Fiction Friday: Chapter Seven

The girls knew they had a problem. As Shelby described the man, as she told them he had binoculars and a gun, as she told them how angry he looked as he talked on the phone, they knew they had a problem. They went into the house. There was a little daylight left in the day, but they suddenly didn't want to be in their yard anymore.

Sierra took the feather up to her room. For now she just covered it with blankets. She had to think but her mind was racing too fast to figure out what they needed to do. In a minute, Savannah walked not the room and closed the door behind her.

"We are in trouble," Savannah said.

"Should be tell mom and dad?"

"No. In the comics whenever they tall other people, those people get hurt or killed."

"We could just give him the feather."

"But we know about it. I don't think just giving it to him will work."

"Then what do we do? I can turn invisible. Shelby can see through walls, Sienna can make money and you, well I don't know what you can do. We can't stop bullets. We are in real trouble."

"We need another wish."

They both jumped when a sudden knocking happened on the door. It was Dad, he s just trying to make sure everything was Ok. He checked the room, making sure it was clean. He looked at them with suspicion. He knew they were up to something. The twins said they were just talking. He crossed his arms, looked at the shelves filled with books, the wrinkles on the made beds, the things hanging out of the closet. He nodded, not committing to saing he believed them, said Ok and left.

"I'll text Sarah," Sierra said, thinking about her older cousin that lived down the street, "I'll see if she can meet tonight."

Shelby and Sienna played in the basement. Every once in a while, Shelby would look through the walls to where the man was, if he moved, she was ready to tell her sisters. Sienna all but forgot about her power or the man for a while, she played on the computer.

Sierra had turned invisible, grabbed the feather and made her way outside. It was hard to go unnoticed. The stairs creaked, brining Mom up the stairs. Sierra stood still in the dining room and watched her Mom look out into the street, then lock the front door. As soon as her mom went back downstairs, she went through the garage to the backyard. She could see Savannah looking out the window.

Sarah was wearing her blue letter jacket. The evening had turned cool. When Sierra materialized beside her, her eyes got as wide as saucers and she almost screamed. It took, too long to explain everything. Sarah had tons of questions, about the feather, how much money Sienna could make, details on the man. She understood what she needed to do, but she could hardly believe it.

Shelby watched through the wall as her sister talked to her cousin. She hoped this worked. It was then she looked to where the man had been napping. He was gone. He was coming down the street. "No!" she thought, "He's going to be here too soon.".

She tried to get out of bed quietly. She could hear the TV on downstairs. She went to the bedroom next door and told Savannah what was going on.

"Not so fast" the deep voice said, alerting the girls to the man's presence. His huge shadow blocked out all the light from the outside. They could see his gun in the golden glow of the letters on the wall. "I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt. Why don't you just had over that feather, and we can be done here."

Savannah swung as hard as she could, hitting the man in the back of the head with stick. The man tripped forward and the stick broke. His gun skittered to the back of the shed, falling from his hand. For a big guy, he was fast. He recovered almost immediately and wheeled around. He had murder in his eyes. Savannah steeped back, but tripped over the plastic bucket in the yard. In a second the man had her by the throat.

She could hear her heart racing as she lost her breath. Then it happened, something in her vision changed. She thought of the feather, and she could see a where it was, like it was highlighted in blue and had trails going to it from all directions. She thought of Sienna and the trails and highlighting shifts and she could tell the exact direction she was in and how far away. She was being killed, but she couldn't stop using this power. She found the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel tower and Disney World, before the world started to go black.

It was then the man was struck by lightening.