hows the weather? (mia)

[Alexis Erickson]

Sunshine danced across Alexis’ bed through the flowing curtains, carrying in fresh air from the beautiful day outside. She shimmied into her shorts and stepped into her sandals scanning the room for her elusive key. Alexis had the terrible habit of throwing her room key down without much thought, then in turn leaving her searching for it later on. In the corner of her eye a ray of sunlight caught on the metallic surface causing it to twinkle on her desk beneath a mangled mess of headphone wires. With a sigh of relief she swiped it up, accidently jarring Kalia’s cage with her elbow. “Sorry baby girl,” she cooed to the startled ferret. Alexis reached for the bag of treats on her desk and offered one to Kalia as an apology, whom took it happily. Content with the blissful pet she made her way out of the dorm room and toward the training field.

The sky was bright blue, dotted with a few fluffy white clouds. It really was the ideal day to spend outside. When Alexis reached the training field she wasn’t surprised by the groups of students that occupied various spots engaged in each other. Who would pass up such nice weather. Besides it gave Lexi an excellent chance to perfect her new technique. After finding a decent stretch that had more than enough room for her to work comfortably, Alexis kicked aside her sandals and set her feet into the cool grass. She noticed that through her kinetic grip to the earth beneath her she could sense vibrations of whoever was around. She twisted her feet back and forth, causing the grass and dirt to sink slightly allowing for an impression of her feet. Controlling earth was so easy now compared to her first years at Hammel. Now some things barely even required her thought. It came with a lot of practice.

Alexis closed her eyes and left it to the ground to see for her. She could feel almost everyone on the grass. The kids roughhousing in the corner, whoms vibrations were the strongest of all, the ones just idly standing around shifting their weight now and then, the ones who were laying around. She took a peek around to see how accurate she was having misread a couple of signals. Lexi was still very happy with how well this was coming along and a grin tugged at her lips. Alexis had been so focused on the people in front of her that she was started by the presence of someone behind her, noted by the sudden change under her soles. Jumping with a sharp intake of breath she twisted to see the girl, who was sharing the free section of field. She placed a hand on her heart and let her breathing become rhythmic again. “You scared me,” she laughed. Maybe she wasn’t as good at this whole vibration bit as she thought.

[Mia Bell]

Mia stepped onto the training field. Again she was flipping lost, somehow she always got lost and ending up in the training field. She never meant to come here. She really needed to get a map of the school or get like a guide or something, because she really felt like getting lost was starting to get old. She groaned as she looked at the field where she didn’t even want to be.

She looked around everyone was with someone else, messing around. She rolled her eyes; doing it more out of jealousy than anything else. She looked at a couple kissing in the distance and sighed. There is was the pain in her chest and even more jealousy. Mia shook her head and tilted her head to the side seeing a girl not even with anyone. Was she practicing her powers? She looked up at the sky seeing it get cloudy with her presence. She was feeling a bit sad now, thanks to people reminding her of her past.

Mia pushed her feelings deep inside her and although that didn’t change the sky turning gray at least she could hope people wouldn’t link the weather to her. She approached the Brunette from behind, hoping she wouldn’t scare the girl.

Mia bit her bottom lip when the girl turned around and she put her hands up. “Sorry! Sorry, I totally didn’t mean to. I was just… “Wondering if it was a good idea to say she was lost, she sighed heavily “I’m lost.. This wasn’t where I wanted to be.. But now I can’t remember where I even wanted to go..” She forgets things like that easily. This was the second time she ended up lost on the training field and scaring someone. Though at least this time it wasn’t raining but if she didn’t stop being inwardly sad it would soon start to. She gave her shy smile.

[Alexis Erickson]

Alexis stepped out of her foot holds, glancing down with the wave of her hand causing the indented grass to return to its original state. She didn’t exactly recognize the girl, but could’ve sworn she saw that vibrant pink hair somewhere before. She was actually very pretty, though much shorter than Alexis, the lost uncertainty that shadowed her expression didn’t suit her as well as the small smile she was now supporting. The girl was probably a year younger and potentially a newer student. It would explain why Lexi didn’t really know who she was. All the same a warm friendly smile was now tugging at her lips. It was just in her nature to try and make others feel welcome.

“Don’t worry about it,” she beamed. “I’m Alexis, but call me Lexi. You can totally hang out here with me until you figure out where you want to go,” she offered in a kind tone. New friends were one of her favorite things. It was always exciting to get to know someone for the first time. This girl seemed nice. A tad shy, but very nice. Alexis had run into her fair share of less than pleasant students around campus, and It was always a delight to come across someone who was kind.

Alexis took a seat on the grass and crossed her legs. She looked up and patted the ground next to her with a grin. A cold shiver ran up her spine, causing goose bumps to form on her arms. She rubbed them and looked up to realize that the lack of warmth was due to the excess amount of clouds blocking the sun. “That’s strange,” she said squinting at the sky, “There was hardly a cloud just a few minutes ago.”

