Ingenious

Chapter Eleven

Part 2

11 months, 2 weeks, 3 days. We are gearing up for a new person to come soon and I can't believe I've been here for almost a year. We haven't been able to do anything in order to get out since the phone calls since we assume they were never able to track us. Not that I even want to get out of here anymore. There is no point, I have more people around me here then I would there. Kacey may as well be my best friend, next to our weekly gossip sessions, we pushed our beds together to make a Queen sized (more like a double) bed to share. Ryan and I are pretty serious and we have what he calls our 'date night' once a week where we eat alone in the training room. Shawn and Everett may as well be my brothers and Shawn definitely treats me like a little sister. Like I said I have a better life here than I would out there. I don't mind the idea of spending the rest of my life down here. I have everything I need.

"Rae!" Kacey calls, "training, let's go!" Then there is my power. Kacey has been helping me push it even further and let's just say I don't even know what else I could do with electricity. I can shoot it from any part of my body without a second thought and I can control the lights, the only other thing I can think of would be electrocuting someone and I have no desire to do that to anyone let alone these people. I guess I could try and get the electricity to appear somewhere from like the ceiling or something. I just don't see how that'll be useful. Either way I head with Kace to the training room and do the normal light flickering, shooting electricity at this one spot on the wall that is completely ruined.

"Ryan do you want some practice?" I ask him after a little while of my own training. He will do physical training with Shawn when he can't practice his ability. He nods and stands up from the plank as I sit down at the opposite side of the room from him.

"Make sure you-" I cut him off because I know this drill so well,

"I know, I know, make sure I calm down and neutralize my feelings." I say rolling my eyes. We've been doing this so often I'm used to it and Ryan's gotten a lot better. I close my eyes even letting myself relax in the bean bag as I feel the jealousy surge through me. He goes unnoticed with his emotions now which is great, just annoying for me cause it's hard to tell.

"Really Ry?" I ask him the jealousy surging through me, "this emotion! What is even the point of it!"

"Jealousy looks good on you," he says laughing as he releases control. The feeling lingers for a couple minutes after he lets go, leaving me acting all pissed off, but to be fair it's not my fault. A couple minutes later when I'm still sitting in the corner with my arms crossed happiness and a lovey dovey feeling fills me as Ryan walks over helping me up.

"Now this feeling," I tell him leaning really close so we are only centimeters away, "you don't have to force at all." I kiss him and he kisses me back, but I don't love the fact that he can push a feeling like this on me without me noticing. It makes me feel a bit manipulated, even if he only does it with my permission... I think. That's the problem. Sometimes I can tell when he's doing it, but sometimes I have no idea. He could be pushing emotions on me without me knowing and that makes me more paranoid than anything.

"You know I don't push feelings on you when we aren't training," he whispers quietly as we pull away from the kiss.

"I-, ummm..." I start to blush not knowing how to respond.

"I can feel when you have a sudden change in emotions naturally, let alone while we are kissing and I was just controlling them." He states blankly, "may as well be a mind reader, right?" I shove him lightly and go back to a bit of my own training.

Later that night, I head with Ryan for our date night. It's pasta tonight with a bit of bread. So as we sit down in the training room our small plates in front of us, we pretend we are out having a date.