Changing Prudence (EDITING - ON HOLD)

Chapter 14

Her shrieking alarm went off at eight that morning, waking her up to the unpleasant noise; her eyes were still groggy so she felt around for her phone to shut the annoying noise up.

She heard Lavender’s voice from the bed next to hers, ‘That is going to get annoying. Can you not sleep with headphones in or something?’

‘I’m guessing you’re not a morning person then.’

‘Well what on earth makes you think that?’ Lavender was going to be hard work in the mornings, her grumpy tone just proved this.

Rue showered, shoved on a pair of jeans and an old T-shirt and was ready with half an hour to spare, and since Lavender had somehow managed to get back to sleep, she had a good chance to do some power practice. And what better way to do this than to jazz up her room a little. And this time she could brighten up the place a little bit without anyone who would think it unusual seeing what she had done, it was the perfect idea. She would have a chance to master the concealment before she makes the changes. Her granddad hadn’t told her how to do this, so she would just have to figure out a plan.

 She started out looking into her ‘superpower’ gene until she could picture the properties it controlled. She started off with something small, and not too out of the ordinary, a bookshelf. She attempted using her elemental manipulating ability to duplicate the wood that was already in the room used for the desk and morphed it into a bookshelf at the end of her bed against the separating wall and only make it visible to the few people with the activated gene.

She only had five minutes when she had finished before her brother would come knocking, so she decided to think up of a name she could use for people without powers. She couldn’t think up anything more adventurous than; ‘mundane’, ‘normal’ or ‘orthodox.’ So she stuck with the latter. Now she had a name for the people who do and the people who don’t have extra ordinary powers.

A knock sounded from the door and as Cole had promised he was bang on nine o’clock.

She jumped out of her thoughts and unlocked the door, surprised that Lavender had not yet woken up with all of the noise going on around the place. It sounded like she had a few neighbours moving into the other rooms. She grabbed her coat from one of her almost empty suitcases and noticed the little parcel her granddad had left her with, in the rush of starting university. She stuffed it under her pillow, so she would be sure to remember it when she got home. She would have to check it out before her granddad called her for the first time since she arrived at Aurburn.

The two of them met up with Regan and her brother Beck in the forest. Knowing how her brother acted around friends, it would probably end up as an adaptation of a horror film. Rue was desperately hoping that the ‘parts of the forest that no one goes in’ where safe enough for her to go flying. Aurburn was slightly larger and had a larger population than Cedarbrook so she would have to take extra care.

Beck and Regan where waiting at the entrance to the forest when they arrived. You could tell they were siblings, they would look identical if it weren’t for his angelic features: wavy brown hair, glistening green eyes, his tall frame and muscular build. Rue stood there gawping at him, she was pretty sure she looked like a complete psychopath. She shut her mouth as quickly as she could and snapped out of her dream state. She tried to introduce herself, but her voice came out as a quiet squeak.