As The Winds Of Change Blow....

Wow...it's been an extremely long time since i've been here. The world has change tremendously since this time last summer. Hell, the world has changed tremendously since last month, last week, yesterday, a few minutes ago....with the entire city either dead or promicin positive with an ability, Seattle is a very different Seattle than what i moved to last July. I never thought i would be able to walk down the street and share abilities with another person without the fear of NTAC or worse.

I'm sorry i haven't wrote in a long time, i guess i should update you all from where i left off.......

Well, i'm not ususally the girl of broken promises, but it makes me laugh (a whole 5 almost 6 months later) at how i promised to get better at updating....well....my bad.

I had just got back from Cali. My parents still live there, our relationship has gotten better, but in NO way were they going to come spend Christmas in a town full of positives. So, Xavier and I actually spend the holidays with our famliy in Cali, i liked being around beautiful peaceful beach. And somehow it was extremely nice the whole time we were there....;) (at little christmas present to myself)

OH speaking of Xavier, he actually is trying to get his life together. He is working part-time with Shawn Farrell and our Grandmother at the Center, which has been basically a big teaching center since Seattle went positive. He loves telling our story of how he felt like he needed a purpose with his life so he took promicin. It really effects the people who are struggling with their new found "ability". Xavier is balancing all of this while going to school with me. I LOVE school, i hated to admit that to my parents, but i am enjoying College WAY more than high school. And i'm even making better grades, this C average high school student actually pulled an A in my science class. I think i might want to do something to do with science, maybe meterology, how ironic would that be? someone with the control OVER the weather studying the changes in it. I dunno, maybe that would be an unfair advantage. :P

I'm sure you are all wondering what happened to Nicole. Well, after Promise City BECAME Seattle, Nicole was a little overwhelmed with all the new changes...and she wanted to try normal life for a while, so she move to Alabama with her dad and little brother. We still keep in touch with her, he little brother is doing EXTREMELY well, he spent some time at St. Jude's in Memphis and he had a life changing surgery and therapy. He actually is walking now. I can understand why Nicole wanted to go home and be with her family.

Well, i think that is the big things that happened in the past 6 months. Still keeping an eye on this brand new world.

Alexandria

To Be Worried or To NOT Be Worried...THAT Is The Question.

I think the more i do this blog the MORE i'm getting worse at updating it. Maybe it's just hard to gather my thoughts and maybe it's just hard to sit down and write. I dunno...but i PROMISE i'm going to try and get better at this.

So, last week, i went to Cali for the holiday. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. My parents were happy to see that we were still alive, they were kinda worried to find out that we were in Seattle, but when i told them that it was with grandma, my dad was relieved, but i think my mom was worried EVEN more. They also couldn't let us get away without pushing college ONE last time. So, between fireworks and barbaque they gave us the good 'ol "Education is Important" lecture with a subtle "we only want what's best for you at the end". We told them that we would "think" about it, but we weren't going to make any promises. All in All, It was an okay trip and i think we ALL needed it.

When we got back, Grandma was going CRAZY without us. The house was a wreck and there were dirty clothes stacked to the CEILING. It was hard to believe that we had only been gone for 5 days instead of 5 weeks. I guess grandma's getting a little confused with her "double" life. Right now, she not only works for NTAC, but now she's back working at the center. She is working VERY closely with Ms. Tobey. I think they plan to reopen the school. I don't think grandma can keep playing both sides of the fence, i think it's an either "us or them" type of situation. But she doesn't want to lose the power of working for NTAC or the joy she gets from working at the 4400 center. i'm sure it is hard to choose.

As for me, Xay, and Nicole, I decided to take my parents advice for once and i'm enrolling in school for the fall. I'm bring Xay down with me and i think Nicole wants to try college, too. Since Grandma said that we can stay as LONG as we like, as long as we help her around the house and with the "other" thing she wants us to do. So, why not go to school, for once i agree with my parents, Education is important and who knows, i could possibly LIKE school....IMAGINE THAT.

The only thing i'm still worried about is what's gonna happen next, but i guess you can't worry about tomorrow, you just have to live from day to day.

Alex

Family Matters

Well, I'm not getting very good at this everyday blog thing, but i'm trying. It's just been so crazy ever since we came to Seattle. Who knew that everything would be so different?

The last time i posted, i mentioned something about a dinner where my grandma had planned to tell us EVERYTHING. Well, we had that dinner and she still didn't come clean, but the most she told us was that she needed our help. She has some plans to start working with Shawn and the 4400 center again, now that it's reopening. And she's worried about the conflicts that would cause with her job at NTAC, but she really wants to get reconciled with her 4400 brothers and sisters. That's GREAT! but...umm...what does that have to do with us? According to what i've heard, Shawn is only worried about 4400s NOT positives. It seems to him we are the problem and if it hadn't been for us his life would be TEN times better. We are supposedly in a WHOLE other catagory. But I wasn't the one that put promicin out on the streeets, that was COLLIER. I just decided to take it. But i want to be apart and to help. I just don't know how yet.

