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Chapter 4:
"Okay everybody do questions seven to thirty two for homework, and show your work" I heard our math teacher state and groaned, lifting my head from my books. There was five minutes left in class, I had easily avoided any questions and had been able to get a nap before class was over.
"I don't get how you're in the high classes when all you do is sleep" Tyler said to me and I grinned.
"Hey man, I can't help it if I'm a genius" I retorted while he rolled his eyes at me, I grabbed my books before heading out of the classroom. It was lunch now and I was going out for a cigarette after dropping my shit off in my locker.
Lighting up the cigarette I breathed in the nicotine, leaving it in my mouth for a few minutes before exhaling. Bringing it back up to my lips and inhaling a small hand grabbed my wrist, looking over I saw Tat smiling at me before pressing her unlit cigarette to mine and breath in lighting her own. I smirked and exhaled again before looking at her, nothing had happened after our random kiss. We had gone for supper and then hung out and she acted like nothing had happened. But I have plans of my own, no girl best friend or not just leaves me hanging.
"Thanks for the light" she said airily while leaning against the school, her eyes looking out at the parking lot.
"No problem, so Tatters what are you doing the rest of today?" I asked her, moving so I was standing in front of her and in the path of her vision.
"Hanging out with you," she answered me; her tone was a slight questioning one as if unsure of her answer.
"Bingo, lets go and get some real food in your car of course" I motioned for her to stand up from the wall and towards her car.
Rolling her eyes she laughed and walked towards her car, before quickly turning around making me collide with her. She grabbed onto me before I lost my balance, the mischievous look on her face never leaving.
"We have to change first, I'm not wearing this all day" she referred to her uniform.
"But babe, it looks good on you" I replied while playing with the hem of her shirt.
"Really? Well you know I look better out of it" my eyes shot up towards her, and she pressed her body against mine lightly. I quickly brought my arms around her and brought her closer to me.
"Oh really now" was my answer, she kept her hands on my sides and I felt her fingers begin to move lazily trace designs.
"Yeah, I look great in jeans and a shirt" she quipped and then swiftly slipped out of my hold and began for her car. Growling slightly I followed behind her, why does she have to be such a tease?
Normal POV
Tatianna and Reid had gotten changed and then gone driving around Ipswich, eating at one of the local diners before heading out of town on an old dirt road that was rarely used.
"Now where are we going?" Reid asked Tatianna as she continued to drive down the road.
"Just to a secluded spot" she replied and kept her eyes on the road, the color in them seemed dimmer than usual and Reid had taken notice of how Tatianna had been acting more and more each day.
"You know if you wanted to get me alone, you just had to say so" he smirked this was a regular conversation of theirs and it always made her grin.
"Reid if I wanted to have sex with you right now I would have went back to my house" she said and then pulled into a little treed area before turning in her seat and grabbing her backpack. She quickly got out of the car and started walking away from it, confused Reid followed her until she stopped at a very wide rock. She set her backpack down and then pulled out her zigzag papers and started to roll a joint.
"You know you smoke that too much" he told her, sitting down beside her on another rock.
"You know you smoke that too much" she mocked him in a high-pitched voice, acting rather snottily.
Reid looked at her and shook his head; lately she had become more and more bitchy in the passed few days. She used to be loud and outspoken, she still was but she also started to get an attitude towards Reid not that he minded cause he liked how much fire she had, but it grew tiresome sometimes. He hated not knowing much about her, normally he didn't give a shit but he figured since he couldn't know anything it made him want to know. That whole wanting what you cant have, or well in this case wanting to know what you can't know. She was steadily becoming more and more interesting to Reid he took note of how she was usually high all day or for the better part of it, she smoked roughly a pack of cigarettes a day, and he knew that she had at least some alcohol in her drink at one point in her day. It was like she thinks she can't be stable without it or something, she obviously has an addiction problem but why was his question. Was it just for something to do or was she hiding something or trying to block something out.
"Earth to Reid, its your toke" Tatianna stated bringing Reid out of his trance as he took the joint from her hand and took his turn.
"After this I have to go back home, family stuff to do and all" she said, and he looked at her oddly before nodding his head.
Finishing the joint in silence they got back into the car and drove away, Tatianna dropped Reid off at the school and then drove away in the direction of her house. Reid was confused, she had never just randomly ditched for family stuff and he wasn't sure if maybe it was family stuff and that maybe that was the reason why she was so weird lately. But he'd find out somehow.
---Tatianna's POV----
Driving out of town making it seem like I was going in the direction of my house, before turning at a hidden pathway and parking my car there I quickly got out of my car grabbing my purse and cell phone I walked slowly towards my destination. Thinking about my last month here, not much had happened still but my dreams were becoming more and more frequent and it was becoming annoying. I remember my first day here, before I had met anyone and before we had even entered the town. The first time I felt the power.
--Flashback---
Looking at the road ahead I took in the scenery; it was a vast mass of green turning gold, orange and red. The view of the many trees, and the leaves changing color was breathtaking as was every other part of the destination ahead. I saw a sign on the side of the road saying Ipswich 60 miles, and kept driving.
