I nod, sure. I don't want to upset my parents my first time seeing them in three years, and I'm guessing talking about whatever happened must be hard to talk about. Why they all looked Flora though I don't know. "So... how are your powers? I remember seeing you practice, so sure of yourself, graceful." Garret says
after a couple of minutes of silence. My powers, so I do have some. That's cool. What are they? "You don't know." He sighs. I smile slightly. Molly gets off the couch walks out of the living room, and I take a minute to look at pictures. There is a fireplace with a big family portrait on the metal. Molly on the left, Garret on the right, and me right in the middle. "That was taken a month before the accident," Garret says, and then he grabs a photo next to him it's Frederick and me, standing side by side smiling holding toy swords. The word brother crosses my mind again, but if he was my brother wouldn't he be happy to see me? Maybe not, maybe we didn't like each other. Molly runs back in, with a DVD showing it into the DVD player. Then rushes back to the couch, and sits next to Garret. He wraps an arm around her shoulder, and the video begins. It's me, I can tell by the hair eyes, and voice. I look six maybe seven.
"You were seven when I filmed you." Molly sighs, smiling. "You begged and begged for me to do it so you could watch it yourself, and see what you were doing wrong." She says. I look back at the screen, Seeing little me stretching out and smiling at the camera. My little voice says I'm ready. Molly said go. I watch now in interest, as little me holds out my left hand, fingers cupped. The bowl next to my feet shakes, and up out of it come ice cubes. Spreading my fingers the ice breaks into smaller pieces, and then my arm flies up sending the ice in the air. As it drops, I hold out my right hand now, catching all the ice in mid-air. Then little me makes a fist, and it all forms one huge ice cube. Pulling back my arm, and then punching the ice goes flying into a tree. I hear Molly cheering, and I'm staring. I control ice? Somewhere in the distance phone rings, and Garret gets up to answer it.
"So... I control ice?" I say, trying to not sounds like a kid in a candy store. I want someone to get a bowl of ice now, so I can try! I leave that part out. Molly laughs, she can tell I"m excited "I'm like a bender!" I say realizing that I can bend ice! Again Avatar the Last Airbender! Flora is like Toph! Of course, elementals control the elements. "Yes, you could make it snow in the summer and freeze a popsicle in a second." Molly laughs, "Flora has the earth element." She gestures, and flora touches the planted pot next to her humming and it blooms up turning a brighter green. "Wait though..." I say, thinking hard. "Why does she hum? I mean, in the video I just help up my hand." I say, and Molly looks happy to explain. I'm happy to learn.
"Depending on the person, Flora is very musically talented so when she was born her magic flows through her with music." Flora is blushing at the compliment. "Sierra Has to have one arm pointing at the sky, so she can access the electricity. Asia has to do special dance-like routines depending on what she is trying to make the water do. Janessa has to close her eyes, and picture what she wants the fire to do." All girls. All the names she just said, were all girls... or at least to me they sounded like girl names. So there is water, earth, fire, electricity, and ice. No air? "What about air? I mean in Avatar they had water, fire, earth, and air." I question, and everyone in the room looks to the floor. Oh, maybe not a good subject. Way to go, I yell at myself upsetting them already! "Bonnie.. she didn't make it out in time," Flora whispered, and everyone looked at her. The accident? Is that what they mean? She didn't make it out. . . so a fire? "She has a right to know-" Flora begins, and Molly cuts her off. She shushes, and Chase pats Flora's back. It must've been bad. The room stays quiet for a moment, and Flora is staring at the floor. I feel bad, I want to know what happened. She wants to tell what happened . . . so why not? Shouldn't it be my choice what do and don't hear? I don't push the matter though. Frederick walks back into the room, sitting down on the chair across from me. Looking at everyone in the room I familiarize myself with them. I want to remember this forever. Chase is glaring at Frederick I notice, Flora still staring at the floor, and Molly is wiping her face trying to stop the tears. Wow, my parents. My friends learning I have powers! Going back to Chase and Frederick I watch each of them, there must be something going on there. I wonder what, I also want to know what happened to make Frederick hate me. Flora is still upset about not being able to tell me what happened, which I understand. She wants me to know everything, I want to know everything! Garret makes his way back into the room, not sitting down next to Molly. "What's wrong dear?" She asks, grabbing his hand. I notice him squeeze her hand, and she stands up. Somethings wrong. "Garret?" She questions. He looks around the room, stopping at me. "Well... it looks like we are taking a trip." He says, staring at me. Oh, no.
Getting into the cute little horse thing that came to pick us up an hour later, I sit in the far back.