On top everything high school had to throw at students they added that you have to do at least 30hours of community service. To annoy the boys I took it as the pool as a life guard doing when the girls would be out. Much to many annoyance. Now sat keeping a eye on things I chuckled at the thought of Pete and Clark going to the elderly home. Pete had no idea why Clark chose that to do but i did. Lana had been there for two weeks volunteering and of course where Lana was, Clark usually surface to admire her from afar.

I was in the middle of my shift and nothing had gone wrong, so far but I kept my wits about me. But that didn't stop my brother from storming in fully dressed and trying not to fall in.

"Mia! Mia, Get down from there. Get down please." I held onto where I was sitting

"Clark what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at the retirement home?" I questioned confused and alarmed to what had got him in such a state.

"Mia, you need to come home with me now alright. Just please, come home right now." he pleaded with me offering his hand. I took it and came down as he held onto my arms

"Clark you're scaring me what's wrong?" He pulled me away as another lifeguard came to take my place. I went into the staff room and got dressed then came back out "Clark." he didn't wait for me to ask again he picked me up and swing me around so that he carried me on his back and sped off away from the centre back to home and to the barn where mom and dad were cutting some wood with the electric saw. He let me down and pulled out the plug closing it down

"Guys when you need this kind of stuff done just ask me. It's what I'm here for." he insisted

"Is something bothering you, Clark?" Mom wondered taking off her safety glasses

"No. I just think we should be putting safety first. If you haven't noticed this stuff is pretty dangerous." we made our way over to them.

"He's lying. Something is wrong, he practically kidnapped me from my community service at the pool today and carried me on his back, all the way home. He refuses to tell what gives." I state folding my arms "It was embarrassing."

"Well this is a farm, it kind of goes with the territory. Seriously, son, what's going on?" Dad questioned again. He looked sheepish as he gave up what had gone on.

"At the retirement centre I met this old, blind lady. I know it sounds crazy but she can see the future." he admitted to us. he was right it did sound crazy.

"What did she tell you?" Mom questioned

"That someone very close to me will die soon." he answered and neither of us sounded convinced

"Listen, Clark you can't let some old lady scare you with a half baked prediction. I mean she probably does it to scare the nurses away." dad dismissed the notion. As replugged the saw back in.

"She told Pete he'd be walking home, seconds later he realised he locked his keys in his car." Clark was adamant in this old ladies powers.

"No one can tell the future."

"What if she can? What if she told me because I can do something about it." he looked and probably felt dejected

"Then she should have been more specific. Name, time and place. Besides if if she can predict the future, no one not even you can control it. Nobody can." I tell him resting my hand on his shoulder. Dad started the saw back up again.

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I decided to go see this psychic for myself. After signing in i was told where she would be. The fact that she seemed to got Clark all wound up both irritated and intrigued me since for the longest time the elderly and disabled threw of the vibe of being innocent and untouchable. I knocked on the door.

"I wonder when you'd come." she smiled "Come in, come in." i slowly walked in

"You know who I am?" I questioned still not believing it.

"You're the twin of that nice young boy who came to read to me. Clark." she gestured out the the stool that was in front of her.

"Yeah, you got him in quite the mess earlier, with your so called vision." I sat down across form her and crossed my legs. "I don't like it when people mess with my brother."

"I didn't mean to scare him off, dear. Sometimes what i see makes no sense until it does. And even then it scares me." she held out her hand to me.

"I'm not someone you can easily fool."

"Then it won't harm you to try." she had me there. With a sigh I gave her my handed hers closed around mine. She leant back slightly as a smile crossed her face.

"A child will come before 16 candles are blown out. He will be twice blessed. A child of the earth and the stars." I snatched my hand away rattled and in defiance.

"Precognition had no scientific basis. You convinced my brother of the impossible and now your trying to do the same to me. I'm not buying what your selling lady. Don't try it again." I got up and left going into town first.

"Ah, the mysterious Mia Kent resurfaces." I heard Whitney from outside his Dad's store "Where have you been hiding."

"If I told you, what would be the purpose of a hiding place." I quip back, making him laugh but he stopped suddenly

"What happened?" he questioned

"What do you mean?"

"You look like you've seen a ghost. Which is impossible because this is where you would come in with a fact about how that's not even a option." he replied and I raised my eyebrow.

"Actually some scientific studies show that the environment around us can be imprinted with snap shots in time. Causing a plausible playback under extenuating circumstance in which most people believe to be the undead come back life in one way or another." I folded my arms with a smirk

"Okay Mis Know it all.But seriously, what has you so rattled?" i sigh and ran a hand through my hair

"This old lady at the retirement home got Clark rattled because it was heavily rumours she could see the future. She predicted someone close to him would die very soon." I explained shaking my head

"And you don't believe her"

"As I said to her Precognition has no basis in science. That and she predicted that I would be a teen Mom so, who's the loopy one. What rattled me is that she managed to convince herself of such notions. