"So, I'll be fire, Sarah will be ice, Jen will be wind and Nora will be earth", Cassidy exclaimed excitedly.
"No way I'm getting wind! You all get cool powers and I'm stuck with wind?!" Jen pouted.
"Then choose whatever you want. You got here late so we already picked what we wanted." Sarah sneered. She was getting sick of having to wait for Jen every recess and wouldn't pass up the chance to remind everyone of it.
"Fine, I'll be a vampire. Which totally beats ice by the way", She laughed and bared her teeth at her friends.
"Being a vampire isn't a power", Nora muttered.
"Who cares? Now can we finally start playing?" Cass whined. She had invented the "game" they were playing, which was basically just the four of them imagining they had magical abilities. The others weren't as enthusiastic as Cass, but they were 7 years old and didn't have much to do with their time, so there was no harm in playing along.
Maybe if they had refused to play, everything would have gone down differently.
Maybe this was the moment it all started.
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Fuego
Science FictionSometimes, you just know something is going to happen. Sometimes, that something actually does happen. Sometimes, it doesn't. Usually, that knowing feeling goes away. In my case, it's still burning strong inside me. Speaking of burning... Cassid...
