After The Storm

"Confrontation"

PREVIOUSLY:
"Look at her." He says in a firm voice and looks back at her so we all turn around. There she was, literally using her powers to float her books while she was in her locker arranging her things. She really did have my power, telekinesis. Oh my gosh.
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    SEPTEMBER 27th, THE NEXT DAY; "Ziggy!" My mom says, dragging out her words, trying to get me to wakeup from behind the door. "Gosh you sound like Caleb." I mumble, turning over, grabbing my pillow and putting it over my face. "I GOT IT, MOM!" I yell, in frustration. I hear her footsteps trail off. I roll over to check my phone notifications. 'Zigggyyy, your girl here.' , '1 Attachment', 'Ziggy where you at?' My eyes get wide. "I'M LATE" I yell as I run out my bed and rush to the bathroom to get myself together. "That's what I've been trying to tell you, honey. You didn't listen." I slam the bathroom door and try to tune her out. A few minutes go by and I rush out to my closet and pick out anything I could see that fits. Honestly, I've never felt this excited for school. If I was late, I simply just wouldn't go. *CHING* My phone beeps again, with one leg through my pants I check the notification. 'Estelle just walked in, where are you?!' Well, she's definitely my motivation.

I hop off my bike once I get to school and rush in. "Late on the second day is so irresponsible." I mumble, entering the building and speed walking to class sense administrators were in another room and apparently It's no running in the halls. I open the door which made everyone look my way. "Ziggy." The teacher says. Already knowing what she's about to say, I quickly apologize. Cutting me off, she says "Have a seat, young man." Wow, I don't even get mercy on the second day? After that thought, I look at Maxine and Caleb, then Estelle. She's giving me the "this dummy..." look. I sigh and flop in my seat. "Now who can answer this question?"

    *DING DING DING* A FEW PERIODS LATER... About time the bell rung. As I start to get up, Estelle slams a paper on my desk and walks off. I open the letter and watch her as she walks out. 'Jarbull mall. Straight after school. No excuses.' "Wow, she must really like you man." Caleb chuckles, leaning on the back of my chair and following him, Maxine does it too. I jump and turn around. "Seriously what is your problem?!" I shout. "Oh come on— You're not feeling the ship name, Zigstelle?" Maxine adds on, laughing. "I'm pretty sure she wants to see all of us, not just me. Get a grip." After I stay that, it's silence so I get up to go to my last class where I have all the group in.

    SEPTEMBER 27th, 2:30 PM; "Well, that's all I have for you guys today." The teacher chuckles. I turn around as the class starts talking, finishing off the day. "She wants to see us. At the mall today." I whisper. "What are you whispering for? Nobody can hear us, everyone's talking." Tori complained. I nod, "No, you're right. Still, should we go?" "Should we go?!" Miles screeches, "We barely know her and you think we're supposed to be all buddy buddy with her just because she can float books. Crazy." "We should just wait it out." He adds. "Wait what out? Obviously she wants us there right now. She doesn't want to wait." Victoria scoots up to her desk, since we're all near each other. "True, maybe she just likes us because she definitely doesn't know we have powers. We never showed them to her so maybe It's nothing." "Right, but what if It's a trap? Maybe she's mad because we didn't eat lunch with her yesterday remember? Or what if she knows something we don't." Caleb shrugs his shoulders and everyone stays quiet and thinks. I look over because I see something staring at me in my peripheral. It's a girl. Brownskin, blue hair, with too little afro space buns and this eyeliner that looks sharp like a knife. She definitely overheard us. As I'm thinking this, she gives me this death stare and her legs starts to jump. *DING DING DING* "Okay everyone remember! Test next Tuesday, don't forget!" The teacher yells but I tune out, "We're going to the mall. Come on." I say with no hesitation, grabbing my belongings, giving one last glance to the blue haired girl and making my way out, followed by the rest of the group.

