The Academy

Chapter 4

A month passed without any change. There was the constancy of going to the same classes everyday and it all became a habit. At my old schools all I needed to do was walk in and immediatley I was able to pick up on the thoughts of the teacher as they went throught the lesson in their heads. I immediatley knew it and there was never a point. Now in this school with Ms. Gobin and Mr. Edwards what they were teaching was completely new. I am still unable to break the block that Mr. Edwards has around his thoughts and that has been bugging me. I have really started practicing what I could do once I met Mr. Edwards and now when I have time I search the room for someone who is weekminded and I go into their head. Now not only can I simply read their thoughts but I can enter their mind and feel what they feel. Recently I have been attempting to control the thoughts of those around me. My one encounter with Ms. Gobin scared me. I had never felt so helpless and out of control and I never wanted to feel that way again. I continue to practice my abilities hoping the once I do enter the mind of the teacher from the deepest of the 7 rings of Hell that I can control what is happening and find out how she is doing what shes doing. Although this may be the main reason I can't deny how much fun it is to ger Mrs. Robins to completely forget about what she's doing and fall asleep.

As I was riding the Yellow machine of death to school on a Friday morning in september all I could think about was that I would be getting my license next week. I stepped off of the school bus and walked into my first class.

Mr. Jefferson had a sub that was about the meanest woman alive. She walked in knowing that these students would attempt to take advantage of her as they did with all of the subs. As my mind drifted across the class reading the thoughts of the other students I realized that they had no plan to do what this teacher said and something the subs eyes changed as I began reading their thoughts. She turned directly toward me and gave me a cold and calculting look. I shivered with revulsion and dove headfirst into her mind.

It started out as it had with Ms. Gobin the coldness had begun to seep through by body and I saw nothing. I tried to take over her mind and control her thoughts but she was strong and I had a sense that she knew exactly what she was doing. I had no idea what to do and the coldness came in closer seeping up my body and entering my chest. I realized what would happen if I stayed in too long, the cold would seep into my mind and I would have no control. I was not in the mood for probably the worst brain freeze of my life so I fought. I began to shake with fear but that quickly warped into rage. My mind began to send out thoughts outside of my body. All I wanted to do was get out of there. As I opened my eyes the world around me shattered. I quickly pulled back into my own head to see the sub laying on her desk completely unconsious. I had a pretty good idea as to what happened but I couldnt be certain. I believe that as I had sent out my thoughts that they were strong enough to break me free by knocking her out.

I moved on to my next class as all of the kids began to fill the subs hair with whipped cream. It was Ice Cream Sundae day in the cafeteria. I walked into math where there was another sub. This one was a man however.

He was tall with black hair and his eyes when I first saw them seemed red but now they only look black, the deepest black you have ever seen. The class entered and he told us his name was Mr. Blackshear and that he would not put up with anything in this class and as he finished what he was saying he looked directly at me and a small smirk raised his lip. I had a feeling he knew exactly what had happened in my last class but that's impossible no one knew! He walked up to me and said low enough for only me to hear: "If you think that my sisters were dangerous you have no idea what I can do to you."

As he walked off I immediately saw the similarity between him and my last sub. He knew and I was scared. No one had ever outright said they knew about me. I assume Mr. Edwards and Ms. Gobin and the sub knew but they never said anything. I was surrounded by people that knew who I was and that scared me.