The Supernormal Legacy_Book 1_Dormant by LeeAnn McLennan

Author:LeeAnn McLennan [McLennan, LeeAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superheroes | Supervillains
Publisher: Not a Pipe Publishing
Published: 2018-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

For the next two weeks, I lived in a suspended state between tranquility and apprehension. Even though I was grounded and had to apologize to Mindy, which was awful, I felt free from the Brighthall family. No worries about training, no worries about not measuring up to my cousins, and no worries about telling Dad where I was after school. I could relax at home, play with Boo, complete all of my homework before dinner, and finish up the last book in a mystery series I was reading. My bruises from training healed, and I didn’t have any new ones to hide.

It helped that Portland’s usually dreary fall weather took a turn to really miserable, with a record number of cold, rainy days following one after another. I was giddy with relief that my afternoons didn’t consist of trekking to the warehouse, sweating for hours, and then going back out into the cold. Hunkering down at home, even though I didn’t have a choice, was much nicer.

I spent the day after I’d told the Brighthalls to get out of my life in fear they would come back and drag me to training somehow. When no one showed up at my door with a new training schedule, I was surprised they would let me go so easily. I had the same ‘now what’ feeling I would get once all the Christmas presents were opened, and I’d gotten the exact presents I wanted. There was no reason to feel let down; after all, I’d gotten what I asked for. I was free to be normal again.

Unfortunately, being normal meant I was dealing with the fallout from my fight with Mindy. The stupid steroids rumor would not die. Mindy’s gaggle of girls had made me their latest project – how many ways could they bully me without anyone in authority catching them? I couldn’t walk down the hall without whispered comments about my hair, my sense of style (or lack thereof), and my loss of Jack as a boyfriend. The last bit was what really stung. Jack and Mindy were a full-on couple, holding hands in the hallways, meeting for lunch, and walking home together after school – all activities I used to do with Jack. Every time I saw them together, I felt like everyone was staring at me and talking about how I’d lost the nicest, cutest guy in school.

At least I didn’t have to add tutoring Mindy to my list of grievances. So there was that.

I grew restless; my body was used to intense exercise, which I couldn’t get in our home gym even though we had pretty good equipment – an elliptical, a treadmill, and weights. The need to release energy started building up, and I found myself spending a couple of hours after school running on the treadmill and then lifting weights, all before Dad got home. Still, it wasn’t enough, and I had trouble sleeping.

I kept waiting for some sort of supernormal freak-out around me. Even if I hadn’t been grounded, I would have avoided public areas.

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