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mouth.
    “ Our powers,” Androse
repeated. “You’re here, so we figured that you must have them
too.”
    “ Wait,” said Zander, “you
guys have powers?”
    “ Yes,” Hudson said not
hiding any dislike. “We know you have them too.”
    “ Hold on a second,”
Natalye said scooting back up to the table. Androse and Hudson were
completely calm as they looked at her, so they couldn’t have been
playing a joke. Zander seemed to be having the same reaction that
she was and all that was running through her mind was, Oh , shit . They
know . Natalye bit her bottom lip,
wondering if she should deny or admit. She wasn’t one for lying,
but this was something that she kept very close to her.
    “ It’s okay,” Hudson
smiled. “You need a demo.”
    “ I,” she started, but her
view of Hudson was suddenly obstructed by her plate which was now
floating in midair, unsupported. Natalye felt
hypnotized.
    “ Oh, shit,” Zander
breathed.
    Snapping out of it, Natalye lowered the
plate back down to the table with her hands. She needed to be
careful and honest. She didn’t want to start off with these guys on
the wrong foot by attempting to lie or hide, so she spoke before
she psyched herself out. “Y-yes. I…I do have powers, but-”
    “ So do I,” interrupted
Zander, but no one was paying him any attention. This was the first
time that Natalye had ever spoken to anyone outside of her
immediate family about it and she thought her heart was going to
explode from it beating so hard.
    “ Are you sure? All of this
is about…” She suddenly found it hard to speak.
    “ Yeah. Awbrey’s mother
admitted it to her,” said Androse.
    “ Awbrey?” Natalye felt
like her brain couldn’t hold any information. “Who’s
that?”
    “ I’m Awbrey.”
     

Chapter 7
    Awbrey
    Awbrey didn’t know who the
girl was. She had curly dark brown hair that was tied in a bun at
the base of her neck, light hazel eyes, and her skin reminded
Awbrey of smooth caramel. She was clearly a bit of a tomboy; she
had on a plain t-shirt and pair of shorts, and she wore no
makeup. At least she ’ s not some prissy
idiot , Awbrey thought, though she still
wasn’t at all happy about the presence of another
female.
    The girl seemed startled, but she collected
herself as she turned around and stood up. “Sorry about that,” she
said wiping her hands on her shorts. “I’m Natalye.” She held out
her hand and Awbrey leisurely shook it. “You have powers too,
then?”
    “ Yeah,” Awbrey said sizing
her up. Anyone who knew Awbrey knew that she much preferred the
company of boys instead of girls, so much so that all of her
friends at school were guys apart from one girl who was very much
an exception.
    “ This is crazy,” Natalye
said picking up her drink. “Are there any more people like us
here?”
    “ Aside from our
grandparents? I don’t think so,” Androse said standing up and
taking his plate to the sink.
    “ My mother has powers
along with me and my grandma,” Zander said as if he had just wanted
to speak against Androse who went about washing his dishes as if no
one had spoken. Awbrey tried to talk to him earlier after Zander
arrived and was rude to him. Awbrey and Hudson had both tried to
tell Androse that he needed to stop Zander before he got too
comfortable messing with him, but she guessed that the message
didn’t get through.
    “ Is your grandmother
here,” Natalye asked.
    “ No. She’s out of the
country,” said Zander. “What about you guys’ parents? Do they have
powers?” They all looked at each other, but didn’t answer Zander.
Awbrey wasn’t sure about Natalye and Androse, but for her and
Hudson, she knew perfectly well why they were keeping
quiet.
    When Awbrey was five years old, her parents
separated. Andrew had just turned two and Hallie and O’Ryann had
been subsequently having problems for a while. One of the issues
that drove them apart was Hallie’s suspicion that her husband
wasn’t being faithful. She