The sun wasstarting to set before the girls climbed down and skated back home.When they rounded the corner to Janey's street there was a strangecar parked in front of the house.
"Wonder who thatis?" Nancy mused aloud.
"We'll findout soon enough." Janey answered as they went around to the backdoor, took off their skates and came in.
Sitting in theliving room was a strange woman with a small notepad in her hand.
She was takingnotes on what Janey's mom was telling her.
"She's areporter." Zelistucktold Janey.
"Crap." Janeywhispered, but Nancy heard her.
"What?" Nancyalso whispered.
"She's areporter, Zel says."
"Well, you didexpect this." Nancy reminded her.
"Let's getthis over with." Janey didn't sound happy but she squared her shoulders andwalked lightly into the living room and kissed her mom on the head.
"Company, Mom?"
The woman stood upand stuck out her hand. "I'm Sarah Greston from Psychology Today.It's a magazine all about psychology. I'm taking it that you areJaney?"
"Yes."
"I'd like toget your side of the story about what happened in Washington."
"You aren'tgoing to make me out to be some kind of freak, are you?"
Ms. Greston smiledand chuckled a little. "Not at all, the mainstream psychology fieldis beginning to take Paranormal Research seriously. Yourdemonstration was probably the biggest public display ofPsychokinesis anyone has ever recorded. You know the videos some ofyour class mates shot has gone viral, don't you?"
"Yeah, I'veseen a few of them."
"This is bignews in the psych community."
"Just as long asI don't get turned into a lab rat or a circus freak." Janeysounded upset.
"I won't dothat. First of all, no mention of where you actually live, not eventhe town. Secondly, I don't write conjectures, only the facts. Ileave the conjecture to the so called scientists who read themagazine."
"I supposethat's as fair as I'm going to get."
"Likely. If anyof the media rags contact you, just say no."
"What are youcalling a media rag?" Nancy asked as she sat next to Janey.
"Papers like theNational Enquirer, Star; you know the ones with the garish headlinesand usually some nonsense about aliens or really obscure diseases, ordamaging material about celebrities.
"Can youpinpoint what first alerted you to the danger of the speeding car,Janey?" the reporter changed the subject.
"I haveexceptionally acute hearing. I heard the sirens before the carentered the circle."
"Have yourroutine hearing tests proven this?"
"Yes, they have.She can hear at about twenty-eight hertz to forty kilohertz." Mrs.Richardson said with some pride.
"That'samazing!"
"I've testedher once; she can actually hear a single pin drop on linoleum fromtwenty feet away." Nancy added.
Janey gave her aquelling look.
"Janey, it isn'ta crime to have exceptional hearing. Don't be angry with yourfriend." Sarah said.
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Dragon Girl
Paranormal14 year old Janey Michelle Richardson was a happy, healthy American teenager with a few "special" gifts; she was telepathic with cats, she could process ghosts, she could move things with her mind. She was ... weird. That made a lot of people susp...
