Action, reaction - are you good enough?

"Don't tell me that," I put my head in my hands, making myself small, a little ball on the chair, "What the heck! This is..."

"Hey, Mutant, calm down."

I tried to murder Kevin in my imagination, I really tried; I saw a thousand and one ways for that to happen by trying to calm myself down when I was trying to keep everything under control. He must have seen it in my eyes, because Kevin backed up a couple of inches.

"Maybe they haven't figured it out, they are inept and we were all in the suit...."

"But not them," I pointed at him with my hand wide open. "They were dressed as police, do you know how many laws we have ignored? How many laws they should have followed so they wouldn't put us ALL in jail?"

Hypatia was about to answer, but the cell phone was faster. The three of us jumped a little in alarm at the loud, intermittent ringing of the call. I looked at the caller ID. Brian. I rolled my eyes, picked up the phone and asked what he wanted to talk about aridly.