//Kayden//

"What happened?" I asked fearfully as Sonny and Quin, who was soaked to the bone, entered our room. "Box," Quin said shakily, then went into the bathroom. Sonny was shivering so I brought her a blanket and sat her down on the bed. "What was that all about? We woke up and you were gone," Laura asked, crossing her arms across her chest and looking at Sonny with eyebrows raised. "I-I wanted to leave. The school, I mean. Movie offer, you know, so I convinced Quin into helping me...me break out, and Russo caught us and put us in that horrid box." She was shivering more, despite the blanket, and was staring at her lap. "This can't go on, all of us being afraid of Miss Russo. What type of school is this, where the students live in fear of the headmistress? This has to stop," Sora said. "But who could honestly stand up against Miss Russo, she'd blast us to smiterins, and that's when she's alone, and not with her body guards, and who knows what their powers are," I say, to no one in particular. All of a sudden everyone looks at me. "What? What all I can do is...turn people's powers off." And then I get it. I'm the only person who can stand up to Miss Russo without being blown off the map.

Wow! I haven't been on for a while, since I was sick, but this is getting really good!

Elizabeth M., I'm not exactly sure whether Lipa is good or bad, but the reason Mrs. Russo is dangerous is because she has powers and all her bodyguards have powers too.

Cassie-

'Finally!' I thought. The sky seemed just the tiniest bit brighter. I had been awake for what seemed like hours, waiting for the sun to rise. Don't get me wrong, I am not a morning person. I'm usually the kind of person who has to be dragged out of bed in the morning and this get-up-at-five-o'clock thing was really hard on me. But this morning, I was just lying there forever thinking about what I'd just discovered and waiting to tell someone. I couldn't go back to sleep. I reached over and checked my phone. 4:57 An hour more till Sonny's overly-loud alarm went of. An hour of thinking about what I'd found.

I'd always thought that the box was a really extreme punishment. I mean, who has to face their worst fears every time they do something just a little bit wrong, like trying to ditch school? (Well, that's not exactly little, but you get my point.) The first time, when Laura had gone into the box I was amazed at the kind of terrible things they did. What if it killed them? I'd assured myself at the time that it couldn't kill them, that Mrs. Russo wouldn't let that happen. But then I'd seen Mrs. Russo threatening Laura's dad. She was threatening to kill him. That's when I decided she was crazy and she wanted to scare us to death (literally) in the box. Then, last night, when Quinn and Sora had come from the box, I'd realized something was wrong. If Mrs. Russo wanted to kill someone in that box, that would have been the perfect time to kill Quinn by drowning her. She hadn't been drowned. But when she came out of that box, everyone knew exactly what her worst fear was. And obviously, since Con controlled the boxes, he found out what everyone's worst fear was. So, if he was telling Mrs. Russo, she knew what everyone's worst fear was. And she could use them against us. She could scare us into doing what she wanted. And we all knew that she wanted something.

So, since my charrie is the "best student" or something like that (according to past posts) :) should she be evil? Like she keeps an eye on everyone for Miss Russo or something? or something. :) If not we can ignore this post. (and sorry this is short)

Airlia-

I wander the halls aimlessly, trying to tune out the hundreds of dreams bombarding me from the rooms I'm walking past. During the day it's ok, since not too many of the students are nocturnal. But at night it's awful. Everyone's dreams slip into my head and I can't distinguish my thoughts from anyone else's. As I walk toward Miss Russo's office, one of her bodyguards drops from where he was hanging upside-down on the ceiling and stands in the middle of the hall, blocking my way.

"Name?" he says seriously, trying to look tough. He's a newbie, I know, because all the guards are required to know not to get in my way or blast me to bits if I try to disturb Miss Russo. He must be the replacement for the bodyguard who disappeared last week. I deliberately turn my eyes red, with reptilian pupils, just to creep the guy out. It works. His face blanches and he moves aside immediately. I stalk past him and stop outside Miss Russo's office. I knock loudly, and the door opens seemingly of its own accord.

"Ah, Airlia. I'm glad you came. I never really got to thank you for telling me about those to would-be escapees."

Ya Lipa's good now. She used to be a Russian spy, not anymore.

Wow Airlia that's a great idea!

