The Giftless.

Chapter 3

Chapter 03

I woke up in the nurses office. My sister sat in the chair next to me.

"Welcome back." She said. She smiled down at me. She was beautiful. She looked like both of our parents. Her long dreaded hair sat on the side of her shoulder in a ponytail. It slapped across my face as she hugged me. She treated me like mom did.

"What are you doing here? " I asked after finishing the hug.

"Abe somehow got my number again and he texted me that you fainted." She moved in closer to me. "Who says fainted?" We laughed out loud. Then she looked at me. "What happened? "

"I got light headed." I said sitting up. "I dont really know why."

"Well what does Dad have to do with it?" She said sitting next to me. "He was going on And on about you looking up something for dad and then, quote: passing out like a lil bitch. End quote" She was making light of things but I knew she was worried.

"I just said that to-" the door opened and Abe rushed in holding his phone out to me. I grabbed it.

"What is this?" I asked, handing it back.

"Earnest. He broke out of Lincoln last night."

"What the hell is Lincoln?" My sister said. "And who is Earnest."

"Nothing!" I said before Abe could say anything. "Zoey, thanks for coming but really I'm fine."

She looked between us and stood up. "Whatever." She began to walk out and stopped at Abe. "If you text me one more heart emoji, I swear I'll break your face, and then your phone." She blew a kiss at me and disappeared out of the room.

"She's so into me." He said. I rolled my eyes and snapped to get him back on subject. "Right, so am I right to find it suspicious that you wanted me to look into Earnest Hollo and then Rage, his alter ego goes missing from Lincoln Penitentiary?"

"Okay first of all, lower your voice man!" I pulled him closer. "Next, what is Lincoln Penitentiary? How do you know so much about this stuff?"

"Meet me at the Ghost after school. I think we ought to talk." He walked out of the room and I was left there speechless. Did he know about me?

I got to the Ghost about a minute after Abe. I looked at the dent in the hood of my car and shivered. I did that? I was never supposed to be able to do that.

"I'm driving. I'll drop you back off here in a few." Abe said sliding into the tattered white leather drivers seat.

"I have to work tonight-" I began.

"I'll have you back in time." He said. He put the car into drive and we sped out of the parking lot.

"I'm gonna ask you what's going on and you're gonna lie so I might as well spill the beans about me and maybe it'll encourage you to be honest." He said without looking at me. "I'm what some may call a 'hactivist'. I work with a group online and we gather info on the Gifted. We find the things the government keeps from the public. The GiftList site you saw, I designed it."

"What the hell?"

"I'm not finished. I think you're Gifted. I didn't have any reason to think so before. It was mostly because you were unaware of how awesome you are and those are usually the type, but after I saw what you did to your car. And when you passed out-"

"When I passed out what?" I said suddenly defensive. I don't remember anything after finding out Earnest was Rage, so what if I gave myself away?

"That's my next question." He stopped at his house and ushered me in after we got out. "What exactly can you do? You said that you didn't mean to, but what didn't you mean to do?"