Aaron drove his green Toyota as I sat in the passenger seat, my mind was aimlessly wandering. I didn't really want to go to school today, but it was a Friday and then it would be the weekend where... guess what... I'd spend even more time with Aaron.

It irked me how often we were together, we were basically attached at the hip. We had no choice. Even when I wanted space, the farthest I could go was the next room. I desired privacy even more now than ever before. He slept on my couch every other night, I slept in his room every other night. It was an obnoxious cycle of which I didn't want to become routine. I didn't want to spend this much time with a guy who I wasn't interested in. I hated being forced to be with him or get an earth shattering headache when I was without him.

I leaned back in my seat, making it as comfortable as I could. I had slept two hours last night. Exhausted, I pulled the seat back all the way and shut my eyes. A momentary nap on the way to school would help.

"You okay?" Aaron asked, I saw him look at the side of my face as I saw his reflection in the window. It was raining this morning. Perfect nap weather.

"Eyes on the road A." I said, leaning further into the seat as I felt the bumps of the road when resting my head on it.

"Vy, is everything okay?" He asked again, looking at the road this time.

"Can't you read minds?" I shot back, confused by why I was so aggressive toward him.

"Not anymore, it's all you baby."

"Don't call me that." I mumbled. It was bad enough he had the school thinking we were together. I didn't want this delusion to get to his head too.

"Come on Vy, what's bothering you?" He turned toward me again as I shook my head. I brought my seat back up, realizing he wouldn't allow me to sleep even if I ignored him. I sighed, wondering why he kept looking at me and suddenly reached for my hand.

"Eyes on the road big guy, and hands on the steering wheel." I removed my hand and turned to face the window, the raindrops streaked down slowly and I couldn't help but think of myself being in a sad music video, preferably one by Adele.

"Was it that guy?" Aaron asked. He always did this. I didn't want attention I just wanted to drive to school quietly and if I could do it in another car, I would. The issue would be the terrible headache I'd get if we got too far apart; which could lead to possible accidents.

"What guy? Aaron can we just drive. Silently?"

"That guy we bumped into yesterday. You froze when you saw him."

I knew who he was talking about. I also knew that only one person in this world that knew about that guy, well, knew of him. The security guard at my high school swore he would keep my secret.

"Aaron." I whined, glaring at him now. He grinned, his dimples showing as his bright gray eyes sparkled, he was utterly beautiful. An Adonis. Yet I just couldn't picture us having a future together as anything more than friends.

Yeah right, when this is over, you'll hardly consider him an acquaintance. A voice in my head said, I couldn't help but agree with it. It was odd hearing my own thoughts when I'd gotten so accustomed to hearing everyone else's. I'd learned to drown them out, it just felt strange being able to finally think and that was thanks to Aaron being around.

It took a couple moments for me to realize what was happening. I turned my head toward Aaron who finally faced the front and out his hand on the steering wheel. I screamed his name as I heard the brakes squeal loudly and my entire body was pushed forward as I felt the impact of the car crash. I knew my neck would be cramping for at least a week.

Aaron was instantly at my side, pulling me out of the car.

"Violet, Violet I'm so sorry. Are you okay? Can you see me?" He looked so concerned as he hugged me, waving his hands over my eyes. I was fine, annoyed, but fine. He had bumped his car into a tree, the entire hood of the car was scrunched in and the tree still stood tall and wide. Powerfully. But more importantly, we were going to be late to school. The rain poured around us as he held me tight, as if I was his best friend or something.

"Aaron! Is it that hard to keep your eyes on the road?" I murmured against his freshly washed sweater. At that, he only squeezed me tighter, "I'm fine. How are we goin to get to school now?" I asked, angry at him and the fact that he had destroyed the car.

Something felt different, my mind was less foggy and way more quiet now. I looked around as the clouds started to slowly fade and the rain stopped.

"Woah." He gasped, grabbing my hands. He stared at me like a child stares at his Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. I felt a strange surge rush through me as I stared at him.

"Woah." I breathed. It was like we were the only two on Earth. I felt an odd feeling course through my entire body, it was like a cool wind or some ice cold water had entered my veins and was rushing through my body. He smiled at me and I at him. It was a moment of unexplainable bliss.

Our moment was cut short by the sounds of people surrounding us, we had attracted a small crowd. I noticed mostly everyone there had their phones out, recording whatever they were looking at. But their cameras were directed at Aaron and I.

I glanced at them, I wondered why they all looked so short. Had Aaron and I grown five feet while we stood there? I then noticed we were floating. On nothing. It looked like we were possessed just floating in midair besides Aaron's newly crashed car.

Afraid, I looked back at Aaron who was as speechless as I was. Whatever strange power we shared was was only getting stronger. We weren't flying, we were just stuck floating in the sky, five entire feet off the ground. My heart began racing as my fear of heights kicked in. How did we get up here??

"How do we get down?" I whispered, staring at Aaron, my voice shaking as he shrugged his shoulders. I noticed we were still holding hands, and as soon as I let go, we fell to the ground at a rapid pace, pain filled my entire body as I landed beside him. I was afraid that I had broken something.

"You okay?" Aaron asked, reaching toward me as I saw his elbow was bleeding. I felt water trace down my forehead and into my hair. Only, the rain had stopped a while ago and this water was red.

"Let's just get to school, okay? Can we call a cab?"

"Yeah," Aaron sat up beside me, reaching for his phone.

People were surrounding us and staring. I hoped whatever they had recorded wouldn't be shared, but it was doubtful. There were at least 20 people who saw and of them, about fifteen had recorded. Whatever was going on was insane. And the worst part was that Dr. Dooley was incapable of even solving it when he had visited.

My fathers visit only continued to show how psychotic he was. After about half an hour inspecting me, he had concluded that I was the crazy one. He told me he believed I was making everything up for attention. He was yelling at me and almost began a fight with Aaron. And then Ethan, mom's boyfriend who has heard all the screaming and shouting, rushed into my room and kicked Dr. Robert Dooley our of the house.

And that wasn't the end of it either, Dr. Dooley couldn't leave without throwing a punch to Ethan's face. And the cops were called but Dr. Dooley has left before they arrived. It was horrendous and mom made me promise not to invite him to our home again.

"Are you okay?" Aaron's voice snapped me back into reality. Right, we were sitting on the sidewalk, bruised and bloodied, after a bunch of strangers recorded us floating or something.

"Stop asking me that!" I grew annoyed, staring at him. He stared at me silently before cracking a smile.

"Guess what Vy," he whispered, leaning close to me and reaching for my arm. I watched as the giant scratch on his elbow instantly shut. What the actual hell?? Were we developing new powers or something? I looked at the strangers surrounding us. All of them were silent as they watched us, I couldn't hear a single thought.

What happened?

"What?"

"I can hear your thoughts."

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