Hues of Purple

Chapter 8

Walking into Emma's house it was dark, her parents were asleep. "Do you wanna sleep in the basement? Or my room? We could watch movies in the basement." I think it over, "basement, we're gonna need a lot of blankets though." Emma smirks, "or we just cuddle." I giggle, "you're silly, but I'll take you up on that offer." Heading down to the basement, it was so cold. "Watch this, it'll warm you up." Emma summons her energy and creates a small orb that illuminates the room. "Using your energy makes you stronger, healthier, and warm." She laughs, "it's fun." I hesitate, but Emma nods for me to try. I close my eyes and think about the feeling of the energy appearing, and I sense my hand warming up. Opening my eyes I can see a small little orb of a dark almost violet color pooling into my hands. I turn to Emma and she's smiling big. "This is awesome," but I get distracted and my energy starts becoming unstable. "Steph, stop doing that!" Emma hurries and tries to take the energy to make sure an emergency doesn't happen. "Emma no!" As she comes into contact with the energy, a violent dark purple mark forms onto her arm, it looks like my burn from yesterday.

Emma falls to the ground and lets out a sob, "that was a really bad idea, what was I thinking?" I reassure her, "hey it'll be okay, I'll hurry and get some bandages and medicine." I run upstairs, but stay quiet so Emma's parents don't wake up. I go into Emma's bathroom and look for some medical stuff. I eventually found bandages and a burn ointment and I went back downstairs. I found Emma curled up crying. "Hey I'm back, can I see your arm?" I get down on my knees and reach out for her arm. Thankfully she gave it to me, and I administered the ointment and applied the bandages. She didn't seem to be too happy about it, the whole time she was cursing under her breath.

After Emma was all bandaged up and feeling a little better, we turned on the TV and decided to watch a Disney movie. You could never go wrong with a Disney movie. We chose Finding Nemo, because it's Emma's favorite. We were cuddling and just relaxing when Emma turned to me and kissed me. She looked at me and just smiled. After the movie, we slowly drifted off to sleep.

Sunday, November 16th

The morning was normal, we woke up to Emma's dog attacking our faces with kisses and paw taps. Personally I think Emma's dog is the best wake up alarm, it definitely beats my clock at home. We head upstairs to find Emma's parents cooking breakfast. "Good morning sleepyheads, how was the party?" We glanced at each other giggling, "Stephanie did something pretty cool, wanna show them?" I suddenly became really nervous, especially with what happened last night. "Uh, sure!" I don't really know what I'm doing so I just put my hands together and think of the energy summoning. Gradually a small purple light forms in my hands. I keep it small, I don't want to cause another emergency. Emma's parents are flabbergasted, "Stephanie Clark! You're a purple?" Her Mom exclaims, her Dad is just in shock. "Mark, look!" He laughs, "yes I can see, that's quite impressive!"

After my little performance, Emma's parents couldn't stop questioning and interrogating me about my new abilities. "How did that emerge? Don't purples need a little help to jumpstart their abilities?" Emma looks at me and smirks, "yeah I helped with that." I don't know if Emma's parents would be okay with the fact that we're dating, but I figured Emma knew what she was doing. "Yeah? How so?" Emma's Dad says, raising his eyebrow at her. "We kissed." Emma's parents were a little shocked, but not mad. "That'll do it, but why did that occur?" We both laugh, "we actually like each other, and we decided to start dating." Emma's Mom was taken off guard and whips around to face me, "really? Aren't you dating that one guy, what's his name?" She pauses, "Ethan." Emma's Dad said to complete her thought. "Yeah, what's going on with that?" She's not mad at all, I'm shocked, she's just confused. "I actually broke up with him." I filled her in on the whole duel at the party between Ethan and Emma, in return Emma got a clap on the back from her Dad and congrats from everyone.

"I should probably be headed home," I say to Emma and her family. Her parents nod in response and Emma hugs me goodbye and kisses me on the cheek, which was met by "aww's" from both of her parents. I walk out of the house, and head home. It doesn't take long, it's only a ten minute walk.

When I got inside of my house, my Dad was in the kitchen. He looked hungover. "Hey Dad, I'm home." I smile at him, he looks up at me and doesn't look happy. "Hm, okay. Where were you? Why were you out?" He walks over to me, pretending like he's a concerned parent, "oh wait, I don't really care. I know you're smart." He kissed me on the top of my head and walked past me to go into the living room to watch TV for a couple hours. I walk up the stairs to my room to find Wyatt in it. "What are you doing in my room? Let alone in the house?" I haven't seen my brother in a bit, he's going to college and he moved out when he graduated. "I didn't know where you were and I wanted to talk to my baby sister. Also, I'm gonna be in town for a few days because my job finally gave me a break." Wyatt works at Obsidian Corps. He rarely gets time off other than weekends, my Dad on the other hand can take time off whenever he wants. He got up and picked me up and swings me around. "Wyatt stop." I laugh and he sets me down. "Seriously though, where were you?" I smirk, "I went to a party, one of those stereotypical high school ones." He's surprised, "you got invited to one? No offense, but when I was at Wavern you were not involved." He laughs, and punches me in the arm playfully. "How was it? Was it everything you hoped for?" I walk over to my bed and sit on it. "Yeah, I even kissed someone. It was just like the movies." He's more surprised than before. "Wow look at you, who's the lucky guy?" I laugh, "the person is a girl." Add more surprise to Wyatt's already prepared surprise. "What? My bad, who's the lucky girl?" He smirks, "Emma Wells." I readjust in my bed to lay down. "Emma, your best friend? Dang, you're lucky. She's one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen. How old is she now?" I turn to him and look him over, he seems too invested. "Eighteen, why?" He smiles, "just curious, it's been awhile since we've talked that's all." I nod, confused.

"Okay then, can you leave so I can get dressed?" Wyatt typically doesn't budge until I get a piece of clothing off, at that point he gets so scared he runs, but he just leaves so that's nice. That was really weird, he complimented Emma, and then asked for her age? Suspicious behavior. But I shrug it off and get dressed.

A/N: Sorry for the late upload, this weekend has been busy for me :)