I Knew You Were Trouble
Chapter 4
I awoke this morning with an awful headache. When my dad hollered up the stairs it didn’t make things any better. It was like I was taking a really, really hard test and I was thinking so hard that my brain was about to explode. Honestly I couldn’t really explain why this is happening but I feel really weird. Weird shouldn’t even be able to describe it. I just don’t feel like I’m me.
“Elaina I have called up here ten times for you to get ready. What is going on?”
My dad isn’t the one to take nonsense but when his little girl is hurt he softens up like a big teddy bear.
“My head feels like the devil is stabbing it with his pitchfork”
After saying that dad bursts out laughing. I don’t find it funny how he thinks my head hurting is funny.
“I’m sorry dear. It’s just the way you put things can be quiet hilarious whether you mean it or not”
“Well, instead of laughing at your daughters headache would you mind getting some aspirin as I try to go back to sleep”
After his laughter died he didn’t move. Instead he had a straight face and it was starting to scare me. How that man can go from laughter to being serious in ten second will forever be a mystery to me. “Dad, is something wrong?” I was afraid to ask but I knew something wasn’t right and my headache was only getting worse.
“Elaina, this is very confusing and you might not understand or believe it but…you have magical powers”
Well that explains the fire coming out of my fists.
“What is this power that is making my head hurt then?”
He looked as though he was choosing his words carefully, and I don’t know why he would need to.
“You have more than one power. One of those powers is to transform into a person. That is what’s happening. Someone else who has powers wants you to be them. Now because you were asleep it was blocking it. You also have powers like fire, water, and earth. You can set things on fire depending on how angry you are. You could water a plant just because you feel happy. Earth is more complicated. You won’t need to use it and you won’t ever use it. Yet what you’re feeling right now is someone trying to get in touch with you. So, relax your mind and your headache will eventually go away. I’ll be downstairs if you need me.”
That was a lot to take in but it’s all starting to make sense now. I started to take my father’s advice and let my mind relax so I could get in their head. Slowly, I wasn’t myself anymore. Instead I was in someone else’s body, and it was a familiar personality. She’s scared and has no idea what to do. Then I became her.
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“Elaina” I spoke to myself in a hushed voice. Kaitlin? Am I in your head? “You are Elaina. You are you did it”. My dad just told me about all of this. What’s wrong? Where are you? How are you even talking to me? How did you know I could do this? “Calm down Elaina. I’m scared and I don’t remember how I got here or who got me here. All I know is that I’m north of Baltimore. I heard them say it. If I can hear anything about an address I’ll tell you but for now I don’t know much. It’s just really great talking to you Elaina” It’s great talking to you to Kaitlin. I don’t know how or when I’m going to get there but I will Kaitlin. I will, I promise. “Thank you, Elaina so much. Oh, and Elaina please hurry.”
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Wow.
I just got into my best friends head. That’s something you can’t say every day.
Instead of sitting in bed doing nothing about the fact that have these wacky, random powers I got up and started down the stairs to ask my dad about it. I stopped about half way when I realized he was on the phone with someone, and not just any someone. My mom.
“Has Alex gotten these powers too?” dad asked into the phone. He sounded upset only in the slightest.
“How am I going to explain that our family was created from a freak show of whack jobs from the 1800’s that went forward in time and created us who created them. Now what?
“You know what you better come over here with Alex and explain what is happening so they both know.”
“It’s for the best”
“We never have to see each other after that as far as I’m concerned”
“Fine”
“Good bye”
After he hung up I waited a moment before going down the rest of the stairs.
“Was that mom?” I asked as if I didn’t know.
“Yeah. She and Alex are coming over. There are things we need to discuss.”
“Okay. Would you like some tea? You seem stressed.”
“Yes, please”
I turned to walk into the kitchen grabbing the kettle and almost filling it with water when I realized I could do it myself. Putting my finger tip to the hole in the kettle, water started streaming out of my finger. Then I put it on the stove waiting for it to heat up as I grabbed mugs from the cabinet.
It was 3:30 and the doorbell was ringing like crazy. One time after the other it was being pressed again and again. I set my magazine down on the coffee table before answering the door. It was none other than my mother and Alex. “Good evening Elaina. I need to speak with your father” to say she didn’t sound happy was kind of an understatement. Before I could speak mom was in the house looking for wherever he could possibly be. I left her to that as I stared at my twin brother. “Sup” he said before walking in. “Long time no speak brother dearest”.
“Do you have any idea what this whole thing is about?” he asked.
I was about to answer before our names were being called from the living room.
We walked in and shared a seat on the couch while dad sat in his chair and mom sat on the love seat across from him.
“Now we decided to meet for a certain reason” dad started.
“It’s because our family has a strange past, at least mine does. What my mother passed onto me must have passed on to Elaina.” She stopped for a second and looked at me. Maybe recognizing my face as if she will never see it again.
“What your mother is trying to say is that Elaina was born with special powers that we kind of just figured out she had”
“We didn’t know if it was going to pass on to you. Yet again we didn’t know we were having twins and knew we were having a boy only. So we didn’t really have time to discuss the powers. There is a special doctor that could have gotten rid of them, but we didn’t want that.”
I looked over at Alex and saw his blank face just staring and letting this news all sink in. Being the nice sister I am I pointed a finger and said “Alex, snap out of it.” Just as I said it water dispersed from my finger and hit him in the face also hitting his shirt.
“Now, Elaina you do realize you can’t do that everywhere you go. This has to be kept a secret”
Now it was my time to stare. “I’m okay with it.”
“Well you aren’t the one who can do this” I said and pinched his arm while burning him a little. “Mom, she burned me”
“It’s fine Alex we don’t have to live with it”
That kind of hurt. Being called ‘it’. I know she meant my powers but still.
