Captured and Revealed: Chap 7

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Adalyn's POV

The weekend was short lived as Cara and I walked through the front entrance of school on Monday morning. 

"Why are weekends always so short?" Cara grumbled before sipping on her coffee, "I mean the weekend should start on like, Friday."

"It still wouldn't be long enough." I told her taking her coffee from her to take a sip of my own, "egh what is that?"

"Low fat soy." Cara was back on some low carb diet again. It wouldn't last long, but I still tried to be supportive when she had moments like this. 

"That sounds disgusting and by the look on your face Adalyn it is disgusting." Simon stated joining us as we walked down the hallway. Cara rolled her eyes continuing to drink her coffee.

I looked down the hall as we stopped at my locker hoping to see Grayson. He was nowhere in sight. "Looking for someone?"

"Hmm?" I asked looking at Cara's expecting gaze.

"I don't know, someone tall, dark, super handsome?" I rolled my eyes at her statement grabbing my books quickly.

"I'm not looking for anyone." I told her. Simon just seemed confused at our banter.

"Okay hun." We all made our way to biology and my heart sped up at the sight of him. He looked away from the window catching my eye before staring back into space, "Your cheeks are going red." I shoved Cara's shoulder.

"Stop." I whispered giving her a smile.

I kept glancing over at him hoping to capture his gaze again, but I was left cold and disappointed. I was hoping for more of a reaction I guess, considering he had told me a couple days ago that he was of alien species and not from this planet.

I mean, all of them weren't from earth... It was a lot of information to process. I had questions. Many of them.

"Adalyn?" 

My head shot to the front of the room where the substitute teacher had called my name. 

"Um, Sorry. Here."

"Geez, Addy. Get your head out of your ass." Simon teased.

Looking back at Grayson, seeing his eyes were on me, made me feel hot inside. He gave me a simple smirk that would basically get any girl to do anything for him. God, I wanted to ask him so many things. Like why he looked so damn good.

Lunch came quickly, time seems to go faster when you aren't actually focusing in class. Abandoning Cara I marched into the cafe walking straight towards the table of aliens. Diara looked up shocked to see me, shooting Grayson a look.

Grayson smiled at me and motioned his hand for me to sit down.

"She isn't actually going to sit with us right?" Diara hissed.

I sat down just keeping my eyes on Grayson.

"I have questions." I blurted out. 

"I figured." He said picking at the food on his tray. I could feel Diara's eyes on me.

"What kind of abilities do you have? What's the name of your planet? What't the name of your race? Why are you so humanlike?"

Grayson chuckled. "Slow down Addy."

"YOU TOLD HER?" Diara hissed, "Grayson!" It was like the air around us crackled. Lights flickered causing many heads to shoot towards the ceiling. 

"Diara calm yourself. I had no choice." The way that she was holding the plastic fork made me think she was actually going to use it as a murder weapon.

"He's right Diara, Naveen tried to choke me. He knew what happened would cause me to ask questions. I won't tell anyone I promise-"

Then it was like I lost my will to speak. I kept opening my mouth but no words came forth. I reached to my throat closing it lightly around it. Declan joined our table causing me to shift closer to Grayson instinctively.

"Diara enough, give her back her voice." Grayson voice was filled with a warning edge.

Declan just gave me a look. His face still covered in confusion. 

"Naveen feels bad for what he did to you."

Did I just hear that inside my head?

"Declan, don't freak her out." Grayson took hold of my hand causing me to relax, "One of our abilities is to speak to other people's minds. We usually use it to communicate with one another."

"Why do you guys look so human?" I asked him staring into his eyes.

"I feel like there are many species that look very human-like, we are technically Acdians as we come from the planet Acda. We look human on the outside but a doctor would freak out if they took a look inside. My planet's environment was much harsher than here. As a species, we actually have thirteen layers of skin, compared to your seven. We can also breathe through our skin."

"We also have two sets of lungs." Zahara cut in as she sat down at the table.

I tried processing this information but it was so logically messed up. Were they from a different solar system? 

"Basically, we need different ways of breathing because of massive dusts storms, breathing underwater-" 

"Wait you can breathe underwater?!" I exclaimed cutting him off. Grayson chuckled causing me to blush.

Diara was so furious she stood from the table and left the cafeteria all together, Zahara followed after her giving me a quick sorry.