Hopping on our skateboard, I notice Estelle doing the same. Forgot she skateboards as well.
After some time, we arrive at The Jarbull mall. Took a while and it was definitely our leg day but it was still worth it. We hop off our skateboards, pick them up and walk inside. As we walk awhile we pass a few stores. As we turn the corner my eyes immediately lock with hers and hers immediately locked with mines and I stop. A few of my friend bumped into me but it was cool, though because we found her. "Really, Ziggy? You just were all lovey dovey for Este—" Caleb attempts to complain, getting interrupted by the blue haired girl. "DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT NAME." The blue haired girl shouts as she paces towards us. "Woah woah woah there, Blues clues. Tell us what's going on." Caleb says, backing up with the rest of the group. The blue haired girl looks around before she comes closer one last time, this time we didn't move. "Listen Estelle is in terrible danger and you guys are being all buddy-buddy with her acting like there's not somebody after her, okay? Now I don't know what you guys are to her but DO NOT talk to her. Do not get into her 'drama', I'd say drama if that word even fits." She rambles. "Wait wait pause. What?" I question. "This is too much going on at once, I-I don't think we understand." I add as I look back to my friends, looking for confirmation. "Yeah, I'm confused." Maxine adds. "Listen, Estelle is not your friend. She's not from here. You might think she's like you guys, right?" When the blue haired girl said that we all looked frozen. What does she mean 'like us'? How does she know. "But, she's not. Okay?" She adds while lifting her hair up and turning her neck. "See?" It was her mark. I pull her hair back down and make her face us again. "How do you know about us? Who sent you?" I exclaim. "Who sent her? Really? She's one of us. Who gon' send her, Ziggy?" Girl asks in an annoyed tone as she steps in front of all of us. "Listen— uhh?" "Tommie." "Right, listen, Tommie. We hear you but this isn't adding up? Who's after Estelle?" "SHHHH. Don't say her name." Tommie exclaims. "Oh, you're serious." Girl hesitates while backing up a little." "It's these guys. Hardotire and his brother Summary." Tommie says. "As in... like a story summary?" Victoria asks. "Nahhhhhh." Caleb adds. "SHUT UP." I exclaim, tired  of their nonsense. "Tell me more about Hardotire and Summary, please." "I can't, It's not safe." Tommie hesitates and paces away from us, slowly starting to run away. "Not safe? She just showed us her mark. That's like showing someone a gun in front of their face." Miles mentioned.  "She's most definitely hiding something." "What are we waiting for? LET'S GET HER?" Tori emphasized, attempting to run after her. "Nonono, don't." I mumbled, blocking her way with my arm. "She didn't do all this for nothing. She knows whats up." I announce. "She's leading us into her own trap. Our own people." "Gottaaaa be fake. I mean why would she trap us if we're just like her." Tori asks. "That's the thing, she's not." Ryan explained. "She's not one of us It's all a lie like what Ziggy said. You know how easy it is to just write something on your neck like that? With some sharpie?" Ryan mentioned. "Yeah, let's just leave it alone then. Let's just not feed into her trap." Maxine suggests. "Are you crazy?" I exclaim, turning around and putting my hands on her shoulders. "She knows about our mark. If she tells ANYBODY It's over with and we'll be back where we started. Plus why is she here and Estelle isn't?" "YOU'RE RIGHT. This ain't no coincidence." Caleb adds. "Dang, welp your own girlfriend just turned on you. That must suck, right?" Girl says in a low nonchalant tone and she picks up her skateboard and walks towards the door. "Where are you going?" I ask. "Ziggy, It's a friday." Girl starts, turning around. "We can worry about this later. Plus ole' girl gone anyway? Who we gon' talk to about this? Nobody. Let's just sleep on it, okay? Bye." Girl complained while turning back around, exiting the mall and leaving on her skateboard. "You guys have anything to do this weekend?" I ask, turning around to my crew. They all shake their heads except Victoria. "Well, you know I have band pract—" Victoria says, getting interrupted by me. "Great come on, let's go. My house. I have an idea." I say while walking towards the door, expecting them to follow me. "Wait..." Miles mumbles lowly but to the point where I can hear him. I turn around and raise an eyebrow. "Victoria has band practice. R-Remember on the first day of school we saw that band poster? We also saw Estelle get the paper. She has to have interest in it. Let's sign up for it. She'll be there."

