Wielder
Chapter 3
When Ty, Deuce and CeCe got down to Crusty's Rocky and Zac were nowhere to be seen. Ty grabbed the arm of one of the waiters, Chad, who was a guy he knew at school.
"My little sister Rocky, she was here with a guy," he said, "Where did they go?"
"Oh yeah," said Chad, "They were here. They just left a few minutes ago after getting their food. The guy said something about taking their food with them and going to Lincoln park."
"Are you sure that's where they were going?" said CeCe
"Are you kidding," said Chad, "I wrote it down. A moonlight picnic in the park, the guy is brilliant."
By the time Chad finished talking the screwy search party was already out the door again running for the L platform.
"That guy better not try nothing, with my little sister!" snapped Ty as they got on the train.
Meanwhile…
Zac and Rocky had already arrived at the park and had made their way to one of the more secluded areas. The spot that was chosen was away from the main path and surrounded on three sides by a thick hedge. Zac figured this would be a better place than the middle of a pizzeria to show Rocky what else she could do.
When they got where they were going Zac's eyes flashed and a checkered picnic cloth appeared on the ground in front of them.
Rocky's eyes widened and she looked at Zac with the question, how, in her eyes. Zac smiled.
"Besides making things hot and cold we can also teleport ourselves anywhere and anything we need to where ever we need It." he explained
"So that's how you moved so fast on the L platform!" said Rocky. Zac nodded
"But what if someone had seen you?" she said
"Are you kidding," said Zac, "at that time of day there's nothing on the L but a bunch of yuppies who are more interested in their tablets, texts and conference calls to actually notice what's going on around them. I could have teleported a herd of elephants off the train and nobody would have noticed."
Rocky had to agree.
Zac opened the Pizza box and a slice of the pizza floated out of the box and up to Rocky who took it in her hand. She looked at Zac.
"Telekinesis, too?" she said.
Zac nodded.
"Let me try," said Rocky she concentrated on a Pizza slice her eyes gave a faint but steady glow and the pizza slice floated up into the air and over to Zac. He took the pizza in his hand.
"Thank you, Miss Rocky," he said, "That was very good. You are definitely a gifted Wielder."
They decided to knock off the shop talk while they were eating. Lying back on the blanket and resting their heads on two stacks of pillow Zac provided, they ate their pizza while staring up at the stars and the beautiful full moon.
About this time the unofficial search party arrived at Lincoln park.
"Alright," said Deuce, "we'll cover more ground if we split up. If anyone finds anything, send a text to the others."
They all took a different direction and headed out. A few minutes later, courtesy of the looping pathways, they converged on the same spot. They all froze when they heard voices.
Recognizing one of the voices as Rocky's, they eased toward the hedge and peeked through. There on the other side of the hedge were the objects of their search. Zac and Rocky were both on their second pieces of pizza. The trio had come up on the left side of this little picnic and Rocky was on the side of the blanket closest to them.
"Zac, tell me about yourself," Rocky was saying.
"Me," said Zac, "Well there's not a lot to tell, I was born in Arlington Virginia, my parents Matt and Amy stone are both Doctors at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. And I have a little sister who is very good at driving me up the wall."
"I know what you mean," said Rocky, "Even though my brother Ty is older he sure doesn't act like it."
Ty's mouth dropped open. He looked down and deuce had a hand clamped over his own mouth to stifle his laughter. Then Deuce looked up and saw Ty giving him the evil eye. Deuce immediately stopped laughing and became serious again.
Suddenly Rocky sat up sharply holding her right eye.
"I think I just got something in my eye," she said.
Zac sat up and moving the pizza box out of the way turned Rocky to face him. He tilted her head back a little and very carefully inspected her eye socket.
"It looks like you've got a small bug in your eye," he said, "I'll have it out in just a second."
"Oh no," Ty whispered watching the whole thing from the hedge, "I know this old something in my eye routine, guys use that there's something in my eye routine to get the girl close enough to kiss."
Ty lurched forward and Deuce and CeCe had to physically restrain him.
"There's just one problem with your theory," hissed CeCe, "Rocky's the one that's got something in her eye!"
"Don't confuse me with the facts." Retorted Ty
Unbeknownced to them, when Ty lurched forward he caused enough of a commotion in the hedge to get Zac's attention.
"Rocky," he said as he finished getting the offending insect out of her eye, "don't look know but we've got an audience."
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AN: I'm toying with the Idea of Zac and Rocky falling for each other. What do you think?
Next time on The WIELDER
Is there a romance brewing?
Will Ty have a nervous breakdown?
How will Rocky explain Zac to CeCe?