Deeper

My first day away from Indiana was very lonely. I didn't know anyone, and I am very different from everyone else. "Mom, why did we have to leave Indiana?" I asked while she was still driving. "There were, uh some complications, Alex." She said never looking away from the road. I didn't get what she meant, but I just left it at that. I could see y dad looking at me strangely through the side mirror on the car door.
I didn't say anything, so I just closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. I awoke suddenly when I heard my mothers car horn. I raised my arms up to grab on to the cars ceiling, but before I grabbed anything, a giant dome like bubble appeared around the car, and the big truck didn't crash into us. We were all confused about it, but then we all noticed that it was coming from me! "Congratulations Alex! You got your third power, only one to go." My brother said from behind.
"Mom, when are we getting to the new place?" I asked her. My arms were starting to get a little tired from raising them. "We should be there in about 10 minutes. Oh, and sweetie?" I looked at her. "Yes mom?" I answered. "You can put your arms down." She winked at me. I put my arms down, and I could feel my strength weakening. So I sat back in my chair, and went back to sleep. When we arrived at the new place, I got out of the ca and ran to the moving truck.
I got the box with all my notebooks and papers, then I ran to the house, up the stairs and into my new room. My bed wasn't up yet, so I sat on the floor and opened the box. Before I left, I remembered Blake gave me a note and told me to read it when I got to the new place. After I read it, tears filled my eyes with hate and depression. I was so sad I couldn't believe what I had just read. I crumpled the note up and threw it across the room.
"Alex! Come down here!" My dad called up. I wiped the tears from eyes. "Alright, I'll be down in a minute!" I called down. I closed the box, then ran downstairs. "What do you need dad?" I asked him trying to hide the fact that I was crying. "I need you to start unloading the truck while we go to the store." My dad said opening the car door. "Can I go with you guys?" I asked him looking a little confused. "Well darling, we don't want to cause a scene if anything goes wrong." He said winking. "Oh alright." I moaned.
My dad got in the car and I watched them drive away. I walked over to the truck and I grabbed a box and then walked out of the truck. I sort of stumbled on my own feet and dropped the box. "Oh shoot!" I yelled kneeling down. I was beginning to pick things up when I shadow blocked the sun. "I'm pretty sure you can't use this anymore." The boy said holding up my moms broken vase. "Dang, my mom's going to be so mad at me!" I said getting up and taking what was left of the vase from him. "I'm Keegan." He said when I took the vase. "I'm Alex. I'll be right back, let me throw this away." I said starting to walk away.
When I got throwing the vase away, Keegan walked through the door with the box I dropped. "It looks like you can use some help." He said smiling. "Well thank you." I said smiling back. We walked back out to the truck while talking about everything. Music, photography, nature, etc. We had so many things in common. When we got the fifth box in the house, we sat down and just talked. I guess we both forgot about unoading the truck. When my parents and brother came back, they looked kind of disappointed in me. "Uh mom, dad? This is Keegan. He lives across the street and was helping me unpack." I told them standing up. "Well it doesn't look like you guys were unpacking." My mom said. "Well we were, then we just took a little break." My dad scowled at me. "Keegan I think it's time for you to go home now." My dad said pointing to the door. "Yes sir."
"Bye Alex." Keegan said hugging me then left. "Bye." I looked down. "Alex you will finish bringing your boxes up to your room, then you will go downstairs to the lair and practice your new power with you mother." My dad said. "But dad I'm a vampire. I don't need "practice"." I told him. He just looked at me. "Fine." I mumbled walking out the door......

-By Ryley Kvamme
Age 12