Often I have been blocking everything out and not wanting to come back to reality. Right now my current reality is pre-calculus. It is obvious why I would want to stay in my fantasy world just a bit longer. I have noticed the more I space out the more I can hear others' thoughts. I can hear the boy in the corner of the room thinking about going out after school to get a hoagie from the local corner store. He is hoping that the snow will hold off a bit for him. The girl behind me is thinking of her next attempt to get the attention of the guy that she had pined over for years. But I can also hear him, sitting next to me planning on asking her out after class.

This is the cycle of my days, listening to each person till the bell shocks me back to reality. I finished the worksheet of a practice problem within five minutes. It's easy to come up with the answers when you can see that the teacher is looking at the answer key. I can look in his mind and see all the answers I'm looking for. Once the bell rings I grab my bag and rush to history, one of my favorite classes. The history of our nation and how the government became the powerful thing that it is today is fascinating to me.

"Hello Bella, how are you doing on this fine day?" Jessica questions.

"You know how the days go," I remark, "long and boring."

"Just like every other Tuesday."

Before we can converse more the teacher brings the class to attention and I am out of it. I am unable to pull myself from my thoughts, well other's thoughts. I was pulled so quickly from reality that my breath caught in my throat. I become bombarded by words and memories more intense than what I have ever experienced. Usually, I can control them more. I like to imagine that I am getting better at controlling whatever this is. The next moment I am back and Jessica is giving me a weird look and mouth. Are you good? I nod and take my attention back to the teacher.

The teacher begins his instruction, "Today's lesson is on the gifteds and what they have done to menace our society. As I begin to teach this lesson you all know that I am mandated by the government to share with you that if you are gifted or suspect another of being gifted you need to report it to the hotline. Anyway, today we are going to be researching types of powers and how they can manifest."

I partner up with Jessica and we get assigned mental powers. Typing in the search bar I look up types of mental powers and indicators. Of course, the first thing that pops up is a warning. They are all over many billboards and multiple signs everywhere under the sun so this warning is a normal occurrence. There is also a newer one about fugitives. There have been whispers of a rebellion happening. It spouted off the normal you need to go to the authorities if you know or hear anything.

I feel for the people with powers, they are all always getting pushed into the same category. It is like superheroes and villains, while there is good there is also evil out there. They are not letting any of the good show out because they are assuming it is all evil. I have heard about there being stories from before all the control. When they shared about people being good. There would be gifted people on the good side, it makes me think back to comics. books. They have them all in an archive in the museum. It is a cartoon of superheroes fighting villains and using their powers to help people who were unable to protect themselves. It's not that I don't believe that bad should be punished for hurting those around them but more bad spirals out of the fear of the good. Some of them are just people trying to figure out what is happening to them. I remember there was a girl in my middle school and she started displaying signs very slowly of powers. Her body temperature started to rise and she looked a bit flushed. the time. One day she burst out into flames during her P.E. class. The school went on lockdown and we never saw her again. Before I was born good stories could just be good stories, now they are twisted up and it is hard to tell the truth in them. Children are told from a young age bedtime stories about scary people and it leads to children and adults alike believing that people with powers are all bad.

Scrolling past that first news article I click on the first link and can find a chart with indicators and then what their main power could be after the clues start to show up. Telepathy leads to Psychokinesis or the ability to read thoughts leading to moving objects with your mind. This article piques my interest. I dive deeper into the article reading about how they hypothesize how reading thoughts could then transfer into moving objects.

There is an article about a test subject that looks a lot like pictures of my grandmother from when she was younger. She had been having seizure-like activity leading to moments of spacing out. When questioned about the events that led to her going through testing they discovered her blood had the enzyme of a gifted. They had studied her from that point on having that as she aged her gift grew and developed at an exponential rate. I read on notice the name is finally disclosed at the bottom, Marie Swan, my Grandma.

I can't believe what I am looking at. It is not possible unless everything has been a lie. How have I never heard about this? Grandma had hidden her power till she was 25 and then she was found out and tested on. My mom was 2 when Grandma was taken, apparently, the gene had skipped a generation and now left its mark on me. I bet this is why my mother refuses to talk about her.

"What has got you so deep in your head?" Jessica asks, being her usual bubbly self.

"You just scared me!" I exclaim being suddenly dragged from my thoughts. "I'm good, this is just a lot of information to go through. I wonder why these people are viewed as such criminals and they are all punished so harshly?"

"You know that there are some that act out and try to hurt people, innocents like you and me, so the government has to take an authoritative position and have a hard stance on the issue at hand," Jessica replies.

I nod, "Yeah, but I also feel like the whole should not be judged by the few."

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AN - Hello, I'm glad I was able to get another chapter out tonight I was not sure when I would get around to updating it. I hope you enjoy this story. I don't have a beta so all mistakes are mine. Also pls review I need help with deciding how some of this could go it is a very loose plot line I have right now and am willing to take suggestions!

DISCLAIMER - I don't own the characters of twilight I am just using them in this plot line

Thanks for reading

Liv xoxo