4:02 PM WEDNESDAY                                    2 DAYS TILL THE WORLD ENDS

Chase raced around the corner and almost into me.

"What? Whats Wrong?" He cried. I handed him the letter. He looked at me quizzically but took it any way. "He's a movie stars son? What's he doing here?"

"I don't know but thats not why I screamed. Did you read the PS?" I said shakily. His eyes widened as he read what I read. Slowly he put the pieces together.

"His parents know? Correction-His parents remember? " Chase said thoughtfully. "But- how? Why didn't he tell us?"

"Hey guys?" Ivy walked in drying her hair with a green towel. She takes quick showers.  She stopped when she saw us. "Whatcha doing?" She was wearing a new top and shorts.

"Nothing! Nothing at all!" Chase said quickly. He nudged me with his elbow.

"We were...I was just waiting for you to be done!" I lied. "Chinese or McDonald's? "

"Huh?"

"What do you want for dinner? Chase agreed to go out and get it." I said shooting him a glare for putting me out like that.

"Oh definitely Chinese! I love their little fortune cookies!" Ivy said forgetting about earlier. "I'll have sweet and sour chicken!"

"Right. So I'll be back in a jiffy." Chase said heading out the door. I could vaguely see the outline on the wad of letters in his pocket.  I wonder what else Zach is hiding.....

"Okay what's really going on?" Ivy asked turning to me.

"Nothing!" I said holding my hands up in protest. "Now I really need to take a shower so..." She pursed her lips as I slid by her into the Adult room, closing the door behind me.

Ivy had laid out clothes on the King sized bed. They were probably Zach's Mother's clothes. California Cate's clothes. I picked out a teal T-shirt and tan cargo shorts and stepped into the bathroom.

Never in a million years would I have thought that one day I'd be a fugitive,  running from the government with a super power, and somehow end up in California Cate's suite wearing her clothes. I thought with a smile.

The bathroom was a nice furnished one with an elegant sink and sweet smelling soap. The shower had a glass tinted sliding door and the mirror was fogged up. I grabbed a red towel from a neatly folded stack on a shelf over the toilet.

I turned on the water. It was still hot. I stripped off my clothes and stepped into the water. I felt a little sick as soon as the water hit my skin, but I waved it off. Unfortunately it got worse. Calk me crazy but I think it was becuase of the water. I hurried the rest of my shower and dried off.

I put on the new outfit and brushed out my smooth hair with a hair brush I found underneath the sink. I found I didn't need a hair blow drier-my heat incised hair automatically dried itself.

I felt like it should worry me that all of the sudden I'm completely okay with using my power, but in truth it didn't. I felt like since I had it I should probably use it. I step out into the adult room. Everything was just as I left it. My stomach growled. I heard Ivy laugh from the other room and the clink of dishes.

I was about to join them when my eye caught something. There was a Tv on the wall and I couldn't help myself. I hit the on button.

"-here is another shot of the crime scene." A news reporter said before switching to the street outside HWEG*. It looked almost the same but it had very clear stains of two...shadows. My mind didn't want to believe that they were anything more than that.

"As you can see the suspect Chloe Ester Doodley with a mutant ability to set herself on fire,  burned two peaceful protesters outside the HWEG head quarters lasr Monday. Nothing this intense has happened since the US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. Sightings of this mysterious teenager have been happening all over town with various other kids. The goverment warns all citizens to keep away from the troublesome girl and call this number right away." A number flashed up."The government has called in a new special units team created yesterday morning after the passing of the bill.  The Mutant Containment Department -"

"That's Enough."

Suddenly the Tv turned off. I whipped around to find Ivy and Chase  solemnly frowning at me. Ivy was holding the remote. I wiped my eyes off. Ivy came and sat next to me comfortingly.

"Sorry." I mummbled.

"You were going to find out any way." she said. "How about we just go have dinner and talk later?"

At the mention of food my stomach growled. I smiled a little. I didn't think Chinese food was going to help me forget, but somehow (probably Chase) everything was knocked to the back of my mind. Who knew Chinese food could be the perfect amo for a food fight?

After eating half the food and cleaning the rest of the floor we colasped on the couch. Chase reported that Zach hadn't woken up yet. So we sat there and talked. It was really about anything but I know I laughed and smiled. Then Ivy pulled out the fortune cookies.

"1...2...3!" We all broke ours together.

Ivy read hers first.  "Just wait for the right moment. Keep your eyes open and ears peeled."

Then Chase. "Success is being at peace with yourself."

Then finally me. "He who you call friend will betray you." I frowned. "Why do I always get the weird ones?"

"Maybe because you're weird. " Chase said. We both looked at him. And for some reason we burst out laughing.

"That....was your...best?" Ivy gasped.

"Why....are we...laughing....that...wasn't...even...funny!" I snorted which started up another round of high pitched laughs. It felt really good to laugh again even if it was just for a short while.

Little did we know that was that things were about to get worse. Way worse. Dangerously Worse.

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Hey guys sorry its been so long. I didn't know if you guys remembered but HWEG is Chloe's dad's work. it stands for Heat Wave Experimental Group. thanks for reading!

-GreenNinjaGal