"Can you show me?" Steven asked. Sophie and Steven were still sitting in Sophie's room while talking.
Steven felt guilty of not taking Sophie into notice ever since he had come in contact with the foster sisters, he had always thought that Rain is special and she is but not in the way Sophie is.
She had always thought Sophie was different but was too arrogant or selfish to take notice of it or act over it.
But now he wanted to know more about her, and discover her power. He was feeling sad for Rain but he was sure that there are still chances that she has hidden powers and she will prove it to her.
Sophie was sitting on the bean bag, " I can… it's not…" she stood up and walked towards her desk that is in front of the window, opened her diary and started to draw a butterfly. " That's powerful." She said while concentrating on the butterfly and slowly as Steven watched the butterfly started flap its wings and fly. Steven watched in awe, the flying paper butterfly had a force field around it, which was hard to spot. He turned to look at Sophie who was looking at him, waiting for his reaction.
"You…" he looked back at the butterfly, "You learnt to do this yourself?"
Sophie blushed, "Mhm" she nodded.
Steven looked at her, "All by yourself?"
She nodded.
He was speechless for a moment, "Do you know what you are doing?" He asked.
"Yeah… making it fly."
"Yes and how?"
"By concentrating and thinking about making it fly." Sophie shrugged.
Sophie now knew how to do it, but didn't know how she was able to do it.
Steven looked at the butterfly which was flapping its wings while the force field around her changed its shape as per its motion. Sophie slowly made the butterfly land and stop, the butterfly lay over the desk lifeless and motionless, like it was never flying in the first place.
It was beautiful Steven thought, the way she controls her power is beautiful. He shifted his gaze towards her, she was looking shyly at him, "It's not much…" she uttered.
"It's amazing." He replied, grinning, "It was really amazing."
She blushed and walked back to her bean bag to sit.
"You did all of this with the practice routine I told Rain about?"
"Mhm," Sophie mumbled.
Steven was about to say somthing to her when the door opened and Rain came in, "Sorry…" she looked at Steven and walked towards the desk, " I was in bad mood that's why I left." Saying this she sat on the chair in front of the window.
Steven looked at Sophie and Sophie looked back, without even saying Steven knew that Sophie wouldn't want Rain to know about this and get heartbroken so he nodded at her, telling her through that bids that her secret is safe with him. She sighed and smiled back at him.
"Did I came in middle of something?" Rain sniffed, Steven looked ta her, her hazel big eyes were puffy and red like she had been crying.
"No…" He replied.
"Are you okay?" Sophie looked at her sister with a hint of guilt in it that Steven noticed. She shouldn't feel guilty of anything he thought.
Rain nodded smiling at her, Sophie seeing Rain giving that bitter smile felt more guilty then ever, guilty of having powers which should have belong to her sister, guilty of having those wishes of seeing the new world which were technacally her sister's. It should bhave been her not me, she thought while looking at her sister's puffy hazel eyes with tear stains still visible on her cheeks, I am stealing her happiness. She looked down.
The room fell silent, Steven looking at Sophie time to time, seeing the expression of guilt, hurt and pain over her face then looking tat Rain and seeing numbness and sadness. All because of me, he thought, if only I have had controlled myself and hadn't given Rain false hope both the sisters would have been happy.
Rain and sophie in their individual thoughts, when Rain finally breaks the silence, " So where are you going?"
Steven looked at Rain confused.
"You said, that you would get the confirmation or something about my powers, so where are you going for that?" She elaborated.
Sophie looked up at him, " To the Grey academy," he replied.
"Grey Academy?" Rain repeated.
"Yeah, it is an Academy like the one in our world, which help in humans who has powers. They teach humans how to control powers, and also how to get through the test to enter our world."
"How would that help?" Sophie questioned.
"The poeple, more like teachers in that academy are deep researchers, in topics like human powers…" he looked at her. "I think that they would know more about this heritage power topic then I do."
Sophie nodded while Rain asked, "Can I come with you too?"
Steven looked at her, he wanted to take her but he can't, she is as human as her father for now and that would mean if he took her their it would be like breaking the privacy and security law.
"I am sorry, you can't…" he replied as kindly as he can, "Although you can help me, by feeding me more" he grinned.
Both the girls giggled.
It was 1:01 pm in the afternoon, Steven was standing outside a abandoned looking building, people were moving towards the far end of the road in which Steven was, no one taking note of the building or Steven who was stading in front of it looking at it from about 5 minutes.
He took a step towards it and took a step back again, after few moments again he tried stepping forward and quickly moved backward, and this kept on going for 2 more minutes, now people were passing and looking at him like he is some kind of a mad man.
"You can't get in without a proper password…" A woman said.
Steven turned around and looked at a tall grim faced woman who was covered from head to toe in red, with red dress, red shoes, red hat and red lipstick. The woman looked like she came directly from the 90s.
"Madam, flitch." Steven dowed, took her hand into his and kissed at the back side of it.
"Mr.Reed?" Madam flitch responded. "What business do you have hear?"
"I was here for getting answers to some of my queries…" he replied, " and I thought that I would easily guess the password."
Madam laughed, "You didn't change…"
Steven smiled while escorting madam towards the protecting sheild that is cast over the academy, and madam mumbled,"finrose climitic" And without any barrier they both easily moved through the field.
The abandoned building started disappearing and a tall modern looking building appeared in front of them.
Steven looked at it and memories of awesome feild trips came flooding in his mind, as madam and he made their way towards the gate through the front big garden.
"This has changed a lot." He muttered to no one in perticular.
Madam flitch smiled, "Changes and modernization is a part of development, and we are developing people," saying this she started to move towards the gate and opened it, "You roam through the corridors while I resolve some issues." Saying this she went through the gate into the left corridor and he stood and looked at her.
"Aye aye captain flitch," Steven laughed.
He moved towards the right corridor and wonder around for a while, through the huge library, into the big hinside garden towards the old classrooms, memories flew in his mind where ever he went, he was back in about 15 minutes at the front gate and decided to go towards the left.
Left side was the official side, he went towards the staff room, to lock rooms, to the head's office. He peeked inside the head office through the glass window of the wooden door and saw madam flitch sitting at the desk with her hat on the side of the desk and her eyes straining over some documents.
He went in after knocking twice on the door, "Can I sit?"
Madam flitch smiled, "yeah, sure! What is it that you are here for?"
"It's something… it's not important, are you done with your work?"
" Yes I am." She replied while closing the documents in the file.
He was sure this woman knew a lot about what he wanted to know, and he is the only one who would be able to help. He looked at the old grim looking woman, she was his mentor and friend whenever he came here, she helped him through a lot, all these days he came on the feild trip because of her.
There had no one to sign the permission slip for the feild trip so madam flitch would help him and sign it as her mentor every year since last 7 years.
"I… I was here two years ago on the mission that would give me grades… " he started and madam flitch looked at him while leaning back in her chair. "I had to…"
"Protect the foster kids, I know. What about it?" She interjected.
"Well… I wated to ask… could both of them inherit the powers of their mother?"
Madam flitch looked at him doubting, and sked, " why are you asking?"
"I… they need help…"
"Not yours." Madam flitch cut him and replied.
He knew it would be hard but he now was feeling the sme nervousness, he felt when he did something wrong. I hve to tell her everything and invite my death to me, he thought.
as feeling the sme nervousness, he felt when he did something wrong. I hve to tell her everything and invite my death to me, he thought.