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Diana's POV
"Maybe if you didn't leave your used make-up wipes lying around, I wouldn't have had to clean the bathroom! How was I meant to know your stupid moisturiser wasn't empty?" Erin yelled at Diana. In 24 hours the pair had done a lot of shouting. The latest incident was Erin had thrown out Diana's expensive moisturiser, despite it being clearly half full. The thought of someone touching her stuff made Diana's blood boil.
"Maybe you could have just thrown out the wipes?" Diana suggested. Erin rolled her eyes at her, "Or, you could have tidied up after yourself? I'm your roommate, NOT your maid!" She emphasised this last point by saying it slowly, as if Diana was an idiot. This almost made Diana lose her temper, which she couldn't allow. She had to appear cool and calm; it drove people made when she was able to do that and they weren't.
"Well," Diana snapped, "you could always change that." Erin laughed, "You'd love that, wouldn't you?" Diana put on a fake look of sorrow. "Oh no, it would break my heart!" She even placed her hand to her heart and sniffed. "Do you mean that block of ice of yours?" Erin smirked at her own sarcasm. "Don't worry, the Wizard will give me a new one. I can ask him to give you a brain, if you want?" Diana was pleased to see the smile on Erin's face disappear as she struggled to think of a response.
Diana saw this as a triumph and her cue to leave. "You know what, I've got somewhere to be." Diana made her way to the door. She slammed the door behind her and marched quickly down the hallway. She was late for Caine's stupid club. The Club was in Room 17, along a corridor that no one went to at that time of night. Diana checked to make sure that she wasn't followed. Caine would go mad if because of her someone had shown up uninvited.
Caine's POV
Caine cast his eyes over everyone in the room. There were about half a dozen kids sitting in a circle of chairs. Three of them were 3 bars, the rest were just 2 bars. He was the only four bar, therefore the most important in charge.
"Can we hurry up and get this over with?" Drake growled. He was the only one there with no powers. "We need to wait for Diana," Caine answered. "Of course," Drake said as he rolled his eyes. Caine had to admit it; Diana had some nerve holding them up like this.
Just as Caine was about to lose his patience and get seriously angry, Diana walked in. "What time you call this?" Drake asked. "Time you should shut up and get out of my sight." Diana replied, with a glare. Caine couldn't be bothered with their pathetic arguing. "Now that the pleasantries have been exchanged, let's begin." Everyone was quiet and turned their attention to Caine. "Right, we've got a new member." They all looked at the ginger sixth grader, who most had never seen before.
"Hey," she smiled, "I'm Brianna, and I can run really fast, like at least 60 miles an hour. Apparently I'm a 3 bar, which is awesome!" Caine laughed at the girl's confidence. "Three bar's good, unless you're a four bar, like me." He gave Brianna a look to remind her who was in charge.
"When did you realise you had power?" Taylor, another 3 bar asked. Brianna smiled; obviously it was a happy memory. "I live on the outside of this town, and one day over Summer I heard an ice cream van drive past my house. It never passes my house so I was super excited. But by the time I got outside it was gone. So I ran after it, yet I ran way faster than I've ever run before! Anyway, after I ate my ice cream, I started running around the fields near my house, at about 30 miles an hour. Then I was like, 'Hey, this isn't normal.' So everyday I ran and got faster and faster. And that's the story." Caine stared at the girl. She hadn't taken a breath during her speech.
"How'd you get found out?" Dekka, who never talked in the meetings, surprised everyone by asking a question. "Well, at like 2am last night I was running around the football pitch, and Caine saw me." "Yeah," Caine added, "that was a completely stupid thing to do. What if a teacher had seen you? If you ever do it again, I'll make sure you regret it!" Caine was used to threatening people, but not Brianna. She just smiled and said, "I don't fancy you odds of catching me!" The others attempted to hide their smiles, apart from Diana, who openly sniggered at this.
Caine gave her a dirty look. "True," he said turning back to Brianna, "but I could pick you up and throw you to the ground so fast you'd break every bone in your body. How fast could you run then?" Caine finished this with a wide grin. Drake also smiled, loving the idea of someone in pain. "She probably couldn't run at all," He laughed. Everyone looked over to him, not believing that he thought that he was being smart. "Wow, who'd have known Drake was a medical genius!" Diana called out. "I wonder Diana, if you could talk if your throat was slit." They stared at each other, both wishing the other was dead. "Seriously, can you ever be nice to each other?" Caine wasn't going to let their bickering stop the meeting.
When Caine finally got their attention, which he knew that he deserved, he told them all about how they would be training every week in order for them to get better at using their powers. "Any questions?" he asked at the end. Bug, who had spent most of the meeting invisible, raised his hand. "What Bug?" "Well…um… why are we training? What's going to happen?"
'Oh crap!' Caine thought. The exact question that he couldn't answer, something which none of them could know. "I think we got these powers for a reason, which mean's we're going to need them for something. I don't know what, or if I'm even right, but I believe we should be ready for whatever happens." Most of the kids looked at each other, with their faces full of worry. Even Diana looked unsettled.
Caine stood up. "Why are you all so scared? We go to Coates, one of the toughest schools around. We all know how to handle ourselves." There were murmurs of agreement in the group. "Trust me," Caine continued, "if you give me your loyalty, I will protect you. We're a team, that I'll make sure is unbeatable. Anyone who messes with you, messes with me, and Drake and his goons." "As long as I get to beat people up, I'm happy," Drake added in. Caine was thankful that for once Drake was playing ball. "Who's with me?" Caine looked and saw they'd all swollen every word. "I'm 100% in!" Brianna stood up. The rest followed, even Diana half-heartedly said she was on Caine's side. Caine smiled as he looked at them all. 'I have such a way with words,' Caine thought to himself.
