I pulled away from her. "What the hell are you talking about, Dana? Have you lost your mind?" I asked her, getting up from the bed, my hands on my head.
"I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. I can show you some evidences. In fact, I think you just developed your first Legacy…" Dana replied, putting a finger on her lip.
"M-my Legacy?" I stuttered as I put my hands down. "You said Legacies are like superpowers, right? You said they're special abilities."
"Yes, they are." she replied, smiling. I frowned. "What, I'm gonna fly? Or maybe I'm gonna be like spiderman, with all the webs and climbing and stuff…"
"Listen to me, Arianna! I am telling you what is true." She exclaimed as she stood up. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier, I was trying to protect you! And all those years that we've been together, isn't it enough to prove to you that I will never ever lie to you? Isn't it enough Arianna? Now, I'm gonna make you think… Was there ever a time in your life when I hid something from you?" she asked, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Yes. When you hid from me who my parents were, or whatever happened to them and when you hid from me about my past and when you lied to me about me!" I shouted. I felt so betrayed by her, like everything around me was a lie.
"I'm sorry Arianna… I'm going to my room." Dana said in between sobs. She was literally crying now. She walked towards the door, but just as she was going to turn the knob, she stopped.
"But I just would like to tell you that… I think your first Legacy is… Having to… control the elements…"
"You're probably going to be a strong one…."
My mouth had dropped open when Dana shut the door.
I thought about it for a moment and that's when I realized that everything Dana had told me fitted together as if they were puzzle pieces waiting to be solved. Perhaps what Dana thought was my first Legacy was actually the second.
A few months ago, my friend Lilli and I were playing a game. I was supposed to guess what she was thinking about. I always got the correct answer at my first guess. Lilli got mad at me for she thought I was cheating and we haven't talked for days. I had no idea how I did those things but I just thought I was a really good guesser, but after hearing what Dana had said to me, I realized that perhaps she was saying the truth after all… And if she really did say the truth…
I hurt her for trying to protect me.
Until now, at the present time, I still feel guilty for the words I had said to Dana. I admit, what I said was pretty harsh. I tried talking to her, sitting beside her, apologizing and everything but she still won't talk to me. I have no idea what else I have to do.
I am about to school when I remembered the thing about my Legacies. I decide to try it on Dana, for I really want to know how or what she feels like so I would know what to do. I close my eyes and take a deep breath and focus on Dana. Suddenly, I hear voices and thoughts inside my head, it made me feel dizzy. I then recognize the voice I hear in my head as Dana's. I laughed so hard and jumped that I went out of focus. The voice faded. I tried focusing again and I hear her again.
"How am I going to tell her?"
"How is she ever going to understand? Oh dear Elders, please help me…"
"I know it's weird knowing you're different from the others and so is being told you're an alien… But how am I going to explain?"
I opened my eyes thinking how harsh I have been to the woman who experienced all the hardships in life to keep me safe. I feel guilty.
I walk towards Dana's room. She was lying on her side, her back facing me. I closed my eyes again, now focusing on Dana's memories. I want to know whether what I heard was true or not. A scene suddenly flashed into my mind. There were tall, pale and muscular men firing big guns everywhere aiming at the people around. They had strange black eyes and were very strong. A man was firing multiple fireballs at the big men. He hit one on the head, and the big man suddenly disintegrated into ashes. I saw a couple more people fight in the battle. I saw a kid about my age kill of a few of the big men by teleporting to different places and stabbing them in the back. But before he could get his seventh kill, one of the big men had already shot him at his back, making him fall onto the ground, dead. I opened my eyes, shocked by what I saw in Dana's memories. The Garde people are real! I read her thoughts again, more easily than I did before. Dana was still thinking of the same thing.
"You don't have to…" I told her, as she gave me a surprising look.
"You don't have to explain anything… I know you're telling the truth. I'm so sorry I didn't believe you before. I had no idea, it was really hard to believe and I…"
Dana suddenly stood up, and cut me in the middle of my sentence. "How did you know?"
"I knew because, I don't think I only developed one legacy… I think I developed another one before Element Manipulation…" I told her, looking down but smiling.
"Really? Well, what is it?" she asked, excitedly.
"Telepathy…"
We both smiled at this.