The Gifted

The Gifted} Ch. 12

Edited 6-12-16

Chapter 12: New Things Are Learned.

**Alice**

Over the past weeks I've gotten close to the five, Rae is crushing hard on Milo and him, her. I felt kinda bad, I still haven't told her about us being family, I don't talk to everyone the same anymore and I think Reece is starting to notice my lack in classes and conversations.

"Are you okay Ali?" Snow brings me out of my thoughts on my family that I still don't remember. I look at her, I'm leaning back in my chair my arms crossed loosely on my stomach. We were sitting in a circle in the music room after school.

I looked up and saw everyone had worried eyes set on me. I nodded and looked back down at my feet. "Really? Cause from what I hear from Dex, you blow him off." Rae said her tone a little cold and hard. I looked up at her and narrowed my eyes. She was sitting across from me, next to Milo and Ethan. I was in between Reece and Sarah.

"I haven't talked to Dex since he decided it would be great and show back up in my life that I left far behind." I said, my tone matching hers. She glared at me and I glared right back. The others just looked back and forth between us.

"Why did you go all batshit crazy on Ashley a few weeks ago?" She asked, her voice deadly calm. I scoffed. I grabbed my bag and stood up. I looked at her with disbelief.

"Because she threatened my family. No matter how much of a bitch you act to me, I'll always love you." I stormed out of the room leaving them in silence.

"ALICE!" I heard Rae yelled. I heard her footsteps coming after me. She grabbed my arm and spinned me around. Her eyes are filled with tears. "I'm sorry, Ali. You just haven't been yourself for a few weeks and I'm scared you're rethinking about you know what." She whispered the last part.

As mad as I was with her I pulled her into a hug. "I'd never think of going there. It's just, I met my uncle" She pulled away and looked at me with wide eyes.

"Really?" She asked, surprised. I nodded and looked down. Something I sadly did when I had more to tell. "There's more to tell, is he like your dad?" She asked, amused. I chuckled and shook my head. I looked up at her and rubbed my arm shifting on my feet.

"He's yours Rae." I whispered. She stood there for a few seconds looking in my eyes to see if I was lying. When she saw I wasn't she started to have a panic attack. I pulled her to a wall and had her lean against it.

"Breathe Rae, remember our technique. In, hold for 5 seconds then breathe and repeat." I told her, she did just as told and soon enough she was breathing normally.

"My dad?" She whispered looking up at me. I nodded giving her a small sad smile. She looked down. I straightened up and started to leave, leaving her with things to think about and just incase she was mad at me.

"Wait Ali!" My wrist was caught and I turned to look at her. I rose an eyebrow at her. Waiting for the yell or the slap. "I wanna see him." She said looking at me with wide eyes. I went to go reply until it registered in my brain. I stood frozen looking at her. I nodded shortly.

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I banged my head on the table, groaning at impact. It wasn't the best morning I had, but, hey, screw it. Winter break starts tomorrow, so today's the last day of school and we have tests. All of my classes, including theater. Rae walks into the dining room wearing grey ankle jeans, a floral crochet loose sweater, and ankle boots. Her hair was up in a ponytail and she had her make-up light.

Me on the other hand am wearing a black t-shirt with punk edit elsa, destroyed camo skinny jeans with a few rips in them, and black fold over faux combat boots. My hair was normal, curled. My make-up was light like Rae's except mine was grey and hers was brown. My lipstick was blood red.

"Ready for today?" Rae asked walking over to the coffee pot. I groaned answering her question. She chuckled and shook her head. She walked over to me and sat in the chair next to me. I picked my head up and looked at her. She had a grim look on her face. She was still confused that her and I are family. I told her about the day I talked to him, she was a little pissed at me but I asked her if she would have told me right away, which had her thinking.

"MOM!" Iris's voice rang through the house. I furrowed my eyebrows, I thought she had school. Iris came into the dining room with a pissed off look. Oh boy.

"Yeah babes?" Rae turned in her chair and looked at her daughter. I heard a footsteps before Dex came into the room with Dean and Amy helping him. He looked a little weak and pale.

"I. found. her. gift." He said in between breathes. My eyes widened and I looked at Amy and Dean for the truth. They nodded frantically. They weren't gifted like us but they had known about it. We looked at Iris who was looking at them weirdly. She had her arms crossed and had her hip pooped.

"She's a stinger." Amy whispered, fear in her voice.

"What the heck is a stinger?" Iris asked, looking at us like we were crazy. I took a deep breathe.

"A stinger is a person who is gifted, which is what you are, gifted. A stinger is a rare gift, one or two in 100 years. They can inflict pain on others or take the pain away from them." I said. Iris looked at me with confusion until it turned into understanding.

"Another reason to start running." Rae muttered. I sighed and nodded.

"We need to leave this house, find something more in the city." I said, she nodded. I picked up my backpack that was next to me and gave Iris a kiss on the forehead before saying by to the others and walking out of the house with Rae following.

We get to school and everyone is quiet. They all are tired and just want to go home. Same with me and Rae. I walked over to my locker and popped it open. Reece walked up and leaned on the locker next to me.

"Hey sweetheart." Reece said looking at me with the damn dimple smile he has.

"Hey Reece." I said slamming my locker and turning to him. I smiled at him and he smiled back. "You excited that Christmas is coming?" I asked. He looked down rubbing the back of his neck blushing.

"Uh, we've never celebrated Christmas." He said still looking down. My eyes widened.

"What do you mean?! THAT YOU HAVE NEVER CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS?!" I halfway yelled. He blushed redder.

"Where I was we didn't really have time to celebrate." I narrowed my eyes on him.

"You are going to celebrate with me and Rae and that's final." I said. He smiled at me.

"Am I allowed to bring Milo, Ethan and them?" He asked looking hopeful. I shrugged. Why not have more at Christmas.

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Yeah yeah, it's short, i just had nothing more to write. next chapter will be christmas, it will be in two parts btw. One in alice's pov and one in Reece's. :) so yeah. Than some very important things to come!

Like always, Thanks for reading and I hoped and hope you enjoy! I am tired and some other stuffs, so yeah I would start ranting for three pages if i started writing so I am just going to say I hope you guys are liking the book so far....

~Vannah & Alex~