Alice and I are seniors now, both 18, started dating recently; this was inevitable really. We still teleported almost every night. Though this night was different. Nothing remotely odd or out of the ordinary ever happened before this night.
Alice and I had teleported to a shop out of town; the furthest we had been out of town. Normally, when I teleport I know exactly where I am going to go but today was an exception. I felt drawn to this street as if I had to go there and my mind just took me here. It looked familiar even though it was only dimly lit by the street lights. Alice knew something was strange, but acted cool about me bringing her to a strange place, that was just like Alice. She is a calm girl, always calm.
'This is new', Alice commented by looking around the street.
'Yeah', I laughed.
'So, why did you bring us here?' Alice casually asked while smiling.
'I don't know, I felt kind of drawn here', I mumbled.
'Probably because of the sweet shop', she said pointing to a small sweet shop that we were standing next to. I laughed and said, 'You know me too well!'
Alice smiled at me and I returned her smile with a wink. Her smile always made me feel better and safe; she was just a safe person to be around. She always has been. Then I realised she was staring at something behind me, I followed her gaze to a couple holding hands a little further down the street. The boy had blond hair low cut, in his late 20s, he had a leather jacket on with jeans; he looked rather tanned to be from around here as it is mostly rainy here. The girl had chestnut brown hair, in her earlier 20s, she was wearing a small coat and underneath a black dress and she also looked rather tanned. I was staring at this couple watching them whisper into one another's ears. They reminded me of Alice and me, so I wrapped my hand around Alice's shoulder. Then the couple held hands and disappeared. Then they reappeared further down the street and still holding hands they vanished.
I was dumbfounded! They just teleported, down the street and then away somewhere again. Just like I can… My mouth was open and I turned to glance at Alice whose face had resembled mine. Confused about the situation she grabbed my hand and we teleported outside my house. I thought about taking her to my room but then decided against the idea and teleported to her room too stunned to speak; I leant over and kissed her forehead gently narrowly missing her dark brown hair and teleported to my room which felt oddly cold, strange.
That night all I could think about was the couple; I had so many questions to ask, who were they? How many of us are there? How could I be so naïve to think I was alone, to think I was special somehow? Was there anything I didn't know but needed to? Were we related or something? I wanted to know everything, I needed to see them again and execute the interrogation!
Alice and I talked all the way to school about last night and we both shared the same curiosity about the teleporting couple and decided to go back to the street we were at yesterday to see if they'd came back.
'So, if we see them we can ask them questions that we have about teleporting and stuff', Alice said while leaning on the front gate.
'Yeah, I thought I was the only one wondering if they knew more about it or if there were clueless like us' I mused.
'Guess not and we aren't clueless exactly', she shrugged.
I copied her gesture and asked, 'meet me here, after school?'.
'Sure, then let's go there straight after', she said.
'Yeah okay and I have money so we can buy something when we get there', I said thinking about the sweets I could buy.
'You always think about food', she grimaced.
Then we both burst out laughing. I walked her to her first lesson, Biology with Mr Reece he hated me so I smiled at him when I left Alice at his classroom door, late. On my way to class I couldn't help but think about after school and what could happen.
Straight after school (which dragged), I met up with Alice in the agreed spot.
'Hey Jamie', Alice said softly, when she said my name it was electric.
'There you are', I smiled at her.
'Let's go then', Alice giggled.
At this we held hands and walked to an alley way near school. When we were in the clear we teleported to the street that was becoming far too familiar to me now. Alice and I don't normally teleport when it's this light but this anxiety cannot be tamed. We waited at the shop, darting our eyes, looking, searching for the couple again. An onlooker would have assumed we were crazy, starring at everybody who passed, not saying a word to each other. Frustration didn't even allow me to buy sweets; I was too frustrated to eat. It was getting dark so we decided to head home and avoid our parents started a search party for us.
Teleporting our way down the street, darting our frustrated eyes, street by street but when we were a few blocks away from our near our houses I had this strange feeling we were being followed. I could also hear muffled footsteps behind me. This was strange as I am too fast to be followed by a mortal even in a car. Alice gripped my hand tightly; I could tell she was scared which for Alice took a lot. I then held her in my arms and jumped into the air and teleported of the ground and straight to her room without even looking backwards. I gently placed Alice on her bed and tried to force a comforting smile at her to hide my fear but failed. I wanted to stay with her all night but I knew my uncle would flip if I didn't arrive home so I whispered, 'bye Ali' and teleported to my room. When I left I heard a faint, 'Be careful Jamie'.
In my room it felt cold again, my uncle probably left my window open. When I went to close it, I looked out of the window just to check if anything was there, to give me piece of mind on whether I was being followed before. To my misfortune, there was a man dressed in some sort of uniform, noting down something, taking a long hard look at the house. I closed the curtain slowly and made a small gap in the curtains for me to look through. As I peered through a small gap at the uniformed man and he then made a call.
He looked very dark, scary looking, his uniform didn't look like army uniform; it was a navy blue though. All I heard of the muffled conversation was, 'I followed a jumper down to his house, I will continue observation'. His voice was authoritative and cold.
I stepped back, gasping for air, trying to register what I had just seen. More questions burned my head, fear boiled inside me but I put out the fire for tonight and tried to get to sleep. I squeezed my eyes shut and tried not to think of what I had just witnessed.