The Forbidden Talent (ON HOLD)

Chapter 4

Author's Note: *immediately puts hands up* Don't shoot me. Please. I'm sorry. I've been SUPER busy with school and engineering competitions and stuff. You have no idea. I don't want to die....

Also, I would love some tips on how to improve my book. (Like it needs improving ;D but seriously) I read over it again and it seemed really fast-paced. I'm gonna try to fix that. Note: I did say try, so don't expect it to be perfect just like *snaps* that. :)

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The next day, I got up on time, took the bus, and went to all my normal morning classes. Once again, nothing exciting happened. I was so bored that I almost fell over walking to Mr. Z's class.

"Whoa, you okay there Alexis?" Mr. Zabinski asked.

I yawned. "Yeah, I'm fine. My other classes were really boring, that's all."

"Well, you won't have to worry about that here. We're going to have a fun day today!"

I smiled and walked in his classroom. I literally fell into one of the chairs. Three other people were there. I noticed in the corner of my eye that they were looking at me in a kind of worried way but I was too tired to care.

After about ten minutes, everyone was in the classroom. Mr. Zabinski walked in and closed the door. "Okay, class. Today we're going to have fun!" The whole class groaned. "Aw, come on, don't groan like that. My kind of fun is different from your normal teacher fun. We're going to work on riddles of some sort. Now, this is Problem-Solving, so you're probably wondering why we're doing riddles, since those aren't really problems. Well, I've researched this and apparently riddles help train your mind to think of solutions to problems and stuff. I'll write a riddle on the board and you have to solve it." He started writing something on the board. When he backed away, he said, "I won't give you the answer until the end of class. I'm hoping, with seven of you, that you can figure it out before then. You can work together or separately, however you choose. When you finish one, I'll give you the next one. You may start now. Raise your hand if you have any questions or if you think you know the answer." He walked over to his desk to do who knows what.

On the board, he had written, 'Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?' I immediately took out a sheet of paper and a pencil. I was suddenly very awake; I love riddles. I started scribbling things down, not even noticing that people were crowding around my desk. They obviously had no idea how it could be possible. I, on the other hand, had a couple of ideas. After a couple minutes, everyone was still standing around my desk, looking at what I was writing. I sat up and finally noticed them. "What? I think I figured out the answer." I raised my hand and Mr. Zabinski walked over.

"Do you have a question or do you think you know the answer?" He asked me.

"I think I know the answer. Were those two people like the twins that you hear about on the news and stuff that were born in different years?"

Mr. Zabinski shook his head. "No. Good guess, but no, that's not the answer. Anybody else have anything?" He started walking around the room like there were people sitting there, which they weren't because they were around me.

The class was almost over at that point and I couldn't get my mind off my first answer. I had been sure that was right and I didn't have any idea what else it could be. The other people started going back to their seats, quickly realizing that I didn't have any other guesses.

At five minutes until the bell rang, Mr. Zabinski decided to give us the answer. "Since none of you could figure out the answer to the riddle, I will give it to you now. The answer is--"

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Author's Note 2

MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! I wonder how many of you are mad at me for doing that. Flood the comments with rage, I don't care. I have my reasons. Well, reason. And that reason is that I want to see if you guys can figure it out! Put your answer in the comments.

Vote, follow, whatever you want. I'm not forcing you. :)