Ingenious

Chapter Twenty Nine

The next few days pass on normally. It's like nothing even happened. We never saw our families, I never had brain surgery or a seizure, all of it seems to have disappeared. Or at least that's how it seems. I haven't stopped thinking about what Morgan told me. I've been thinking of possible ways we could get out of here, but everytime I hit some sort of problem we can't get past. It would be so much easier to talk it out with someone and bounce ideas, but I'm almost 100% sure every room is bugged with microphones and cameras. If I say something they could hear it and get suspicious. I've gone without any punishment so far and I prefer it stays that way. Maybe it's because of that, or the more food we've been getting, I can feel my powers growing. There was a point when they were almost non-existent, but now all I want to do is use them. It's like my skin is buzzing with the electricity, waiting to be let go. Maia and Kacey haven't been feeling that way, so I keep thinking... no it couldn't possibly be that. The files of the testing from when Kacey was last here, they said that the chips put in our brain and that's the reason most people don't develop their powers, but for some reason we did, and no one knew why. Is it possible that... I mean they took my chip out, so logically I could become stronger because wherever the powers come from, it has no boundaries anymore. It's getting quite annoying actually. Everywhere I look, anything with electricity I see the white sparks whether I'm trying to or not. They are always there, and they are all over this building.

"Bathroom," the doctor says letting me out next to go. I take my time since I'm pretty sure this is the only place in the entire building without cameras. I check just in case and smile when I don't sense any. I shoot lightning at the wall and it's so powerful it makes a tiny hole in the wall. It feels good to just let go of it, even just really quickly. When I get back to the room, I realize it's time to tell Kace and Maia. It's been 4 days since I found out and I need their help to figure out if it is even possible. But I'm going to have to talk to them one at a time or they'll figure out something is up.

"Kace can I ask you something," I say once Maia leaves the room to have her bathroom break. I motion my eyes in the way telling her to come here, I don't need cameras or microphones picking up on anything. I even turn off the microphone hidden in the wall behind us so we can talk.

"What's up," she asks quietly. We both smile so this doesn't seem serious. "Should we wait for Maia to come back?" I shake my head,

"One of us can tell her later." I take a deep breath and prepare myself to tell her about this. "Kace when our families were here Morgan said something to me. She told me we've started a revolution. Everyone wants answers since seeing us on television. They are looking for us. She said we need to get out of here and fuel the fire. Because we could really change something out there." Those are almost her exact words that I have memorized from repeating them over in my head so many times.

"Sorry, I'm going to need you to repeat that," Kacey says gaping while attempting to cover it up.

"We don't have much time before this seems suspicious but we've started something out there. It was one of the possibilities we talked about before doing it. Morgan said they are looking for us and they need a leader for this. And I know, trust me I know very well we aren't fit leaders for something like this, but they need to see us again. We gave them information and they want to act on it." I say all of this in one breath, glancing at the door to make sure Maia and the doctor aren't back yet.

"If there was a way out of here don't you think we would've done it already?" she asks. The doctor walks back in with Maia, leaving right after, but we don't bring the subject back up. At least not yet. Because I need to let Kacey process before she helps me bounce ideas. I need to tell Maia too, but once I tell her, I want us to be sure we are doing this. Because when she gets her hopes up there is no going back. I don't want to bring her hopes up until we are sure we are going to try. And for that I need Kacey to get on board. So as Maia gets back Kacey acts... somewhat normal. But here we can basically blame anything on the drugs they load us with everyday. Lately their drugs aren't doing much to me other than maybe make me tired or sick. Nothing I can't handle.