Drake Sisters 04 - Dangerous Tides

cookies smelling like heaven and looking too good to be true.

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    He brought his hand under the plate and shoved, tipping the plate, spilling the cookies. He'd meant to examine the bottom of the plate, but he let go, staring in shock at the cookies spread out like a cascading waterfall in the air. They hovered there, unmoving, not hitting the floor. One by one they restacked themselves onto the plate. Before the last cookie could find its way to the plate, Joley snapped her fingers and held out her hand. Tyson watched with horrified eyes as the cookie zipped across the room straight to her.

    Joley snatched it out of the air and took a bite. "This is awesome, Hannah. You outdid yourself. Did you use the new sugar cookie recipe you were telling us about?"

    "Holy crap," Tyson burst out. "This isn't funny anymore. You nearly gave me a heart attack. How the hell did you all do that?"

    Libby tilted her head to one side so that her hair slid over one eye leaving her looking mysterious and maybe that little bit like a witch. He'd never noticed that before.

    "I don't actually know. I'm hoping you can explain it to us since you know so much more than we do.
    We've always been able to do things, but maybe we just think we can. Maybe we're deluding ourselves that the tea and cookies float in from the kitchen and that Sarah closed the drapes and Elle moved the chair."

    "Or that I know exactly what you're thinking right now," Elle said. "I wouldn't mind if you managed to get rid of that for me. It's very uncomfortable knowing too much about people and feeling their emotions all the time."

    "So what am I thinking right now?" Tyson challenged.

    "You want to think we're all crazy, but the possibility that it's true excites you. You'd like blood samples and even to hook a couple of us up to an EEG monitor so you can scan our brains to see if activity changes when we do whatever it is we do. You're mostly excited about the possibilities to science.
    You're having a difficult time reconciling the two as they seem complete opposites. They aren't, you know. Magic is really energy which you've really known and have considered all along, but threw out the idea of as preposterous."

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    "You want to hook up our brains and study the activity?" Libby echoed.

    Tyson leaned forward, his eyes glittering with sudden excitement. "Libby, she was dead on. She's either the real thing or she really has superb insight into people. I do want a blood sample and maybe even tissue samples. I'd like to know if there's anything different in your genetic makeup."

    Libby put a hand to her heart. "You're so romantic, Ty. Whenever you talk like that I want to just fling myself into your arms."

    "You're being sarcastic and whoever is controlling the cookie platter, send it my way. They smell good."
    He shook his head. "You of all people, Libby, should recognize the importance of this to science. If your family can really do such things as telekinesis and healing, which by the way, there is absolutely no proof of, it would be a remarkable discovery."

    Sudden temper flashed through Libby. She'd been feeling somewhat amused and even a small bit guilty, but now she just wanted to throttle him. "I not only opened up my life to you, Tyson Derrick, I asked my family to do the same. Now you're looking at us as if we're a bunch of your little pet rats. Worse, you still doubt I can do what is so much a part of me. If you deny my ability to heal, you're denying me, who I am."

    Elle, I need a very sharp knife.

    You can't kill him.

    Libby glared at her younger sister, jumped up and stalked into the kitchen. Ty frowned and leapt up to follow her.

    "Do you have to be so emotional over everything, Libby? It's only logical for me to be excited about a discovery of this magnitude."

    "You think I’m emotional! Emotional !" She repeated. Maybe she was acting a little out of character, but he was driving her to it. "For the last several days you've made it clear you thought my family was conning people out of money, although we’ve never taken a penny using our gifts. You have to be shown Generated by ABC Amber LIT Conv erter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
    the truth in order to believe we might actually be able to do what everyone else says we can and then you want to study us for the pure love of science."