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Chapter 39 - 39

You had the chance to date a lot of people when you were in high school.

First, there was Alison Faulkner. She has been your best friend since kindergarten. You were always over at each other's houses—her moms have become surrogate parents to you, and your mom and dad to her. She's shy and musical—she has an amazing singing voice and has even started composing her own music. When you had your first episode of clairvoyance, the first thing you did after you got home was text Alison to tell her you needed to talk. But when you picked up your phone, you saw there was already a message from Alison saying she needed to talk to you, because she had discovered that she had powers, too; she can turn invisible. You don't know what you would have done if you hadn't had Alison there to share those first few confusing weeks of having powers.

Then, there was Carla McCray. You were friends in middle school but drifted once you got to high school. She has powers, too; she can light fires just by thinking about it. She's brash and rebellious, always wearing a leather jacket and hanging out behind the school smoking. Even though she gets angry pretty easily, her strongest anger is about all of the injustice in the world.

You also crushed on Taylor Kim for ages. She is gorgeous and popular and rich, always jetting off to Paris or Switzerland with her parents over winter break and always wearing the most expensive and trendy clothes. No party at Kingsport High could really be considered cool unless Taylor was there. You admired her from afar, but you were sure that she was out of your league. She didn't have powers, but she was pretty special anyway.

And then there was Haley Johnson, editor of the Kingsport Gazette. She's smart, driven, and intense, always asking questions and seeking out the truth. She didn't have powers of her own, but she was always advocating for people who did; whenever anyone called your abilities "freaky" or made jokes about "wannabe superheroes," Haley was right there to shut that down.