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something to do with the food incident.” I sat straight and faced my feet, moving my hands through my long hair. “Since I shook Lisa’s hand, I have been feeling different and it doesn’t have anything to do with liking her,” I stated.
    “So what’s the problem?” she asked as her eyes appraised me.
    I breathed out ice vapors to illustrate the answer to her question. Still, she still couldn’t comprehend.
    “Are you cold? Should I increase the heating?”
    I sighed. A huge part of me wanted to admit it and leave the topic but I needed to tell her what was going on with me. As I said earlier, I wasn’t good with keeping secrets.
    Silence filled the room for some minutes as we sat down in the living room. I took my time in reading every single thought Stacey had and I discovered she was worried about my situation. In her head, she was thinking: What in the world could this be? Not to worry, you’ll soon find out.
    “I can produce ice from my bare hands,” I whispered.
    She asked me to repeat my statement, which I did. She laughed.
    “You're kidding, right?”
    “I wish I was,” I replied.
    I gave her a serious look and exhaled vapor from my mouth. After a long second of disconnection, her lips lined up and then she spoke in a low tone. “Please can you show me?”
    I stood up and asked her to close her eyes. She glanced at me with a funny look but eventually complied. Then I waved my palms opposite each other and an icy ball popped out. I told her to open her eyes. There wasn’t any need to read her mind; the immediate shift of her eyebrows showed she thought it was a trick.
    I grimaced.
    “All right, this time leave your eyes open.”
    I showed her my right palm and used my left fingers to make a tall building by elongating the invisible small house on my right palm. This time, her eyes were bulging out of their sockets. Her lips parted and her hands trembled. She edged forward, taking the ice building I had created from my right hand.
    “Wow! This is amazing. How did this happen? Are you some sort of alien?” She paused. “Do you plan on telling my mom?”
    “No, I told you because you live with me and I don’t want to keep secrets from you.” She interrupted with a subtle smile which I tried my best to ignore. “It will be uncomfortable for you to see me doing unusual thing. Please, could this be our little secret?” I said.
    She chuckled and as she repeated, “Little?” allowing me to see the irony in my statement. Hearing that, I frowned but before I could say a word, she said, “I’ll do my very best to keep your little secret.”
    “There's more. I can read minds.” At that moment, she didn’t close her mouth until I continued. “Everyone’s, except Lisa’s.”
    “How does Lisa fit into all this?” she asked.
    “I wish I knew. I really do. Everything began the day we shook hands.”
    “Have you spoken to her about this?”
    I nodded. “Apparently, she has been going through a lot herself. She denies any knowledge of my situation.”
    Though a lot had changed about me, I could still feel the cold air as it circulated every atom of my body. I folded my arms over my chest.
    “Let’s do a small confirmation test,” Stacey said.
    “Okay, if you wish.”
    “The test goes like this: you'll have to tell me what I’m thinking,” she said, putting her right forefinger on her lips and making a humming sound.
    “Trust me, you won't want to be in my shoes right now,” I said
    She retracted.
    “Wow! Now, that’s awesome.”
    “I know,” I proudly replied. “By the way, why does Julie want to see me?”
    As I asked, she looked at me with a tinge of disappointment. Was I wrong to ask? I thought.
    “So you don’t know when a girl likes you?” she said.
    I stifled a chuckle.
    “She likes me?”
    “Yeah, she does. She has been head over heels since the first time you guys met. Frankly, I’m getting sick of it. I mean, she always mentions your name when we’re together.”