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earned looks that didn’t hide their hatred for us, I still grabbed Zack’s hand and led him away from everyone else so I could try my powers a little bit more without them noticing. I couldn’t use my fire though because then they would notice, but I could use my less conspicuous ones.
    We were doing our routine, him trying to throw me against the nearest object and me ducking and getting him. Although we were using our added abilities no one could really tell because we were so far away. I used the wind the most, because that one was less conspicuous since we were outside. I used my hands to move the wind in the directions I wanted it to go. I could use my mind alone, but if I just stood there and threw him around it wouldn’t be good.
    Zack caught a glimpse of my thoughts and was able to deflect my move, but not by much. When I used the elements it was hard to avoid being caught up in it.
    “Shit!” He said when he landed on his ass with a thud.
    I couldn’t help but laugh, he was getting more and more frustrated with me since I’d been kicking his ass lately.
    “What? You said don’t hold back and apart from not being able to access it all I’m not holding back,” I said giggling at his reddened face.
    Apparently he was really mad because he got up and said, “Whatever.” Then stormed off.
    I was left there staring after him. What has gotten into him? Maybe it was just the dream we both had. Maybe he’s having a hard time coping with the fact that his friends were going to try and kill us. I decided it was time for a break, so I went over to my bag and grabbed an energy bar and a bottle of water. I sat down right next to my bag and prepared myself for Olivia since she spotted me alone. I saw her come over probably to talk about Zack, I presumed. I was wrong.
    “I know,” she said and looked to me for any sign I knew what she was talking about.
    I know could mean a lot of things and there was no way I could understand what she knew.
    “You know what?” I asked, trying to figure out what the heck she was talking about.
    “I have a power similar to your mothers. She never told me she had that power. Your father did since he has never met anyone with that power before. The only one I knew to have had it was my mother and she didn’t talk about it much before she passed away. I know your mother had a vision about those two,” she said trying not to be heard. “That’s why I did this exercise today. That is why I had them partnered up. The less time they spend with the others and their powers the better it will be when the time comes that they want to stab us in back.”
    I honestly couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She has the same ability as my mother and she knows what we all dreamed of last night.
    “Zackary and I, we had the same dream. It involved ourselves but the outcome was the same, we both died at the hands of our so called friends,” I said to her, lost in thought and a little upset since I was reliving that horrible dream again.
    She just stared at me as if trying to think of a way to comfort me.
    “I had the same dream of a ‘friend’ of mine literally stabbing me in the back,” she said using her fingers to put quotation marks around the word friend. “I didn’t know if it was the Queen’s possession or if it was actually her, but I had to kill her myself before she could kill me. That was the same week your mother faked her death as well as yours and skipped out on her people. So I had a rough few days with my twin dying and his family dying and then having to kill my friend. I had no one to turn to except Derek. He’s really a sweet and caring guy, he just doesn’t like to portray himself like that, you know. He wants people to think of him as this big strong man.” She spoke of him as someone in love and I couldn’t help but think of how she was in love with someone who wanted a sixteen year old as a bride.
    “Did he really want to take me as a bride? I mean I’m