Dreams

It was a dream. Luna had been levitating me too much during my waking life that it crossed into my sleep. We had both been practicing using our powers all day, everyday, for weeks and Luna had gotten good enough to lift me off the ground while doing other things. She rarely stopped levitating me and I had gotten used to not having ground beneath my feet.

Her mom got annoyed with having me floating around everywhere, so Luna levitated Franklin instead. He immediately asked her mom to let Luna go back to levitating me and she only gave in when Luna started making her hair fly in random directions.

Back to my dream though. I was floating. I could feel cool air around me. I went higher and higher into the air. Then something hit my head with a thud and I fell to the ground, waking up the moment I hit the mattress. Luna jumped and nonsense began spilling out of her mouth.

It took me a few minutes to adjust back to reality. I looked around the small room Luna and I had been sharing. It seemed strange to me. I had been high above everything just a minute before. And one thought had been very strong in my mind as I drifted through the sky. One emotion. I had felt like that feeling was what lifted me off the ground.

Luna was still blubbering when I had truly awoken. I looked at her carefully. Had I really been floating or was it just a dream? If I really had been, had Luna done it? She would have been giggling if she had done it. She was far from giggling.

"Luna?" I whispered. She shook her head and crawled into the corner and curled up into a ball. I had no idea what to make of her strange behavior. Drowsiness overcame me before I could think much about it. Dreams of flying, not floating, but actually flying, through the sky consumed my mind.


"Luna! Not while she sleeps!" Luna's mom was saying.

"I'm not doing that, Mom!" Luna snapped back, "Go ahead, read my stupid mind! I'm not doing it!" I didn't want to wake up. I had been having a good dream. Luna and I had flown out of the atmosphere and gravity no longer applied. I smiled. Then I fell and hit the mattress, as I had been doing every morning for over a week now.

"Every night?" Luna's mom said quietly to her daughter. Luna nodded and then looked at me concerned. The room was spinning slightly. Luna's mom gaze pierced me and I got a headache. I knew she had to be reading my mind. My brain turned on suddenly.

"Hey! My head! Stay out!" I blurted and scrambled backward, my face turning bright red. Luna's mom smirked.

"I'm not going to say anything. It's not like it's news to me or anything," she laughed. Luna looked puzzled; I looked more than just annoyed. The mattress became extremely cold and Luna's started shivering.

"Emma!" Luna said. I could see her breath. I exhaled and saw my own. Luna's mom laughed again, giving me a look that made me turn even redder, if that were possible. I forced myself to calm down and the room grew warmer.

"You do realize you're completely mental, right, Emma?" Luna's mom laughed. I would have sworn my face was literally on fire. "C'mon, Franklin's burning pancakes again." She walked out, still smirking. Luna looked at me, clearly wondering what her mom had found in my mind, then turned and followed her mom out. I didn't get up at first. Stupid telepath. Of course, she had been reading my mind for years without me even knowing. And, the thought suddenly occurred to me, she had been reading Luna's mind for years too. An idea hit me and I jumped up and followed the smell of burnt pancakes to the kitchen.

"Good morning!" I said happily as I walked in.

"Jeeze, Em. You were sulking a minute ago and now you're a little ray of sunshine. What are you, bipolar?" Luna laughed. I rolled my eyes at her and took the plate Franklin was handing me. Luna's mom was still smirking and whispered something to Franklin. He looked between Luna and I and then smirked too.

"And you're not?" I laughed. My pancakes suddenly flew off my plate and landed on Luna's. I rolled my eyes.

"What? I'm hungry."

"You want cold pancakes?"

"Don't be stupid. Your pancakes are always the warmest. You're always warm." A weird feeling appeared in my stomach and spread through my body momentarily. I couldn't help but smile and I felt my feet leave the ground.

"Hey! Put me down!" I laughed, the weird feeling not leaving.

"I'm not doing that," Luna said quietly. I fell back down suddenly and stumbled as I hit the ground. The feeling disappeared as quickly as it came. Luna looked scared.

"Uh, Franklin, why don't you go take Luna to help her work some more?" Luna's mom said quickly. Her smirk was gone. Franklin grabbed Luna's arm and took her out of the kitchen. "Emma," she said slowly. She reached out her hand and placed it on my head and instead of the headache I expected, I just felt numbness. I felt drowsy and my legs gave way suddenly. She caught me and then I began to dream.


It was a cold, misty night. Luna and I were standing in a forest clearing, laughing. Luna used her powers to lift me up into the air. Moonlight shone on her soft blonde hair and she smiled.

"I wish I could be up there with you," Luna said in a voice that sounded more like music than speech. I reached out my hand toward her.

"You can." I grabbed her tiny hand carefully and lifted her into the air. She wrapped her arms around my neck and we floated higher and higher into the air until the forest became just a tiny speck below us.

"Emma," another voice said softly. My eyes fluttered open. I was back in the kitchen. I floated in the air for a moment but then gravity discovered me and pulled me straight down to the earth. Luckily, Luna's mom caught me and set me down on solid ground carefully.

"Was I--?" I said quickly.

"Defying gravity?" she finished. "Yes."

"But . . . I mean, how?"

"Don't ask me things I don't know the answer to, Emma."

"You made me do it though. You knew. You know how I've done everything I've done."

"No, Emma, I don't. You freeze things when you get scared. You heal things when you're concerned and feeling sympathetic. You float when you dream. All I did was help you dream. I don't know what really does it though."

"You saw what I dreamt last night, didn't you?" I felt my cheeks flush slightly.

"Only what you could still remember. Look, I'm not going to get involved in whatever you may dream about. Relax. You may want to learn how to lock me out though because you make it very clear who you care about and if anyone else got a hold of that information, things could get dangerous for all of us."

"I'm a danger to all of you, aren't I?" I knew I was, but I also knew she wouldn't admit to it lest I get up and leave like I had considered doing. I didn't want to put their lives in danger any more than I already was just by knowing them. Luna's mom treated me as if I was her own daughter and I knew she wouldn't let me run off on my own. She had only sent me to Franklin because she knew she would be coming after me shortly.

"We're each a danger to each other, but we're all in more danger alone. Emma, you've saved my daughter's life twice, and Franklin's and mine once now. You can't just run away because you're scared you might hurt someone. Without you, all three of us would be dead by now. Luna needs you to stay here." I sighed and looked at my hands carefully. I closed my eyes and tried to remember my dream. Gravity slowly lost its hold and the ground and my feet parted.