Hannah’s P.O.V
After talking to Jimmy and then Brian coming to talk to me about Zack and Erin’s situation, I decided to skip and go spend some time with her, I knew I needed to apologize and if she was lazing out at home, there was no way in Hell she was doing it without me.

I walked to Erin’s house and let myself in, using the spare key my uncle keeps under the plant pot on the front porch, only to find Erin snoring softly on the sofa and The Walking Dead playing on TV, season 4, from the beginning. I knew she wouldn’t mind so I got myself comfortable, knowing my uncle was away for the week, I stripped down to my bra and panties and sat on the recliner (my favourite seat in this house) with my legs crossed underneath me and watched TV while waiting for Erin to wake up.

“How are you so shy at school yet you sit in my house in your underwear watching The Walking Dead?!” Erin asked suddenly, laughing, making me jump a little and look at her since I didn’t even know she was awake. I could only burst out laughing with her.

“I don’t know, I think it’s you, I feel great around you… when you’re not trying to piss me off,” We giggled “Look, Erin. You are my family and I know that you didn’t know about the Jimmy thing… I actually talked to him earlier while I was hunting you down, but Brian pulled me aside and told me you left…” I trailed off.

“Oh, I see, I really didn’t know he was gonna do that,” She said, with her guard down a little, I grabbed the ice cream in her hand and took a mouthful, leaving it in there for a moment of slightly awkward silence.

“You turned Zack down for me, Erin… I feel horrible right now,” I swallowed the ice cream “Can I ask… how long have you two been talking and defining this whole thing?” Her eyes dropped to the floor and she sighed loudly.

“Well, my second freshman year,” She laughed “Zack and I had first started talking and that’s how I met him and the guys… well, we passed notes, flirted and such throughout the next three years and recently we had just thought that actually trying would help but I just feel that I should focus on you more than a guy,” The pang of guilt shooting through my chest could not be ignored. I felt horrible that my cousin was turning down obvious love to help me out and all I was doing was refusing it. I’d never wanted her help… until now.

“Erin, you have to get with that man!” I exclaimed “Seriously, he really likes you and I am totally letting you know that everything is fine,”

‘I don’t even care, I’m just so glad she skipped to come over here, it’s so special’
I really needed to get this Clairvoyance under control already.

“Let’s just not talk about it because I literally just want to enjoy that you actually skipped class to come over here!” She was so happy about it, I laughed and rolled my eyes, it was very rare that
I missed school and I never skipped. My laughing slowed and I took a deep breath, preparing myself for what I was about to ask.

“Will you show me how to control some of the gifts that I always see you using?” I asked. The look on her face told me that she was shocked that I’d even asked for help, never mind that I wanted to learn this shit at all.

Erin sat up and I copied, she took my hands in hers.

“Alright, take a deep breath and just feel the gifts that you have run through your body,” I concentrated on everything, every power I knew I had “Deep breaths, don’t freak out, just let it come to you,” She said calmly. I kept my eyes closed and focused on what I was doing, I could feel it, I didn’t know what I was doing, but it was something, I was too scared to look. Erin shook my hands a little and I slowly let my eyes open “Calmly, while staying focused, look around you, Hannah.” She said and I couldn’t help but smile, the fear that I’d always felt was subsiding and I was just amazed. Next thing I knew I was lifting a chair off the ground with the pillows.

The loud knock on the door broke my concentration and freaked me out, making everything drop back to its place. Erin jumped up and placed the pillows on the chairs while I grabbed my clothes to get myself decent again while Erin went to answer the door.

“Um, hello,” I heard her say from the front door “Do you want to tell me why you are here?” She asked. I wanted to know who was there, but I was struggling to get back into my jeans, tripping over my own feet and falling back onto the sofa.

“Well I was wondering why in the Hell Hannah disappeared and I convinced Zack to come with me because I think it is really dumb that after the past three years and so much flirting and shit happening there is still nothing official,” I recognized that voice, it was Jimmy, always getting straight to the point and never beating around the bush. I hurried to the front door and stood beside Erin, ready to jump if anything got out of hand here.

“Well I don’t see Zack speaking up so I’m pretty sure that he really doesn’t care now,” She said blankly, almost as though it was nothing. I punched her in the arm and she looked over to Zack and he let out a defeated sigh.

“He fucking cares, Erin… he is just too much of an idiot to say something, you know that he loves playing the badass rather than admitting that for three and a half years, he wants you,” Jimmy said, again, being the messenger. Erin just stood for a moment and I didn’t take my eyes off of her, something was off. She grabbed my shoulder and closed her eyes, her other hand resting against her head as she saw something. But I heard what she was thinking. It was about the time our fathers broke The News to us when we were younger.

“Erin?” Zack asked and she snapped out of it, looking from Zack to me.

“Jimmy,” I said suddenly “Let’s go get Erin some tea,” I let go of her and walked into the kitchen, Jimmy following closely behind me.

