The Gifted

Chapter 1- The gifted

*BEEP.....BEEP.....BEEP....Bee-*

Sounds off my alarm as I reach over and pound my hand against it, shutting it up for today. I roll over to sleep for another five minutes before having to actually force myself to get up, that is until I hear my best friend, Melody barge into my room of our shared house. "Gen, common, you know we are having breakfast with our friends today, don't want to disappoint them."

Her soft and calming voice chimes through my room, although I can hear her agitation with me not being up yet in her tone. "Okay, Okay, I'm up, I'm up Mel, just let me get ready." I respond as I lift the warm soft covers off my body and kick my legs onto the cold wood flooring. Ugh, I should have worn socks, I knew the temperature was dropping because the weather is changing.

I walk over to my small in-room bathroom, its quite small, but since I'm the only one in my room, it works perfectly. I turn my shower knob to warm as I let the water warm up before I get in so I'm not cold. After doing so, I get into the shower, letting the steamy water run down my cold body. I wash off my body since I washed my hair the night before. I then get out and grab a towel to wrap around my body.

I walk into my room, for being a small house, its quite modern, while being sleek looking. The walls are a beautiful pale blue paint, the ceiling is white, with swirls as a pattern. The flooring is a dark oak hardwood tile. The bed frame and dressers are matching in the wood color. Which is a sleek spruce wood with a gloss over top to give all of the pieces a shine to it.

I walk to my dresser, grabbing undergarments and my clothes for the day. I grab a baggy tunic, light blue skinny jeans, my long boot socks to go over my jeans to keep them down when in the boots, then I zip up both of my long boots. Then I throw on some lip stick. A dark wine, almost purple color. I take my shoulder length hair and brush through it, the light picks up all of my highlights. I then grab my curler and make the loose beach curls, teasing my hair at the roots for volume.

I walk into the rest of the apartment, to find Melody, in a burgundy sweater, black skinny jeans and her iconic vans. Her blond hair in a messy bun on top of her head. I grab my wallet, phone, and car keys "Ready?" I ask Mel, she turns to me and nods.

We get into my 2008 Honda Civic SI Coupe, a metallic black all over, red accents on the letters, and the spoiler on the back. I drive us all the way to the cafe that we always go to with our friends. Well, more like Mel's friends, I don't know a lot of them, I know them, but not well enough that we click instantly. I know her friend Roman quite well though. He is a tall, muscular build guy, a hazelnut brown hair with lighter brown at the tips of his hair. He styles it up in the front.

His best friend, Maverick, everyone in the group calls Mav, he is more of the cocky type, unlike Roman. Maverick is muscular built as well, but he has black hair, shorter on the sides, and more to do with on top. Then there are a two other girls, Valentine, and Harmony. The twins, they dress quite the same, yet personality wise, they are completely different. Harmony is a daredevil and risk taker, Valentine is very rule oriented.

Now the last two guys of the group, Myles and Archer, brothers, not twins though. Myles has dark brown hair, Archer has blonde hair. Both kind of skinny, not very muscular much. Myles has black rimmed glasses. Archer doesn't have glasses.

"So guys, when we having that party?" Archer asks, raising his eyebrows, making Mel laugh. She is head over heels for Archer, but doesn't want to ruin their friendship, little does she know, he is head over heels for her. "Hmmm..." Mel teases him, "I don't have work next weekend, how about you Gen? Do you have work next weekend?" She nudges me, she knows my work schedule, knows I will work, only for an hour while the party goes on. Just the first hour.

"Only for the first hour of the party, then I'll be at the apartment after so." I let her know, nudging her back even harder. Archer notices, "Uhhhhh, its called footsies, not elbows girls." he says, showing his cocky perfect, never needing braces teeth that I swear could light up a room.

"No one asked you, Archer." I scold, getting up from my seat, and walking to the register to get a coffee. "Damn, who pushed her down a set of stairs?" Maverick voice booms at the table, but he is so loud I can hear him. "Hey, don't talk about her like that." Roman replies, "She has to work while we all party, you would be trowing a hissy fit if you were in her shoes Mav, so be nicer to her." Roman exclaims, as I walk back and try to sit down.

Yet, Maverick stops me, "Next time, don't be so quick to respond that way to Archer." he scowls, "Maybe your friend should take into consideration that I have to work while you all party at my apartment." I bark back at him, he goes to grab my coffee, so I push my hand in front of my coffee so he can't. Then the most indescribable thing happened. A invisible barrier came from my hand, he can't grab my coffee.

I instantly drop my coffee on the ground, looking at them all, they can all see the fear I have, they all are mirroring me, the same fear on their faces. "What the hell was that..." Myles asks, we all look at each other, more eyes on me than anyone else. I don't blame them. "She is one of them, the Gifted." Roman replies, his glance meeting mine. "What if I don't want to be," I stamper, "I want to be normal." I studder out. "I am one too, I will help you." Roman says, now all eyes turn on him, "Lets get to their place to talk about it, its the safest place to talk about it." Myles suggests.

Mel drives my car with me and Roman in the back seats on the ride back to my house. I don't want to be gifted.

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Hey guys! I decided I wanted to start fresh on something new, so this is what I have so far. I hope you enjoy the story. Like and comment any questions or just to point out something. Hope you guys like it! Thank you for all of those who read my book!