The strays

Amber Star

I was born but wasn't raised. My dad left and I caused my mom to go insane.

My name is Amber Star, I use to go by star, and I'm different from most 16 year olds. No it's not like I'm super smart or I have some disorder that causes me to not feel pain yeah..that's a thing. it's much more then that. I'm a telepath, and if you don't know what that means it means I can do things with my mind. Like talk to people or move things.

I learned that I could do this at the young age of 4. I was playing with some friends and we all liked Star Wars. We were pretending to be Jedi's and were trying to use the force. So I reached out my hand to "use" the force and the toy lightsaber and it actually flew into my hand. Now being four I had no idea what happened and all my friends thought I was a Jedi.

So my friends decided that it would be a good idea to have me try this on other things. Toy cars, Barbies. Everything worked.

We were giggling and squealing when my dad came in

"What's going on up here?" He asked chuckling at the little four year olds running around laughing

"Stars dad look what Star can do!" My friend yelled as a toy lightsaber flew to my hand once again. My dad thinking it was my friend throwing it to me laughed and left the room

Later that night at dinner my dad asked me for the milk and my mom had put it on the counter

"I'll get it Peter." My mom smiled

"No mommy I can get it" I held out my hand as the jug and set it next to him and went back to my food. My mother and father stared silently at me as I continued to eat

"Amber..where did you learn to do that?" He asked. I stared at my now empty plate. I was only ever called Amber when I was in trouble

"Amber. Where did you leant that?" He asked again a bit more stern the before

"Peter..stop. She thinks she's in trouble." My mother placed a hand on my shoulder "it's ok star. Answer you fathers question"

I chocked down a breath "today daddy. I showed you. When my friends were over" nothing else was said that night. And after dinner I went right to bed. At lest my mom thought so. I snuck down stairs after she tucked me in.

"Peter. She's still out daughter it doesn't change-"

"This changes everything Alice! When she grows, that..ability could grow with her!" I heard my dad roar. I could have swore I felt the whole house shake. That night, my dad left. I never saw or heard from him again. And 12 years later my mother decided she had finally had enough of all the calls from school and apologises she had to make. So she sent me to "Miss Addie's
Schools for the gifted" which sounded like a bunch I bull if you asks me. But seeing as no one was I decided to keep that to myself. I'm stuck on a plane for 4 hours with 4 other people..there's nothing I can really do about that..