“What was that all about?” He asked, leaning against the counter.

“Nothing,” I said, waving him off “I guess she just isn’t feeling all that great today,”

‘God, she is so beautiful’

Okay, so sometimes hearing people’s thoughts completely by accident wasn’t such a bad thing.
Play it cool, Hannah. What would Erin do?

I opened up the cupboard where the tea bags were kept and realised that my uncle had placed the good stuff on the top shelf. This would work.

“Jimmy?” I asked.

“Hm?”

“Could you reach those tea bags for me?” I asked, pointing to the ones I wanted.

“Sure,” He said, almost nervously.

He stepped up behind me and pressed himself against me so that he could reach up, I’d never been this close to a guy before and it felt… weird, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t like feeling him pressed against me like this.

“Here you go,” He whispered, his voice a little husky as he brought his arm back down and placed the box in front of me.

“Thank you,” I said sweetly, and before I could stop myself, my ass jutted out against his crotch, just a little bit and then I moved away from him and continued to make Erin’s tea.

I walked out of the kitchen with a smile on my face, caused by what happened minutes ago in the kitchen and the sight before me; Erin and Zack on the sofa holding hands… and I saw them pull away from a kiss. It was so sweet, she was finally going to be happy with a guy, she was thinking of herself and not me for a change.

I gave Erin her tea and sat on the recliner I’d been sat on before she woke up, crossed my legs under myself and held onto my own mug of tea with two hands while Jimmy took the pillows back off the chair and sat on the floor with them, in front of me.

“So,” Zack said, clearing his throat and pulling Erin closer to him “What happened today that was so huge that you skipped the rest of your classes?” I just laughed and shook my head, taking a drink of my tea.

“She really wanted to sort things with me,” Erin told him “I was just as surprised as you,”

“I’m not that bad!” I exclaimed and they all scoffed “I just don’t like not being in class if I don’t have to,”

“What reason would you have not to go to school?” Jimmy asked, looking up at me with those amazingly blue eyes.

“I don’t know…” I trailed off as I tried to think of something, tapping the mug with my nails “I guess I wouldn’t go to school if I had the flu,”

“Wrong,” Erin said, swallowing another mouthful of tea “You had the flu for three weeks and you were in denial for the first week and went to school, your entire math class got sick because of you and it wasn’t until you couldn’t leave your bathroom because you puked every three minutes that you believed you were ill and told your dad you weren’t going to school,” She looked at Zack and Jimmy “The man nearly had a heart attack hearing those words leave her mouth,”

“You make it sound like I’m some goody little two shoes,” I chuckled.

“You are!” They all exclaimed.

“Hey!” I said, pointing my finger at Jimmy and then at Zack “You two didn’t really know who I was until recently,”

“Jimmy did,” Zack corrected him and I shut my mouth as I felt a blush creeping up my neck and onto my cheeks. A boy had never had a crush on me before “Oh come on Jimmy,” I looked down to see him trying to hide the blush on his face.

“Leave them alone,” Erin chuckled, slapping Zack’s arm “Now, what do you guys want to do for the rest of the day?”

We all grunted and shrugged since none of us seemed to know what we wanted to do, or if we even wanted to do anything.

“We could just hang out here all day?” I suggested, placing my empty mug on the floor and moving myself so I was hanging upside down on the chair.

“Sounds good to me,” Erin smiled lightly “Do you guys have anywhere to be?”

“We have band practice tonight,” Jimmy said “Six o’clock at Matt’s place,”

“Wanna come?” Zack asked Erin.

“Only if I can bring Hannah,”

“Oh no,” I held my hands up “I don’t want to be the tag along who goes just ‘cause you’re going,”

“Then come because of me,” Jimmy spoke up “Wanna come to band practice with me tonight?” I felt myself blush and I nodded.
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“What are you gonna do about it?” The girl yelled in my face before giving me another swift kick to the ribs “Your fucking bodyguard isn’t here to help you this time!” She laughed maniacally, grabbing me by the hair and pulling me off the ground. I don’t know why she is doing this. I’m just a kid, a sophomore and she’s a senior, beating the crap out of a kid in the girls changing rooms. She shouldn’t even be in here, she came in here looking for me.

“Please, stop!” I cried “I don’t want to hurt you!”

“You couldn’t hurt me,” She laughed again, throwing me against the wall, making me hit it face first and causing my nose to explode blood all over the white tiles before I crumpled to the floor “I’m not going to stop until you stop moving!” She yelled. I don’t understand how with all her yelling and my screaming, no one has noticed or tried to get in to help me. No doubt her minions are guarding the door, laughing.

