Land before the Uprising I

Every time i look back at my old posts it just makes me smile. In someways while reading it i feel like a 50 year old woman looking at her high school senior yearbook and it other ways, i feel like i'm living it all over again. When i read my post from last night, i truly didn't give you all the details i would have liked, but it's going to take more than one posts to bring you guys up-to-date with the life of this weathergirl. haha

I thought i should use this post to go back to life before the Uprising. I guess since the Uprising happened only five months ago it is the freshest in my mind. But we did have a year's worth of semi-utopian life in "Promise City".

Right after the change, it seemed that most of the newborns were taking to this new life pretty well. Some had gifts that were overwhelming and there were reports of suicide among our new promicin positive friends. But most people seemed to be adjusting fairly well. Xavier, Shawn, and Grandma were busier than ever at the center. Shawn was healing and helping every newborn he could. Grandma had started peace and negotiation talks between positives, 4400s, and the government. She was leading weekly "PPA" meetings, as i called them. (Promicin Positives Anonymous) Those that participated enjoyed it. I even got my friends to go with me a few times (Chae and Christian included...) Xavier was really shining at the center. He, along with several other helpers, was teaching people how to gain control of their powers. I remember that Xay just naturally had a gift in controling his "gift". It took me the longest time to control mine. If i'm having a bad day, i still carry an unbrella just in case i lose control. But i have been able to effectively control the use of my gift and i was getting to the point of helping areas i was not geographically in. Shawn and Jordan encouraged me to think beyond my personal boundaries. It wasn't easy, but i began to learn how to project and concentrate my power. I got as far as england with a light snow storm. It was so exciting!

But back to that awesome brother of mine. The postives at the center just completely took to Xay. Especially, a girl by the name of Ruby who had the gift of seeding vegetation. Xay and Ruby did a little teamwork to start their own garden. He would plow the ground and she would spring up the vegetables. It was really cool! And they worked so well together. I kinda gave him a hard time about his "green thumb" girlfriend, but that's what sisters are for. haha

Well, someone i haven't mentioned yet is Nicole. I had told you guys that she moved to Alabama to help take care of her little brother. Well, she came to visit a couple of times before the Uprising. She shocked us by the news that her brother was promicin positive. She told us the doctors said that the best way for him to heal was to take promicin. When he did, the drug matched perfectly with his system. After a few days, he was a completely new boy. He could walk, talk, and even run. Things that every 10 year old boy should be able to do, but this one could not until now. He was all over the news as the miracle, "Promicin Boy". Oddly enough, he didn't develop a gift. Somehow i think that his renewed body was his gift. Nicole hung out at the center some while she was here but she was not excited at all about Collier's "Promicin/Promise City". She still uses her gift from time to time, but after almost being attacked in the street, she left Seattle running.

Can't say i blame her. But i just pray she is safe wherever she is.

While helping at the center when i could and maybe working part-time at a local newstation as the "hey-get-me-some-coffee" girl, i was a full time student at Seattle University. I'm a meterology major with a minor in chemistry (i find it interesting...). Although i joked that meterology would be an unfair advantage, i don't technically have the power to predict what weather is GOING to happen, just create my own. So i'll have to work just like any other meterologist with my equipment. And when i do have a bad, sad, mad, or any other wise day, i can successfully give people a heads-up.

Like i said yesterday, i met my new traveling companions at school. Chae is a math major. I should have guessed her power before i saw it in action because she was ALWAYS the first person to finish a test in our Calculus class. She helped tutor me. That was when i first started to get to know Christian. He is a weird guy, but nice, sweet and extremely popular. Christian would be classified as a junior and while Chae and I are sophomores. Christian is that guy that ALL the girls love and ALL the guys hate. But Chaelia is the only one who can get under his skin. It's very funny to watch. I remember going over their house to study for a test one night. And Christian was annoyed that Chaelia used all of the showertime that morning and made him late for school (for the 16th time) so he decided to trick her into thinking he was having a bonfire with some of her favorite books. When she smelled the smoke, it took her five seconds to get outside, two to put out the fire, and ten seconds to turn Christian's room into a disaster area. (i was watching this the whole time)

Needless to say, when she found out it was a joke she felt bad and Christian made her clean it all up. I used a good wind to help her out and pick up all the junk she threw outside. Of course, they tried to hide the major fight from their mom, but of course, she knew when they were lying. haha Grounded for a week, if i remember correctly. Seeing them fight like that made me think of me and Xay. We fought a lot more before all of this promicin stuff brought us together, but we still have our fall outs now and then.

