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"CAN'T BELIEVE ANY human would come here". Sarah grumbled as she kept combing through the forest. She had to park her car outside of the woods as there was no way her car could pass through the gigantic trees. She had been rummaging the forest for almost thirty minutes and had not come across any sign of a single human. Frustration was beginning to eat her insides."Ugh". She grunted as she kicked a tree in frustration. "I should have planned better before coming here". She heaved a sigh after realizing the high probability of being lost."Are you looking for me?". Her attention swept to the trails of the voice that had startled her. Lo and behold! It was Ian.She smiled at first but her smile slowly turned into a facial expression of horror as everything seemed crystal clear to her whilst fragments of her nightmare the night before reappeared.She turned to run but her limbs froze. A struggle to move ensued and she shrilled out of fear "what's happening?!".Someone else was in contro
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"CAN YOU HEAR me Jamie?"."Yes I can". Hearing Jamie's voice lissed Jared. He had been constantly attempting to communicate with Jamie telepathically for few minutes from his room, all his efforts proved abortive. He didn't give up as he knew Jamie could hear him but the difficulty was perceiving whatever sound that emanated from Jamie wherever he was. With more concentration, connection and persistence, he was glad he could also hear from Jamie the same way Jamie could hear from him."I just wanted to say I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I tried speaking to her telepathically and I think she freaked out. I'm sorry"."It's alright, I totally understand. But, just be careful next time, Ruby is dangerous". Jared heard Jamie's reply in his head."Is there anything I can do to help?"."No, just stay out of trouble yourself so you don't get cuffed with this metallic wristband and quarantined. Whatever is on my wrist is preventing me from using my abilities"."That's awful. Really sorry about
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JUST LIKE THE regular afternoons, Jared was sitting on the couch at the center of the lobby with indistinct chatters filling the area as students kept parading the lobby back and forth in groups to get food. Everything was normal except that Jamie was not sitting with him in the lobby today."Are they not supposed to eat in the dining hall?". He thought out loud as he saw Santiago, Wong, Alessia and Dawn, lined in a semi circle digging their spoons into a cup filled with ice cream and spilling some of it on the floor at one corner of the lobby.It was against the rules to eat in the lobby but it seems like the rules were exceptional to the likes of Santiago, Wong, Jamie, Lily, Alessia and Ruby. They were more than just students. They were highly trained to protect the institution in case of external attacks. Jamie had told him they were called The Guardians.He wondered why the cafeteria and the lounge vending machine was situated at the other side of the building when it could be pl
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JAMIE'S ROOM FELT cozy and seemed larger than Jared's room both in width and length. The loud bang that followed the shutting of the door startled Jared which made him turn to face the door. He was completely shaken up by the Post Malone poster glued to the door. "I never knew you liked Post Malone". Jared said smiling, shock written all over his face. "Yeah, I do. We've just never spoken about music". Jamie replied and slumped down onto his bed. Jared was taken aback by Jamie's creativity. He never knew Jamie could be so orderly. Fairy lights were lined up at the right side of the wall, close to his queen size bed that was horizontally placed at the right corner of the room. A welcome purple themed rug covered the first half of the room, leaving the other half of marble floor exposed and shiny. The bed was placed partly on the rug and partly on the marble floor. The purple rug matched colors with the purple blanket and purple pillows laid neatly on the bed. A large pict
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"You mean Ruby is a witch?". Jamie asked as he kept pacing the room in anxiety."Yes". Jared groaned. He was laying on Jamie's queen size bed and was resisting the forceful urge to shut his eyes and drift to sleep. "Why do you seem so scared?".Jamie stopped pacing and sharply turned to face Jared like someone who had spotted a ghost and needed to reaffirm what he saw."You don't have any idea how dangerous magic is, do you?". Jamie's face bothered with concern."I do. But, why make such a fuss about it? She has not harmed anyone yet. And I'm astonished at how you don't feel sleepy. I honestly don't think I will make it through the day and in the next one hour and few minutes, Alex will be knocking on my door. Ugh! my head hurts". Jared said as he managed to sit up on the bed. His vision blurred a bit and dizziness got hold of him.He wondered how Jamie looked fine after prevaricating the night's sleep. He had looked at his face in the bathroom mirror few minutes earlier before taking
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"You mean she dived right into the kiss, like she made the first move?". Jamie asked pacing the room. Jared was beginning to realize that pacing was an involuntary action for Jamie. He paced whenever he was excited, scared or worried. "Yes, get a hold of yourself, you were not the one kissed Jamie". Jared chuckled. "Okay". Jamie heaved a sigh and sunk into the chair adjacent to the bed at the far end of the room. "But how do you feel about all of this?". Jared's face twitched. "All of what?". Jamie sat upright on the single leather seat. "You said she has magic and now, she's trying to get involved with you. Don't you think there's something sinister?". Jared pondered over the question and he knew it made a lot of sense. What if Ruby saw him the night he followed her and was trying to win him over or prevent him from revealing her secret but was going about it in a cunning way. "I don't know what to think. Do you feel she saw me stalking her that night so she's putting up this ga
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SARAH BURST INTO laughter after Michael performed a folk dance. She had not felt comfortable with people as much as she felt comfortable with her new friends in a very long time. They all spoke about how they lived before they discovered their abilities and it gave her more insight on what her writings entailing extraordinaries should be. Henry was the only person that seemed not to be interested in whatever fun they were having. He was either reading a book or locked up in his room. Sarah considered him egocentric but she adored the way he valued Zoe. He and Zoe often went for short walks and she imagined Zoe seeing his smiling face outside of the ship that they never got to see. Zoe was also fun but whenever she sits in front of the monitor, she's totally disconnected from the world. She is pretty much the tech-lady of the crew, keeping them in touch with recent developments in the city, hacking into security systems and gaining access to individual and company computers. Zoe
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DESPITE EVERYTHING JARED'S sixth sense had revealed to him as he surfed Ruby's feelings, memories and thoughts, there was still a knot in his stomach regarding her. He was coming to the conclusion that the lady he saw employing magic to sneak out of the Fortress wasn't her when a voice called his name. It was no other person than Alex. Alex could tell that Jared was not meditating even though his posture said otherwise. He had given the boy a day off the day before, could he probably be up to another trick to get another day off? Nevertheless, he let his voice ring through whatever Jared was actually doing. "Jared". He called softly but there was no response. The boy's eyes were still tightly shut as if he was meditating but his lack of response after a call further confirmed Alex's suspicion of him not meditating. "Jared!", He called again, raising his voice a little bit higher, intently and not rashly. The boy's eyes opened slowly, unsure if he heard his name. "Yes, Master
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