I didn’t pay much attention at first since they were still updating Ashton’s parents about Kyle Simpson. I knew most of the information that was being delivered so I took that time to practise my shield.Ashton came to sit by me on the couch. He took the liberty of holding my hand and squeezing it a bit. I knew that it was his way of saying, “Are you ok?” I smiled at him for assurance and then leaned my head on his shoulder. His head leaned on mine and we forgot about everything bad that was happening at that moment. We just focused on us and the time that we had. Of course, we couldn’t do or say anything because of the audience that we had. So we just sat like that for some time while the others were still talking about Kyle Simpson.After several minutes, my dad said something that had our attention.“So, I’ve been thinking, long and hard about this. The safety of the children comes first in all this. I was already sen

After breakfast everyone else went about their businesses. My dad, Jay and Kelsey went down to the lab. Mr and Mrs McKenzie went to the living room to relax while watching TV. I went upstairs to get into my practice gear. I needed it before spending the whole day in my capsule.Mind if I join you? Ashton asked as I exited the house to the backyard.No, you’re welcome to.I waited for him to get there and then practice kicked off. We started off with the normal moves for fighting skills and we perfected all our faults. After that we went on to using our super powers. He had the opposite of what I had, I was fire and he was ice. We were compatible and made the perfect team.As time went by, we realised that we had an audience: my dad, Jay, Kelsey and Ashton’s parents were watching. My dad and Kelsey started coaching us. They were telling us how to move to avoid an attack from the other. They thought of it as just practice. We t

After the communication with my dad, we offloaded the supplies we had brought. Jack gave us a quick orientation on how all the weapons worked. We got armed and battle ready. Carl gave us earpieces so that he could have communication with us since he would be leading us throughout the mission.He told us where to head as we exited the building. We gilt-ed from the facility and appeared on the surface over the building. I got on Ashton’s back and he used his super speed, ran as fast as he could heading in the direction that Carl had pointed us to. He gave us his spyware so that he could see where we were heading. We got near the ocean and we stopped.“Ok Carl. We have reached the ocean boundaries. Where do we go from here?” I asked.“Look to your right side. There are some cave-features that are facing the ocean. Get to them quickly”, he ordered.We managed to get there in record time by running, well Ashton ran while I was on

I woke up to a dimly lit room, again. I felt relaxed, perfectly recovered. I turned my head to my left side and found Ashton sleeping in the chair next to my bed, it really looked uncomfortable. I looked to my right side and found the room empty, except for Jack’s tab on the cyber-desk. I got up from the bed and walked to the desk. I took Jack’s tablet and tapped twice on the screen. Jack came around.“Hey kid! You’re up”, he said.His voice broke the quietness in the room. Ashton awoke with a start and quickly got to his feet. He got a head rush and quickly fell back on the chair. I got to him quickly with Jack still in my hand. I laughed at what had happened and kneeled next to his chair. I only realised then that I was in my pyjamas. Who could have put them on?“You’re okay?” I asked.He recovered and looked at me with tired eyes.“Yeah, I’m good. Just got startled by Jack’s voice

Composure was the new gnome in our lives, since having Ashton back in our daily lives seemed to be the main cure that got everyone hyped up all over again. Even Mya and Brendan seemed to be over the moon with how things turned out, turns out they were tired of having a more 'brooding Lina' day in and day out. It certainly felt great to have some calm in our lives again, not having to think of what to do to keep yourself busy from thinking about depressing events in our lives.The dangerous life we had been scared of more than half a year ago seemed to be a distant memory now. Having those kinds of dangers removed from our lives was relief that allowed us to have a normal life, apart from what we had to deal with in our private lives. Kyle Simpson had made us all keep our guards up at all times, more precautions were being taken so we wouldn't find ourselves in that kind of situation again.Ashton and his family had secured a big house with a large compound that allowed