Mika The Mind Reader

The sound of the alarm clock is so obnoxious! I push the button slowly sit up and rub the sleep from my eyes. I look around the small room and take off my covers. I didn’t really get that much sleep but that’s ok because all we have is a small band lesson at 8:00. It’s a Sunday and Masuko has band lessons too.

“Hey Masuko wake up or we’re gonna be late,” I said stretching my arms in the air.

“Uhhh,” Masuko moaned, her back facing me. The beds were only about five feet apart.

I threw a pillow at her back and she sat up. She threw a pillow at me and the battle started. Pillows were flying everywhere. Finally she grabbed my wrist and the pillows stopped in mid-air.



She dropped my wrist and the pillows started again flying everywhere. We sat there with pillows everywhere looking at each other. Did we have another power?

“Ok what just happened?” I asked looking into my little sisters light blue eyes.

Her mouth started to stretch into a smile, “Duh? We can stop time! This is wicked awesome!”

“No,” I said getting up and pacing, “NO, no, no, no. This can not be happening! Why can’t I just be normal like everyone else?”

“Uh, your such a drama queen,” she said getting up rolling her eyes, “We have powers most people only dream about and your gonna honestly tell me this isn’t so cool? Sorry I’m not belivin’ it.”

There was a dead silence and I was not going to play a little super hero who just got her powers and she is going to fight for truth and justice, oh no I’m going to be normal!

Masuko grabbed my hand, “Come on let’s try to do it again!”

Nothing happened and Masuko looked disappointed. “All right! You win! Now what where you thinking when you grabbed my hand?” I said rolling my eyes.

“Hmm. I was thinking I wanted everything to stop,”

“Really me too,” I said with a small spark of hope, I mean if we know how to control this power than we can figure out how to avoid it.

“Well then think about wanting everything to stop,” Masuko said throwing up a pillow and grabbing my hand.

I thought as hard as I could about wanting everything to stop and the pillow froze in mid-air just like last time.

“Wow,” Masuko said, “Come on let’s go downstairs. Don’t let go of my hand.”

We went down stairs. It felt weird holding her hand like I was some kindergardner who needed her little sister. We went into the kitchen and there was mom tossing bacon, well the bacon was in mid-air. Dad was poring milk in his bowl of cereal, and the milk he was poring was completely frozen. I let go of Masuko’s hand and everything returned back to normal.

“Morning girls how did you get here so fast?” my mom said with a smile.

Masuko was about to say something, but I quickly said, “Um never mind that. Mom who were our original parents?”

Dad looked up from his cereal and mom turned off the stove. They looked at each other and didn’t say a word. “They didn’t tell us, you know classified stuff,” My dad said turning back to his cereal.

“Is that legal?” Masuko asked.

Mom shrugged, and so did Dad. We looked at each other and that’s when I heard it ‘dang they seem completely ok with this’ it was from Masuko. ‘I know’ thought. ‘Hey you can here me’ Masuko said, or thought. ‘Duh I can. Look lets say we have to study with Toni and go to the orphanage so we came from so we can dig up some information about our parents’ I thought. ‘Sounds good I’m curious myself’ Masuko thought.

“Hey mom um we forgot that Mika and I have to go over to Toni’s to study for our finals” Masuko said.

“So I guess you’ll be missing band?” Dad said cocking a brow.

“Yup!” We said in unison.

We walked out the door and I grabbed my cell phone. I Dialed Toni’s number. I waited as the phone rang.

“Hello?” Toni answered.

“Hey Toni it’s Mika, listen if my mom calls me and Masuko are at your house studying, and if she asks to talk to me or Masuko tell her were busy or something.”

“Why?”

“Because we just are ok? Look we are counting on you so don’t let us down ok?”

“Ok, talk to ya later.”


“Bye,” I said pushing the off button on my cell phone.

We came up to the tall building about 5 stories. The building was in need of a serious paint job, you can see little red paint blotches of where some had peeled. There was a fountain with a plaque that read, “Sawashima’s orphanage established on June 3, 1920.”

“So this is where our parents dropped us off huh?” Masuko said smiling.

“Give it a rest,” I snapped “Were here to find out about our parents not discuss our cherished childhood memories.”

“Oh! I suppose were supposed to just waltce in and say ‘Hello, My name is Masuko and this is my sister Mika, were looking for a possibly restricted file to find out about our parents because we have supernatural powers and we want out figure out if were human or not!’”

She is really trying my patience. “Ok then what is your plan!”

“Simple one of us distracts the person at the front desk while the other gets into the place where they keep all the files and jot down the info,” Masuko said holding up a pencil and a tablet of paper.

I smiled, “Works for me I’ll go in the file room.”

“Why do you get to go into the file room?”

“Two reasons. One, you have terrible hand writing, and Two, you are better at not shutting up, so you can distract the person at the desk better than I can.”

Masuko ignored my remark and started walking toward the door. When I followed we went through the door and she handed me the pencil and paper. We went up to the front desk and there was a girl at the desk her name tag read “Namiko”.

“Can I help you girls?” Namiko asked.

“Yes um can we meet some of your kids me and my sister are just looking. Our parents will come soon,” Masuko said with a sincere smile.

“Ok right this way ladies,” Namiko said.

“Um where is your bathroom?” I asked trying to smile.

She pointed, “Down the hall to the left”

“Thanks,”

I walked down where she pointed until I was out of sight. There was a map on a bulletin board on the wall. I looked for something like ‘file room’ or ‘information’. To my luck I found the file room was just down the hall. I found it but it was locked! I tried harder as if it I would magically go trough it. The next thing I knew I was in the room. I went through the door? This is too weird. I shrugged it off for now. I had to get that information about our parents.

I looked form Tama, our last name. I found it and it had; our foster parents name, our names, our infant hand and foot prints, and our birth certificate. It had the names of Mr. Sota and Ms. Sakkura Abe. I jotted down their names and then I found their pictures, I couldn’t resist I mean no one will read the file since it’s a past adoption. I put them in me pocket and jotted down where they lived and that sorta stuff.

I walked to the door, and cautiously opened the door and I looked both ways and walked out. I thought real hard ‘Masuko…..Masuko can you hear me?’ no response ‘Yeah yeah I hear ya stop thinking ok?’

She came over with the girl, Namiko. “Well I’m sure you want a tour too?” Namiko said looking at me.

“Actually umm…. We have to go back, but we’ll come back.” I lied as best I could.

“Ok bye for now”

Masuko and I went out the door and I told her about going through the door. She was pretty jealous, but she got over it. She also was a little mad at me for taking stuff out of the folder, but I told her no one would look in the file since the adoption was done years ago.

“Mika do you know what this means?” Masuko asked staring at my notes with awe.

“Um if you mean that know we know that I can walk through walls I think that,”

“Not that,” Masuko said interrupting me.

“Their address and phone numbers are right her that means…………WE KNOW WHERE OUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS ARE!”