8 8. Sweet Love

Chapter 8

Gilly finished explaining what happened to Henry while Ryela sat quietly in a chair. "That's an interesting story you got there." Henry hesitated. Gilly got up and to leave, and gave Ryela a dirty look as he walked out.

Ryela shiver down in her seat some more. She kept her breath and didn't move as she sat in Henry's office in silent. She battled in her head whether or not to speak as thoughts blowed through her mind.

"Do you have anything to say?" Henry questioned.

Ryela shook her head and looked back down, but finally had the courage to say something."Am-" her voice tightened "-am I in trouble?"

"No, you were just defending yourself. I'll have a word with Jake after this, but other than that don't trouble yourself over him, okay?" Henry got up to excuse Ryela but she didn't move. So he stopped and looked at her troubled. "Are you okay, Ryela?"

"That's all?" She faltered.

"What?"

"That's all you want? Nothing else. No punishment?" her voice cracked painfully.

''No of course. You did nothing wrong. You are free to leave." He explained opening the door. She slowly got out of the chair and made her way to the door.      "Training started thirty minutes ago, so you can head on down, and stay out of trouble."

He shut the door and pulled out his phone. He typed in a number, and his phone started ringing. No one picked up until the third ring.-Hello?- A voice spoke up. "Hey, Ann. I just talked to Ryela-" -Oh how did it go?- "just fine, everything was good, but something is up with her. She looked terrified of me when I was talking to her. She didn't say a single word. Then when Gillian walked out I thought she was going to make a panic attack." -Oh that's awful! She must still think poorly of us.- "I think she needs a guidance counselor or something like that." -I can get that arranged.- "She just so….different. I still don't know about her, know don't get mad, but I still don't trust her." -And you wonder why she don't like us… Listen Hun, this won't work if you don't help open up. Just trust me you wont regret it.- "Okay, I'll try." Alright, I got to go, Hun. "Ok, love you, and be safe." -I will, love you, bye.-

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Ryela made her way around to her friends. They were in the block Telekinesis, and they seemed to just have started it.

"Hey, Ryles." Marly exclaimed giving her a hug. She leaned in close and whispered,"So sorry, we tried getting Jake removed from our group but we can't since he's new."

"Nah, it's cool girl. If he pisses me off I'll just kick him to the curb." Ryela whispered back.

"Okay, okay. I see that confidence."

The kids walked up to the Block and a lady explained the directions. "There will be multiple things light to heavy you must pick up without using hands. You can use other abilities if you don't have specifically Telekinesis. That will be the first level. Second level we will have your team split up into two equal groups and use your ability to get this soccer ball to the other side, but you can only use Telekinesis or other abilities revolved around that. Understood?"

"Yes ma'am." Everyone chimed in.

Natalie went first and she used her wind ability to hold it in the air, she was ably to hold all of them up lightest to heaviest in the amount of time required. After Natalie, Izon went up. He tried, but the only thing that moved the pencil was the breeze blowing. Then up next was Jake. He tried using fire to hold up his object but ended up burning it to a crisp. The kids broke out in laughter as his object sat on the ground toasted black.

"What's so funny, huh?!" Jake yelled.

"Look in a mirror." Marly fired back as she walked past him.

"You wanna run that by me again?" Jake threatened.

"Ugh, really? Clean out your freakin ears. She just said 'Look in a mirror' dimwit." Izon smirked. Jake was so mad that his eyes were about to burst out fire, but before he could a coach came up and stopped him.

"If you wanna fight do it after my shift, so I'm not responsible, okay? Other than that Ryela your up."

She slowly made her way up and stood on a square. Ryela forcefully gulped down her fear and looked around. Gabe gave her a thumbs up as Marly yelled, "You got this girl."

She finally choked up some confidence to use her ability; not a lot but just enough. She gave a hard, focused stare at the objects and they started to rise up. She snapped off her ability in shock.

"You betta go boo, yeah!" Marly went up to Ryela and patted her on the shoulder.

"I honestly so surprised that happened." Ryela muttered.

