Powerless

wrapped

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Ch.10

Wrapped

[Denias POV]

I pull Ariels beautiful pink dress over my head and look down at myself. The dress stops just at the knee and the V-neck is not too low. I wear a pare of red high heels with this ensemble and slowly brush my long brown hair. Well, compared to how long Ariels is, my hair is very short, but it is down to my shoulder blades which I consider long. It was nice of her to let me borrow her dress. She has the prettiest clothes...

"Denia?" I hear a knock at the door and turn to see Ariel standing there. She is wearing a white sundress that reaches just above the knee and ties behind her neck. Her perfect burgundy red hair is half up in an elegant bun and she is wearing gorgeous novelty-looking black heels. Her green eyes are fixed on my face. 

"oh, yes?" 

"so, I set up your 'appointment' with Eric, I will escort you to his study. Me and the others will be at the table outside on the patio for some lunch if you finish early and decide to join us."

"well what are we waiting for?" I practically scream in excitement. 

She leads me out into the big foyer area and up the huge staircase. It is funny how her hair can kind of hypnotize you, it's down almost to her butt, loosely curled and sways back and forth as if there is a constant breeze blowing it... Has she always had hair so long?

"not always this long, but I have always favored long hair. Ask Triston, he..." all of a sudden she trails off. 

"he, uh... Saw pictures of me when I was younger..." 

We arrive at beautiful mahogany double doors and she closes her eyes, and a second later she opens the door. 

I see Eric sitting in his chair at his desk, his hair is a mess, but it looks good. He looks up as Ariel enters the room, a smile on his face. He looks past her and sees me and I swear I see his smile falter. 

"Hello Eric. This is Denia and she wanted to speak with you." 

"he waves for me to come in and I sit down at a chair in front of his desk, crossing my legs. 

"so what was it you wanted to talk about?" he says. 

"well... I just wanted to know a little about you." he eyes me suspiciously, amusement playing on his features. 

"Ok, my name is Eric Rodriguez I am Hispanic. I have a brother named Dani and a sister named Selena. I am 23. What else would you like to know? "

"um...I'm not sure... Do you happen to have a girlfriend?"

"No, but I'm working on it..." he says, mischief filling his eyes. 

"ahh... Well, I'm glad to hear that..." I say with a smile. 

[Erics POV]

This girl will be so very easy to manipulate. Unlike Ariel. Gosh, when will she realize that she wants me? I hate that this girl brought up the 'G' word. Girlfriend? It is too cliched. I mean, it's just a saying, a phrase that says two people are 'Together'.  It has no endearment. Soul mate, love, anything but girl-FRIEND. Even the name is contradicting itself.... Well... This girl can be my little science experiment ,  besides, I've already got her wrapped around my finger. 

[Ariels POV]

I walk out into the cool air and sit down at the table next to Jasmine. Leah is clear in the other side of the table, she refuses to look at me. I tuck one of my legs under me and fold my hands in front of me on the table. I see the boys walking towards us and they all take a seat. I end up sitting next to Blade. Logan site on the other side of Jasmine, and Tristan sits on the other side of blade next to Leah. 

(note: if that confuses you, this is the order clockwise: Ariel, Jasmine, Logan, Leah, Tristan, Blade.)

As we start eating I can't stop thinking about today... I convinced Eric to call Jeremiah and ask him to come and talk to the newbies about powers. He will be coming any minute now. 

"so Ariel. I was wondering What it's like to read peoples minds. I mean it sounds pretty cool! Being able to know what everyones thinking and stuff..." Logan asks. 

"well actually Logan...  I wish I couldn't most of the time. I mean to me, I feel like maybe God is the only one who knows everything for a reason, you know? I mean, I'm just a person for a reason... I should be no better then anyone else, even though that's how our society works. But sometimes it's good for conversation starters I guess... But when I get stressed, it's like I lose the filter that blacks out the voices I don't want to hear and everything just comes in at once and I just can't take it..." 

"is that what happened in the hall that one day?" Blade looks at me with big eyes. Tristan peeks around him with a 'why-the-heck-wasnt-I-notified-about-this-incident' look. Once again... Haha he was cute when he was mad. 

"you could kinda say that..." 

"what do you mean, kinda say that? What does that mean?"

"well... There are certAin people that are so powerful that they can break down my filter and there thoughts just kinda leak into my mind. That is what happened that day." I look around at everyone giving me baffled looks. Everyone except Leah. How will I ever prove it to her now? 

"who was it? What were they saying? I mean, Arriy, you looked like you were literally dying..." he was the only person besides Daniel to call me by this nickname. 

" well I don't really know who it was..." I lie. Tristan grunts, to everyone else it seems

As though it's because he wanted to know, but I know it's because he knows I'm lying. 

"what were they saying?" asks Jasmine. 

"umm... Nothing. They were screaming. 

[Blades POV]

with that, Ariel gets up and walks towards the kitchen with her half eaten plate of food. 

Scream... Maybe she was right... I mean, maybe God is the only one meant to know everyone elses dirty little secrets...well, maybe I could believe that. 

I'm not really sure wether to believe in God or not, but Ariel seems to believe in him. I mean, I would love to say that I have this invisible guy walking around with me forgiving me for my millions of sins and listening to my thoughts and giving me advice... But I'm just not sure if I believe it. I mean, it sounds promising, but is it really? 

My physicist teacher told me that if there truly was a god that was all powerful, then he could make a rock that he couldn't lift, but if he couldn't lift it, then he wasn't all powerful. 

Well to me, that makes sense, kinda... But really? It made me want to fall asleep or take my brain out or something... I mean, it's just like a jumbled mess, you could believe that, but also, you could just sacrifice and believe in something that's never really guaranteed... I mean, isn't that what we all do anyway? We all sacrifice ourselves for love or will, but we never know how long it will last. 

It's like hope, even when it seems like there isn't any, you are always hoping... Planning something is kind of like hoping, I mean your hoping that you will be alive the next day to do it right? 

Well, what have I got to lose, to believe in him? Nothing really. But not to? Why gain the whole wide world, if I'm just going to lose my soul?

(Note: last line compliments of 'background' by Lecrae ft. C- lite... Lecrae is awesome, i saw them at the rock and worship roadshow 2011! you should check them out:) 

[Ariels POV]

I walk into the kitchen and scrub absentmindedly at my dish. The doorbell rings and I take my time walking to the door. When I open it I see a tall man with messy burgundy hair and a five o'clock shadow. His green eyes look at me and I see his startled expression. I could smell a hint of alcohol wafting from him. Oh Jesus, help us and save us...

"well you have gotten a lot bigger, Sweetheart," he says with a small smile.

(note: just because i write it does not always mean i agree! i totally do NOT agree with blade! i am a  pentecostal christian and i know for a fact that jesus is real:) [xox][Arriyanna:]])