It's a secret. Really, it began as a lie, but then it became a secret. If I trust you enough, I might tell you at some point, but really, it's a secret. None of my crew knew or will hopefully ever know about it. 956Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1DDwgOutp
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I arrived at school with a knot in my stomach. I knew if I asked, I'd give away my secret. If I didn't ask, then one of them would probably stop the rotation of planet Earth, swinging the top layer of rock into space, and catapulting the moon into Venus, which would be awesome to see anywhere but on the Earth, Earth's moon, or Venus. I was going to set up an observatory on Mars. Not that I was going to – yeah, that would have been my first plan of action. Sorry, Earthlings.
When I met up at our meeting place in the center courtyard of the school, nobody was showing any signs of omnipotence or irregularity. I hoped it hadn't started yet, and I would be the first one, despite the odds.
"What is the thing you hate most?" Jack asked. I looked at him, curious. "You know, like the one thing you just can’t like."
"When lies don't come true," I said. There was no way he would know what that meant, but it was still funny to see his expression.
"Do you lie often?" he asked, confused.
"If it comes true, it's not a lie," I said slyly. He looked quite shocked. I smiled.
Jason tapped me on the shoulder. "What's Newton's equation for gravity?" he asked me.
I looked around to see if the strength of gravity was changing anywhere around me. "I’m not sure off the top of my head. Do you want me to look it up?" I'm smart, but I didn't take physics in 9th grade.
"That's fine. Aaron wanted to know if you did."
I shot Aaron an obscene gesture. He shot it back, a snide smile spreading on his face.
"Do you know what the strength of gravity is here?" I shouted at him.
Suddenly, my backpack felt heavier. My legs were tired already, and I groaned. "You're first?"
Aaron's smile disappeared. "Wait. What do you mean? How did you know?" he asked. "Did you cause this?"
I realized why I didn't notice Aaron's omnipotence. He was like that, more or less, all the time. "We're all going to be like this. And yes, I control this." He put the gravity beneath my feet back to normal.
"Of course it was you," he said, walking away with Jason. I tried to look powerful and snide, things I usually weren't, so that it'd look like I could return his threats.
Typical. Of course, I could start and end it at any time I wanted, and I could even stick everything into deep suspension, but I couldn’t chose how it unfolded. That was beyond the thing beyond my power. Beyond my secret.
There was nothing strange about my first class. The speed of light didn't change, and the movements of objects didn't seem out of place. Either Aaron was being nice, which was probably somewhat plausible, or that Aaron only had power over a small area around him, for now, which meant I needed to get my power soon.
I tried throwing a fork at the wall with as little power as possible. It just fell. No luck on modifying air resistance or friction. Same story with the water in my water bottle, which was a wave, and light which was a particle and a wave. It just wasn't happening for me. I shouldn't have included Aaron.
During passing period, Jason was able to slide across the floor, negating friction.
"Are you just removing friction, or are you changing the strength?" I asked him. He slid on concrete in the center courtyard of the school.
"I think it's just strength." He pointed at my feet and suddenly, my shoes felt grippier.
"Cool," I said. Jason gripped the railing of a staircase and started climbing the wall.
"What's more powerful?" Aaron asked, walking up to us. "Friction or gravity?" He started pulling at the gravity under the climbing Jason. Jason tried compensating, struggling to stick to the wall.
Finally, Jason slipped. In panic, Aaron sent Jason into zero-g, making him float there in midair, as if gravity had no effect. More accurately, he negated the curvature of space-time at that spot.
"Gravity wins," I whispered. The bell rang. Because we were only a-holes to each other, Aaron let Jason down lightly. If I had been up there, he would have let me die.
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