Gifted Connections 1

Before I could react, she had me in one of her cyclones and dashing across the room. My body slammed off the wall with a hard thud. The wind was knocked out of my lungs and it felt like I had sprained my wrist; the same one that I had sprained when Heidi nearly broke it because I threw away her drugs.

I could see Stacey smugly smiling at me from the holding booth. I tried to will air back into my lungs as I saw Tamara advancing towards me. She held her hands up, ready to set me in her cyclone once more. I felt my limp body being lifted and I willed myself to ignore her and go to that place of panic and anger.

LET ME GO! I thought furiously in my head.

I felt her concentration slipping as my body wavered slightly off the floor.

Time to take your pants off, I thought maliciously. Wanna act like an ass, let everyone see that ass.

When she dropped me this time, I was thankful I wasn’t that far off the ground.

Her eyes widened in shock. “That’s indecent. We have kids up there,” she said shrilly as she started to remove her pants.

I smiled at her. “Launching me across the room was indecent. Now, go get the flag and give it to me,” I said coolly.

I didn’t know if Rachel had gotten to the flag or not yet, but I wanted to make sure we were the first team to get it.

Tamara walked away from me in her cute little lacy underwear, cursing at me the whole time. I giggled and went to see how my other teammates were doing.

I found Victor on the floor begging for mercy and literally crying. He wasn’t so tough when the tables were turned. Vine girl seemed intent to keep him in the prison of vines as he cried.

“Victor,” she said softly. “You really need to learn how to respect everyone, whether they come from a gifted family or not.”

Victor said a very filthy curse word. “Just wait until I’m stronger than you, I’ll show you!”

“Release him,” I projected my thoughts to her.

She looked at me in surprise. She hadn’t seen me sneaking up on her. “Stay,” I told her.

Then I turned to Victor. “Apologize, tell her everything you’re afraid of. Tell her how unique she is.”

He looked at me horrified. “I hate the dark. I used to wet the bed until I was seven. Every morning I’m afraid my sheet will be wet,” he began.

I turned and left them talking. I made my way to the right side of the room and saw that Ben had just tied up Joe.

“Let him go,” I commanded.

Ben froze and looked at me in surprise. “Blake! Everyone told me you weren’t that strong!”

I giggled. “How do you propose I fight against a bunch of eleven, twelve, and thirteen-year old’s?” I questioned. “Doesn’t seem fair. Release him,” I stated. “Just be lucky I like you, Tamara’s prancing around in her underwear.”

He barked out a laugh. “What are you going to make me do?” he looked at me suspiciously.

I narrowed my eyes at him with a wicked smile. “I think everyone would enjoy listening to you sing. “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” sounds good. How about that?”

He laughed. “I’m going to—” Then whatever he was about to say was interrupted as he started belting out the lyrics to “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” by Cyndi Lauper.

I giggled as I walked away, Joe trailing behind me. “You just don’t suggest things to people, do you?” he asked in awe.

I smiled and shook my head. “No, I can compel them. Would you like to place our flag into our base?”

He looked up at me eagerly. “Are you serious? I can?”

I nodded just as I saw Tamara walking towards me with our flag. Rachel was snickering as she followed close behind her.

“You can go get your pants on now,” I told Tamara as I handed to flag off to Joe, who eagerly took it.

Rachel nodded in understanding at me, a small smile around her lips.