The Academy

Chapter 6

I've been assigned to section T and have been waiting for 40 minutes to take my exam or whatever is happening here. There's a line in front of me, but it hasn't moved at all since I got here. The other sections appear to have faster moving lines. Something must have gone wrong or maybe somebody is running late to administer our exams but I wouldn't know because I can't see inside the cubby. All of the sections are divided off by office-like dividers. But this one is the only one that has a roof on top of it. The others do not and I don't know why.

All of a sudden, a woman pops out of the tent, "Who's next? Come on in."

The line moves much faster after that and soon enough its my turn. I wonder why someone took so long to be tested if everyone else is moving this fast. There's no time to worry about that right now though, I need to go in and figure out what they think I can do, so I can demonstrate my inability to do it and go home.

When I walk in, there are five people with clipboards sitting in a circle. I'm guessing I'm supposed to walk in the center so they can all judge my lack of affinity for magic or whatever this is all about. They all watch me intently, waiting for something to happen. I don't know what they expected to be honest. I have no idea what's going on. I have no idea why they brought me here.

"Ms. Roberts, we know you are confused, but we have reason to believe that you have manifested certain abilities related to telekinesis or teleportation. Have you ever thought about something and suddenly it appears where you want it?"- I think about Friday morning when my clothes seem to have laid themselves out.

"Have you ever lost something and found it in the last place you expected it to be? Or somewhere practically impossible for it to be?"- I think about all the different sets of keys I used to lose and never find again. Nowadays I usually find them in really weird places.

"Have you ever been walking and ended up in the completely wrong place?"- Yes, but that's because I don't pay attention, not because I'm super or something thought.

I take a deep breath and close my eyes. I don't want to go off on these people because who knows what they can do to me with their powers. With my eyes still closed, I speak, "How do any of these things mean that I have superpowers or magic or whatever it is you call them? I've always just been an ordinary girl and bringing me here, trying to make me believe that I have powers. Something that I've always wanted to believe about myself is shitty. I already accepted the fact that I'll never be magical like in all those books I read growing up. So please just stop trying to convince me that I'm something I never was and I never will be. Just take me home!"

When I open my eyes, the people making up the circle appear further away from me. I look down and notice that my feet aren't touching the fucking ground anymore. I'm... floating? One of them must have telekinesis or something. But no one is looking at me like they're controlling my position, so I must be doing this. I can fly? Fuck! Why the hell didn't I know this until now!?

The administrators are all whispering to each other now, in between their shocked stares up at me. "Can someone help me get down? I've never flown before if you can't tell!"

"Ms. Roberts, you're not flying, you're floating. So, to get down, you just have to think about floating down to the ground."

I give this a shot, and, of course, don't gracefully descend to the floor. I fall down, like the clumsy fuck I am. But, I stand back up, like the resilient fuck I am. "What did you mean when you said I wasn't flying? Sure seemed like flying to me."

"Technically you were floating. Because you were using telekinesis to make yourself lift off the ground. If you were flying, you wouldn't be able to make other objects do the same thing. We have reason to believe that you are a T3 or a Triple Threat as some students have referenced it in the past. You have already demonstrated your telekinesis but we have reason to believe that you have both teleportation and telepathic abilities. One of our future-finders says they found this possibility.

A/N: I don't know if anyone is going to read this, but if you do, please comment what you think, I have more written, but I want to see what y'all think so.. Thanks!