Then all of a sudden I felt it; at first it was just like a splash of water in the face cool and refreshing. I could sense it growing larger the closer I got to the town; the land was consumed of it every organism was seeping full of the power and it made my head feel hazy. I felt like my skin was being licked and then it was as if someone had blown on it after, covering my skin in fresh goose bumps. The whole ride to my new house was like this, and the power kept growing stronger making my body tingle and tremble. I had never felt so much of it in my life asides from some times in my life.
When I finally reached my new house and stepped out of the car I was hit full force with the true strength of the feeling I had been getting for the last stretch of my drive. The air was electric and sent shivers down my spine, I felt like I was being recharged. I stood there outside of my car for a few moments savoring the feeling I was receiving before entering my house.
"Dad, mom I'm here" I yelled out and waited for them to respond.
"In the kitchen, and please don't yell" I saw my father appear in front of me and then led me towards the kitchen where my mother was sitting at the table. They had come a few days earlier than me to set up the house while I decided to wait to leave.
"So when were you going to tell me that this was a hot bed for magic" I stated as I poured a cup of coffee and sat down at the table with my parents.
"We weren't sure if you would notice, so we just didn't mention it. But I do suppose we should have known you would feel it since you are a bit more unique than us" my mother answered me while taking a sip of her coffee and my father nodded his head in agreement. Sighing I leaned back in the chair and stared at my cup for a few moments before looking at my parents again.
"Must you always bring that up when we are discussing our abilities mom, seriously I get it I am different. You do not need to keep reminding me." I bit back and took a sip of my coffee.
"Don't start Tatianna Alice" my father said in a stern voice before adding on " besides we mean nothing rude by saying that you are unique. It means that you are highly important and you know that. But you should go start unpacking your room and then go to school"
"Yes father" I groaned before walking out and searching for a room I wanted for my bedroom.
---End Flashback---
I can still feel the power just as much as I did that first day, only now I'm used to it so I don't notice it as much. But when I met Reid, it was like an all-new type of power. It's seductive, alluring and definitely raw. It differs between all of the sons; Caleb's energy feels stable, powerful, but it is a bit hidden I only feel it in bursts because of the control he has. Pogue's on the other hand is fiery, demanding and it seems to roll off of him in waves like it's his testosterone of something. The most surprising though is Tyler, for being someone so shy and well mannered I feel the most of his power it always feels calming, almost like you are being intoxicated but it's also dominant and it oozes off of his body much more than the others.
I've never told the boys about how I can feel power coming off of them, there are many possibilities in how that could end. A) They think I am completely crazy and shun me. B) They know what I am talking about, and welcome me as I am. Or C) They know what I am talking about and are not so welcoming. Either way I am not letting them find out what I am up to. I highly doubt that they have felt any power off of me, I keep mine controlled, hidden, and make it seem weak. If they had felt something by any chance I would probably have been questioned about it, or watched and neither of those has happened or is happening.
--Normal POV—
Tatianna continued walking through the forest as she pondered her thoughts on the new place she arrived in, thinking about how Reid was acting lately. Asking her questions and watching her movements, not for anyone but himself. She knew he was steadily growing more and more curious with her and she was not sure what to do. She liked hanging out with Reid, but she wasn't going to involve someone in something they didn't belong in. Stumbling out of the forest and towards the sand Tatianna sighed as she stood at the dells, over looking the water she walked slowly towards it dipping her toes in it she shuddered at the temperature of it before she peeled off her clothes and walked into the water going out far enough to dive into it.
Swimming through the water she let her body adjust to the slightly chilled liquid, before she slowly closed her eyes and let her powers begin to release. Her gray eyes turned solid white before slipping to a dark navy almost black. Letting all of her magic seep around her body she felt the water move against her skin before it was blocked out and only surrounded her body. Tatianna began to fill her mind with her latest dreams, the two blurry bodies arguing and the powers she felt. Entering her dream again, she tried to make out whom the bodies belonged to but every time she got close to them, something would shift and she would be brought to the same place but from a different view. She was in the minds of the three people that were plaguing her nights, all of them were angry but one of the minds was radiating hatred, revenge, hunger and malicious ideas. She could feel the power again all around her thick, overbearing by all three sources. One of the other psyches was full of caring, worry, and thoughts on trying to keep one of the other figures alive. The person's thoughts were slowly becoming dark though, as their patience seem to wear more and more thin. But the last person's mind made Tatianna feel sick to her stomach, there was so much fear of losing the power, of one of the people in the little triangle, of losing a love. It was so powerful, and Tatianna could almost taste it. Suddenly a image snapped into her head it was clear, unlike how her dreams had been lately.
--Image/Premonition—
Walking down stone steps Tatianna looked around, candles littered the large stone room some of them melted all the way down, others half way and some brand new. A fire was burning in the center of the room as books filled up the walls and stone seats were set all around. She walked up slowly to the fire, seeing a large book floating in the middle of it she quickly looked at it's pages and saw a passage written.
One must pay to fix the curse.
Two must discover their hidden connection.
One must control the addiction.
Three must not interfere.
One must overcome their mind.
Five must unite.
After reading the small passage Tatianna became confused and then the book slammed shut and saw complete darkness.
----End Image/Premonition----
Tatianna's eyes shot open as she broke out of her encasing of power, the cold water licked her body again and she jolted out of the water swimming towards the shore. Not being far away she quickly got out and threw on her clothes before running back to her car and heading home to write down what she had just seen and read down in a journal that she kept in a safety box hidden in her closet.
--End Chapter—
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