“Anyway, now you know what you need to know and we’re done. Let’s go Alex”
And then they left. Probably never coming back.
“Elaina I have called up here ten times for you to get ready. What is going on?”
My dad isn’t the one to take nonsense but when his little girl is hurt he softens up like a big teddy bear.
“My head feels like the devil is stabbing it with his pitchfork”
After saying that dad bursts out laughing. I don’t find it funny how he thinks my head hurting is funny.
“I’m sorry dear. It’s just the way you put things can be quiet hilarious whether you mean it or not”
“Well, instead of laughing at your daughters headache would you mind getting some aspirin as I try to go back to sleep”
After his laughter died he didn’t move. Instead he had a straight face and it was starting to scare me. How that man can go from laughter to being serious in ten second will forever be a mystery to me. “Dad, is something wrong?” I was afraid to ask but I knew something wasn’t right and my headache was only getting worse.
“Elaina, this is very confusing and you might not understand or believe it but…you have magical powers”
Well that explains the fire coming out of my fists.
“What is this power that is making my head hurt then?”
He looked as though he was choosing his words carefully, and I don’t know why he would need to.
“You have more than one power. One of those powers is to transform into a person. That is what’s happening. Someone else who has powers wants you to be them. Now because you were asleep it was blocking it. You also have powers like fire, water, and earth. You can set things on fire depending on how angry you are. You could water a plant just because you feel happy. Earth is more complicated. You won’t need to use it and you won’t ever use it. Yet what you’re feeling right now is someone trying to get in touch with you. So, relax your mind and your headache will eventually go away. I’ll be downstairs if you need me.”
That was a lot to take in but it’s all starting to make sense now. I started to take my father’s advice and let my mind relax so I could get in their head. Slowly, I wasn’t myself anymore. Instead I was in someone else’s body, and it was a familiar personality. She’s scared and has no idea what to do. Then I became her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
“Elaina” I spoke to myself in a hushed voice. Kaitlin? Am I in your head? “You are Elaina. You are you did it”. My dad just told me about all of this. What’s wrong? Where are you? How are you even talking to me? How did you know I could do this? “Calm down Elaina. I’m scared and I don’t remember how I got here or who got me here. All I know is that I’m north of Baltimore. I heard them say it. If I can hear anything about an address I’ll tell you but for now I don’t know much. It’s just really great talking to you Elaina” It’s great talking to you to Kaitlin. I don’t know how or when I’m going to get there but I will Kaitlin. I will, I promise. “Thank you, Elaina so much. Oh, and Elaina please hurry.”
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Wow.
I just got into my best friends head. That’s something you can’t say every day.
Instead of sitting in bed doing nothing about the fact that have these wacky, random powers I got up and started down the stairs to ask my dad about it. I stopped about half way when I realized he was on the phone with someone, and not just any someone. My mom.
“Has Alex gotten these powers too?” dad asked into the phone. He sounded upset only in the slightest.
“How am I going to explain that our family was created from a freak show of whack jobs from the 1800’s that went forward in time and created us who created them. Now what?
“You know what you better come over here with Alex and explain what is happening so they both know.”
“It’s for the best”
“We never have to see each other after that as far as I’m concerned”
“Fine”
“Good bye”
After he hung up I waited a moment before going down the rest of the stairs.
“Was that mom?” I asked as if I didn’t know.
“Yeah. She and Alex are coming over. There are things we need to discuss.”
“Okay. Would you like some tea? You seem stressed.”
“Yes, please”
I turned to walk into the kitchen grabbing the kettle and almost filling it with water when I realized I could do it myself. Putting my finger tip to the hole in the kettle, water started streaming out of my finger. Then I put it on the stove waiting for it to heat up as I grabbed mugs from the cabinet.
It was 3:30 and the doorbell was ringing like crazy. One time after the other it was being pressed again and again. I set my magazine down on the coffee table before answering the door. It was none other than my mother and Alex. “Good evening Elaina. I need to speak with your father” to say she didn’t sound happy was kind of an understatement. Before I could speak mom was in the house looking for wherever he could possibly be. I left her to that as I stared at my twin brother. “Sup” he said before walking in. “Long time no speak brother dearest”.
“Do you have any idea what this whole thing is about?” he asked.
I was about to answer before our names were being called from the living room.
We walked in and shared a seat on the couch while dad sat in his chair and mom sat on the love seat across from him.
“Now we decided to meet for a certain reason” dad started.
“It’s because our family has a strange past, at least mine does. What my mother passed onto me must have passed on to Elaina.” She stopped for a second and looked at me. Maybe recognizing my face as if she will never see it again.
“What your mother is trying to say is that Elaina was born with special powers that we kind of just figured out she had”
“We didn’t know if it was going to pass on to you. Yet again we didn’t know we were having twins and knew we were having a boy only. So we didn’t really have time to discuss the powers. There is a special doctor that could have gotten rid of them, but we didn’t want that.”
I looked over at Alex and saw his blank face just staring and letting this news all sink in. Being the nice sister I am I pointed a finger and said “Alex, snap out of it.” Just as I said it water dispersed from my finger and hit him in the face also hitting his shirt.
“Now, Elaina you do realize you can’t do that everywhere you go. This has to be kept a secret”
Now it was my time to stare. “I’m okay with it.”
“Well you aren’t the one who can do this” I said and pinched his arm while burning him a little. “Mom, she burned me”
“It’s fine Alex we don’t have to live with it”
That kind of hurt. Being called ‘it’. I know she meant my powers but still.
“Anyway, now you know what you need to know and we’re done. Let’s go Alex”
And then they left. Probably never coming back.
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