The Beginning of our Kind

Chapter #1 Fate or Destiny?

I woke up to my mom calling me downstairs for breakfast. I quickly scrambled around the room pulling out a t-shirt, pair of jeans, and my shoes as I rushed to beat my younger brother down the stairs. I had promised my parents that I wouldn't use my powers even in the privacy of our own house but I used them anyway to check my brothers progress. Good he was still looking for a clean shirt.

I came sliding into the kitchen in my socks with my shoes held in my left hand. My dad tried to catch me off guard by throwing a basketball at me, which I caught with my right hand before sending it back. I was the head point guard on our varsity basketball team and my dad literally was always trying to catch me off guard. My brother received a similar surprise when he cam bouncing in because he was on the same path I was he was just a few years younger.

Our breakfast barely lasted the time of a short meal, before I was yelling at my brother to hurry up so I could drive him to school. We lived in a small town that had all grades from 7th to 12th in the same school and kindergarten through 6th in another. "Jack!! Come on we are going to be pushing it!!"

"I'm coming. Gosh." He came stomping back down the stairs carrying his overstuffed backpack with a menacing look in his dark eyes.

The ride to the school was quick and quiet since Jack was texting his friends about what they were going to do that weekend and I was busy thinking about how I would be graduating in a few months. Only when we pulled into the school parking lot was my thoughts distracted from their wondering path. Because there she was getting out of her little white car. Her best friend and two younger sisters pooled out while she checked her hair in the rear-view mirror. I could never understand why she did that everyday because it was perfect in every-way. Today the dark brown waist-length waves were pulled into tight double braids a tradition for game day she had started her freshman year. I pulled into my parking spot and watched her walk to the school while my brother gathered his things and ran to the field where his friends were playing a early morning game of football.

I sighed as I walked through the hall. It wasn't that I wasn't popular or that I couldn't have any girl, it was that I couldn't have her. She never seemed to notice me and the only time that she ever did was when I was playing basketball. Of course she rarely noticed any of the boys, which just increased their efforts on trying to get her.

I was stuffing my books into my locker when I felt someone touch my shoulder, I spun around to see her standing there.

"James, have you heard what is going on today?" her face showed nervousness which I knew was kinda who she so that didn't unnerve me, the fact that she was talking to me did.

"No." I am usually on of the last to find out about anything.

"Soldiers are coming to sign us up for the draft." Her medium brown eyes were full of concern.

"Well, we are seniors it was bound to happen sooner or later." I felt as though it was a sorry excuse but it was all that I had.

She dropped her voice and moved in a bit closer, and I felt my heart skip a beat until I saw she was about to cry, "The are also coming to take Markus away. He was discovered to have powers yesterday afternoon when he was in detention because he lost his temper and caught Mrs. Amerolla's skirt on fire." Now I understood. Markus was her cousin and a pretty good friend of my brother's. That was why she had come to talk to me.