Chapter 37

MIKE

It had been about a week or so since we had discovered our powers, or, I guess I should say; they discovered us. Not going to lie, being able to light things on fire was awesome, even better was it only burned what I directed it to. I hadn’t known to control it, just naturally happened. When the flames sparked on the trees, I willed them not to burn, they had not. I had been playing with this and learned that the flames were an extension of my will, and I could burn or simply protect in a sense, as when my flames enveloped but did not burn, anything that threatened the object they were on would be burnt to a crisp. CeCelia had been the one who discovered this as my flames were hanging out on a tree while I was practicing, she decided to toss her coke can into the mix, just to see. Boy that thing went up in flames and before we could even register what happened it was gone, like the fire had eaten it. That had been a