The perfect world

Part 2: weird things are happening

'Oh, you're the new student, right ?', the teacher asks, curious.

'U-uh yes, I am. My name is Zack. Sorry for coming late.', the boy mumbles.

'No problem. Well, there aren't that many places left in our classroom, so you can just sit beside Jessie', the teacher says, a kind tone in his voice.

It's as if someone had just cast a spell on Jessie, because now everyone was staring at her while Zack goes and sits in his new place.

'Hi...', Zack says, looking at Jessie. Jessie just ignores him and stares at the teacher who is teaching math.

Embarassed, Zack turns away and pays attention to the teacher. Jessie kind of felt bad for ignoring the boy like that but she had too much on her mind. What happened back there ? Why the heck where plants growing out of the nowhere ? Jessie had wished for Hannah to go away or to stop moving, but she didn't have anything to do with that, right ? Does this have anything to do with the growing plants ability ? If so, then who posseses it ? Who helped her out ?

'Jessie ? Jessie are you even listening ?', the math teacher asks, interrupting Jessies thoughts.

'Uhm...', Jessie mubles, embarassed. The teacher, Mr Porter, sighs and warns her : 'I won't be so lenient if you space out like that again.'

Mr Porter is the head teacher of the class. He is very nice and cares a lot about the students grades and well being. You don't get a teacher like that in high school every year.

The next few hours pass by before Jessie has even time to notice that she didn't pay attention to the lessons AT ALL.

The bell rings so everyone can finally escape the hell high school is. Jessie is walking towards the bus stop when suddenly an old man approaches her. Despite looking old and weak, the old man walks fast and stops right in front of Jessie. The man looks very troubled, tears filling his eyes.

'Uh, Sir? Is everything alright? Do you need help?', Jessie asks the man.

'R-rose ! I finally found you !, the man yells out of the nowhere. The other students who were getting out of high school shoot a glare at Jessie, like it's her fault for that old, crazy man to yell like that.

'Oi ! Be quiet please! And you must be mistaking me for someone else, because my name is Jessie, not Rose.', Jessie whispers harshly to the man.

'I'm pretty sure I'm not mistaking you for someone else, Rose. Have you already developed your power ?', the man asks, curious.

'For the last time, don't call me Rose and what the heck do you mean by power ?', Jessie blurts out, pissed off.

'I've been searching for you for years, please understand that. I'm your grandpa.', the man explains.

Grandpa ? Jessie might not remenber anything from her childhood, since her memories are somehow inexistent, but she defnitely doesn't have a grandpa. Her parents always told her that her grand and her grandma had died on a car accident before she was even born. Jessie was diagnosed with amnesia, that's why she doesn't remember anything from her childhood, at least that's what her parents told her.

' I'm sorry Sir, but the word stupid isn't written all over my face. Have a nice day though !', Jessie says, as she runs to reach the bus in time. 'Tch, what a weird guy...', Jessie mubles to herself while the bus starts driving home.

Too many questions are crossing her mind. Who is Rose ? It seems to be someone important to that man. What powers is she supposed to have developed ? Jessies heart drops for a second. What if he refers to what happened to Hannah and her friends ?

At this rate, Jessie's defnitely going to get a headache from all this thinking. She decides to take a nap once she gets home. Maybe that'll help clear up her ideas in her head.

As soon as Jessie opens her door, Nikky appears, a big smile on her face. 'I got invited to a party of one of my friends! Do you wanna come with me?'

Jessie sighs. Does Nikky really think Jessie would go to a party of a little kid ? That's the stupidest idea ever. Nikky knows very well that her sister isn't exactly into parties. As Jessie finally looks attentionly at Nikky, she notices that Nikky has now black hair instead of her usual blonde, pale hair.

'What the f- , I mean, what happened to your hair?', Jessie asks, stopping herself from swearing. That was a nice save.

'Uh, I dyed it. It think it looks good. By the way, you haven't answered my question yet.' Nikki stares at Jessie with her blue eyes, waiting for Jessies answer.

'Did you ask mother for permission ? And no, I don't want to go to that party. Too much socialising and besides, I'm very tired. I just want to take a nap.', Jessie tells Nikky.

'If you don't want to go to the party, then fine. I didn't ask mother because she was acting weird.' Nikky shoots Jessie a questioning look as if she knew something about that woman Jessie calls mother.

'You know, her eyes were red. I don't mean the kind of red because you slept bad, I mean that the iris of her eye shanged to red. Weird isn't it ?', Nikky says.

'Oh, yeah sure...don't you have to get ready ?', Jessie asks Nikky.

'Yes, I do. I'll just go to my room to get ready. Have a nice nap.' Nikky smiles and goes to her room.

Oh great. Now her mother is also going crazy. First that old man and now that! Whatever Jessie will just go to bed.

'Ahh, finally.', Jessie groans and throws herself to bed. She doesn't even have time to get out of her school uniform before her eyes close.

'Rose? Rose! Wake up!', a voice calls. Jessie looks around her and notices that she isn't in her bed anymore. She is in a forest. There's a man trying to wake up a little girl, who has been sleeping against a tree. Interesting. The little girl looks like a mini version of Jessie. Same hazel eyes, same skin tone, even the same birth mark on the right arm. The birth mark looks like a rose, just like Jessies.

'Papa!', the little girl screams and throws herself into the mans arms. The man is tall, has brown skin just like the little girl and has brown eyes.

'Look, Rose, I have to go somewhere important and I can't tell you where, but if I don't come back in the next three hours, you'll have to be a good girl and go to grandpa. Can you promise me you'll do that ?', the man explains, stress in his voice.

'But, are you going to be okay, papa?', Rose asks, with her eyes wide.

'Yes, I am. Now I have to go, dear.', Roses father says. There was some kind of siren sounding very loud. The man runs out of the forest, waving goodbye to the little girl.

Jessie suddenly wakes up, her heart pounding in her chest. She slowly breathes to calm herself down.

What kind of dream was that ?

...to be continued...