Plugged into Michelle Caldwell chap 8

Michelle's POV

I stir and I feel a warm being next to me. I snuggle in closer and the thing next to me snuggles in too, moaning a bit.

"Morning, sunshine." The person mumbles in their sleep.
Then I recognized the voice.

I immediately sit up and look over at Jake who still has his arms around me.

He's half naked, with no shirt and the jeans he wore last night.

I look down at myself and realize I'm wearing the same clothes as last night.

I try to remember anything I can from last night but draw a blank.

Needless to say I start to hyperventilate and assume the worst.

I jump out of bed and Jake finally wakes up. He smiles and stretches and then finally looks at my face and the smile disappears.

"Michelle what's wrong?" He says looking worried and reaches out to me.

"How did I get in my bed? And why are you in it?"

"Umm you had a long night........You don't remember anything?..........Well you had a lot to drink." He says trying to calm me down a bit.

"That still doesn't answer the question of why you were in my bed with me." I stare at him while he tries to make up the best answer in his head. "Did we..... Did we..... uhhh" He looks up at me ".....you know....do it?" I say scrunching up my eyebrows.

His eyes grow wide and then he laughs.

"God no! Are you crazy?" That hurt a little bit.

"Zack would kill me if I ever slept with you." He continued. "Don't worry nothing happened to you. I brought you up to bed and you instantly fell asleep grabbing me on the way to unconsciousness and I couldn't really leave so I just slept next to you. You should start to remember things tomorrow. Do you not remember anything from last night?" He looked kind of worried.

"Some things.....Why is there something I should remember?" I say intrigued while raising an eyebrow.

"Uhhh no" He lies. "But what do you remember just curious."

"well ," I begin "I remember walking into the house drinking and dancing a little bit but after that it gets kind of foggy."

I'm not going to tell him I remember the kiss. Just to see how he reacts.

"Oh I forgot did everything work out between you and you ex. What's her name?"

"Trixie" He says looking down.

I laugh internally sounds like a hooker name.

"So umm maybe you should like get out of my bed before, you know, people get the wrong Idea." I say pointing to him bare-chested in my bed.

"Good Idea. Where's my shirt?"

He begins to search for it, when I hear my step mother walking up the stairs calling my name.

"Uhhhhh.....shit. GO HIDE" I yell slash whisper.

"Are you serious!?" He says while I'm pushing him into my closet. "What about my shirt?"

"Use one of mine now be quiet."

I jump back in bed and pull the covers up to my chin so my step-mom can't see that I'm wearing the same dress as last night.

There's a quiet knock at my door.

"Come in." I yell in a pretend groggily voice as if i just woke up.

"Michelle," My step mom says while strolling in my room. "I was thinking we could do some shopping since tomo" She doesn't finish her sentence because she finally looks up.

"Michelle, hunny, why are you still in bed? It's 12:30. You're going to have to get used to waking up early cause in a couple of days you're going to be waking up at 6." She says while tiding up a bit of my room.

"Uh I don't want to think about that. Just like an hour more and I'll be up. come on my birthday's tomorrow." I say trying to make excuses so she would leave.

"Uh uh don't use that excuse on me. That's only allowed on your birthday." She laughs. "Now come on. Everyone's downstairs...Well I don't know where Jake is but I hardly do anytime."

"Well if Jake gets to sleep in then why can't I?" I whine just trying to get her to leave me alone.

"Uh uh. Up and at 'em" She says grabbing the covers and tearing them off me.

"Why are you still in your clothes last night? Don't tell me you drank last night. You know how you can't hold your bladder even when you drink wine." I blush.

There's a chuckle from the closet. Oh crap.

My step mom looks at me then at the closet then at me again.

"Is there someone in there?" she says walking to my closet.

"No!" I spring up and run to the closet and push my back against it so she can't open it. "Probably just some mice or something. Look I'm up so I'll just get dressed and I'll meet you downstairs." I say leading her out of the room.

"Okay well I at least want to see what you need to buy for tomorrow. Maybe a nice dress "she says opening the doors of my closet before I can get there.

She sees Jake standing there looking guilty as hell. He looks ridiculous he's wearing one of my shirts that does not fit his body at all.

I stifle a laugh while my step mom looks at me with scolding eyes.

Jake's face suddenly changes into I don't know what maybe anger.

But what does he have to be angry about?

"I can't believe you two."

"We didn't do anything though! I swear." I say trying to convince her.

"Yeah....Tracy... we didn't do anything." He says my step mom's name with sarcasm which I don't get really. "So why don't you just mind your own business and let us be teenagers k?" He says shoving past her.

I stare at him in disbelief. Why was he talking to Tracy like he was in charge? I try to look at her with sorry in my eyes.