The kids went through almost every Block and Ryela opened up just a little to use her ability. She kept on working on her abilities and tried to control them instead of letting her emotions override. But after a long day of training the kids got hungry.

"I'm starving!" Izon declared, "Wait! We missed lunch?!"

"Looks like it, and I agree let's take a break and get some food." Gabe insisted.

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"Oh…" Ryela munched on her food, "My…" She took another big bite, "Lord…This taste so good!"

"It's literally just a BLT." Natalie informed.

"Wait, is know one going to mention how she just outwardly spoke, with whispering?" Izon informed.

"I think it's just the bacon talking." laughed Gabe.

"Remind me to say thank you to the person that created sweet… crunchy...sweet bacon, please." Ryela muttered.

"I think she had too much bacon." Nathalie giggled.

"She is definitely in a food coma right now." protested Marly as Ryela's head dropped on the table. The squad started laughing, joking, and enjoying there BLT. And while Ryela was practically unconsciousness the team would mess with her or take her bacon.

BAM!

Jake slapped his hand on the table right next to Ryela. She jerked her head up and snapped out of it almost instantly.

"Hey pest!" He yelled grabbing Ryela's arm and forcefully pulling her up. "I couldn't fight you before, but I can now!"

"Listen, Jake, I can give one blow of wind and your little hot head will be out." Natalie provoked. Standing up

He rolled his eyes ignoring her comment. "You don't know who your dealing with, princess. I could take you down in a heartbeat." Jake threatened.

Gabe bulted up and pushed him back. "Can we not do this. Either one of us can take you down single handedly. Especially, Ryela. So just chill, okay?"

"If she's so great, why don't she stand up for herself? Oh that's right… you never give her the opportunity in the first place…"

"I did not come here to fight, but to get my life straight. I think you should take that advice for yourself." Ryela turned around to walk off when Jake raised his hand.

"Not this time." He barked. He cocked it back far and was read to launch.

"Oh yes this time." Gilly said grabbing his arm and handcuffing him. There was four other guards behind Gilly. "Take 'em." so two of them escorted Jake to Main Office.

"Don't think I'm surprised at your 'act of bravery' okay, Hart." Gilly barked. "Just because you didn't kill him doesn't mean I'll be easy on you." He scolded.

Without a response, she looked down in fear.

"I'll try and keep him cooled down throughout the day tomorrow. But if anything happens, if you so happen to cross a line, don't think for a second I won't take you in. Understood?"

"O- ok.." She tried avoiding eye contact with Gilly and the moment became quite.

"Excuse me? It's 'yes sir' for you!" He commanded.

"Gillian." interfered Gabe, "She gets it."

"Good." Gilly walked by Ryela and gave a intense glare.

"What's his problem?" Marly walked over to Ryela.

"He hates me… doesn't he?" Ryela fretted.

"No of course not, he's just… on the rough side."

"Way on the rough side." Ryela scoughed.

"Someone's edgy."

"I just don't like guards, okay. I had a bad past with them."

"So you hate all guards now?" questioned Natalie.

"No… but him him specifically yes…"

"Oh and why's that?" Izon provoked playfully.

"You tell me.. Why would I hate the man that told Gabe to leave me to bleed out...and then when I survived he dragged me into a room and force me to talk...then accuse me of lying to where I get stabbed in a neck with a needle..." Ryela shivered in fear then she grabbed her plate.

"Eh, now I see your point." agreed Izon.

"Wow, someone has a grudge." Marly

said giving Ryela a concerning look.

"I'm fine. I got bacon." Ryela walled over to the bar and stacked it with bacon.

"What are you doing?" Natalie asked.

"It's a snack."

"You know you'll run out, right? Gabe questioned, "And you can't go get more at night because guards will get suspicious."

"I will find a way… love always finds a way." Ryela reassured as she took a big bite out of bacon and walked off.

"Well, good night." Gabe speculated as she kept on walking.

"Good night." Ryela mumbled with her mouth full of bacon.

"Waking her up is gonna be fun." Marly groined.

Ryela tried saying something but instantly choked on bacon. So quickly the girls caught up to her laughing and joking the whole way.