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there.” Charlotte smiled.

“Andrew’s telepathic, Maggie.” She explained in that melodic voice of hers. “He read your mind. That’s why we think you’ve been fainting.”

“It only happens outside, right?” Andrew asked. I opened my mouth, but he nodded his head. “Or in rooms with extremely bright light.” He explained to Charlotte. My mouth stayed open, not believing he had known that.

“Ok then.” Cameron said, her voice slow and a little bit freaked out. “If you’re a telepath, then what’s Charlotte?” Andrew glared at Cameron, even though she didn’t say anything to offend him. I figured that she might have called Charlotte “the crazy one” in her head again.

“I can control metal.” Charlotte said, holding up on of her metallic rings. It slowly melted in her hand and changed into another ring, then another and another. My breathing near stopped at seeing such a feat. How could this be possible? My mind started spinning, like whenever I fainted.

“Maggie? Maggie, stay with us!” I blinked a few times to see Andrew standing next to me, holding my shoulders to keep me upright. His face was right next to mine. I immediately recalled my dream, but tried to think of something else, now that I knew he could read my mind.

“Sorry.” I said, shakily. “It’s funny, usually it happens at least once before lunch time…”
“It must be all that pent up energy.” Charlotte mused, clasping her ringed hands together. “And it didn’t happen earlier because you gave so much of it to the room, that’s why they can’t turn off.”

“But the announcer said that its costing the school money, meaning it was drawing from the incoming energy.” Andrew said, sitting back next to his girlfriend. “Though, possibly when it ran out of her stored energy, it began working normally, only it’s not hooked up to the wall switch…” Maggie raised her eyebrows at him, as if she was asking him a question. “That’s a good idea…Yes, there is that-“

“Wait a second.” Cam cut it. “What about my powers?” She was irritated, verging on angry. In her position, I would have been as well. How come I had the powers and she didn’t?

“We don’t know about them.” Charlotte said, not making an effort to comfort her this time. “The only reason we knew about Maggie’s is because she turned on the lights when they shouldn’t work, and now they’re acting unusually. We don’t even know yet, we are just speculating.”

“Couldn’t you ‘speculate’ about mine?” Her voice was nearing a shriek, she was so upset.

“Cam, we don’t know anything. I’m sorry.” She took a shaky breath, which made it sound like she was going to cry. Then she glared at her brother.

“How did you even know about your powers? How did you meet her? When did this all happen? And why didn’t you tell me?” She demanded, her eyes close to tears. Andrew stared her down.

“We’ve never been close, Cam.” He said, his voice even. “Why would I tell you something like this? You never trusted me enough to tell me what you did when you went to your summer camp. Why should I tell you what happened when I went to mine?” Cam’s face turned bright red.

“What’s he talking about, Cam?” I asked her.

“Nothing. It’s nothing.” She said, glaring at her brother.

“That’s right, it’s nothing.” Charlotte said, her mellow voice easing the tense air. She was also glaring at Andrew, probably scolding him in her head. “It’s over, anyway. We’ll explain as much as we can, if we could get together at Cameron’s and Andrew’s house after school?”

“Of course.” I said.

“No,” Andrew said, his voice much more relaxed now, “we need to fix the lights, before the school finds out that Maggie lock picked her way in there. We’ll meet in front of Ms. Oswald’s classroom after school.”

“Okay.” I nodded. All three of us looked over at the still upset Cameron, who nodded.
“Then it’s agreed.” Charlotte smiled her strange smile and stood. A few seconds later the bell rang.