The Caverly Effect

Thirteen. Aero

After about twenty more minutes of searching, we found a rope long enough to be Xena's leach. I wish I had water powers, I thought jealously. Or ANY powers at all. I scolded myself. Wow Aero, your best friend gets superpowers, and all you do is feel sorry for yourself for not having any. It was always easy to be jealous of Fawn. Even before the Fraternities. She always had good grades, got along with everyone- they all adored her. I don't blame them though. It's hard not to.

Then there is me, I had a C average, got into fights, and Fawn was my only friend. She has powers, maybe because she earned them, and deserves them.

"Aero, why are you so quiet?" Fawn asked. I snapped out of my daydream, and looked at her.

"Huh? What were we talking about?" Fawn laughed her laugh, that could probably win the "best sound in the universe" award. I smiled.

"What?!" I asked. Robyn also smiled. She didn't talk much, I noticed. After we first met her, she mostly nodded, or only replied when spoken to. Fawn rolled her eyes.

"Robyn was about to tell us when and how she got her powers!" Fawn exclaimed. Robyn sighed.

"I was nine." Robyn started, "my dad worked for the black market. I found... some things... that I maybe should've stayed away from." She took a deep breath. "Two big men, were paid to try and kill me. So I couldn't spill their secret." Fawn gasped. I listened intently. "One night, they dragged me from my bedroom, to a river. They held me underwater, thinking it would drown me. I thought it would to. Until, right before I blacked out, the water in the river moved around my head, instead of over it. And then, it attacked the men, and pushed them off me. I flung myself into the river, desperate to get away from them, and I was floated to a new town, where my mom came and got me. I lived with her, her in Oregon until now." Robyn finished, her heck of a story. Wow...

"I'm sorry, that sucks- I mean, not the powers part- that's awesome, but the part about- you get what I mean..." I say, being awkward and bad at wording sentences as usual.

"I know what you mean," Robyn reassured me.

"Ah- great," I replied. Before the conversation could get any more awkward, we reached the house Sage was in. I opened the creaky wooden door, and was greeted by an excited Xena at my feet. I laughed, and picked her up, and held her in my arms.

"Xena-lema!" Fawn said as she stole Xena from me. Haha, wow. I laughed.

"That's new!" I exclaim. She shrugged.

"I can get creative," she said with a wink. I looked around the place we were staying in, actually taking it in this time. Red wooden floors, one dusty looking brown couch, and a mini table next to it. Then the kitchen, where Sage was stirring something in an old- dirty looking pot. There were a couple wooden stools at the small bar, connected to the kitchen counter. I noticed a staircase to the left of the kitchen.

My stomach growled, as Sage spooned out some spaghetti onto some plates. Fawn beamed, and I smiled, knowing her favorite dinner was pasta.

Fawn and I sat on the green couch in the living room, as Sage and Robyn talked in private outside.

"Aero?" She asked, as she leaned against me and put her plate on the floor.

"Yeah?" I asked back, looking at her.

"When are we going back for our families?" I sighed.

"Well... maybe we should focus on keeping safe, for now," I responded. She smiled at me, snuggled into my chest, and pulled her knees to her chest.

I opened my eyes, and Fawn was no longer curled up, but she was still snuggled against me, and one of her feet hung off the side of the couch. I looked to the floor, and Robyn and Sage were using our backpacks as pillows, and sleeping in the ground. I slowly, and carefully got up, and left Fawn on the couch.

"I'm checking out upstairs," I announced, to nobody in particular. I walked to the stairs, and skipped every other step, going up. I got the strangest feeling, like I shouldn't go up there.

Oh I'm just being paranoid. I thought, as I started up the steps. Right?