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even know I was in here? My breathing got easier all of a sudden. The pain in my knee faded. There was nothing Spivey or anyone else could do to stop me.
    “C’mon, Ray,” I said to my father, who was basically a well-dressed statue at this point. I stood. “He’s not putting me anywhere.”
    Spivey drew his gun and aimed at my father’s head. “Another move and he dies. Remember, you’re not the one with the speed, Selby is.”
    I stepped in front of Ray and grabbed Spivey’s right wrist. When he squeezed the trigger, a flash of heat surged from the fingertips of my hand to the rest of my body.
    The bullet exploded from the chamber with a small trail of smoke behind it. The bronze-tipped slug slowed down in midair before pausing squarely in front of my face. I felt a pointy surface under Spivey’s uniform sleeve. Red ice bracelet. Both Ray and Spivey stood frozen in time. After removing the bracelet, which also had white ice on it, I held it in my right hand.
    I touched Ray’s shoulder and he snapped to attention. Ducking down, he breathed heavily and frantically checked his body for holes. “What happened?”
    Reaching out for the paralyzed bullet, I crushed it in my palm. Then I pushed Spivey into his chair and handcuffed his wrists behind his back. “You’re in the police station,” I said, taking Spivey’s gun, cell phone, money, and the keys to open the cuffs. “Friendly neighborhood lawman here shot at you.”
    Ray rubbed his eyes and straightened up as I filled my pocket with Spivey’s stuff. “This isn’t happening, this isn’t happening, this isn’t happening... wait, are you crazy? You could be tried as an adult! Think about this.”
    “Okay.” I paused for a second before backhanding Spivey across the face. “Thought about it. Now he’s going to answer my questions.” I looked Spivey in the eye. “It’s been months. What are you waiting for? Why now? Why haven’t you and Welker come after us?”
    Ron Welker, his boss and my old principal, had powers, too. We had duked it out in the Reject High gymnasium and destroyed the school. He’d been missing ever since.
    “King can’t find the gold,” he repeated it.
    Ray scratched his head. “Stop it, Jason. Let him go now and I can plead you out.”
    I shushed Ray. King can’t find the gold? What does that even mean? He wasn’t making sense. “What ‘King’? What does finding the gold source have to do with me?”
    “You’re the only one who can move them fast enough. We have a few days.”
    A few days? The solar storm? Next Friday, Sasha and I planned to picnic with my family at the park – so much for that. “Why? The storm...”
    “Days until what?” Ray asked him. Spivey didn’t answer.
    I pressed the issue myself. “What if I don’t?”
    He had to answer my questions, as long as the red ice held power. Spivey writhed in his chair. “They’ll explode – all of them. Nuclear bombs.”
    The apocalypse. I guess all those parents were right about me, after all. Sasha was on target about the solar flares and their effects on the crystals. If Joyce paid her daughter any attention, she’d send Sasha to a charter school. “Who’s King, or ‘the King’?”
    Spivey muttered something I didn’t understand before passing out.
    Ray grabbed me by the forearm, but I snatched away. “Don’t touch me,” I said.
    “Julia, she’s...”
    Before he could finish, I opened the door and stormed into the hallway. Ray got behind me and tried to catch up, but the hallway was too narrow for us to walk side-by-side.
    I hustled past a trio of policemen and a pretty blonde with “Department of Homeland Security” stitched in white letters above her jacket pocket.
    “Wait!” she shouted at me. “I need to talk to you.”
    Her name was on a badge hanging from her neck. I tried to read it without stopping, but she probably thought I was just starting at her boobs.
    Once we were outside Ray keyed the alarm to the Cougar. When I got close