SEPTEMBER 28th;

It's now the next day. Next morning actually--Do I know for sure that Estelle is signing up for the band? No, of course not. We have to take our chances, right or wrong? Exactly. Yesterday, we did end up going to my house to discuss things about that blue haired girl and got no explanation and no answer.

I roll over and snap my phone off the charger and scroll on my feed. I scroll and scroll but I catch a post that really drags my eye. I immediately gasped and thought twice about searching for an answer, because It's right in front of my face. I see a post with not only Estelle, but I see the Blue-haired girl posing and making goofy faces. But one face I saw in the background, posing along with them.. was Girl. Girl betrayed us? Or were Estelle and that girl even our enemies? considering that Estelle is one of us. But, it has to be something we don't know because why else would that Blue-haired girl leave us at Jarbull?

"Wait.." I whisper out loud as I glance at the caption once, then twice. This time it was a hard.. long.. stare. "With my BFFS! Inaa & Girl #Bffs"... with a few other hashtags. Inaa Who is Inaa? We know Estelle, we know Girl, So that would mean that blue-haired girl is Inaa. "How does she know Gir-" I get interrupted by Ryan, Miles, Maxine, Tori, Victoria and Caleb almost slamming my door open. "ZIGGY!" They blurt as they walk in. These are just the people I needed to see. "We have news." Tori mumbled, almost as if she wasn't sure if she should continue. "Yeah, and your mom told us to just come on in." Caleb babbled as he stuffed his face with a bagel. "These are good too." He adds. 

"Okay I have news too. Who should go first?" I ask, sitting up and making my way to the edge of my bed. "Forget all that," Ryan snapped, "Maxine and Estelle are out here posing on the net with blues clues." He continues. "I think her name is Inaa," Tori mumbles, once again. "I stalked her page." I nod and Ryan picks up where he left off. "Do you know how embarrassing this is for you? Seeing your girl--" "Okay first off, Estelle isn't my 'girl'?" I interrupt, trying to prove a point while doing air quotes. "She better not be. She set us up, Ziggy. Why would she tell us to go to the mall if she wasn't going to be there and her little blue friend pops up there. Coincidence? I think not. Then she posts with her?" Maxine exclaimed. "Estelle is under some type of influence, Ahem--Inaa, or she isn't truly one of us." I keep listening to all my friends inform me but the real question is Why? and How? these questions keep growing not matter how much we put it together. "How would Estelle come to OUR school and try to be one of US? She must've knew we were here. Coincidence? I think not." I finish and look at Maxine, slightly mocking her. The room fills with nothing but silence and minds start to race.

"You're right," Caleb agrees, finally finishing his bagel and proceeds to sit next to me on my bed. "Estelle was sent here by someone. Obviously. Then 'Inaa' lied and said her name was Tommie. She's hiding something from us." He adds once more. I nod. "Inaa said Estelle wasn't safe. So why is she with her?" I question, while looking up at the rest of the group. They all take seats around the room on the floor. "What if Inaa is bad and Estelle is just like her, and just like you said.. they were sent here." Miles blurts. "Although nobody knows about our.. you know--magic but us. Did you guys tell anyone or did anybody see you?" Miles tenses up and sits up after leaning his back on the wall. Everyone shook their head. "I mean we're talking about Inaa and Estelle. What about Girl?" Tori cautioned. "But, we know Girl is one of us. Right?" Miles questions. "I mean we saw her powers, she can speak in our language, she has everything we have." He tenses up again. "Or it was all a lie," Maxine says in a very blunt tone. Everyone looks at her. She staring directly in front of her. It's almost like you can tell she's been thinking and zoned out for a minute. You can tell It's no hope in her heart. "I mean Estelle being one of us was a lie, Tommie's name being fake was a lie, it was a setup, I mean seriously, what else?" She shrugs her shoulders while looking straight still. "Are we going to sit here and act like Girl isn't with her too?" The room turns silent, and remains silent for a while.

I pull out my phone from my back pocket, unlock it and quickly search for the post again. "What are you doing?" Caleb points out and questions, everyone looks my way. I look at the location. They're...  They're not even close!

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