Discovered

Hero

I felt a nudge at my side. I snapped my eyes open and grabbed my gun pointing it at the person who stood in front of my bed. "Jesus Christ, Alec!" Nick said pushing the gun away from his face. "Sorry, Nick. I'm not used to being woken up." I said, "did your parents never wake you up for school in the morning?" He asked. "Actually, no. They abandoned me when I was 4." I told him and got out of bed. "Oh... I'm sorry Alec." Nick said, "it's fine. Hardly remember them anyway. They must have been bad people. To leave a 4 year old on her own." I said. Then pushed Nick out of my room. "Wait, you have to go to school today." He said before I shut the door. "I know, I have to get ready!" I called and shut the door in his face.

I quickly got changed into a white tank top, a blue jacket, jeans and converse. Then walked out to the guys.

Garrett was making chocolate chip pancakes. I grabbed a handful of chocolate chips and shoved them into my mouth before he could stop me. "Someone's gotta drive me to school. I don't know where it is and I don't have my license." I said. "I'll drive you." Keon agreed so we stuffed as many of Garrett's pancakes into our mouths and I grabbed my bag I prepared last night and we set off.

As Keon pulled up to the school he grabbed my bag to stop me. "You don't have your gun in here do you?" He asked. "I might...." I muttered. "Your not allowed a gun at school Alec." Keon sighed. "I'm bring it anyway." I said and climbed out of his car. I turned and gave him a two finger salut and a wink before walking inside and then to the office.

"Hello, I'm Alecia Felicia, this is my first day." I told the lady. "Alright." She said typed something, and then printed some papers and handed them to me. I waited for her to say something but she didn't so I left.

On one of the papers it read locker 238 so I went on a hunt for that locker. Everyone turned to stare at me, since I was the new girl.

Eventually I found it, there was a boy, my age, you could tell by the way he looked that he was one of the popular ones. He was leaning on my locker. "Hey, could you move? That's my locker." I said, he scooted over. "What's your name?" He asked. "Alec." I told him. "That's a boy name." He said I rolled my eyes. "It's my nickname." I said, not caring enough to give him my full name. "I'm Rhett Carpenter." He told me. I nodded. "What's your next class?" He asked. I pulled out my schedule the lady gave me. "English, Mr. Brock." I said throwing my back in my locker and taking out a few things I needed. "I have that class too, I'll show you where it is." He said and walked away, I followed him.

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"Are you free this afternoon Alec?" Haley Ray said, she's my friend now, I wouldn't bother to make friends normally but the guys told me to. So whatever, she's cool. "I'll have to check. I'll text you if I'm free." I told her, I never know when Ford will be like, boom do this.

I walked down an alley and was met by Rhett. "What are you doing here?" I asked, "I could ask you the same thing. Alleys aren't safe." He told me. "But your safe?" I questioned. "I guess not but at least I can defend myself." He said. "Who told you I couldn't fight?" I asked. "You can fight?" He asked. "Course I can." I said. Ford has been teaching me to control my mind reading so I kept it off during school and when ever I wasn't fighting.

We both kept walking down the alley. "Have you heard about the Elite getting a new member? Minx?" He asked, I smirked. "Course I did." I told him, kicking a rock. "What do you think she's got? Like power wise?" He asked, "she is an amazing fighter, is that what you mean?" I asked, getting nervous. No one knows that Minx can read minds.

"She seems to always know what her opponent is going to do." He said, more to himself. "Maybe that's what makes her great--" I began to say but Ford pushed my head down. "Hey!" I called and turned around. There was a man behind me, with a knife. He was going to stab me...

I thought about turning my mind reading on but I thought about how close Rhett was to figuring out Minx is a mind reader. I can't pull out my gun either, he'll be on to me. But I gotta do something.

I moved in to fight but Rhett pushed me backwards. "Get back, I'll protect you." He said. I ignored his comment and kicked the man in the face, knocking him out swiftly. I squatted down and took the knife from his hand and the three backups he had in his pockets.

Rhett squared down as well. "I could have done that." He said amazed. "Maybe but I don't need a hero." I said standing up and taking a picture of the man. I grabbed my bag and swung it over my shoulder. "I'm my own hero." I said and started to walk off to headquarters and give my information to Ford and the others.