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
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