Tell Karen

John decides to cool his jets in Ms. Cummings’ class. He does not want to arouse suspicions. He hates to do it though. Class it boring and Ms. Cummings is such a tempting subject.

Finally, he gets to his Advanced Human A&P class. He looks around for Karen, but she is late to class and by the time she is seated Mrs. Thatcher has already started class and is reminding everyone that they need to go ahead and get started on their presentations. However, this is no problem. He reaches out to Karen’s mind, but this time he does not try to control, it he simply sent a message.

‘Karen, you got to meet me in the lab on the third floor after school.’

“What is it?” she asks only to get a look from Mrs. Thatcher.

‘Karen doesn’t speak. I know it sounds like I am, but I am not.’

She thinks anxiously. ‘What is going on?’

‘I can read minds, Karen’

Karen gasps and gets another look from Thatcher. ‘But… oh my, my Metisatonin did this to him.’ She thinks.

‘those are my thoughts too,’ he sends.

She begins to panic, ‘Get Out Of My Head!’

He is startled a little by this. ‘I will try but you think really loud.’

She smiles nervously. ‘Thanks, I think.’

'I know, your welcome.'

'Stop, That!'

After Adv. English with Miss Furr, he rushed off to laboratory, but Karen had beaten him there. She was pacing back and forth. “Okay, so tell me about it, “she joyously demands.

“I can hear other people’s thoughts and even feel what they are feeling, but I can’t turn it off.”

“What?” she asks. ‘He’s lying’

“No I really can’t stop it and it has gotten worse all day.”

“This is not good, John.”

“Tell me about it, do you how many of the guys in my English class want to Screw Miss Furr?! And some of these guys are really sick.” He shudders. Karen laughs. “It’s not funny.” He asserts.

“Yes it is.” She smiles. “Think about how many people would kill to have your power, and all you want is to turn it off.”

Although, it takes a good 45 minutes to do it, the two of them finally figure out how to stop his reading powers. When they are done Karen asks, “Okay, soooo can you do anything else?”

He waits a second wondering if he should tell her everything or not. “Yeah I think I can make people do things. Things they would never actually do.”

Karen ponders this for a moment. He gives her privacy. “Okay, prove it.”

“What?” he asks, cautiously.

“I’m a scientist, John. I won’t believe it unless I see proof.”

“How can I possibly prove it?”

“Simple,” she says coyly. She pushes glasses up. “We know you can read minds, you have read mine a lot while we figured out how to stop it, make me do something, something I would never do.”