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Chapter 18: Playing hooky

The first day had passed and gone without an incident. I slept somewhat peacefully after trying to calm my nerves. Despite it being uneventful all things considering, there were some things of note that said otherwise.

First was my dream of a flashback of that day, the day when Alex's mother: Selena, had died. It was a long, long time ago; back when I didn't know the weight of the situation until I was much older.

It took me years to piece it together due to my young age and my lack of understanding. Add in my amnesia and now the fact that supernatural powers exist, it made more sense.

And more daunting.

Piling onto my growing list of worries, there was also all the events beforehand. Like the mystery of why our powers exist and why us? The event that I lost my memories and all of our powers seemed to have gone dormant for years (excluding Alex who had been subtly using them), and the battles I've had so far.

There was also the mystery of why my friends had gone "feral" almost and had powers.

'Well...friend-wise, I wouldn't say Amanda is one...at least not anymore' I thought adding to what I thought.

However, they were still people I was close to.

Was I the target?

That didn't seem right; whether it was because I didn't want to be sole focus of someone's attention, but also why go all that trouble? If I was the sole focus; there were opportunities to do...whatever they wanted with me.

I tried to do my best to push the thought away to the back of my mind, since there was still things to do and enjoy. The second day was going uneventful in a good way.

I didn't get any of those weird gut feelings nor felt a chill down my back, like some ominous signs. We got to try a ton of things from food to activities, and products. We also got to listen to some live music and some stage performances.

Occasionally, the thoughts would pop up and my mood would dampen. I did my best to pull myself out of my stupor and enjoyed myself with my friends.

It was kind of hard to divide ourselves equally since the guys were with me along with the girls. So in all, it was a pretty large group.

The day was about to end eventful and uneventful for obvious reasons. When I was going to end the day with dinner and then just taking a nice bath before sleeping, Stella and the others made a change to my plans.

"Hey, so I heard there is a night time event," said Stella as she grinned.

I had a mouthful of mashed potatoes and looked owl-eyed.

I gave a muffled "Huh?" through cheeks full of said-mashed potatoes, my eyes glancing around the table.

"Yeah and tomorrow we go home, so we only have tonight to go" said Jessica, adding in to Stella's claim.

"That's nice and all, but what is it exactly?" asked Kalonice, while I swallowed down my lumps of mashed potato.

"It's a night party, everyone is invited but you have to find it first" explained Stella.

"So, kind of like a scavenger hunt" said Clara.

Jessica nodded, "Yeah, and I heard it's going to be great."

"Well, as long we get back here by curfew" said Azalea.

"That's the spirit!" smiled Stella.

I felt a bit nervous going out this late at night but technically there was still light out. And if anything happened, I'm sure we could handle it...