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"Is everyone ok? What happened?"

Gracie was embracing her flustered mother when she heard a familiar voice behind her. "Mona.., oh Mona! I'm so glad to see someone I know" Ramona and Gracie had always been good friends through out grade and high school. Ramona was doing it again, Gracie could tell how she kind of spaced out when she saw the burning flames that were once Gracie's house. Gracie felt the heat on her arm from Ramona's hand, she reached out and gently took Ramona's wrist "Hey Mona come back okay just let it go", she said trying to bring her back from the fire.

Gracie and Ramona had found out very young that Mona had some kind of connection with fire, an incident that had hurt Mona pretty badly. But that didn't mean Gracie wasn't "different" either. No matter how entranced by the fire Mona got Gracie could always pull her out of it. In fact Gracie often had that sort of affect on people. Someone on the brink of killing themselves of someone else would do whatever Grace asked is she tried hard enough. She first figured this out with her parents as a child and could convince them of anything or get her whatever she wanted, but thats a story for another time. When the fire fighters began to put out the flames, Grace tried to catch Mona before she hurt herself falling to the ground.

"Is she alright?" asked Gracie's mother

"She's fine I think it's just the heat coming off the fire", answered Grace as she knelt down next to Ramona. "Hey Mona, it's alright" she said brushing hair out of Mona's face. "Wake up Mona, or their gonna try to drag you off to the hospital", she shook her friend gently.