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think
Elizabeth would be interested, but I figured I would offer
anyway.
    “You can come, too, Elizabeth,” I shouted as
Annabelle tried pulling me and Lily along.
    “Actually girls, the party isn’t until nine,
and I wouldn’t mind some help getting everything ready.”
    Annabelle wasn’t happy; she was too excited
about putting on her dress and getting ready to concentrate on
anything else.
    “Come on, she just bought us all this stuff,
the least we could do is help,” I snapped.
    “Okay, okay, you’re right,” Annabelle
groaned.
     
    We caught up with Elizabeth; she was in the
garage looking through some boxes.
    “Here are some lights, hang them wherever you
can. The guys and George will set up some tables out here, and I’ll
handle inside the house,” she said.
    Annabelle grabbed some lights and walked over
to a tree.
    “Wait a second.” I imagined all the lights
wrapped around the trees. Every other tree was covered in orange
and green lights. That was too easy. I imagined more lights, dark
purple, hanging from the trees and leading to the house. It was a
beautiful canopy over where all the tables would be.
    “Wow,” Annabelle said in awe.
    Grace looked paralyzed with fear; I
remembered this wasn’t normal for her, not that it really was for
me.
    What else could I do? I had an idea; I was
sure everyone who would be wearing heels, would thank me. I
imagined the ground flattening out, and then, taking it a step
further, I imagined the dirt around the house turning a bright,
beautiful orange.
    “I’d say our work here is done.” Annabelle
started walking back to the house.
    I glared at her. I was feeling exhausted; I’d
never done something like this.
    “Let’s go see if Elizabeth needs help
inside.” I grabbed Annabelle’s arm and dragged her along, just as
she’d done to me a few moments earlier. “Hey do you need any help?”
I asked as we walked through the door.
    “Are you done out there already?” she asked
disappointed. I understood. I wouldn’t have thought we could have
gotten much done in five minutes either.
    “Come look,” I suggested. She followed me to
the door.
    “How did you do this?” she asked. I closed my
eyes and imagined all the trees turning orange and black. “Your
power? I had no idea…” she stood there frozen.
    “What’s wrong? Don’t you like it?” I
asked.
    “No, no, no. I love it. It’s just… it all
makes sense now,” she said, frightened.
    “What? What makes sense now?” I wondered.
    “I’ve never seen anything like this,” she
whispered to herself.
    “Please tell me what’s going on,” I
begged.
    “If the Alliance ever got ahold of your
power, it could be catastrophic.”
     
     
     

Chapter 4: Surprise Guest
    Elizabeth dragged me into the house, telling
everyone else to stay outside. I was horrified; I didn’t know what
was going on, or why I was so dangerous.
    “Where are we going?” I asked as she dragged
me through the house.
    “In theory you can imagine anything, and it
will just be. Thank God your dreams are reality, otherwise the
world could have been plagued with your nightmares,” she was
starting to sound crazy. “Your dreams are not imagination, so
that’s not a worry.”
    “Then what’s the problem?” I asked.
    “The Alliance, if they don’t know about this
yet, they will.”
    “So, I could just imagine them all dropping
dead, or imagine a crack in the earth and let them all fall in it.
If your theory is correct that is, this is the biggest thing I’ve
ever done with my power, and I’m exhausted so….”
    “Never, ever underestimate the Alliance or
your power. They recruit people with extraordinary powers just like
yours. Some can cancel out other people’s powers. You know when
they use that?” she asked, not waiting for a reply. “When their
recruits deny them, they cancel their powers and take them for
themselves.”
    “How could they take them?” I questioned.
    “Do you know how we came about?”