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[b][code]Grand Ridge Academy - Conference Room.[/code][/b]
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"[color=c4df9b]You're welcome, I think you're the first person to thank me for that. Your name is Britney, isn't it?[/color]"

[i]Funny, the things you found out in a group.[/i]
He had wanted to spark a reaction and he [i]had[/i]. It was like a ripple effect had gone through the gathered students. It made him feel powerful, if only for a moment. Billy was the first person to 'fess up to his marking, it was nice that he was so honest about it. It was a little comforting too, he [i]knew[/i] and he [i]pretty much[/i] liked Billy. They weren't best buddies or anything but they talked every so often. 

When Billy introduced himself properly and pointed out Rita for stealing his bong, Martin gave her a curious glance. He had known about her weed escapade, he'd witnessed the whole event but he hadn't known she'd gotten it from [i]Billy[/i]. Now, Martin wasn't big into substance abuse, save for a beer or two at the ocasional party, but he hadn't ever taken Billy for the type to spike weed. It just seemed very out of character for him.

Of course, Martin didn't know everything about Billy but he didn't [i]think[/i] he was malicious. Nonetheless, he didn't blame Rita for being kind of nervy in response if she believed he gave her jacked up weed. Martin could feel her hand squeezing his knee and he rested his hand on her arm lightly, a touch that was meant to translate that he understood.

Sometimes it seemed like they had a kind of nonverbal language, he was generally pretty good at reading Rita and he assumed that she was good at reading him too. When she put her new truth power to work on Billy, he couldn't help but feeling his hair stand on end. The dream had resonated with him too and he swallowed thickly, feeling the anxiety from earlier returning to him in a fury.

He responded to Rita in an undertone that was meant only for her to hear. "[color=c4df9b][i]I forgot to talk about that yesterday, me and Hagan had that dream too.[/i][/color]"

Speaking of Hagan, he couldn't help but wondering what was holding the big guy up. He knew that support groups didn't really seem like Hagan's [i]thing[/i] but he was making groundbreaking discoveries here.

Aliana was getting more anxious by the moment, something about Martin and Billy both being so glaringly open about this stuff made her feel unnervingly [i]wrong[/i]. Next thing she knew, this room would turn into a bunch of teenagers having a pissing contest for [i]best powers[/i]. It had already sort of began when the kid with the blue hair mentioned that they had pulled a butterfly from thin air. She didn't doubt ([i]him? her?[/i]) in the slightest, not after she'd been invisible.

The albino chick challenged the blue-haired kid immediately, not daring to believe that there was some way that the kid had done magic. She could practically [i]feel[/i] herself sinking into her chair. She knew that Penny wanted to plead the fifth on this and she wasn't going to mess that up but it was getting pretty clear that they weren't the only people with something extraordinary happening to them. 

Martin had noticed that Tuyen had agreed to having shared the dream but had chosen not to relay any other information. It was only through deduction that he guessed that she had some kind of mark that she didn't want to talk about. He wasn't going to be the guy to push her but he was curious nonetheless. This whole thing was just making him maddeningly curious.

[i]What kind of phenomenon made kids develop super powers?[/i]

Claire had rolled her shirt up to show her marking off, she'd done it with a kind of reckless dignity that he admired. He wasn't about to tell her that he found it admirable but he did, she seemed like she genuinely didn't care if they all knew or not. If she hadn't been such a jerk to Rita then he might have been inclined to like her. When she addressed the events at the end of camp, he was suddenly far less excited about all of this. 

He [i]did[/i] remember the burst of light, it was like a demonic firework and it had nearly given him a heart attack.

"[color=c4df9b]I wish I didn't remember it,[/color]" he responded earnestly, "[color=c4df9b]I've been actively trying to forget that whole night but there must be something up with my ability to disassociate.[/color]"
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