The unwanted power

Chapter Ten

After Putting Adain to sleep, I go take a shower and change into my pajamas. I go lay down on the couch not wanting to get into bed again. "Do you want to watch a movie?" Dad asks as he pulls popcorn out of the microwave, and comes and sits down by me.

"What Movie?" I ask stealing some  of his popcorn.

"I was thinking super man, cause I know that you love that show." He says with a smile.

"Absolutely not! I would rather watch The good Dinosaur, I say with a laugh. I despise super man he is just so perfect and overpowered. "How about we watch Megamind instead?"

"Alright fine, of you're sure you don't want to watch super man." My dad says giving me a teasing look. I run, grab the remote and put on Megamind before my dad could put on super man. I fall asleep about halfway trough. I wake up before it's over though. Once we finish the movie my dad heads to  bed and tells me not to stay up to late.

Not wanting to lay in bed I go and grab my pillow and a blanket, then I lay down on the couch, I read for a while before going to sleep.

The next morning I wake up and get ready to go to swim practice I have missed four whole days, which isn't good especially because i have a meet coming up.

"Ready to go so early? You still have  forty five minutes before it starts." My dad says as he is walking into the kitchen.

"I was thinking about walking over there, and maybe getting a few warm up rounds in before we start. Besides walking will give me some exercise, I definitely was in bed for too long I say with a Laugh.

"Alright, we'll have fun sweetie." My dad says giving me a hug. I grab my bag, put on my shoes, and head out the door.

I take the long way knowing that I have time, it normaly takes me about ten minutes to walk the short way and seventeen to walk the long way. "It feels good to be going back to normal. I miss it." I say aloud. I know it's only been four days but that's a long time to be away from swim practice. We have practice five days a week at 6:30. Even during the summer, which I don't mind because it gives me stuff to do.

Hopefully swim will keep my mind distracted this summer, especially since the last few days have been full of confusion, pain, fear, and almost dying.
" Why did I have to think about yesterday!" Now I'm going to start thinking about all of the crazy stuff that devan said. I want to forget about it all.

"It won't go away, trust me. Now that you have it the memories will stay, the power will stay and so will the pain."

I turn around and find devan. "Devan? What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Taking a walk, what else would
I be doing? Devan says as he walks over to me. "I'm  sorry about yesterday I should of been more Considerate about the whole fire ball thing." He says looking guilty.

"It's okay, I should be the one who's apologizing you didn't deserve to get yelled at yesterday. It had just been a stressful day and I was tired, my mind was being crazy and I just couldn't handle much at the time. Can you forgive me?" I ask offering my hand.

"Yeah." Devan says taking my hand and shaking it. "So where are you headed of to he asks. Okay Apology check now I don't have to keep worrying about that, there's one thing off my list. Now I just need to check of the fact that I almost died from that list. I thought about it again! I really need to stop.

Trying to get my mind on something else. I answer Devan's question. " I've got swim practice, I've missed the last couple of days so I need to be there today." Why am I telling him I missed the last few days? I barley know him. He doesn't care about how many days I've missed.

"Are you on the Riverstin high schools swim team? I've heard it's really hard to get on it and that there is only a few people on the team."

"Yeah, ive been on it for two years, I made it when I was in eighth grade. Its really fun, I've made some great friends. Do you do any sports?" Why am I taking to him? He's a complete stranger. I don't know anything about him, I've never seen him before at school, even though I don't know who he is I feel comfortable taking to him.

"No." He says. That's all he says, is he going to say anything else?

"Have you ever done any?" I ask trying to keep the conversation moving.

"I should get going, I've got some where to be soon. It was nice talking to you." He rushes away without answering my question.

"That was weird." I continue walking to the pool, I must have talked to Devan longer then I thought practice starts in ten minutes. I run to the school pool. Which is t in the same building as the high school but the pool belongs to Riverstin high.

"Lily! Your back! Why weren't you here yesterday or the day before, or the day before that, or the day before the day before that." My best friend Kyle says with a laugh.

He comes and gives me hug. "I got sick, and my dad wouldn't t let me get out of bed so that makes it kinda hard for me to swim. Unless I were to swim with my bed." I say laughing to along with Kyle. Kyle has the talent to lighten up my mood.

"Hey lily, good to see you back. You ready to work hard and make up for the time you missed." My coach says.

"Absolutely! I'll go get ready" I say running into the dressing room. When I come back out everybody else has started warm ups. I go over to an empty lane and jump in.

I swim back and forth two times before I feel the same pain in my stomach. I felt this same feeling the other day at the beach. Why does this keep happening? I don't get it. I try to ignore it but it really hurts.

Not wanting to nearly drown again, I swim to the edge and hop out of the water. "You alright?" My coach asks coming over to me.

"Yeah, I guess I just need to get back into the routine. It has been a while since I've swam. I'll go and start again." I say as I jump back in. I'm not going to let this pain keep me from swimming. As soon as I got the water the pain comes back.

"Ouch!" I say aloud as I jump out. Kyle swims over to me asking if I'm ok. "I'm fine, just hit the water weird. I will go back to warming up as soon as you do." I say going back in the water. This time as soon my foot was in the water my stomach starting hurting.

I keep swimming slowly but not giving up I'm halfway to the other side of my lane when I hear some one call my name. I stop swimming and look around to see who called.

"Lily! Get out of the water! Lily you need to get out." Everybody else is out of the pool and Kyle is standing by the edge shouting. I start swimming over to him but it really hurts. My legs are getting tired and my vision is blurry. Not again. I don't want to drown again.

"Lily! The water is steaming hot and it is smoking!" Kyle says as he hands me his hand. I don't process what he says but I keep swimming towards the edge. I grab his hand and try to pull myself out but my legs won't move. Kyle grabs me with his other arm and awkwardly pulls  me out of the water.

"Kyle, what's going on?" I say as soon as i can talk. He doesn't respond. I sit up and look around at to see what's happening. I look at the water and it's boiling! The entire place was foggy and full of steam. What is going on!