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Chapter 7 – Trapped or The Unexpected

"Oh, come on Sam your taking this way out of proportion." Astrid said dropping into the armchair, crossing her arms and swinging one leg over the other.

"Out of proportion? You attempted suicide." Sam shouted pacing in front of her more like a concerned parent than an angry boyfriend.

"How do you know? How do you know I wasn't gonna come down from there as soon as you apologised or something?"

"Because you threatened to jump"

"Well how do you know I wasn't in shock?"

"You didn't seem like you were in shock"

"Whatever" Sam was getting didn't seem to be taking any of this seriously she was acting as if it was all one big joke.

"No, not whatever!"

"Well what do you want me to say that I'm sorry?"

"No, no because that'll be too hard for little Miss know-it-all, who overreacts at the smallest thing when she didn't anticipate it, would happen! I mean suicide? Really Astrid? Isn't that a little bit too much?"

"You have no right to judge me" Astrid replied icily.

"Yeah? Well tough"

"Oh and your Mr Perfect?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You go around acting like you own the place, and then shoot anyone who gets in your way with deadly rays of green fire"

"I am just trying to do what's right and help those kids"

"Help? Half of them are probably scared of you!"

"Well what do you want me to do?"

"I dunno"

"That's new"

"What?"

"I meant 'Astrid the genius' not knowing anything"

"You know what I've had enough of this I'm going!" And with that Astrid stood up and made a beeline for the front door. She tried yanking it open but it was to no avail. Astrid then repeated this action each time stronger than the previous attempt before resorting to kicking and pounding the door with balled fists.

After a while Astrid finally gave up, she let out a frustrated yell before dropping to the floor hugging her knees to her chest and turning her head away from Sam's direction. Sam had watched the whole performance with at first anger but then interest.

For he had never seen Astrid act so . . . un-Astrid like and reckoned she was just having a nervous breakdown. But seeing Astrid huddled on the floor suddenly made him feel remorseful for what he had done.

He walked over bent down next to her then said "Astrid, look I'm sorry for-" But as soon as his hand touched her shoulder her hand whipped out and sharply slapped him across the face.

"Don't you dare-"she started before gasping only just realising what she'd done. Sam's hand slowly went to touch his cheek, before flinching at the pain the skin already turning red. Sam's eyes never left Astrid as she crawled backwards slowly before sprinting to the bathroom slamming the door behind her and from the other side of the door all you could hear was Astrid's quiet sobs.

Brianna first noticed something was wrong when she was in the middle of her shower and the water flow had suddenly stopped. She eventually stopped trying to get the water back on and had climbed out of the shower reasonably clean.

She was half-dressed when she heard a massive crash downstairs and instinctively ran to go see what was going on in only jeans and a bra. She dashed into the Clifftop foyer and she took a double take at what she saw. Both Edilio and Quinn were soaking wet and ankle deep in water.

"What happened guys?" Brianna asked growing more and more curious as to what could have caused the mess.

"Yeah dude what happened?" Quinn asked turning to Edilio.

"Umm, well . . ." Edilio drifted off.

"Yea . . . what happened?" Brianna prodded.

"Well, what do you wanna know?" Edilio asked.

"Everything! How did you do that? When did it start? How come you didn't tell us? When did you find out? How do you control it? Can you-"Brianna held her hand up to signal the end of Quinn's rambling. Then she turned to Edilio.

"Just start from the beginning, ok?"

"Ok" Edilio then walked over to a sodden sofa and sat down.

"Ok well it began a few weeks ago. I would sometimes get nightmares, you know it's the FAYZ everyone here gets nightmares." Edilio began explain. Brianna pondered this and realised for the past year that her nightmares were more frequent than they were before.

"Continue"

"Anyway so I was having nightmares and, well, I don't know but I guess I was moving alot in my sleep and. . . Hmm, let's just say when I woke up I realised I had telekinesis"

"Whoa brah, that's major." Quinn said a little shocked.

"But that still doesn't explain how all this water got from up there to down here."Brianna said still a bit confused.

"Oh, yea it is only metal that I can control." Edilio said.

"How did you work that out?"Quinn asked

"When I woke up all the items made out of predominately metal would be on one side of the room or in a heap in the corner."Edilio explained.

"Yeah, I remember seeing a bunch of items in the corner when I came to get you, and that also explains the water because, obviously the pipes are metal and . . . well you know the rest."Quinn said helping to clarify the little details Edilio missed.

"Wow, well you know what this means right Edilio? You've got powers" Brianna said excitedly.

"Yeah but I can't really control them, sometimes it's involuntary and they give me headaches and make me feel dizzy." Edilio said sounding a bit upset.

"Don't worry man but if I was you I wouldn't tell any random people 'cus kids respect you and telling them you got powers could cause some problems, No offence." Quinn said calmly.

"Yeah, I know that's why I only told you guys now, I was going to tell you last night at the party but obviously the thing with Taylor and Dekka and Jack's argument things didn't exactly go to plan." Edilio said.

"Speaking of Sam, where is he? And Astrid?" Brianna asked.

Quinn turned to Brianna then looked her up and down before asking" Brianna where is your t-shirt?"

"Oh, umm be right back." Brianna replied blushing then running off.

"Ok then, anyway where is Sam?" Edilio asked.

"He and Astrid went to the caretaker's Quarters, Sam said they needed a little privacy to sort some things out" Quinn replied. Edilio glanced at his watch

"Well I think they've had enough time to sort things out don't you? So let's go get them."

"Nuh Uh, I am staying right here" Lana said appearing from round the corner."I can't really be bothered to go get Sam I'd rather stay here and walk Patrick."

"Yeah. I'm stayin' here as well someone's gotta clear up all this water." Quinn added gesturing to around him

"So it'll be just me then?" Edilio asked looking a bit lonely.

"Don't worry Edilio I'll come with you!"Brianna Said "In fact I'll go now, meet ya up ahead." She added before dashing off.

"No, Brianna ...wait...for...me..."Edilio started shouting before trailing off."Well see you guys later."Edilio said before jogging off after Brianna.

Edilio had only made it out of the Clifftop car park before he heard a weird whooshing sound; it had only been a second of realisation before Brianna ran straight into him. Literally straight into him with a loud thud. The momentum knocked both of them to the floor. Fast. Too Fast. Edilio groaned rubbing his head, Brianna quickly scrambled to her feet.

"Oops, sorry about that, kinda hard to stop once you start"

"Err it's alright."Edilio replied.

"Umm, we kind of got a problem"

"Another one?"

"Sadly yes . . ."

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