"Matt, are you okay? You seem a little off," said Lara.
And he was. Matt didn't know what was going on. Yesterday, he was able to control Lara's emotions, though he only toyed with that briefly. Today, they were sitting in a cafe, having a nice lunch, and Matt thought it might be fun to get her a little excited in public. But nothing.
He woke up late, not having any classes to attend to that day. It was about 12:00 when he finally left his crappy apartment. He got a call from Lara (they exchanged information the day before) and they met up at that little cafe to get to know each other better. Matt was a sexually frustrated guy, but he certainly wasn't past dating. The problem was, it was Shelby he wanted, not Lara. But everyone deserves a chance.
Even so, she was a very tempting girl. His libido got the best of him, and he delved into her mind. He could listen just fine, but there was nothing he could touch. She was in control of her own mind.
"Yeah, fine." he replied.
"You don't sound fine." There was concern in Lara's voice.
He was barely listening. "How could that power just disappear?" he thought to himself. He eventually let it go, and started to drift back to reality.
He was just listening to Lara talk about herself for a while. She may have looked interesting from the moment he met her, but that didn't match her as much as he'd thought. She spoke strangely, as if there was no filter for what she decided to say. She would go on tangents, and some of her sentences didn't really make sense.
"I think my favorite animal are cats- catwoman, bad movie, you seen it? Halle Berry. Blehck! I don't like cheesecake- cows, are they really happier in California?"
It was almost like she was a different person from the one he met yesterday. "Maybe it was just my powers that made her interesting..."
He felt bad for it, but he wanted to leave. Then came the message.
"Matt? Matt, is this you?" said a bodiless voice.
Matt looked around the cafe. Nobody was talking to him but Lara.
"Matt, I'm speaking to you in your mind. This is Yanni, from Chemistry. Can you hear me?"
"Uh... yeah," he thought.
"Great. Listen, I tried talking to you a few hours ago, but I guess you were sleeping. Can you come to the Science Building in half an hour? I need to talk to you."
"What for?" he asked skeptically.
"It's best if I tell you in person."
Then it hit him. How is this happening? She must have powers too! But how could that be? The explosion... that must be it.
"Okay. I'm in the middle of something, can you give me a hand in escaping?" he said, now anxious for the answers.
"Sure, how can I help?"
"Call me. 555-1138. Got it?" There was no response. But ten seconds later, his Star Wars ringtone went off.
"Sorry, I've got to take this," he told Lara. "Hey, what's up. Oh my gosh, are you serious? I'll be right there!"
Without a word to Lara, he jumped out of his seat and left. She stood up to speak, but sank back down into her chair. Now she had to pay for the whole lunch.
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Matt arrived at the Science building at 1:30. Yanni was waiting for him in the cafeteria. She seemed pretty confident to him, surprising, especially after the incident in class the ay before. He sat down with her.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Quite a bit. We can start talking about it once Kerry arrives."
"Kerry? She's involved too?" And that is when she showed up, looking rather disappointed. Earlier that morning, she had an amazing sexual experience. Yanni spoke to her telepathically, telling her to meet up here. She had plenty of time before needing to arrive, so she went back to her dorm to get some release. But nothing worked. No matter how hard she worked herself, no orgasm would come.
"Hey," she said somberly.
"Okay, let's talk," said Yanni. "That explosion yesterday gave me powers. I'm not sure how or why, but it did. I've discovered that I can control people's minds, and I can speak telepathically. I can also listen to people's thoughts. For example, Matt you're thinking about..." she searched his mind, but nothing came up. "Funny, I can't read you." She looked around the room and picked a different target. A busy looking student with a laptop. "...which can be expressed as a+bi..." so it still worked. "I guess I can't read you two. You must have powers also. Would you like to tell me about it?"
Matt spoke first. "Yesterday I could do the mind control thing too, but that seems to be gone today. But I know I've had telekinesis. That hasn't changed. Watch." He looked over to the refrigerators with the Gatorades and Vitamin Waters and whatnot, and made the doors open and close a few times. "I can still read thoughts, too."
Yanni looked impressed. Then she looked at Kerry.
"I'm sorry, this is all very overwhelming. I thought I was the only one," she said in her cute Texas accent. "But if you must know, I can do quite a few things. It started with freezing time-"
"So that was you," Matt said. Yanni gave him a look for interrupting. "Sorry, go on."
"Then I was able to change things about my body. Other people's too. I didn't know about the reading minds thing."
"Would you like to give it a try?" Yanni asked.
Kerry looked around. Across the room was a professor, eating alone and seemingly grading papers. She tried her best. To her surprise, she heard from the aged mind,"How I could use a harlot right now. Oh the things I would..." Kerry got shivers from the utter creepiness and stopped listening.
"Yeah, I've got that."
"Have any of them faded?" Yanni asked further.
"Well, I did the time freezing thing this morning. Let me check the body thing. Mind if I use you?" she directed at Yanni.
"Not at all." And with that, Yanni's cute and short hair started to grow. It reached shoulder length. She smiled and started playing with it a bit. "Oh my gosh this is so cute!" Fortunately, nobody had noticed.
Matt cleared his throat. "Ahem. What did you bring us here for, Yanni?"
"Hm? Oh! Right. I think these powers could be useful if we work together, don't you think?