"huh, where did my crisps go!?" Jake stood up in alert
"I finally get a day off and I can't even fully enjoy it, they have to be somewhere." he looked around the room puzzled by this phenomenon.
"Sis, have u seen a packet of crisps somewhere!?"
no-reply
"I swear if that cheeky rat ate them...."
he was about to run downstairs but just as he was passing his door he hit his little finger on the frame of the door
"Ouch!"
'this day is just getting better and better for me' he thought as he ran down the stairs and into the kitchen only to meet his little sister munching on a bag of crisps
"Oi those are mine" he exclaimed
"well I can't see ur name written on them anywhere." she snapped back
"Ha Ha Ha!" he sarcastically laughed "so you're starting to act more like mum, are you?"
"Gosh if it bothers you that much just grab yourself another pack," she said without even taking her eyes off her phone.
"what are you looking at there"
"it's nothing"
"come on sis I won't tell mum if it's something naughty you know..."
she blushed, "it's not u idiot, just cause you've stooped that low doesn't mean I'm the same!" Jake felt himself go red
"Wha-at I don't know what you're on about." "Anyway I was asking what you were looking at." he quickly added.
"oh, I was just checking the news."
"the news? that's unlike you. You usually couldn't care less about what happens to others."
"what, that's not true I care plenty you just don't realize, anyway apparently there's been people who have gained, uuuhhh powers lately?.
"Pwwaahhaaha! ye sure... is that from that dodgy Indian website you watch your anime from"
"Actually I bought a membership to munchyroll, and these powers aren't made up they're supposed to be a medical condition that's having scientific research conducted on it at this very moment, it reads here: known symptoms are the ability to control a variety of elements like fire or water"
"Ha, 'research' my ass" "you're so gullible, even if it is from an official news channel, most reporters will go out of the way to find exotic stuff to report and click bait you into reading their article"
"I'm not gullible and this isn't even from a news channel." she said with an irritated expression "this is the W.W.H.O (World Wide Health Organization). It says here that if you are feeling any signs of weakness and excessive thirst you should visit your local doctor as soon as possible. they are the supposed signs of this awakening."
"I don't know this whole thing is a bit hard to believe but if your sure that it's the W.W.H.O and they're announcing it on their official website then I guess it's most likely true."
The next morning...
"Get up you lazy slug!!!"
"ehhhh, is liiiikkee midniiiight leaffe me aloooone" Jake was collapsed on the bed still half asleep
"School starts in 30 minutes"
"that's plenty of time I only need like 5 more minutes..."
"WHAT did you say!! 30 minutes why didn't anyone wake me up?!!!" after realizing what she said, Jake shot up from his bed to see his mum standing by the door with an amused face.
"Well I tried but I couldn't wake you up, you didn't even budge when I said I'm borrowing your money"
"I don't get what's so funny mum"
"it's nothing, I don't know how you're going to get to school, Leah (sister) already messaged me she took the last bus "
'Uuuughh so apparently yesterday was not going to be my last bad day' Jake thought
"well il just Just run it"
"well good luck with that you have 30 minutes"
Jake was quite a good athlete he used to be in the school running team but after an injury to the knee, he had to stop. Despite that he was still a fairly fast runner and was usually the first pick when they were doing sports in PE, he was proud of that and became a confident person. He wasn't what you would call "popular" or "cool" but he had a few friends.
As soon as he got to school all the students were called in for an "important" assembly
"As many of you may have heard scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery lately" The headmistress was on a podium speaking to the students assembled. She continued: " It's the the ability for humans to control so-called "elements". More and more people have discovered that they can control these elements and even some of our students have reported that they have the same ability. Following this news we have decided to make changes to the way our school will function, the government has recommended that schools install developing these powers part of the PE curriculum and learning more about them in science. In the future, there may be further changes to the school system and we will do our best to inform you about these. Now I wish you all the best of luck adapting to these changes and without further ado, you will now be returning to your lessons. Thank you."
And just like that, it was over.
Two mere days after this unexpected announcement the school had "made changes"
'this isn't right' Jake thought 'No this isn't right in the slightest. The announcement was so sudden and then the school after just 2 days makes this massive announcement like it's nothing, like it was just another announcement that there have been changes to the school lunch menu'
Everyone was confused and the teacher had to calm everyone down just so that they could return to their lessons. But even during lesson time, Jake couldn't think straight, he was too confused about well.. everything. And he wasn't the only one, everyone in the class was chatty so much so that the teacher had to threaten them with class detention if they didn't quiet down. Something was wrong, very wrong about this whole announcement no, about everything...