Shadows in the Dark by Hunter England

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“How did you-”
“We’re different, Karen,” Luke said. “Nick and I both.” The kid,
Nick, closed his hand, making the fire disappear. “Yesterday
morning, in the town on the other side of the woods, the guy you
mentioned attacked us. He was different too.” Nick shoved his hands
in his pockets.
“We feel like he attacked us because we were different,” he said.
“So, Karen. Are you different?” I looked around, then at them
both.
“I... uh...” I gulped, not really sure what to say. “I can... I can
move things with my mind.” Nick smiled, but Luke stared at me,
wide-eyed.
“Well, what do you know,” Nick said. “We found someone with Telekinesis.” I looked at Luke. He was still
staring at me.
“What can you do?” I asked him. Nick looked back at Luke, but Luke
didn’t reply.
“Mr. Luke,” Nick said, “can shoot lightning from his hands. It’s
pretty badass.” He leaned against one of the gas pumps. “I, on the
other hand, can make fire appear out of thin-air.” He displayed it
for me one more time, making a flame appear in his hands, then
making it vanish.
    “Luke?” I said. He sighed.
“Can you control it?” he asked. I sighed a little.
    “No. Not really.
The only times I can recall doing it were when your dumb girlfriend
pissed me off.” Luke got wide-eyed again. “Yeah, the whole
‘floating cheerleader’ thing was me. But it was an accident.”
“Well,” Nick said, “from past experience and from what you and Luke
told me, anger seems to be one gigantic trigger to our ‘specialty’.
Luke and I can control it. So, I’ll just say this. All you have to
do it focus and stay calm. If you freak out, you won’t be able to focus and your ability
will lose control.”
    “So,” Luke said. “Are you going to
come with us? Or are you going to stay with the old lady over
there?” He pointed at the gas station doors and I looked back. The
lady was still standing there, smiling and watching.
    “I don’t know,” I said. “It
depends on where you two are going.” Luke and Nick looked at each
other and shrugged.
    “We don’t really
know either,” Nick said.
    “Well,” Luck started, “I really
feel like finding this ‘hooded guy’. I want to know what he’s up to
and why he’s following us.” Nick nodded his head.
    “Now that I think about it, so do
I.” They both looked at me.
    “So, Karen,” Luke said. “Are you
in or out?” I looked back at the lady, and she was already waving
her hand at me, saying goodbye. I smiled and waved back at her. She
walked off farther into the gas station, leaving my sight. I then
turned around at Nick and Luck and smiled.
    “I’m in.”
     
    .....
     
    Karen
     
    I didn’t know if
going with them was the smartest thing. But it felt right. They
were like me. Well... not completely. But they were “special”.
I wasn’t completely used to it, but I was getting by. As we walked
through the trees, back to where Luke and Nick came from, they
didn’t really talk. It was just silent almost all the way
through.
    Even when they did talk, they
didn’t talk about our “specialty”. They talked about normal teen
things. Like friends that they left behind, or old memories with
family. They acted as though nothing had ever happened.
    Nick looked up at the sky and
sighed.
    “Looks like it’s gonna be dark
soon, and it’s still a pretty long way to where we came from.” Luke
sighed in frustration, knowing what Nick was going to say. “We’re
gonna have to sleep out here. It’s too dark once the sun goes down.
We won’t be able to see.”
    “But,” I said, “can’t you make a
fire that would lead us the way?” Luke scoffed.
    “Can’t take any
chances of being seen, apparently,” he said. “Get ready to have the
worst night of sleep that you will ever have.” Nobody said anything
after that. We just kept walking for as long as we could. Then, the
sun was close enough to being gone.
    Nick sat against a tree