Wonderful

Understanding

It's the middle of the night but I can't sleep. They haven't gotten the power fixed, and the storm won't stop growling. I decide to look for a shop, it might be 24hr. I get up. I'll grab some posters or room decor. I walk out and wander through the hallway until I see a map on the wall. I see a 24hr shop, and head there. Once I'm there, I see it's still manned. The checkout has a backup generator on it. I walk in and the person quietly says, "Hello and welcome to decor mas what are you looking for tod- tomight?" She seems eager for a customer. "Room decor. I'm new." She just smiles. I smile back and walk around the store. "How much, anyways?" I realize I don't have money. "Oh, no cost, but it's 10> items per week." My smile grows. "Thanks." I look at stuff for a while and end up with a white robe, a small stuffed unicorn, and some posters, mostly pun ones, but one cat one and one of a rainbow, and one space.

As I was walking back, trying to balance the posters with the robe on my shoulder and the unicorn in the middle, I heard something at the end of the hall. Our dorm is near the end of the hall, so I shoved my stuff at the door to my room and came quietly back out. I heard three people talking, two boys and one probably a girl. "Where did you even get these?" One of the boys asked. "You don't want to know." A girls voice. It sounds a bit familiar, but I can't tell where I heard it. "I saw it in the news." The second boy said. "She's right." "If they catch us... I don't know if I can do this guys." The first boy says. "You have to. We made the storm already, after all. Nobody can really stop this." The second boy says. "Is there anyone that can stop us? Like, what about the empath?" The first boy asks. I think they are talking about me. "Ha, ha. She's useless, I would know." The girl says. "And anyways, you know if you drop out now... I run this, I decide." The girl demands. "Fine." The first boy says. I hear some shuffling and I know I should do something. "Hey! What are you doing?!" I ask loudly. "Who are you?" The second boy asks worriedly and quickly. "That's the empath." The girl says loudly, fast, and I hear shuffling. I light up the area, and the girl is not there. There's nothing there but two boys, staring at me worriedly. One had short blonde hair and the other had shaggy black. They look around and end up seeming quite confused. "Well where is she?!" The blonde one asks nobody. He was the first boy. The second one looks at me, "Hey, empath, do you know where-" his head suddenly has shadow around it, but just for a second. It's gone in a minute. A hand from behind him grabs his arm and they are suddenly gone. Something is pushed at me from behind me and I fall. I see the shaggy boy fell on me. He had just disappeared, hadn't he? Maybe we have a teleporter. Or invisible. Or probably some other things would be possible too. I grab the blonde boys arm firmly and demand, "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Light blinds me. He must be light as well. I punch through the light and it fades, and I see the shaggy kid running off through the hall. I turn back to the blonde. I don't see him, but my hand is still on something. I punch (not too hard) into the air where he was at, and sure enough, he is there. Invisibility and light. I can deal with that. I push him to the ground, "Who are you? What were you doing." He looks at me. "I give up. Please just don't tell anyone." He quickly says. "I may not. What's your name?" I ask not so forcefully. Maybe being polite will back him into a corner. Or he will just want to answer, either way I come out on top. "Oliver. I'm light and invisibility, but you already knew that." He responds. "And... I may have been doing witchcraft." He gives an awkward smile. Wh... What?