It had been five weeks since Brianna came to Coates Academy. Now, in her sixth week, she had noticed something about Lana that seemed different. The other day, Lana had cut her finger on a piece of paper. Her finger had bled, for a few seconds. Then it stopped, and the cut was barely visible. Brianna had asked Lana about it, who then laughed it off as the cut being not very deep. But Lana also had got rid of the excema she had had on her arms and legs, in the space of a few days. Something weird was definitely going on.
Diana hadn't spoken to them since they had seen Caine's telekinesis powers. She avoided them, having Drake around with her to stop them talking to her. Everything else was the same as before.
One day, during Brianna's French lesson, she felt something strange. Like, a stomach ache. It went away after a few minutes, but Brianna knew something was strange. Then, it happened. The whiteboard marker that Madame Durand had been holding seemed to hover in the air for a second before hitting the floor. The class was silent. A moment of shared astonishment and verification that this was really happening. Then, there were some collective low murmurs of 'What?' and 'She's… gone.' They slowly filed out of their classrooms, to find other students doing the same.
'There are no adults?' Someone finally came to this conclusion. 'We're free!'
Brianna found Lana's eyes in the crowd. She raised her eyebrows, thinking that nothing is ever as good as it seems.