Day Four, Short Story Challenge - Telepaths

     Was it wrong that I kicked him? I think I was right. He did get in my face, yelling about how I was a slut and a whore. What? I turn you down because you’re a jerk and suddenly I’m a whore? Seems fair… So, I kicked him in the shin and walked off. I wasn’t in the mood for dealing with people like him. One jackass in my life was enough. Who is this jackass? My brother, Logan. Love him, hate him, can’t be a twin without him. Pissed? “How could you tell?” I grinned. My brother and I have a wonderful telepathic link where we can talk to each other, in our heads. Only catch is, we have to actually talk for the other to hear. Makes everyone around us think we’re crazy. Thank god for Bluetooth headsets. Though sometimes, when we’re closer, thinking our thoughts works. Totally helps for tests. Yeah, we may have cheated on one or two. Call it a feeling. Who was it this time? “Just Matt. Asked me out and I said no. Then he called me a whore.” That would do it. Hey! I have tickets to the Red tonight! You’re totally going! “What? No!” The ‘Red’ was a club that most of our high school hung out at. Some of the bands that play there started at my school. Most sucked, in my opinion. Seriously? I’m dragging you to this one. You still owe me for the Sam incident! Right… This guy named Sam, another boy from my school, hit on me. Again, I said no, but instead of calling me a whore like Matt, Sam thought it would be better to keep insisting. When he cornered me in the locker room, I ‘called’ Logan and he kicked him away from the door so I could make a break for it. “Jerk…” You still love me sis! I could practically see his grin.

     Come nine, we were both at our table with Logan’s girlfriend. Me being my typical loner self. “Come on Lisa, go dance. Maybe you’ll find a decent guy.” I leveled a glare on my brother. He already dragged me here, I so wan’t going to entertain him with my craptastic dancing.
“He’s kidding. But do you want something to drink? I’m out of soda and am as thirsty as a camel in the desert.”
My eyebrow rose. Marie always had weird ways of describing things. “Um, yeah. I’ll go get us something.” I hurried to the bar before Logan could start joking about dancing again. You forgot to ask what we wanted. “So?” Get Marie a Sprite and me a Coke. I’ll pay you back later. “Whatever.” The bartender finally noticed me. “Two Sprites and a Coke!” He nodded and I waited for him to fill the glasses. Glancing out over the crowd, I saw a lot of people from school, none of which I wanted to hang out with. Even Matt was here, lovely. Grabbing the glasses, I made my way back toward the table, only to be bumped into halfway there, dropping a glass of Sprite. “Hey!” I glared at the guy who was staring at me. He was taller than me, had brown hair, green eyes, and probably played some kind of sport. He definitely had the body for it.
“Sorry. It was an accident, swear.” He threw a glare behind him at two other guys.
“Buy me another and I won’t complain.” He chuckled. “Sure. What was it?”
“Sprite.”
“Got it.” And he went over to the bar. Maybe there was a decent person here.
Returning to my table, I saw Logan’s eyebrow raise. “Only one Sprite?” Pointing my thumb toward the bar, I glanced over. The guy I bumped into was grabbing a glass. He turned, looked around, but when his eyes landed on me, his grin widened.
“As promised.”
“Thanks.” I took the glass from him.
“Mind if I sit with you?” He didn’t take his eyes off me, but I glanced at Logan and Marie. Marie’s eyes were wide and Logan, well, he had a grin on his face.
“Sure?” Did I just answer with a question? Better yet, did I want him sitting next to me? When he slid onto the chair next to mine, I decided, yes, I want him sitting there. He was cute. “So, um, what’s your name?”
“Ian. You?”
“Lisa.” I pointed. “And that’s Marie and Logan, my brother.”
Ian finally looked away from me. “Nice to meet you.”
“Same.” Logan glanced at me, I shrugged. Seriously?
I rolled my eyes. What? He caused me to drop a glass, so he bought me a new one.
Marie placed her hand on Logan’s shoulder. “I feel like dancing.” Then she insisted he join her. After a few glances my way and me not helping him stay, Logan gave up and joined Marie.
“Do you dance?”
I stared at Ian. “Oh, um, no. I don’t. I’m terrible.”
He grinned. “I doubt that. Come on!” Taking my hand, Ian guided me from my seat and onto the dance floor. I was nervous as hell, but when Ian placed his hand on my waist and his other on my shoulder, it seemed that the world around us melted away. It was just the two of us in the music. Strange how he managed to relax me. Maybe I was just too uptight normally and this was just how I was supposed to be. I liked being around him. Even the accident earlier, I wasn’t mad. I’m gonna go with those green eyes of his, they were beyond mesmerizing. If it was true about the eyes being the window to someone’s soul, then Ian must be all kinds of good. You’re so beautiful. I turned my head, searching for Logan. Idiot wasn’t going to mess with me tonight. Ian’s hand rested on my cheek, pulling my attention back toward him. His brow was furrowed slightly. You can hear me? This time I jumped, stepping back.
“What the hell?” Too freaky. Only person I can communicate with is my brother. What the hell are you doing? I had to really focus on pointing my thoughts at Ian. If I didn’t, I was certain Logan would be over here in an instant.
Nothing.
“Right….” I felt my glare.
“I noticed you and your brother, so I assumed.” His grin widened. “Guess I was right.”
Loser.
But you think I’m cute. Bastard. Jerk picked up my thoughts. Stepping away, I stormed off the dance floor. This was not happening. There was no one else I could communicate with telepathically except Logan and I was going to keep it that way. “Lisa! Wait!” Great, he caught up with me before I could step outside. “Can we just talk for a bit?”
“With words?”
“Vocal if you prefer.”
“Fine.” At least I’ll have only my thoughts to hear.

     We stood in a corner of the club. My eyes kept straying to the dance floor watching Logan and Marie dance. I swear those two were made for each other. “Lisa, you and your brother aren’t the only ones who can communicate.” Ian tapped his head. “There are others, like me.”
“Then how did you find us?” I was getting a weird feeling. If there were others, why haven’t we seen any until now.
“Took a lot of work, but twins typically have this ability.”
“So you’re a twin?”
“No, but my mother was and that’s how we think I got it. There’s a group of us that live in the mountains. I would like for you and Logan to join us.”
“What?” Hell no! I’m not leaving my home! He blinked back at me, surprised that I was yelling inside his head. We have a life here!
“I know, but we telepaths need to stick together. There are people out there that hunt us down as abominations of nature.” Ok, now I was a little concerned. “Please, it’s for your safety.”
“I need to talk to Logan first.” Though, I will admit, it might be fun to have someone else to throw thoughts around with.