Chapter 2
Helen drove away, exhausted. That woman was so creepily CHEERY, and it took forever to get anything straitened out. Their parents where unknown. Her heritage was, too. pretty much everything was unknown.The girl and her brother where going to come the next day.
“You know, Dads not going to be happy when he sees you did this without his say.” Dash chided.
“Well, whats he gonna do? Cast them out on the street?” she replied with a smile. She knew his hero instincts would not let him send them out, so to avoid him saying no, she simply made the choice without him.
“Vi, will you prepare their room tonight?”
“Can’t. Got the date with Brian, remember?”
“What ever happened to Tony? I liked him.”
“Mom, we broke up, like, a year and a half ago. I’ve gotten over it, why can’t you?”
“Dash, you’ll have to do it then.”
“Awww, Mom!”
The children showed up at their door with very few bags. After a couple way to emotional goodbyes from Mrs. Morgan, she left them to the Parrs. Helen helped the kids move in.
“Now that we’re all at home, how about some dinner?”
Man, was it awkward. Marissa barley talked, and Conner spoke even less. After many failed attempts start a conversation, Helen decided to call it a day. Before the girl walked away Helen tried to make it better.
“I hope you know, honey, that I understand what you are going through. I went through it too.”
“You really think that?” Marissa replied. “You actually believe you know how this feels?” She turned in early, and as she flopped on her bed and fell asleep, she the dreamed of the first time she discovered her powers.
It was the first day of kindergarten, and she was an eager little kid of five. She sat playing with the blocks and made a large tower, and the teacher came over to compliment on her hard work. A fat boy with sticky fingers came over, and knocked it over with his foot. She started to cry, and the boy just taunted her more, running around her singing
“Cry baby! Cry baby! 'arissa’s a cry baby!”
“STOP!”
Just as she screamed stop, a rock from the pet rock display flew off and hit him in the head. He ran crying to the teacher, and Marissa went on repairing her tower. Later at recess, he and three other boys came and pushed her down, singing cry baby and stole her lunch money, and ripped off the leg of her teddy bear. It was the last thing she had gotten from her mother before she disappeared, and then Marissa just cracked.
“GO AWAAAY!” and the asphalt below them shook, the earth cracking. Everyone screamed that it was an earthquake, and the teachers herded them inside. When Marissa calmed down, the quake stopped.
Marissa woke with a jump. Conner was sleeping in the bed beside her. She caught her breath and fell asleep again.