The Floor Is Lava

Chapter 6

After about 10 minutes of flying around, I flew back down to the ground and landed back on the wood chips. 

"This is amazing!" I yelled. 

Ava started jumping up and down. 

"It is! Now you got to teach us how to fly too!" She screamed in excitement. 

My stomach started to feel weird. Sure, I wanted my friends to fly too, but honestly if everyone could do this, wouldn't we have known about this a long time ago? 

"Ava, I don't know if you'll be able to," I said, and looked at the woodchips below me. 

She stopped jumping and looked at me with a concerned face. 

"Why not?" She asked. 

I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but I also didn't want to give her false hope. 

"I uhhh, don't think you have what it takes yet," I explained. 

I could feel the anger that was building up inside of her. 

"Are you saying I am not strong enough to fly? Or that you are the only special one? Or maybe you don't want to teach us because you want to be the only one!" She yelled. 

"No! That's not true at all! I just don't really know how to explain it," I stammered. 

Cristal saw that Ava was getting mad, and tried to step in. 

"Ava, it's ok. She'll explain when she is ready and finds the words for it," she explained and reached down to try to hold Ava's hand. 

Ava wasn't talking no for an answer. She swatted Cristal's hand away and got up in my face. 

"You are such a liar! You just like all of this attention and don't want to share it! I know how this works. Orbit Carter, you are a stuck up bully!" She screamed in my face. And after she was done, she kicked wood chips at my legs, and walked back inside of the school. 

Cristal, Harper and I, stood there frozen as we heard the school doors close behind her. 

Harper put their hand on my shoulder and tried to console me the best they could. 

"I know what you were trying to say Orbit, and I get it. Maybe once you put your thoughts into words, you could call Ava and explain it to her," they said. 

I nodded and tried to hold back tears. I couldn't believe I made one of my best friends mad. 

Cristal walked beside me and put her hand on my other shoulder. 

"It's ok Orbit, she'll get over it eventually," she said. 

I fell down onto my knees and started crying. 

"No, no she won't. Don't you know her? She is never going to let this go, ever. She is going to hate me. I just lost one of my best friends," I cried. 

Harper, not knowing what to do, looked at their phone and started walking away. 

"I should get to class now. My mom is going to kill me if I skip. I'll see you both tomorrow," they said as they grabbed their stuff off of the bench and walked back inside the school. 

Cristal grabbed both of my hands and helped me up off of the ground. 

"Ava doesn't hate you. She isn't capable of hating one of her best friends. You both made a mistake, and you both just need to apologize to each other. But Harper is right, we need to head to class so we don't get marked absent," she said. 

I nodded my head and walked over to the bench with Cristal to grab our school stuff.

She threw her backpack on her shoulder and started to walk inside. 

"I'll see you tomorrow Orbit, alright?" She asked with a smile. 

I nodded. 

"Yeah, see you tomorrow," I mumbled as I scooped my things off of the bench. 

I really screwed up. Ava thinks I am selfish and rude, Harper is very uncomfortable with conflict, and Cristal is just trying to keep all of us together. 

What was happening to me..? 

I felt more tears starting to roll down my face. 

This was horrible, this was all a curse. I was losing my friends to a superpower.

I walked over to the school doors and looked at my reflection in the glass window. 

My eyes were red and puffy, and I had a tear stained face. I couldn't show my face like this. 

I ran the opposite direction of the school and took off towards home. 

This was all a nightmare. 

I needed to wake up.