1:55 PM WEDNESDAY 2 DAYS TILL THE WORLD ENDS

"Hi Chloe." The way my old best friend said it was the same way Chase has said my name- humorless and spiteful.

"Jazzy..I, uh, I..." I stampered. Holy Cow this was akward.

"Your sorry?" She offered rolling her eyes. "You came to apologize? or gloat? or even ask for help?"

I rubbed the back of my neck. "No, I mean yes. I-I just...I'm sorry?"

She looked at me like Dude-really-thats-your-best? "Chloe, Your freaking superpowered! Thought you might want to tell me before you caught me on fire and killed two people?"

I know I visibly pale. killed. I had killed two people and boiled my best friend. "k-k-killed?" I moaned.

"Yeah." She spit. "They're nothing but ashes on the pavement. You could have warned me. Told me 'hey I'm going to catch fire now' or something." I opened my mouth to reply but she kept talking. "I can't believe you didn't tell me! We were best friends! You think that somewhere along the line Shooting Fire would come up. I keep trying to figure out why you didn't tell me. And then I gave up! I gave up trying to figure you out and I most definitely gave up being your friend! Chloe Ester Doodley, I hope you burn in Hell!"

I looked at Jazzy. We'd been friends for as long as I could remember but for the first time I really looked at her. And it made me angry.

"Oh yeah Jazzy? Well get this, Jazzy. I didn't know about my freaking powers! You deserved to be burned for thinking like that. You wanna know what happened? My dad decided he wasn't going to be with us when the world implodes, my brother stayed hooked up to vidoe games, my mom acted like nothing in this world was wrong, and you Jazzy would not SHUT UP ABOUT ANYTHING! The world is going to end and I'm the only person who freaking cares!

"Then this mess happens and I'm alone! I can't trust a single person out here! Chase tried to kill me, James blamed his life on me, My parents are out of reach, I'm wanted for murder, and you can't even pretend you didn't call the police earlier!" I shouted. My hair was on fire. I don't even know how I knew but yeah it was.

Jazzy stumbled back a gruesome look of anger plastered on her face. "You're a freak Doodley! You never should have come here. I've got two days left and I'm glad you won't be apart of them." As soon as she hissed it police sirens jabbed through the air, alarmingly close.

I took to steps back and one more look at Jazzy and I ripped off the Best Friends penitent on my necklace. It was one of the half hearts that I hadn't taken off since she gave it to me. Somehow it hadn't melted any of the times I went up in flames. I threw it at her feet with a glare.

"I may be the one who catches fire and burns objects but your the monster." I said icily.

Then I turned and ran. I knew I wasn't going to get very far on foot but I also wasn't going to wait for a bunch of donut loving people to freeze me to death with fire existgishers.

Suddenly a hot rod red car swerved onto the curb in front of me. Good news: it wasn't a police car. Bad news: it was blocking my way. The windows were tinted so I couldn't see inside.

Four police cars turned down the street. The red car made that noise of the doors unlocking. So let's see, I could stay here and be caught for who knows what or I could get in the car with who knows who and possibly get away or get in a car chase that ends in death.

"I had a good life." I muttered and threw the door open and jumped in. The car started moving before I had closed the door all the way.

"Hey Katiness," my stomach dropped. "put out those flames before you melt your get away car."

"What are you doing?" I demanded strapping the passenger seat belt on and running a hand through my flames to put them out.

"Me? I'm saving your butt." Chase said irritated. "Ivy? She's drawling a panda wrestling with a waffle."

I checked the back seat surprised to see the black haired receptionist laying across the seats with a sketch book in hand. She didn't look up when she said hi but at that moment I really couldn't care less.

"Why are you trying to help me when you almost killed me last night?" I asked glaring at him. He took a sharp turn left and nearly chased into a couple of trash cans.

"You've got to believe me when I say I didn't do that." he said staring dead ahead. I scoffed.

"Yeah and who did? a figment of my imagination?" Chase turned another corner hard and gunned the engine. The police cars were still on our tail.

"It wasn't me, Chloe! I don't know how but it was like someone was controling me." He sped through a red light and swerved around a pick up truck. someone honked their horn at us.

"Someone hypnotized the hypnotist?" I pondered. "Is that even possible?"

"Appearently." He grunted and did a three-sixty turn. "I just came to apologize. It wasnt me and I'm going to to everything I can you help you figure out who it is."

"Thanks but no thanks." I said hotly.

Chase turned so fast it threw me into the window. "I wasn't giving you an option Katiness."

"Neither was I!" my voice rose a little.

"Chase stop turning so fast!" Ivy yelled through our argument. "Your messing up my lines!" Neither of us paid her any attention.

"Too bad Flames! Despite what you think your in danger. And its real!" For a split second he tore his eyes off the road and looked at me. His entire left side of his face was burned but it wasn't that bad.

"I don't pretend it isn't!" I yelled back.

"But you do!" he jerked on the wheel. Geez where did this guy learn to drive? "You run off and catch fire and then someone else gets hurt! I bet you didn't notice Wendy's hands were burned becuase she tried to put out the fire you put on my face! You made James mad because he finally had the girl of his dreams in his arms and you just had to walk in! You broke Jazzy twice, once when you caught fire and left her and again when you told her basically she was annoying."

"How-?"

"You forget that I'm a telepath and not only can I read your mind but I can feel your friends emotions!" Chase spit. "I know you don't want my freaking help but your getting it."

With that he pulled the cat to a stop and parked it in a parking space outside Oakland Apartments. He opened his door and got out leaving me to wonder how he knew where I wanted to go. Some how we had lost the police cars.

"Here." Ivy handed me a black pair of sunglasses that had a diamond design on the corners. I put them on. "Oh and these." She tossed me a hair tie and I put my hair up. Then Ivy giggled and slammed a hat on over it. I sighed. We got out of the car and joined Chase looking up at the building. It was exceptionally normal looking.

Chase whistled. "I know I ask this every time we come here but how do you think he pays for this?"

"No clue."Ivy murmured.

"You've been here before?"

"Yeah." They said it together and didn't bother emphasizing.

"Let's do this." I took a deep breath and trudged up to the buttons. I pressed #12 and waited for the answer.