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ideas
starting to form in Ellie’s eyes, Griffin said, “I think you should wait a
while before you try to figure that out.”
    Ellie wrinkled
her nose. “Fine,” she grumbled.
    Griffin paused
for a second. “They don’t know about me yet, right?”
    Ellie shook
her head.
    “Okay.”
Griffin fell silent.
    Ellie didn’t
push him; she just felt grateful that he seemed to want to help. They were at
their best when they acted as a team, and she needed him now.
    After a couple
of minutes, he said, “Let me think about this for a while. We can talk again in
the morning.”
    With a nod of
agreement, Ellie hopped up and headed upstairs to work on her homework and do
some more thinking herself. Ellie hadn’t shown Griffin what had happened to her
when she’d first seen Alex. It was too new. Too unclear to her how she felt and
what it meant.
    …but she knew
she definitely felt something ... and she felt both terrified and oddly
eager to find out what.

Chapter 6
     
    Alex tried his
best to keep his mind off the girl he’d met today. Ellie…cute name…what was
that short for? He remembered as she’d walk away in the parking lot, he’d
felt like he’d just been punched in the gut. That sensation had lingered,
bothering him for the rest of the afternoon. He was not interested in
high school girls. Not even when he was in high school. But when he’d
looked up and his gaze had connected with hers, he’d felt a connection. A
strong one.
    Alex rolled
his shoulders and forced the girl from his mind. He’d come home for a specific
reason. And it wasn’t to crush on one of his younger sisters’ friends, no
matter how adorable she was.
    After Ellie
had walked away, he’d ushered his siblings over to their car. “Did I hear
something about a study session? You might need to cancel that, Delia. This
week at least.”
    “I figured
there was a reason you’re here,” Adelaide replied.
    “Yeah, what’s
up, Alex? You’re supposed to be off at college,” Nate added.
    “Your mom
called. She’s having one of her feelings again.” Alex locked his eyes on
Adelaide.
    All three frowned
at this news. Lila and Adelaide’s mother, Lucy, had the ability to sense
others’ emotions and intentions. Sometimes this translated to an intuition of
something coming. She could feel if it was negative or positive. And almost
always it related to her family in some way. Lucy herself didn’t claim this as
part of her powers. She thought of it more as mother’s or women’s
intuition. Either way, they’d all learned to take her premonitions
seriously.
    “Did she say
what the feeling was?” Lila asked. She tossed her backpack in the trunk of
Nate’s car.
    “No, she just
asked me to come home. And when I got there, she sent me here to make sure you
three came straight back after school.”
    “Well, let’s
go find out what this is about,” Nate said, and they all loaded up in their
cars.
    Adelaide and
Lila beat him back to the house. As he walked in the door, he heard Adelaide on
the phone.
    “I’m sorry we
have to flake on you, Ellie,” she was saying. “But with Alex home from college,
we’ll be doing family stuff most of the week...”
    Alex tamped
down on his unusual curiosity about the girl he’d met today and went into the living
room where the others were gathered. He greeted everyone he hadn’t seen yet
with warm hugs.
    “What’d you
tell her?” Nate asked, as Adelaide sat beside him on the floor and took his
hand.
    “That with
Alex home, we decided to have some family time,” she replied with a shrug.
    Nate nodded.
“Not bad. About as truthful as you could be.”
    “Mmm…yeah.”
she agreed. “You know I don’t like lying.” She paused for a moment, her
expression thoughtful. “Besides, I have get the impression that she sees a lot
more than she lets on.”
    “Who are you
talking about?” Lucy walked into the room, followed by Hugh. They headed
straight to Alex to give him warm hugs.
    “Oh, this