with my power would have been a lot harder without her. Not wanting to become a science experiment by the Government I became Alice's.

It was our secret, we didn't tell anyone; not only because they would think we were insane but because we enjoyed spending time together 'experimenting'. I tried teleporting to places I was familiar with first such as across the road, from my house to Alice's and then I tried a place I had never been before, Hawaii. I looked at a picture in a magazine of a resort in Hawaii and I closed my eyes and I imagined myself there but I didn't move. I didn't even flinch.

Alice and I assumed it was because I had never been to Hawaii before so I couldn't properly imagine I was there. Closer places were easier, if I wanted to go across the room I wouldn't even need to close my eyes I would just go there. Teleporting became as easy as breathing. I can teleport really fast, which came in handy when I needed alone time.

When I was 16, I only jumped at night and avoided attention when possible. One day, as I was teleporting from Alice's room to mine, she held my arm to stop me from going but just like magic, she teleported with me. We were both standing in my room. I remember her smile when she realised she was in my room and teleported for herself. The kind of cheesy grin that lit up her face. Then she burst out laughing at my room because it was messy; I didn't think my room was that messy but she never let that one go! I covered her mouth with my hand lightly and told her to shush because my uncle was asleep and I wasn't ready to explain why she was in my room, near my bed. After that Alice and I teleported everywhere together, it was our thing. She was so happy that she could teleport with me.