Differences

Chapter 3

Carley's POV

When we finally reached my house I was about to ask Maddie if she had brought clothes for tomorrow when Maddie said "yes I did bring clothes." Sometimes I forget about her powers. We walked into my house and it was silent, which was normal because I was normally the first one home. I flashed upstairs and changed into my house clothes within a matter of seconds. When I returned Maddie had her arms crossed and rolled her eyes while I just smiled.

"Do you want an-" I was cut off by Maddie exclaiming "yeah I'm hungry too. Can you get me a glass of water?" I was getting really annoyed with her cutting me off, when as if on cue Maddie yelled from the living room "I heard that!"

I brought her water into the living room when I told her I had to go get something from upstairs. I was walking up the stairs, for once, when I got a mind message from Maddie saying 'do you want to watch a movie?' I replied back with 'not really I kind of wanted to talk to you about something.'

I should probably explain the whole 'mind messaging' thing. Well everyone that is born with a power, or in this case powers, can communicate by sending mind messages to other people with powers. No one really uses it that much I don't really know why I mean I think it's pretty cool.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" Maddie asked referring to my previous statement. "I wanted to talk about the new kids from London that are coming next week," Maddie looked at me slightly confused. "I feel kind of bad for them, I mean they're moving from a completely different country and they're already being called names!" I said surprising myself by defending someone I didn't even know. I could tell Maddie wasn't that surprised because I'm the type of person that gets mad when someone insults someone else. I guess you could say I'm a little over protective, but Maddie has grown used to it.

"How about we try and talk to them when they arrive on Monday?" Maddie said trying to calm me before I did something that I would regret. "And this is why you are my best friend, I said trying to compliment one of Maddie's many 'genius moments'. I extended my arms and pulled her in for a hug, I squeezed her so tight that I forgot about my strength because I opened my eyes and saw Maddie using her telekinesis to pry my arms off of her. "Sorry," I said while rubbing the back of my neck a little embarrassed. "It's okay I'm used to it," Maddie said while smiling.

*Later that night*

"Have you ever wondered if anyone else has ever had two powers like you?" Maddie asked while I was a little confused at her random question. "No. Not really," I lied I had always wondered that. "Yes you have," Maddie said with a slight smirk on her face. I mumbled under my breath "I forgot about that power." Maddie started to laugh obviously hearing my comment. "Let's google it!" Maddie exclaimed while racing up the stairs to my bedroom which had my laptop in it. I flashed by her and quickly closed my door and locked it. Maddie banged on my door and yelled "Carley! Open this door right now! Don't make me use my powers!" I used my speed to clean up my room and in the middle of making my bed I heard a *Click*. "Why did you lock your door?" Maddie said while walking into my room. Stupid telekinesis. "My room was messy, so I tried to clean it up before you got up here." I said while looking at my almost made bed. Maddie is an absolute neat freak, every time she comes over she always gets mad at me for not cleaning my room or leaving my dirty clothes in the floor. "Can we just google it now?" Maddie said anxiously.

"Four," I said while looking at Maddie. "Four people have had two powers," I said a little excitedly, I had always thought that I was the only one. "Is there any information about two powers?" Maddie asked curiously. "Yeah it says here that when a person has two powers on their sixteenth birthday their powers become ten times more powerful," I looked at Maddie already knowing what she was going to say next. "But you turn sixteen on-" then I cut her off and said "Monday."