I was quiet in the morning, my brain was trying to remember how to breathe normally but my uncle wasn't fooled.

'Why so quiet?' he said trying to sound casual.

'Just Tired', I whispered thinking the quietness of my voice will enforce the idea of me being just tired.

My uncle just half-smiled at me, 'Maybe you shouldn't stay out so late'.

I tried to hide my face by stuffing my face with a spoonful of coco pops.

We didn't say another word to each other but my uncle has never a man of many words but I liked that about him. Though I would have preferred conversation to delay leaving the house, I feel like a walking target right now. What if the uniformed man was there again or waiting for me at school? I must think of something else before the fear glues me to this chair.

The only thing that comforted me was that in less than a week, I was going to San Francisco and after New York. I was going with my school IT class, which I would have hated if Jeremy and Alice weren't going with me. Jeremy is my best friend, we share the love of bands but he has no clue about my little talent. That's a secret just between me and Alice. Anyway, Alice had a plan that while we're in San Francisco we would get familiar with some places so maybe one night we could go around teleporting at night.

I did tell her not to get her hopes up because I was very doubtful that I could teleport across countries though I haven't tried.

After school today, we didn't go to the shop out of town, after the incident with the uniformed man, I decided staying in my house would be better. When my uncle had gone to sleep, Alice helped me pack for San Francisco; she doesn't think I can do anything by myself. As she packed I was on edge and wary, checking my window every second I got. I was trying to stay calm, for Alice's sake but I was fighting a lost battle.

'Can you stop checking the windows, you are panicking yourself!', she ordered but mumbled, 'and me', at the end.

'I can't help it, I'm just worried', I said looking out her window.

'Why are you worried, if in doubt you could teleport us out', she said trying to sound playful about the situation.

'This isn't funny', I said in a harsh tone.

'Okay', she mused.

'Sorry', I force a happy smile at her, 'Why do you think he said he followed a jumper here?'

'He could be talking about you or the collection of pretty blue jumpers you have', she said while laughing at a blue jumper in my wardrobe. Which in my defence my uncle gave me; he has no sense of style!

I tried to hold in a laugh but it betrayed me and came out; but I pursed my lips together to hold it in. She smiled at my reluctance to laugh and threw my jumper at me and pointed to my luggage.

'Do you think, when we are back here after San Francisco, you could teleport back there? Or is it a local thing?', Alice asked casually.

'Wow, that's incredible I was thinking the exact same thing before', I said surprised, 'Imagine being able to teleport anywhere, within a second. Anytime, anyplace in the world!'

'Well you would have to have been there before', she burst my bubble.

I rolled my eyes and then started thinking of places we had been on holiday. My uncle's idea of a holiday was normally fishing.

'Well then let's try, somewhere', I asked. She looked confused so I went on, 'let's try now, to go to a place far away from here that we've been to before'.

Understanding me now she thought, 'How about that time we went to Italy last year? Unless you want to try teleporting to one of those lakes we used to go to every year'.

I shivered at the memory; it was as if I could smell the fish from here. Ugh.

'Yeah, let's try!'

So we held hands and I closed my eyes trying to remember the harbour in Sicily. Then I opened my eyes and to my disappointment we hadn't moved an inch. So I made up an excuse not wanting to admit that my teleporting might be limited.

'I can't remember it well', I said to her. She opened her eyes.

'Hmm, wait a second, I saw something in your drawer before'. She dashed to my drawers looking, she moved so quickly I was starting to think she could teleport like me.

'Here it is!' She said to herself and then looked at me when a picture, it was of my uncle, his friend Joe (Alice's dad) and us in Italy, 'will this help?'

I smiled at her and said, 'I hope so'. I really hoped it would.

So I had a good look at the picture and we held hands again. I thought of the crashing waves of Sicily at the harbour; how beautiful it all was and then I felt a cold breeze hit me and I heard waves crashing. I opened my eyes and there we were, in Sicily! The exact spot we were in the picture, it was darker but exactly the same. I nudged Alice to open her eyes and her eyes then grew twice its normal size! We were still, just taking it all in and then I walked towards the sea.

Alice danced towards the sea and sat on the dock and said, 'This is brilliant' and smiled showing all her teeth.

'I know', I breathed looking around.

'If we had known we could travel this far, we would have come to Sicily for dinner sometime and stayed at the hotel we stayed at when we were on holiday', she said still smiling.

I laughed looking at the hotel and said, 'That would have been nice'.

'I love this', she said.

'I know', I replied, lying down and looking into the night sky.

'No, I mean finding out more about you and doing amazing things like this', she said blushing and continued, 'we could travel the world!' Even though I was only older than her by a few months she always had her childish moments.

'I would love that, but first we have to go home and get some sleep!' I teased.

'Urgh... Fine!' she said grumpily. So I took her hand and we were back in her bedroom. I hugged her goodnight and flashed back to my room, calm and happy...

Until, I saw my window open! I swear it was closed, I would know I was staring out of the curtain too afraid to open the window! I quickly went to shut it but when I touched it, I was electrocuted. 'OUCH, fuck!' I shouted, I hope I didn't wake up the neighbourhood. Through the electricity I still managed to close the window. I've never been electrocuted before but I'm sure it doesn't last thing long and isn't this strong!

I then tried to teleport downstairs to get some ice or something for my hand, to my surprise I didn't move. Teleporting was as easy as breathing to me now, the thought that all that might be gone made me freeze in shock. So I walked downstairs, this was strange I only ever walked when other people were around. I got the ice but decided to put it back as my fingers didn't feel like they were burning anymore. So I tried my luck and closed my eyes hoping I would teleport into my bed. Relief warmed my body as I opened my eyes to the wall of my room. I wonder what happened. Why did the electricity affect my power like that?