“Please!” I knew what was going to happen, I could feel it and it only made my fear worse, which wound up making the power stronger and less controllable. One more kick to the back and I screamed “JUST FUCKING STOP YOU STUPID BITCH!” And before I could stop it she flew across the room, smashing into the mirrors, shattering them, the glass embedding itself in her face and hands “I told you to stop!” I cried with a whimper. I didn’t like hurting her, but she hurt me, and I wanted to stop, I did, but it got
too out of control.

Next, I moved her into the showers and turned all of them on, holding her on the ground without being anywhere near her, squeezing her throat to cut off her air supply. Seeing the fear in her eyes as she started to turn blue around the edges, but the burning hatred for me was still behind it, I could still see how much she wanted to hurt me more.

The water pouring out of the showers and swirling down the drain started to become hot, so hot that it let off steam, enough stem to burn anyone’s lungs if they got close enough, and I couldn’t stop, it got hotter and hotter, burning the skin on her skinny body.

“You’re not so perfect anymore,” I growled in an almost demonic voice before everything stopped and I dropped to the ground, everything went black.

“Daddy,” I whimpered, walking into my father’s study where he was working late.

“What’s the matter, Princess?” He asked.

“I can’t stop dreaming about what I did to that girl,”
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“Hannah, drink this,” I heard Erin saying, causing me to open my eyes and take in my surroundings. I was still in her living room, Zack and Jimmy looked scared out of their wits and I was struggling to breathe.

After calming me down and explaining to the guys that I’d just had a panic attack but I would be alright. Erin took me into the downstairs toilet, far enough away from the boys so they wouldn’t hear anything we were saying.

“What happened in there?” Erin asked, wetting a wash cloth.

“I remembered that dream I used to have… about what happened in the changing rooms during my sophomore year,

“How many times, Hannah?” She sighed, handing the cloth to me so I could clean my face “It wasn’t a dream, it was never a dream, you just kept using Descensum without knowing it,”

“I did it before I even knew what that was,” I groaned before slowly looking back up a Erin “I still feel horrible for what I did to her,”

The girl who attacked me that day was hospitalized and then institutionalized. She was telling everyone how I had been possessed and that I did those things to her, so they diagnosed her as schizophrenic and suicidal, claiming that after beating me up she wanted to harm herself… according to every highly recommended doctor in California, she was insane.

“You gave her what she deserved,” Erin smiled proudly “You ruined her face and sent her away, that’s all everyone ever wanted to do to her,”
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Zack and Jimmy had headed home to have dinner with their families while Erin and I ordered another pizza and got ready to watch their band practice.

“Ready?” Erin asked.

“Yeah,” I said absent mindedly while looking through my bag for my book of Shadows that I’d been given as a present from my Uncle when I turned fifteen. I’d only started using it recently

“Fuck,” I hissed.

“What?” She asked.

“I left something in the Chemistry lab,” I sighed, closing my bag.

“Then go back and get it, or leave it until tomorrow,” There was no way I could leave it, one of
the janitors would no doubt come across it.

“I can’t get back in school, it’s after hours,”

“There’s study groups on and you don’t even have to go through the front door, or any door for that matter,”

I sighed. I knew what she was getting at, it was my least favourite thing to be able to do. Transmutaion. She gave me a look when she saw how reluctant I was and now that she knew I wanted to learn… she wasn’t going to let me off this easy.

“Fine, where should I put myself?” I asked.

“The storage cupboard in the lab, there won’t be anyone in there,”

I closed my eyes and then I felt myself disappear, just like someone flicking a switch.

When I opened my eyes I was in the storage closet, just like I wanted to be, but I still didn’t like the fact I’d done it.

I opened the door and walked out into the lab, seeing my book just where I left it, slightly out of sight and hidden behind some folders. I’d been looking through it when I shouldn’t have been and had to keep it hidden so Mr Roberts wouldn’t see me.

“Hannah?” A voice asked from the back of the lab, making me jump, but at a closer look, I realised who it was; Victoria Quinn.

“Oh, hey, Tori.” I smiled, walking towards my book.

“Have you been in there since last period?” She asked.

“No,”

“You must have been ‘cause I didn’t see you come in and I’ve been here all night,” She frowned and crossed her arms over her chest.

“Yeah, well, see, I came in because I needed to hand something to Mr Roberts, but you must have gone to the toilet when I came in, I didn’t see you here when I got here,” I quickly snagged the book and shoed it in my bag without her noticing.

“Oh,” She smiled cheerfully again “Well, alright, are you going to be back tomorrow for the full
day? I have some notes for you from a couple of classes,” She turned around to sift through her bag before coming back out with a stack of paper with her writing on it.

“Thanks, Tori.” I breathed “You’re a freaking life saver,”
My phone buzzed in my pocket with a text, no doubt from E telling me to hurry up.

“I gotta go,” I said suddenly. Damn it Hannah, get it together “I’ll see you tomorrow,”

“See ya!” She called after me as I ran quickly out of the classroom.

That… was too close.

Notes

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