Laura-

I stared as Quinn walked slowly out of the bathroom and into her bed. "Quinn, you ok?" I asked. She didn't respond. She just stared at the celing. I walked over to her, careful to avoid the sleeping Lipa's wings. I shook Quinn's shoulders. "Hey! Quinn! Are you ok?" I whispered again. She turned to look at me. "Water, why'd it have to be water? She was going to drown me. Like my parents." Then she resumed looking at the celing, and not talking. "Like your parents, what?" The emotions coming off of her now were enough to make me pass out. My knee's buckled. "Laura, you ok?" Sora asked. I grabbed my throbbing my head and nodded. "Ya, it's just Quinn. I'm gonna be fine." Suddenly Lipa's eyes opened. Again no emotion reached me. She sat up slowly. "I hear something," she said slowly. "What?" I asked. "A conversation." She walked outside like it was nothing. I exchanged a glance with the others then ran after her. Nyota followed me. "Lipa stop!" I whispered. She stopped for a second. "Why?" she asked. "Because you can't just go around at night! Remember what happened to Quinn and Sonny?" Nyota whispered. "I am not scared of anything," she said then started to fly away. I turned to Nyota. "Can you?" "I only float. We're going to have to run." I nodded. We ran after Lipa. She turned a corner then was gone. "Oh no," I muttered. "Darn it!" Nyota whispered in an annoyed voice. We walked back to the room because we'd decided we didn't want to get caught out here. Eventually Lipa came back. "What happened?" Kayden asked. Sora gasped. "Get out of my head," Lipa stated clearly. Sora glanced at her nervously. "Sorry." "What happened?!" I asked again. Liipa wasn't talking so Sora did. "She heard Miss. Russo and Airlia talking about busting Sonny and Quinn!" Quinn shot up so fast she fell out of bed. She stood up just as quickly. "Who's Airlia?" she asked. "Acording to the KGB's files she is Johana Russo's best student, trusted advisor, and spy," Lipa said. I stared at her. "What?"  

Sora-

"According to the KGB's files she is Johanna Russo's best student, trusted advisor, and spy," Lipa said.

“What?” Laura stared at her.

“I said-“

“I know what you said, but that doesn’t make any sense… I mean, she was rude, but I never felt that she was... Bad.”

“Well, you can’t trust feelings, can you?” Lipa smirked. “My files don’t lie.”

I’m going to kill her!

“No, you aren’t!” I pushed Quinn back onto the bed before she could bolt for the door.

“That girl made me relive my parents’ death! She made me drown; like them.” Quinn began to turn the temperature down so that I’d let go, but Kayden quickly shut off her powers.

“Turn. My. Powers. Back. On.”

“Not until you stop threatening to kill people.”

A tear slid down Quinn’s cheek. “You guys don’t understand. You don’t know anything.”

Actually, I did. I was seeing Quinn’s thoughts so vividly; it was like real life.

A huge white ship was leaving the port. At the bow was a smiling couple. “Bye, Quinn, dear!” the woman cried, her brown hair straight and elbow-length like Quinn’s.

“Send me a postcard!” Little Quinn, maybe five or six years old, was jumping up and down, trying to get a better view of her parents.

“C’mon, Quinny. Let’s go.” A woman, maybe her aunt, guided her away from the harbor.

*

 “Where should we take her?” Quinn was sitting on the stairs, eavesdropping on her aunt and uncle’s conversation.

“I don’t know, but keeping her is out of the question.”

“How about this?” Quinn’s uncle handed her aunt a brochure.

“Oakland Orphanage? It sounds nice. How will we tell her?”

“Tell me what?” Quinn’s face was tear-stained. She had probably just heard the news-

She noticed me looking into her thoughts and turned away. “You can’t let people even have privacy while thinking, can you?”

“Sorry…”

“Mrs. Russo wants something,” Kayden said, changing the subject.

“Yes, we’ve gotten that far already,” Lipa muttered.

“But what does she want? New Gucci shoes?”

Nobody answered Sonny. Gucci Shoes? Seriously?

“I know what she wants,” Cassie spoke up.

“What?”

“She wants Laura.”

I should’ve known.

“She won’t get me! She can’t control me. I’m a superhuman.”

“She does have one weapon…”

“Which one?”

“Your greatest fear and she already knows what it is. Your future.”

Are you too far along for me to join?

If so then I will content myself with reading your thread.

Sonny~

I woke up five minutes before they were supposed to.  I didn't want to mess up my makeup helping them, but I did not want to go back in that box again.  In the box, I was on the runway, when all of a sudden, everyone in the audience was a clown.  With a knife.  I still had nightmares.  With Lipa helping us this time, we should be able to get out.

Sora woke up.  "I'm helping you guys," I told her. 

"You're sure you want to crawl through creepy passageways and leave everything behind?"

"Yes," I said truthfully.  She smirked at me.  I nodded, "Really."  Laura woke up, then.

"Oh, no, you're not coming, are you?"  she said, looking at me.

"What, does everyone hate me?"  I asked.

Sora and Laura just looked at each other.  Everyone else woke up then.  "Sonny's coming," Laura said sadly.  Everyone but Lipa groaned.

"A physic is good to have on our mission," she said, smiling. 

"She can't see everything, Lipa, only stuff five minutes later," Quinn told her.

"I know, that was in the file."

"I'm kind of in the room right now!  I may look like a mess, but I am here!" I shouted, "Now, let's get down to business