I've been going crazy just sitting around the house and doing nothing. At least when we were out on our own, we had jobs and felt independent, but now i feel SO useless. Nicole feels about the same way, even though she didn't like her job, but she still enjoyed getting out of the house everyday. And Xavier is doing practically the same thing he has been doing since we left home, so he really doesn't care. I think grandma was starting to notice that i was about to crack, so she proposing a little "field trip" before we get busy "helping" her. She suggests that we go see our parents. (yeah...right)

Granted....it's been about a month since we've seen them and sure....they probably miss us. But they made their decision to kick us out and then wanted to change there minds about it when we finally got excited about leaving. Who's to say they won't try to control us AGAIN? and make us stay with them. And WHO is grandma to talk, we hadn't even seen OR heard from her in almost 2 years. Maybe that's why she wants us to go back to Cali for a visit. But i tell ya, I'm getting TIRED of all this crazy wild goose chase traveling. But I guess grandma's right, they are my ONLY parents, and the 4th of July is wednesday, and family matters. So i guess, i'll swallow my pride for a couple of days and drive down to Cali. This should be an interesting road trip......

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO EVERYONE!

For those who are promicin positive like me, maybe someday we will get our independence back again, but until then...i guess all we can do is try to enjoy our limited freedom.

Alex

Just Gotta Make It

Wow..it's been a crazy week so far.

We are finally in Seattle. It seemed like we would NEVER make it here. We didn't get to leave on Monday because we had some problems getting everything together and the mail got delayed because of some strike, so we didn't even get the money for our tickets til' yesterday. And when me and Nicole tried to tell our bosses that we were going to take off for a week or more, but we couldn't tell them where why we were going. Well....let's just say we don't have to worry about that anymore, because they gave us our two weeks pay and told us that we are FIRED. So, i guess i can't mess with Xavier anymore about being jobless. (Haha)

So, after all that on Monday, the only thing we could do is pack up our stuff, which wasn't that much anyways, and get ready to leave on Tuesday. Thankfully, our landlord was a little more understanding, he said that he would try to hold the house for us until we come back, but if someone else needs it more he will have to give it to them. We understand. Grandma was VERY vague about everything about this little visit and she still is for that matter. We arrived here last night and she was about 2 hours late from picking us up. She said she had some last minute paperwork to do. But she apoligized over and over again and kept telling us how HAPPY she was to see us. We left the airport to go to her house. She has a BEAUTIFUL house. I guess she makes pretty good money as an NTAC agent. haha Although, she said it had something to do with grandpa's life insurance. She has been back for almost 4 years now and last year was the FIRST time she got any of the things she was suppose to recieve before she was abducted. Actually, Grandpa died about 2 years before she was returned. It was so sad. My family thinks that he died from a broken heart and i know Grandma sometimes blames herself.

Maybe that has something to do why she wanted us to move out here, maybe she is tired of being lonely. I don't know....maybe it's something bigger.

Well....anyways, she stayed up talking to us as long as she could about our trip, but we could tell she was tired. So she said that tonight she would make us dinner and we could talk about EVERYTHING then. I don't know what "everything" means, but i'm wonder if it has ANYTHING to do with the 4400 or promicin positives...

Alex

Wild Wild World

So, i've been out of the loop for a while. I guess that's what happens when NTAC finds you...

On my last post i mentioned that NTAC pulled up to the Library. Well, 2 agents got out of the van and came into the Library to the front desk and the conversation went a little like this:

Them: Hello, we are from NTAC.

Me: I guessed that.

Them: Are you Alexandria ******? (not putting my last name on here)

Me: Si, Senor.

Them: You and your brother are on our reported missing persons list and we would like to take you down to our station for some questioning.

Me: Is that really necessary?

Them: Either you both go peacefully or in handcuffs.

So, i took them to my house to get my no-job having brother. Thankfully, Nicole wasn't there and i didn't want to get her mixed up in ALL of this. I left her a note in her room when the agents weren't looking to tell her we what happened. After we got Xavier, we headed downtown to the local NTAC headquarters. They started questioning us about Promicin OF course. We told them the truth and the TRUTH was we weren't breaking any laws. We took promicin BEFORE the ban and we haven't used our abilities since the promicin ban, so other than leaving home for fear that someone, like them, would attack our family, we haven't broken their PRECIOUS promicin ban. And they had NO right to hold us against our will.

They told us that they didn't want to put us in jail, but they wanted some information about us. Direct request of Ms. Katherine Gipson, our jaws DROPPED! Grandma is looking for us and she is working for NTAC? I guess they don't care that she is a 4400. But i was just glad to know that she was still alive and she was LOOKING for us. All she wanted was to find us so she could see us and make sure we were okay. She is working at the MAIN headquarters in Seattle. The agents who found us gave us a phone number we could reach her at to tell her when we were coming. We found all this out on Wednesday, but i didn't get to talk to grandma til Friday. She said she was looking forward to seeing us and i should try to make it as SOON as possible. I told her that me and Xay don't have the money to hop a plane to Seattle and we can't leave Nicole here by herself. Grandma agreed and said she would pay for the plane tickets for all three of us. I didn't know what to say........

