Ingenious

Chapter Fourteen

 This morning we train a lot. Maia and I have both been working hard with each other on, for me, shocking her in controlled amounts and in different parts of her body, whereas she alters my temperature. She's mastered heat pretty well, but she has some trouble with cold. Between helping her and Ryan practice their abilities I rarely even leave the training room before dinner and I'm always back right after. Today I told Maia I'd work with her in the afternoon and then Ryan after dinner. So as I head with Maia, I prepare myself to have a change in temperature. Her ability comes in handy when you come late to a meal and need to warm it up.

"You can go first," I tell her. "Remember to focus on bringing the red waves together to heat me up then try and go directly to the blue waves. Maia has drawn out what she sees before and it's similar to Kace and I's. Maia closes her eyes and focuses on what she's doing, before I feel a surge of warmth run over me. It takes a moment before Maia is able to replace that warmth with a coolness and even then it isn't that strong. "Come on Maia, focus. You can do better, I've seen you do better." She nods and closes her eyes again, repeating the process. After she does this for a period of time and she feels generally warmed up with this, I warm up. To do this I just shock her gently through touching her in different places, or do one big shivering shock throughout her whole body. What I mostly work on is doing it from a distance. When I'm touching someone, the little white sparks just appear, and it doesn't take much for me to pull one and spark them wherever I'm touching them.

"Ouch!" Maia exclaims, "a bit less electricity please." I smirk at her and try again, lessening the blow. Soon enough I'm sending it through her whole body, which is a bit more challenging as I'm pulling a bunch of white sparks at once. Maia shivers, slightly jumping as I do it the first 3 times. "Quick break?" she asks me, now that we are both warmed up. I nod and we go to grab water to drink and splash on our faces.

"Tired already?" Ryan whispers in my ear as he comes up behind me. He grabs me waist and I swivel around right into a kiss. "Miss me?"

"Since this morning?" I ask jokingly, "course I do." I guess Ryan and I are in this period right now where we do these little things for each other and tease each other shamelessly.

"Excited for training tonight?" he asks me, massaging my shoulders. "I'm going to inflict emotions on you so hard you won't even know what to do with yourself."

"Yeah," I whisper, "while maybe you can put those emotions to good and convince me out of electrocuting until you give me some love."
"You won't have trouble convincing me into that," he says leaning forward, about to kiss me when Maia interrupts.

"This lovey dovey stuff is great and all, but we only have 2 hours until dinner, at least a quarter of which will be spent on Rae and I showering, so I'd appreciate it if you let me train." Maia puts her hand on her hip standing there expectantly. I whisper a final tease to Ryan as I go back to the training room with Maia.

We spend about 30 minutes on Maia working on temperature changes while touching me, 10 unsuccessful minutes of her trying from a distance and then 30 on me trying to shock her from a distance. With the remaining 50 minutes until dinner, we head in early so we can both shower and have a cool down time. As I undress in the bathroom, letting the hot water burn my scalp, I let my thoughts engulf me. The shower is one place my thoughts get to roam free and I'm actually alone. I usually think about home, more specifically what everyone is doing. Today I think about Morgan. It's December 29th I'm pretty sure. We don't celebrate much down here, even Christmas we don't acknowledge because it reminds us all of family and home. New Years Eve however, that's one night we always have fun with. We save up a bit of extra food a couple days before and then have a mini party. Except to me the new year doesn't mean anything but the fact Morgan is turning 16. Sometimes when I can't sleep I'll make up scenarios about what everyone back home is doing. Like right now Bailey is home for Winter Break. And I know that her and her family will be at my house in 2 nights to celebrate New Years. And Bailey and Morgan will talk about what program she wants to go to. Bailey will no doubt be the sister to Morgan I can't be right now. Hyping her up, telling her she'll make it into whatever program she wants. At least that's what I hope. I hope that Bailey will be her big sister because I can't. But even with all these fantasies, I'd be an idiot to not think about the way Bailey changed at pre. She may not even go to the New Years Party since I won't be there. Maybe she didn't even go home for holidays and went with Gemma or Jade. I know nothing because I'm completely isolated from the rest of the world here. But the best thing for me to do is hope the best is happening. That my best case scenarios are happening.