Lunch was served a minute after we got downstairs. I grinned. Chicken fingers. I dug in. After I'd finished two out of the five on my plate, I turned to Dakota, who was chewing.

"Good?" I asked. He nodded. We chatted through lunch, about mindless things, mostly. I took my last bite of food half an hour later and gulped down the last of my water, taking a deep breath.

We stood up, synchronised. I walked out of the room and through the hall, Dakota just on my tail.

"Lindy?" someone- Maddi- called. I turned and started walking backwards. "Tonight. Not Tuesday." She disappeared back into the kitchen, and I frowned, facing forwards again.

"What was that about?" asked Dakota.

I shook my head. "Nothing. I don't know. She was probably thinking of someone else."

Why would she want the meeting to be tonight? Hopefully Terra would be on the Third Floor again, so I could sneak out unnoticed. And who else would even be there? Maddi, of course. She was the one organising the whole thing. Liam would be there too, seeing as he was involved with the Kitchen Thing, and I unceremoniously dubbed the group. They'd mentioned Abbot- or was it Dakota?- last meeting. Had they followed through with asking them? Would Adam be there? He was Maddi's twin, after all. Was there someone else I was forgetting?"

Shh, brain. Save your questions for tonight. When they can actually get answered.

Dakota yanked me to the side, and I stopped wondering without any help at all. "Did you mean to almost hit that wall?" he asked. "If so, I am very sorry for saving you a bruise on your forehead."

"I meant to hit it. Yup. I'm definitely the kind of person who likes getting hit in the head for no reason." I shoved him, and he stumbled, putting his hand over his chest. So dramatic.

"Excuse me? How am I supposed to know that? My power works for weather, not people's brains."

"And how am I supposed to know that?" Dakota shrugged, and we laughed the rest of the way back to our rooms. I lied down on my bed, smiling and thinking of Dakota.

Oh my god, did I have a crush on him? I rolled out of bed. I had invited him to lunch... And I was thinking of him a lot more than I had earlier this week... I shook my head. I couldn't, wouldn't start to like like Dakota. May I remind you that you are literally at Super School? The primary purpose of which is to learn how to use your powers? Not exactly to make friends, Lindy, or more-than-friends.

I shut my inner voice up and pulled out the rock from my suitcase. Terra was still at lunch, so I could look at it all I wanted to. Figure out what it was.

"Hey, Lindy," Sam said, barging in. I hastily closed my suitcase and shoved it under my bed, holding the rock behind me. "Could you help me with some of that homework? I don't really know how to write that essay..." Her voice faded and she looked beside me.

"Sure, I'll try. What's wrong?" She pointed, wide-eyed, to my right, and I moved the rock so that I was almost sitting on it. She moved her finger with it.

"Is that the rock? The one that they were searching for?" Sam clapped her hand over her mouth. "Oh my gods, Lindy, you stole it, didn't you."

"It wasn't me, I swear." And how did she figure it out from barely a glance exactly? "Someone gave it to me and told me to hide it. I swore on my power not to tell anyone I had it, but since you knew without me saying anything..." I quickly made an elastic, sighing when it actually worked. I stood up and held the rock out to Sam. "You're in on the secret now. May as well see it."

This was a bad idea, the tiny voice in my head said. A bad idea to let Sam hold it.

"No," I said. Sam looked at me weird, and I realized that I had actually said that aloud. I cursed my brain. She took it from my hands.

I jumped.

No, I didn't jump.

I hit the ceiling, but I didn't jump.