What about our jobs? I asked her how long she thought this "visit" would take. She told us to take about two weeks off. If it took longer she would take care of EVERYTHING. I don't know what shocked me more, how easy this all was or how urgent it seems that grandma wants us in Seattle. So, we leave tomorrow. No sense in tarrying since NTAC's "fear" scare is over. There was an Autistic little boy who's father shot him with promicin and her gained the ability to make anyone's deepest fear come to life. 4400 Shawn Farrell healed him of his autism and he was put on inhibitors. That story was amazing to me, God Bless Shawn Farrell.

Sad news....PromicinInfo.com is shutting down. Something i missed being out of the loop for the past 3 or 4 days. Thankfully, other sites are being open and now that i have FAMILY in the NTAC ranks, i'm not so scared of them anymore. Well...whenever we get to Seattle, I'll let you know. Keep us in your prayers and we travel....AGAIN.

Alex

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry, NTAC is coming to town...

So, i've been really on edge for the past couple of days. We ALL have. I got an e-mail from my dad last night telling me that NTAC came to my parents' house looking for me and Xay. My parents told them that we had left to go to college in a nearby town. I'm so thankful i have parents who will lie for me...lol Unfortunately, either NTAC has some information they didn't tell my parents or they didn't believe them because i saw some NTAC agents in town this morning asking around about us. I know i haven't really used my ability since the ban. Well...there was this one time i was too lazy to get up and close the door so i used the wind to close it, but nobody was around.

I don't know why they are looking for us, but i'm starting to REALLY get scared. I wonder if someone's been bugging our phone or if someone at our workplaces suspects us. I hope Xavier hasn't been showing off his ability at work like an idiot. Nicole has been talking to her father in Nevada staying with his mom. Maybe someone has been listening in on their conversations. Or what about me, i've been VERY careful on the internet at work. But who knows? Maybe someone has been looking over my shoulder and didn't know it. I don't know, but i'm SO worried. If NTAC arrests us and makes us stay in quarantine i'm gonna CRY.

OH NO...an NTAC van just pulled up outside the Library....

Alex

As The World Turns...

Well, it has definitely been an interesting weekend. On a major scale and on a personal level. I guess i'll start with the major scale...

I've been watching alot of TV after this promicin ban stuff and checking Promicin Info. There was a very interesting story coming out of Seattle. (no surprise there...) A boy about my age, maybe a little younger, took promicin and gained the ability to make anyone around him think he's the KING of the world or something. He had the whole city of Seattle almost under his command. The whole government was scared and didn't know what they were going to do about this high school kid with some kind of titan god-complex. I hated the whole situation because taking an American city under siege is NOT the way to earn any friends with the government. And that's going to give them an even BIGGER reason to keep this stupid ban. Anyways, the end to this weekend saga was actually alot simplier than everyone thought it was going to be. Mr. Jordan Collier himself just touched him and he was left ability-less. OH WOW...when i heard that i was shocked, all this time i was think Jordan had some manipulation ability and he can neutrilize promicin in positives. I WANT to believe that this is a good thing, but the pessimist inside of me keeps thinking there's so bad ahead because of that ability. Who knows?

Well, on a personal level, Friday was our first day at our new jobs. Other than dropping and breaking two plates and accidentally knocking someone's hot coffee on their lap, Nicole said it was a "good" day. Whatever that means...i think she just didn't want to admit that her first day of work really sucked. haha Xay has to have won the award for the shortest lived job, He was fired...ON THE FIRST DAY. I promise you i wanted to beat him DOWN when he came home and told me that. How do you get fired from McDonald's, you ask? Well, let me tell you the Xavier method. Show up late, insult your boss, hit on your coworkers, and mess up EVERY order you take. Then when your boss confronts you at the end of the day, trying to SAVE you and give you another chance, just shove it back in his face. That's the "Xavier Special" method to get fired. I can't believe him! But i got him back today, i woke him up at 4 am this morning with a very loud pot and a cup of COLD water. So right now he's off looking for another job and i PROMISED him that if he loses this job i would wake him up in my special way EVERY morning for the rest of his life. Muhahahaha*coughs* muhahahaha

As for MY first day, it went pretty well. It's kind of boring and i work from 9-5 every day with weekends off. Shelving books and checking out books and helping people FIND books, but it's pretty easy. I can even take my laptop to work and check my e-mail at the library. Actually, that's where i am right now writing this blog. I am pretty careful when my boss is there about going to promicin positive sites, but she's usually locked up in her office. I'll just continue to be careful. It really makes me sad that I haven't been able to practice with my ability. None of us have been able to, we've been too busy working trying to support ourselves. And after this promicin ban stuff we don't want to bring any unwonted attention to ourselves and our abilities our ATTENTION grabbers. But i just think about how much EASIER our lives would be if we could use our gifts. Nicole would have never made all the mistakes she made if she could have froze the plates before the fell or the coffee before it spilled. And I wouldn't had to run to the bus stop this morning in the pouring rain. But....THEN i guess we wouldn't be normal, huh?

I have a student needing my help....

Alex