Well, we are about to have dinner. Xay and Christian have been searching all day trying to find places we can relocate to. It's not working yet, but we will see. While we've been here in Cali, we did enroll back in school so we wouldn't get behind (well, all of us but Xay). Now that the summer's starting, this is the perfect time to try and find our own place before school starts in the fall.

If anyone is still reading and you know a place we can relocate too, let us know. Please.

Alex

O What A World: A Year in Review

I can't believe it's been one year, five months, and 10 days since i wrote on this blog. I'm sure most of you have given up on me. It's amazing how much can change in a year....

Where do i start, well for one i feel like i need to get back in the habit of writing again. Call it my "half-year's" resolution. haha But as i found out before i probably should not try to make any promises. I guess i'll start my update with Xay.

When i last wrote, Xavier was trying to get his life together. Well, things were going great and then the Uprising happened back in January. All the new positive in Seattle just went crazy and started destroying the city. Jordan Collier, the appointed leader, was trying to calm everyone down but he could not get to every rogue newborn positive before it was too late. Authorities (aka the NTAC, FBI, CIA, NCIS, a lot of other acronyms) were called in and once again fear took over and they started rounding up EVERY positive in a 500 mile radius. So, needless to say we've been on the run before and we decided to do it again. Xavier wanted to stay and help Shawn, but Shawn knew that we should get the chance to find normal life. Especially, after our grandmother selflessly gave hers fighting against the newborns. We owned it to her to try and find life.

So, Xay, Chae (one of my new found positive friends i met at school), Christian (Chae's brother), and I went on the run. The closest and most reasonable first stop was my parents. Like i said in my last post, our relationship with our parents is getting better. It is nowhere near the way it used to be or should be but it is the best it has been in a long time. During the past year, we spent every holiday with them that we could and we even recieved gifts on our birthday. My little sister, Camryn, has been growing up so much since we have been gone. During christmas, our parents finally let us tell (and show) Camryn the reason why we moved away and our "gifts". Of course, she thought her older brother and sister were superheroes and she wanted to be just like us. The 'rents definitely nipped that thought in the bud...haha

Although things were pretty peachy with our parents, they were a little shocked to see us drop by unannounced at midnight with two strangers. Speaking of strangers, i should probably take this time to let you know at little bit about Chaelia and Christian Baker...

I met Chae during a math class i was taking last fall (i've decided to run with that Meteroligist idea...). She was always really fidgity, but she was a lot of fun. We started talking during class one day and became instant friends. I didn't find out that she was positive until i saw her after school one day chasing after her brother's car that was beginning to leave her. It took her all of two seconds to be right in front of the car's path in plenty of time for her brother to see her. Obviously, something like super speed was her gift. I asked her about it the next day and that's when she told me her story: Her family is originally from Portland, Oregon. Her mother was one of the original 4400 who disappeared eight days before christmas 2000. Her father drank himself to death soon after her disappearance and her brother, Christian, stepped up to take care of them both. You can imagine their surprise when their mother returned in a ball of light back in 2004. She couldn't believe that her husband was dead and her chrildren were 4 years older. But she needed her kids to be with her, so she talked them into moving to Seattle to live with her. Life wasn't easy for them adjusting to a mother who had not lived through the 4 years of hell that they both knew so well, but they tried. It probably wasn't helpful that this mother was the human lie detector so she knew that they really did not want to be there.

When the opportunity of promicin presented itself, Christian jumped at the chance against his mother's wishes. Not wanted to be left out, Chae took it too. Christian had an adverse reaction to the promicin at first and they weren't sure if he was going to make it, but he did. And he recieved the ability of a "firestarter" which became one the more dangerous powers of the family. But all three of them could live normally, they didn't try to let this effect their lives much. But it did, especially, after the Uprising when all 4400s were being recaptured for the one millionth time. This fear for their mother and their own lives is what drew them to follow us.

I came to find out later that Christian and Xavier had met before at the center. Apparently, Christian is (or was) a Pre-medicine major at the college that Chae and i go to. For his volunteer hours, he would shadow the "healer", our good friend Shawn Farrell. This is where he met Xavier which i think made Chrisitian feel a little less awkward being with us.

We left Seattle back in March and now it is May. We have been able to settle down and rest for a while, but we can't stay here much longer. We are looking for a new direction to go in. We are thinking maybe somewhere southeastern (georgia, tennessee) but we aren't sure yet. I don't know if it's being on the run or what but i've been renvigorated to write again. I'll keep you updated on when we find a place.

That's all for now, folks! It feels GREAT to be back!

Alex