Forever Changed - By Jamie Gibson Page 0,44

the driveway looking into the woods. I was not really thinking about what I was doing, but I closed my eyes, threw my arms out, as if I were flying, and inhaled. I inhaled slowly and deep. I felt the heat on my face and then felt as the flames engulfed my body. I kept breathing in and deep. I stood there doing this for five minutes, then I dropped to my knees.

I heard footsteps running from behind me and I slowly opened my eyes. The fire was gone. I had inhaled every bit of it into my body. The trees didn’t look burnt, there was no smoldering fire, and there was no smoke. I looked in shock at what I had just done.

“Wow, Elizabeth, how did you know what to do? How did you know you had that power? Are you ok? You look a little pale.” My parents and Landon were talking all at once in their excited voices. I responded with mumbles and blubbers, back at their concerns and questions. I was in complete shock. How did I do that? It was amazing.

I looked up at each one of them, meeting their eyes. They had squatted next to me, touching me to make sure, I myself, was not on fire or if I was ok.

“I am not sure I am ready to try the next one of my powers.” I said.

“Elizabeth, you just inhaled the woods full of fire. You did that because you were scared. This was unexpected by any of us.” My father said slowly and gently. “We thought you were going to die, Elizabeth. Your whole body was blazing while you sucked in the fire. Now my mind is curious about what else you can do.”

“I am afraid to try. I was scared someone would see it and then bust us all.” I said with a frown. “I was afraid, we would be taken to jail for starting a fire. If that were to happen then the Dark Lord would take us all, one at a time.”

My father shook his head with empathy. “You took care of it. Now we have to see your other strengths, we are running out of time.”

“Ok, but this next one we have to do outside and I want everyone to stand far back, away from me. I think that if I can draw fire to my body and absorb it, then I can also release it.” I said getting to my feet. Landon pecked me on the lips with a quick kiss and my father patted me on the shoulder. They ran to the other side of the driveway.

With them watching, I got into position. I spread my feet a little a part. Opened my arms as if to fly and this time I didn’t need my family to piss me off. I could become pissed off at the blink of an eye, just like my father. So, I pushed myself to get extremely pissed and felt my eyes grow hot. I felt the pain and the burning through my body and down to my toes. I slowly pushed more anger out of my body and watched as flames sparked out of me. I was a walking fire ball. Covered in flames from head to toe, that of course is what my family sees and what other people would see.

I walked around and then started running; everywhere I ran I left a streak of fire behind me. This was so fun and so awesome, but it felt natural and so good to release the build up inside me. It felt like sex when you finally reached your climax and released. This is what it felt like, wonderful and amazing.

I twirled around in a circle and danced around the driveway. I couldn’t hear anything, but the roar that was behind the flames. I saw my family looking at me, in amazement and laughing at me as I danced around in the fire I created with just my body.

As quickly as it came out, I quickly pulled it all back in. The flames disappeared; my clothes were not melted or burned on to my body. My hair was not singed from my scalp and not a strand was out of place. I loved it.

I walked toward the house and my family was laughing at me. My father said quietly, who seemed to be lost in thought, “I wonder what else you can do, Elizabeth.”

“Oh Mitch, I think that is enough