[Mia Bell]

Mia tilted her head as she watched the other girl fix the grass by just a wave of her hand. She wondered if controlling plants was her power. She didn’t recognize the girl at all, though granted even if she had seen the girl around the school she still probably wouldn’t recognize the girl unless they had actually met. And she was sure they hadn’t. She noticed the girl was taller than she was, then again most girls were either taller than her or the same height. Considering she was only five foot four inches. She noticed the girl was quite pretty, she liked her hair, even though it was average looking it still suited her. Mia could never pull off long hair, her face wasn’t right for it. Not to mention the fact she really didn’t like having long hair; she found it too annoying.

Mia gave the girl a full smile, that was warm and friendly. She nodded “Right. I’m Mia. Thank you, I would love to hang around for a bit.” It wasn’t like she was in a hurry. If she were, she wouldn’t have forgotten about it. At least not as easily, now that she was thinking about it, she had wanted to go get ice cream. That was probably where she wanted to go. But she much rather make a new friend. She liked making friends as long as they didn’t get too close to her. She was a very complicated girl. Lexi did seem nice also, outgoing; Mia liked outgoing people. She didn’t have to feel weird about being outgoing herself, and she wouldn’t make anyone feel uncomfortable either.

Mia smiled and sat next to Lexi also crossing her legs. She followed the girl’s gaze up to the sky. She squinted and gave a heavy sigh. “yeah sorry about that.” She pointed to the sky “I haven’t gotten a hang of making it not do that..” She saw all the grumpy faces everyone else was making because of the sky and felt kind of bad for ruining their sunny day. She scratched the back of her head and looked the girl. “It seems dark clouds always follow me around… Sorry..”

[Alexis Erickson]

“No way! That’s so cool.” Alexis lent back on her hands to study the clouds as they slid along the sky in the wind. She pondered the ability to control weather, or even just the movement of the clouds. It would be very beneficial. Sunny days at the flick of your wrist, if it were at all like Terrakinesis anyway, and rain whenever you desired it. Eventually Lexi’s mind caught up with her mouth and she quickly recovered, “I mean manipulating the weather. “ It wasn’t very often that she spoke without thinking first, but whenever she did someone usually ended up confused. She was still partially engrossed with the possibilities changing the weather.

So Mia was still getting used to it. Alexis could remember when she first came to Hammel. One wrong move and there would be dirt and rocks everywhere. It was scary not being in control. You didn’t know what could happen, it was all really unstable and unreliable. Basically you were unpredictable even to yourself. It wasn’t the greatest thing in the world and she found herself feeling bad for Mia. Maybe she would be able to help her out.

“You know, I was pretty bad at that,” she began still watching the clouds. “Everywhere I went there would be dirt flying all over the place,” she laughed, “It was a while before I got used to it. Now it’s almost second nature.” Alexis tilted her head to look at Mia, grinning widely. “Once you find you groove it gets a lot easier, trust me.” That was probably the hardest part of training for her, finding the right way to go about it. It wasn’t long before training became her way to get out anger and sadness, kind of like a diary just much more explosive. It was her outlet, and it was safe. In that way her abilities became a very personal thing.

Leaning forward Alexis held her hand over the ground, bringing her thumb and middle finger together as if pinching something. Through the grass slithered a small amount of dirt. She opened her hand, palm facing the sky, working the floating soil into her palm. She tilted her wrist and watched the dirt fall back to the ground. “I could try and help you get into the swing of things, if you’d like?” She asked glancing at Mia, still smiling.

[Mia Bell]

Mia shrugged “If you mean getting rained on a lot cool.. Than yeah I guess it is..” She watched the sky as it got darker and then looked around as everybody headed inside because of the bad weather she had caused. She scratched her head a bit. She really didn’t see it as cool. Considering her power was linked to her emotions and she felt vulnerable that way. She didn’t like people being able to tell her emotions by the weather. She gave the girl a wink and smiled “I knew what you were talking about.” Mia herself tended to speak before thinking. It wasn’t something that she thought about to hard so it wasn’t something she was ever going to change.


Mia looked at the other girl, interested. “dirt? What power do you have?” She pretty much figured everyone sucked at controlling their powers when they first got them. Which would be the reason for coming to this school in the first place. She would be grateful for all the help she can get with her powers. She sighed “I can’t wait till it becomes second nature for me..” It was hard yes, but she was up for the challenge. “groove?” She hadn’t heard anyone use that word in years. It made her giggle. “If only I can find my ‘groove’.” The question was how was she supposed to? Her power was already personal to her, considering it was linked to her emotions more so than most powers were.

Mia watched as she controlled the dirt. “Woah.. That is SO cool. I wish I could do that…” She smiled at the girl “Would you really help me?” This girl seemed really nice, and really cool. It seemed Mia was about to make yet another friend here at Hammel. Which she didn’t mind one bit.