"Don't worry about her." Declan spoke inside my head. Now that I thought about I had never heard Declan speak, like ever. Not even in class.

"Okay-What else is different about you?"

"We can see in the dark" Declan told me, "And we have super powers."

"Like what?" I asked my eyes shifting between the two of them at the table. Grayson smiled.

"It may be better to show you."

Grayson's POV 

We took Adalyn to the warehouse. I knew Raymond was going to kill me, I mean if he got to me before Diara did. Adalyn seemed excited to learn everything about us. I didn't know if I should be worried about it, but my instincts weren't fighting against me this time.

I held the door open for her and watched her practically skip inside.

"Is this a good idea?" Declan asked me before entering through the open door. 

"I don't know Declan. But I think we can trust her."

"Is this about you bonding with her? You know you can't be with her. Not only will you putting her in danger, but also your whole family and your race."  He was right, but I would worry about that later.

"I know Declan."

"What are you going to do? Breaking bonds are difficult, especially if you didn't choose it. Your body chose her, it's going to be hard to break that connection."

I didn't know what to say. Declan knew this as he just entered into the warehouse without another word. Adalyn was in amaze as she looked towards the ceiling, trying to take every inch in. Raymond had certainly outdone himself with this, it must have cost him a fortune.

"You would have no idea it looked like this on the inside if you just saw the outside." she said, still taking in all of her surroundings. The white aesthetic in my opinion was a little overbearing.

"That was kind of the point." I told her with a chuckle, "Would you like to see some of the things we can do?" I watched her simply nod her head taking a seat on one of the benches that I gestured to. 

"Well every person on our planet has the same abilities, however each of us usually show the most power in one ability. For example, Titus, my younger brother, has the ability to heal basically everything. I have the same ability to heal someone, however it would drain me physically and very quickly. Titus won't get drained in the same way or as quickly."

Declan stood on the other side on the room across from me. Adalyn's body was pulsing with excitement. Declan's eyes began to glow as he got ready to charge towards me.

We launched forward faster than human eyes can track. Smashing into one another caused sparks to fly in different directions. I pushed a force wave from my palms as Declan shot across the room barely landing on his feet.

"Okay, what just happened there? All I saw was light."

I chuckled. "We can move at the speed of light. We are also super strong."

"I got that. But how did he launch across the room."

That was hard to explain, "I guess in a sense we have strong energy forces inside of us. With enough control we can project them. That's why we cause power outages. Our energy currents interfere with normal electricity. Another reason we can manipulate it." Her brows furrowed together.

"So that night- when I came to see you-" 

I walked over to her as Declan made himself scarce, "That night you came to see me, I was infected with a serum that my kind is allergic to. The people that experimented on us came up with it to- control us and to harm us." I paused giving her a chance to process everything, "my abilities were messed up. I mean, my toothbrush almost murdered me." This got her to laugh a bit. Seeing her laugh made me smile.

"Telepathy is another gift I am guessing. You were the one that caused the nacho cheese incident? Not to mention, the papers in the hall?" I nodded and laughed.

"Yeah that was me. You know you still kind of smell like cheese."

"What?! No way!" She subconsciously smelled her hair.

"I'm joking." She shoved my shoulder.

"Don't scare me like that." She was worried about her scent and her appearance when she was around me, I had started to notice subtle ticks.

"What? It's not like you have to impress me. I happen to like the smell of rotting cheese." She just rolled her eyes at my comment. 

"I should probably get home before my mom freaks out." I didn't want her to go just yet, but she had a point. 

I stood to my feet and held out my hand to help her to hers. When our skin came in contact my cells themselves heated. I became aware of every detail of her face. How her eyes stared into mine. How her pupils dilated more. How her lips parted.

I pulled my hand out of hers and came back to Earth.

"Come on let's get you home."

~

Declan was quiet the whole ride home. Everyone was already home preparing for dinner when we strolled through the front door. Naveen couldn't even look me in the face.

Adalyn choking came into my mind making me angry but I pushed it down to help with dinner. I was hoping deep down he had a reason. He was my brother after all.

"Where's Kavita?" Diara asked as we all sat down.

Panic shot through me. I couldn't sense her aura anywhere, but I got a clear image of Amya with a smirk on her face appear in my head.

"You hurt her and I'll-"

"Is that a promise?"

With that she was gone.

And Kavita wasn't safe.

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