It was dark, at least outside. The night was moonless and dark, heavy clouds covered the stars and wind howled outside her room, causing the trees to tap on the window. Kaya didn’t even notice. Inside her room she had a beside tale lamp on, giving the room a soft yellow light as she lay on her bed, reading. Perhaps she poured too much of her time into reading, some certainly thought so. But so much of her power came from theory, from knowledge and she wouldn’t be nearly as good as she was now without it.

Not that many people realised or acknowledged her as being all that powerful, since she mostly refused to use her powers unless she wanted to and never against others even though her parents had told her it was alright to use them in self defence. It was just a personal principal. So absorbed in her book she didn’t realise how late she’d stayed up until the sun began peeking through her window. Getting up the girl yawned tiredly and closed the blinds and sank into bed, turning the light off and quickly falling asleep. It wasn’t an overly restful sleep, however as her alarm woke her up a few hours later.

Confused Kaya sat up, rubbing her eyes and yawning again and looked at the clock. She didn’t remember setting an alarm until she realised what day it was. The last day of vacation had been yesterday. Her last year of school had completely snuck up on her. Climbing reluctantly out of bed the girl walked back over to her curtains and opened them, taking out the white board from beside her windowsill she wrote a quick ‘good morning’ and left it leant against the window before heading off to have a shower.

Bryant occupied the room across from hers in the house next door and they’d taken to communicating via writing messages and flashing them through the windows a long time ago. She couldn’t remember exactly, it had been a long time ago though she was sure. The water did little to wake her up further and Grace returned to her room, dressed and headed downstairs. The house was quiet, she guessed her mother had already left for work and it made her realise she probably could have set her alarm a little earlier. She hadn't given herself much time to get ready at all.

Toast to go it was. Hauling her bag, which was probably much too heavy, over her shoulder Kaya quickly hurried out of the house, making sure to lock the door behind her she paused for a moment, looking over to the house next to her she frowned for a moment, wondering where Bryant was. They usually walked to school together… did he get sick of waiting for her and go ahead?