Sunrise

"Hayley? I wand you to try something. Consider it, training of sorts." She finally looked at me. "It's night time and there's no moon tonight. Your power over the darkness will be at its strongest point on these nights, like my power over the light is strongest in the middle of a clear sky day." "And?" "Well, water makes your fire weak, the night makes your darkness strong. I'm suggesting, find that fire inside you and use your powers of the darkness to protect it. Use the darkness to shield that fire." "How am I meant to do that?" She asked. "I don't know," I said with a shrug. "But we're the girls who define the term 'impossible'. We're simply not meant to exist, so if we're impossible, why wouldn't we be able to do the hardest of tasks?" I sat on the edge of the pool, the water still only reaching my ankles, and just let myself relax. I knew I wouldn't be able to relax for long, but just for now, but just for now, I let myself do just that. Pool water may make me feel sick, but any form of water managed to calm me down; as if my troubles and worries floated away. But being so relaxed made my mind fly to things I didn't want to think about. Like Marcus and Jordan Holmes. I hadn't seen any of the family since I had visited Marcus in hospital, and I wasn't sure how he was. I guess Jordan would have come to visit me at work one day if something horrible had happened. Wouldn't he? Then again, why just to a conclusion like that? We'd only ever talked those two times and the time between those I was saving his life from the clutches of death. And that was just in one day. I believed, I had to, that Marcus would have been fine. The pink light thing went into his body like it had Jordan, so he must have been okay. So why hadn't any of them visited me? "Now who's worrying?" Hayley chuckled. "Come down, Rose. Really. Everything'll be okay. They probably just don't have any time, or maybe, Jordan just got too sick of you pushing him away so much in one day that he got the message and is leaving you alone." "I just wish they'd tell me if Marcus was okay." "Well, think about it this way, if he had died, it would have been on the news last week, but it wasn't, so you can calm down. They're probably too busy trying to explain their children's miracle healing, and not to mention the creepy recovery of the two comatose victims of the crash." "Something they will never be able to explain, as well." "Jordan can," Hayley said just before she dove into the water and swam up to me. Her normally green eyes were black and sure that startled me a little, but even the black had the friendly light in them as Hayley's eyes always did. "But we know he'd never." "We don't know that for certain-" "Rose, seriously!" She yelled before she splashed me. Luckily for me, my body absorbs water; I could give in fully clothes and emerge dry as a bone, just not my clothes. "You weren't inside his head. It was different. I've heard people in love before and believe me, it's disgusting. All the images of kissing and cuddling and all the sappy romantic thoughts, just, ew!” I couldn't help but chuckle at her a little. "But Jordan's head wasn't like that at all. He... he wasn't thinking of kissing you or cuddling you or anything like that. He wasn't thinking of ways he could be with you in every way meaningful. And yet, all he could think of was you. He saw things about you in those ten minutes in your store that I haven't in all the times we've met. Straight away he saw the age in your eyes, straight away he saw the strength in your shoulders, he saw... what else... I remember him thinking only about how he missed your brown eyes when you saved his life. His exact thought was, 'always reminding me of the ocean. Hazelnut eyes are better' and I think that's pretty dang cute-" "Hayley, I've only known him for a day." "And yet you saved his life and his brothers. And both of you feel as if you've known each other for eternity."