I heard familiar voices murmuring outside my hospital room.

I was on Earth again and whether or not I had been hallucination the whole time was still in question.

No one came in to visit me in the day I spent in there. My parents stayed outside the whole time and they probably kept my friends out. They didn't tell me what happened to me when I was discharged, and strangely, neither did the doctor or the nurses.

My parents didn't let me go to school that week.

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Stacey was having another party because apparently I ruined the last one. She explained that I had a seizure and an ambulance arrived at her house before anyone even called. I'm guessing that if I haven't been imagining all this the whole time, the Oblivion Effect did that.

You would think that my parents wouldn't leave me alone like this, I thought, I mean, really. I just got shot at and sent to the hospital for a seizure in the same week. They're supposed to be protecting me or whatever.

That was probably a mix of their indifference and the Effect.

I went to her house and everyone was there already, but something was off. I could feel a strange energy surrounding me. I sat through Stacey's lunch in a trance, and no one really talked about it. Sabine, Marco, Daniela, Jozeey, and Grady were there. Even Dania didn't notice.

"Something's happening," I blurted through the excitement. I could feel a strange swirling of powers around me as I said it.

"What? To you?" Dania's eyes widened, "Are you okay?"

"Do we need to call an ambulance?" Daniela pulled out her phone.

"Again?" Stacey said at the same time as Marco.

"No, not to me," I whispered. The energies pushed back on me, "Well, yes to me but not like that."

"What?" Grady asked.

"I don't know. If I tell you then you won't believe me,"

"Well, tell us and you'll know!" Dania exclaimed.

"I went to another planet. While I had the seizures."

"Probably because you were having the seizures," Marco gave me a side eye.

"Well, I know because I got superpowers from it!"

That drew their attention.

"Prove it," he demanded, crossing his arms.

"I don't know if I can," I replied, defeated.

"Try," Dania encouraged.

"You won't be able to see it anyways!"

"Do it!" Marco pressed.

"You heard what I said! You can't see my proof because your mind chooses not to!" I replied.

"Well, then force me to see it! Do it!" he said, "Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!" he chanted.

Something deep down inside me began to stir. I closed my eyes. Before I could stop myself I knocked everything off the table with my mind.

All of the plates were on the floor, and I was lucky most of us were finished eating. I was also lucky Stacey's parents were on the other side of the house and didn't see the mess.

"Cleanup!" Grady exclaimed as she got up.

I beat her to it and lifted everything in one scoop, placing it all on the table. It was messy, but at least it was all in one place now.

The energies had ceased their pressure on me, but they were still there. I could feel them desperately pushing on my friends in their attempt to modify their memories.

For the first time since I felt them, I pushed back at them. I could feel blood rushing to my face. Then, in one sudden motion, I could almost see my friends absorbing the energy that was assaulting them.

"Holy shit," Marco's eyes went wide open.

"That was intense," Daniela moved her bangs away from her face so she could look at me clearly.

"Did you just do to us what I think you did?" Sabine's jaw hung and she was still breathing hard.

"I think Carlos just gave us superpowers," Diana's voice trailed.

"Unlikely," Stacey was always the skeptical one, "I don't know what all that was, but you're not invited to any more of my parties. That was rude."

"Just you wait," I grinned, "If I'm right you owe me twenty dollars."

"Ha!" she laughed shrilly, "Get a life."