4 How did this happen?

As Sam started to wake up, Annabelle blushed from doing mouth to mouth with him.

"Hey are you ok? " Sam asked concerned, "You're really hot! "

At that moment her skin burst out in flames. She was so scared of herself, remembering that awful day when her mother died. As she struggled more, it got worse and the flames grew.

From being a nerd, Sam had extensive comic book knowledge. He didn't know she had powers! That's so cool! He thought. But I think didn't seem like she knew how to use them since she seemed so afraid. When did she get these powers? She clearly has no idea how to use them since she doesn't even realize it's not harming her.

"Calm down" Sam said calmly, "Look at me calm down. "

She did, but the flames wouldnt stop, she got up and fell into Sam, tripping on some roots.

He held out his hand as to not get burnt and water spewed from him, putting out the fire on Annabelle.

"Waooo" he said "How did I... "

"How did you do that?!" Annabelle said, impressed.

"How did you do THAT?!" Sam replied. "And why were you so scared?"

"What do you mean? There was FIRE coming from my FINGERS!" she shouted.

"Well clearly it wasn't hurting you. Since you sat there screaming and flaming for a solid minute there and there isn't a scratch on you. "

"Oh... " She realized dumbly. "Well... I was in an accident involving fire as a young child, and it killed my mother... so I was scared" she subconsciously reached for her locket while saying this.

"Oh I'm sorry" Sam said quietly

They sat there in awkward silence for a moment before Annabelle said "Don't be sorry. It's not you're fault. And yknow, it's not like you looked too happy with water coming from your fingers and that's at least not destructive. "

"Well, I was almost drowned as a little kid.." Sam said "By my older brothers" He felt a bit weird saying that since Annabelle had clearly gone through much worse than him.

"That's awful" Annabelle said frowning.

She was so sincere. How could he not fall in love with Annabelle? His heart started racing the moment he realized he was talking to his long time crush for the first time.

"We might need time to actually figure out what's happening to us and practice so we down flood the city or burn something down. We need to practice somewhere together so we can balance each other out, fire and water! "

"Well I guess were in this together!" Annabelle said. "Meet me here Saturday at 12" she smiled thoughtfully "we can go into the woods and find out more about out scary new powers"

"Yeah" Sam said "Cya tomorrow!"

Sam started walking away when Annabelle called to him "Thanks for standing up for me today even though we ended up like this." She said thoughtfully.

"Yeah" Sam replied "Anytime" he turned to walk back to his house just in time to hide the humongous grin on his face. Freshman year was going to be more fun than ever, even if he had a scary new power that could kill him, at least he would die side by side with a cute girl.

At the same time Annabelle was thinking maybe freshman year wouldn't be so bad after all. Now she had one boy on her side that wouldn't mess with her or take advantage of her, and had a good personality. She was glad he has turned away as to hide the smile on her face. But before he could get very far she called out to him "Can you walk me home? "

"Sure" he said. "I don't think I got your number either, "

"Oh yea! " she realized "Give me your phone and call me tomorrow!"

And finally, they got to her house and bid farewell. Jeremy meanwhile, sat watching from the heavens, happy that the two youngsters were getting along.