But she's not angry. Maybe a little amused.

"Well I can see you two are up. I'll see you down in the kitchen in 5 k?"

I'm looking at both of them with confused eyes.

Tracy leaves and Jake finally finds his shirt and pulls it over his head covering up his perfect abs.

When he finally looks up at me, he sees that I'm about to punch him.

"What were you thinking? I could have gotten in a shit load of trouble."

"Don't worry about it. Me and Tracy have kind of like an inside joke. We're fine just forget about this entire situation. Okay? Get dressed I'll See you down in a few." He says walking out the door and into his room.

I stare at him in disbelief as he walks out.

This has got to be the weirdest morning ever.

After I get dressed I head downstairs and everyone is eating pancakes. I sit down and Tracy comes over to me and places a plate in front of me while kissing the top of my head.

"Good morning, I thought you were going to sleep forever. I wish I was still a kid and had that kind of sleep system. If I were you I would have slept till three." She smiles.

"Yeah" I fake chuckle and look at Zack who looks like he's about to burst with laughter.

"What's so funny" I ask getting kind of pissed because I'm more confused than ever.

"Nothing. Why do you ask?"

"Ummm because you look like you're on the verge of pissing yourself."

"Michelle!" My father buts in. "We're eating."

"Sorry" I say glaring at Zack, who is trying to hold his smile down.

"Now how was the party? Was it fun?" My dad ask trying to seem like he cares.

"mmhmm" All three of us say at the same time.

"Okay, well Michelle I was thinking that since tomorrow is your birthday we could/" Tracy begins.

"Go shopping." I finish her sentence. She looks at me.

"How did you know?"

"You..." I look at Jake whose shaking his head. "Just a hunch." I say stuffing my mouth with pancakes.

"Okay well what do you say?"

"Sure" I say.

The boys get up and bust their dishes in the sink.

"Well were going to meet up with some friends. We'll be back later."

"Okay, well be careful." Tracy says kissing them on the cheek as Jake and Zack leave.

I'm just so confused I start to get a headache. The toast pops up at the same time at the coffee is done.

"I'm not feeling so good. I think I'm going to lie down for a little bit longer."

"Alright. Well just call me when you want to go."

"K" I say while walking upstairs.

I'm defiantly not drinking ever again I say to myself as I snuggle in to bed.

Zack's POV

We head outside and I burst out laughing.

This morning I thought it would be hilarious to shape shift into my mother and mess with Jake for pay back for last night. He didn't find it as funny as I did

Jake stares at me.

"That was not funny. You almost gave me a heart attack. You know you're not supposed to use your powers. What if Michelle recognized your eyes huh?"

"Oh please she's so clueless in the morning. It was totally worth it to see your face once you got caught in the closet. You were like...." I mimic his face which was like a combination of 'I'm so fucked' and 'Oh god I'm wearing a girls shirt.'

He punches my arm. "Never again."

"Fine" I say rubbing my arm.

We walk to our destination which is a couple of miles away. This is the time when I wish I had a car.....or super speed. Either one.

I was with Jake when I first got my power. I actually grew dog ears the first time I shape shifted. I didn't go through the process which means I didn't have a mentor who helped me find my way to the school.

Having a mentor means that before you get your power a person from the school befriends you so when you actually get your power you don't feel so alone.

I was friends with Jake when he got his power and he told me about it. I, in turn, told my parents and they had no choice but to tell me the truth, That, like Jake, I would get a power same with my step brother's and sisters because it runs in their family as well.

That's how my mom and step dad met. At the school that I now attend. It's called Maxwell prep. And it's been running as a school for the 'gifted' for hundreds of years. My step father, Michelle's dad, actually is the head master but Michelle just thinks he runs a middle school in center Philly.

My power is pretty simple now after studying it. The only problem is my eyes don't change color, but I'm working on that.

Anyway Jake and I are heading to headquarters to get our next assignment. During the summer we volunteered as recruiters for the incoming freshmen. I'm a sophomore and Jake's a junior.

We usually get assigned girls mostly because Jake's good looking and I can shape into anyone I want to convince the girls to come to our school.

Jake and I are on rocky ground because I don't really trust him with Michelle. I could kinda tell Jake has liked her for a long time but I would never let that happen. That may be selfish but I just can't be the middle man if they break up.

"So how did it go with Michelle's friend last night? What's her name again?" Jake says trying to break the awkward silence that has been going on for a while.

"Cassie..... It went good and I think I'm going to ask her out again."

"Cool"

There's an awkward silence again. I break it.

"Don't let Michelle fall in love with you or I swear to god..." I say fast getting the 'elephant out of the room' so to speak.

"I'll try my best." He says smiling while opening the door so we can walk into headquarters.

I don't believe him one bit.