The awkward interview

Zane didn't like the girl named Scarlett. He was sitting and talking with Natalie when he saw the girl come in with Eva. She smelled so much sad, hurt, broken, nervous, scared and most of all, she smelled of lies.

Zane almost got so confused by the overflow of all the smells of emotions that he had to stop smelling.

Eva turned towards Scarlett and said,"If you don't mind then might I just have a word with my kids!"

Scarlett nodded and said,"Sure! I will wait in the hallway"

Saying this, Scarlett went outside the big room.

Zane knew what Eva was going to tell them. She would tell them to control their powers and not reveal a thing about their identity to the girl and that is exactly what she said.

"Children, try to act normal, as normal as you can be, don't let her get suspicious. I couldn't ask her to not talk to you all because then it would have been even more suspicious so, I have allowed her. Please try not to mess anything up, she is just a normal human with no powers and she might get afraid and tell anyone or something more dangerous....if you mess up, then all of your friends lives are in danger",said Eva, looking around pleadingly."Any questions?"

No one said anything.

Eva went towards the hallway to fetch Scarlett.

Zane tried to act normal but he didn't really know what normal was. So, he thought it would be better if he just did what everyone was doing.

The girl came back in, Eva gave a short nod and left for her office and Scarlett gave everyone a confident smile even though Zane could tell she was nervous.

"Why don't you sit down?",asked Helen politely.

Scarlett smiled and sat down beside Helen on her bed, she opened her notebook and said,"I need to interview some of you if it's fine with you all for my school project. It will be fine if you don't want to do it but it would be really helpful if you did..."

Bennett cleared his throat and said in his Scottish accent,"Sure, we would have no problem talking about our dead parents, right?"

It was awkward, then that everyone was staring from Bennett to Scarlett.

Scarlett stood up and said,"My condolences , I said that I need to ask some questions only if you are fine with it, I won't pressurise if anyone has a problem talking to me, which you clearly do."

Zane raised an eyebrow, that girl knew what she was doing.

No one said anything and Laurel stepped up and said,"Yeah, I could help....with your interview and all ...."

Scarlett smiled, sat and gestured her to sit infront of her, and Laurel did.

"So", said Scarlett writing something on the notebook,"How do you get treated here in the orphanage?"

Laurel shrugged and said,"Normal....like how every orphanage treats orphans"

Zane smiled, Laurel lied like she was a professional liar. Ofcourse, She was a qirpelt, she was the master of deception. She could create illusions, do tricks with your mind, Zane found her one of the coolest there. Laurel could also make people see things she wanted. Once, Zane was sleeping and when he woke up he found himself under water. He held his breath but he was panicking and finally Natalie shook him and asked why he was lying on his bed in such a strange angle with his cheeks puffed. Ever since that incident, Laurel had been friendly with him but Zane knew he couldn't trust a qirpelt too much, after all her nature itself was deception.

While Laurel talked to Scarlett ,Zane could see that Scarlett was not buying whatever Laurel said. Suddenly Scarlett's phone buzzed and she checked it. Whatever it was, it really pissed off Scarlett.

She nodded and told her,"Thank you so much Laurel! It was really helpful! I need to get going....My...my um...my stepmom has thrown a stupid party in the house...and I really don't wanna be there but I have strict orders from dad to BE THERE!"

Laurel nodded and said,"It was good talking to you! Anything we can help with?"

Scarlett narrowed her eyes, thought and said,"Actually...there is"

There was nothing more than a bunch of Scarlett's newly made friends that would piss off her step-mother. If she could somehow convince these children to come with her to her mother's party then, that would be great for the kids and Scarlett as well.

"No",said Derek,"Sorry but we can't go to the party with you"

Scarlett frowned,"How did you know I was going to-"

"He's really good at guessing",said Helen suddenly.

Derek was cozentrer. He could read thoughts and he was good at it. Scarlett couldn't know that Derek could read minds so they were all trying to cover it up and Zane could feel the tension growing in the room.

"Alright",said Scarlett."So, would you like to come to the party with me then?"

They were all confused, none of them knew what to answer because they couldn't say anything without Eva's permission.

Scarlett smiled and said,"I will talk to Miss Eva if you want. You all could come with me"

"Yes that would be awesome",said Mick

The others eyed him.

Suddenly Eva appeared at the doorway and asked,"Is everything alright?"

Scarlett turned towards her and said," Actually, I would like to take these children out to a party at my house. If you don't mind?"

Zane knew that Eva would definitely decline but she did something unexpected, she smiled politely and said,"Why not? They're all yours"