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Caine's POV
Caine threw his bag down on the table and sat down. He couldn't be bothered listening to Mr Jameson go on and on about something he didn't care about one little bit. "Hey," he said to Erin. "Huh?" she replied, looking dazed. "Sorry, I was in a daydream. What did you say?" "I said hey." Caine was wondering what planet she was on. "Oh… um, hey" she laughed. "I'm not with it today."
"So, can I copy some of your homework answers?" Caine asked, with one of his most charming smiles. Erin sighed, "I thought you were a reformed character that did his homework." She shook her head in disappointment. "I was " Caine protested, "but me and Diana had a Geography project to work on last night, and that took a long time." "Oh, is that when you had your argument?"
This puzzled Caine, he and Diana had argued. It had turned from how to do the title, into how Caine was a control freak and Diana was being unreasonably stubborn. Not their worst fight, but Caine couldn't figure out why Erin knew. "What? How do you know that?" he asked her with a cold look. "Um... Diana came in to the room last night in a rage and I made the mistake of asking her what was wrong." "Oh really, why? Because from what I hear you and her aren't exactly best friends." "Can't a person just be nice?" Erin protested. "Whatever, just tell me what she said about me." He tried to hide how much the idea of Diana talking about him behind his back annoyed him.
"Well, I'm not sure what her exact words were, so who cares?" Caine looked at Erin. It was completely obvious that she was lying. "Erin," he said, making his voice more serious, "Tell me what she said." Erin looked as if she was thinking it over. "Fine," she gave in, "but don't say anything to her, because my life won't be living if you do." Caine was losing his patience, "Can you just spit it out?"
"Ok, she said that you were a complete jackass and extremely annoying." Caine wasn't really bothered about her saying this. Diana had said exactly that to his face during the fight. "So that's all she said?" he asked Erin. "Err…" she paused and looked away. His question was answered. Caine was going to ask Erin what she was hiding, but their conversation was cut short by Mr Jameson calling the class to attention.
After Mr Jameson had explained some boring as hell Maths, Caine returned to questioning Erin. "Erin, tell me everything Diana said about me." Erin ignored him and kept doing her work. Caine had to try another tactic. "How would you like it if your friend was saying horrible things about you? Wouldn't you want to know what they were saying?" Erin sighed, "Yeah, I know what that's like. Ok I'll tell you." Caine smiled at her, "Thank you." Erin took a deep breath, forcing Caine to wait longer. "She called you a pathetic sociopath."
'How dare she say that!' a voice screamed in Caine's head. He was NOT a sociopath, and he certainly wasn't pathetic. Helpless people with no control or power were pathetic. He however, only needed to say the right words to a person and they were under his control.
"Thanks," he said, looking at Erin. She had started her work, but still looked uncomfortable. "There's more isn't there?" "Yep," Erin said, "and you're not going to like it." Caine sighed. "Don't care, tell me." "She said you were basically a slightly smarter Drake" "What!" Caine said it so loudly that others near him looked at him. He didn't care, he was so angry. How dare Diana say such a thing about him? Drake was a sad loser who enjoyed seeing people being hurt for no reason. He just knew how to get people do what he wanted.
"Did Diana explain how me and Drake are so alike?" Caine didn't even bother trying to use any charm, he was too pissed off. Erin scrunched her face into a look of concentration. "I'm not 100% what she said exactly, but something about how you were both horrible people. And that sometimes the thought of spending time with either of you made her want to put a bullet in her head!" Caine's mouth made a perfect O-shape. He was genuinely shocked, but had to contain his anger.
Erin looked worried. "Please don't tell Diana any of this, she will kill me!" Erin pleaded. "Not if I kill her first," Caine said under his breath. He looked back at Erin; she looked as if she was daydreaming again.
Erin's POV
Erin walked into her room and set her schoolbag down. She checked to make sure Diana wasn't in the room, the last thing she needed was someone seeing what she was about to do. She rummaged through her drawer for a plastic cup, and went into the bathroom. She took a bottle of Coke from her pocket and poured some of it into the cup. She had realised what had happened a few days ago was real, and had been testing her new powers. She had the power to turn water into ice by touching it, and turn it back to water. What she wondered was if it worked with other liquids.
She touched the Coke in the cup and concentrated. She even closed her eyes. When she opened them, she looked at the solid brown block in the cup. She smiled at her accomplishment. She didn't have any idea how she could do it, or why. She had always thought scientifically; everything had a logical explanation, and anything that seemed magical or supernatural was a lie. If she had heard someone say that they could freeze anything with a touch, she would have probably laughed and said 'Lay off the weed' or something. Now she was claiming the impossible.
She went to her bag, and attended to her second bit of business. She looked at the bottle of body cream in her hand; it had mango and passion fruit extracts in it. Erin recalled how Diana had told her that she once had an allergic reaction to some hand cream, and that was how she knew she was allergic to passion fruit. Erin went back into the bathroom and grabbed Diana's body cream.
She poured its contents down the sink. It was hard transferring the new contents into the old bottle. The two body creams were the same brand, and both white in colour. Erin felt mildly guilty, but then thought about how people were still making fun of her and laughing at her because of the spider incident. She knew that she had to be nice to people, and had been taught the whole 'treat others as you wish to be treated' thing, but Diana had to learn she couldn't do everything that she wanted.
After she was finished battling with her conscience, Erin started her homework. The calmness in the room was interrupted by Diana storming into the room. Diana gave her an angry glare. "Well, I heard you and Caine had a nice heart-to-heart. Care to explain why?" Erin wasn't surprised that Caine had said something, which made her feel like an idiot for saying anything.
Erin looked back at Diana, who was seriously waiting for an answer. "I don't think it's right for a person to talk about another person behind their back! Plus, he didn't really give me choice." Diana looked furious. "I don't care if he threatened you at gun point," Diana was beginning to yell. "You still didn't have any reason to do that!"
Erin didn't have the energy to have another fight. "You know what Diana," she sounded exasperated, "I know you're mad at me for whatever I did, and I'm sorry. But please get over it! Stop being a brat and blowing every little thing that annoys you into some colossal argument! You're giving me a headache."
Erin started to pack her stuff into her bag and made her way to the door. Diana moved to block her path. "Where do you think you're going?" Her face had turned into a scowl, and she stared at Erin, trying to intimidate her. "To the library to do my work," Erin said calmly. Diana laughed at this, "Do you think we're done with this conversation? Because you're wrong!"
Erin took a deep breath, "I couldn't be bothered with this, AGAIN!" She side-stepped Diana and had her hand on the door handle when she felt Diana grab her wrist. Erin looked at her to tell her to let go, but she saw that Diana's face looked amazed and shocked. "Oh my God." Diana spoke so quietly that Erin just about heard her. Diana started to walk away from Erin and she smiled at her.
"What?" Erin demanded, "What is it?" Diana shook her head. "Nothing," she said, "go on to the library. Have a nice time." Erin looked at Diana confused, wondering what was wrong with her. "OK," Erin said, although not thinking that everything was OK. She made her way out of the room and to the library. She could think of many words to describe Diana, but crazy was quickly joining the list.
