The girls woke up the next morning to find out that the earthquake the night before had been a 6.5 on the Richter Scale. Maddy beamed as she sat down at the breakfast table and told her uncle about how she had stopped the earthquake. Portia rolled her eyes and ate her breakfast.
Maddy and Jada got into another argument at breakfast. Jada stormed out of the house and into the backyard. She walked over to the tree house and climbed up in it and shut the door. Xenia and Valentina glared at Maddy. Maddy huffed and walked out of the house and over to the tree house.
Maddy was halfway there when Jada screamed. Xenia, Valentina, and Portia came running out of the house. The reached the tree and looked up. The door was hanging down from the latch because it wasn't locked. But where they should've been able to see into the tree house they saw metal. Valentina climbed the makeshift steps to the hole in the floor.
"Jada?" shouted Valentina as she banged on the metal.
"Val! What's going on!" shouted Jada banging on the floor.
"What happened?" asked Valentina.
"I don't know. One second it was normal then next it is being covered in metal! Help me!" shouted Jada.
"I can melt it," said Portia.
"No, the whole thing is coated on the inside," said Maddy. "The windows are covered, too."
"Damn," said Portia.
"Jada, I need you to calm down," said her mom walking up.
"How am I supposed to calm down when I am trapped in this stupid tree!" shouted Jada.
"When you calm down the metal with go away. It's a defense mechanism!" shouted her mom.
Jada took a few deep breaths and willed herself to calm down. Slowly she heard the sound of metal start to creak. She opened her eyes to see the metal slide off the wall and pool on the floor at her feet. She looked over and saw the door to the tree house start to appear. As soon as the whole was big enough she climbed out and down the tree.
"What…" started Jada.
"You were hurt by what Maddy said, so you subconsciously built a wall around yourself and the wall formed in reality," said her mom. "I do it with your dad sometimes. I block him out of the bedroom so he has to sleep on the couch."
"Like all of us, you need to learn to control it," said Portia. "All though I think wreaking havoc sometimes can be fun."
"Figures you would say that," said Jada shaking her head.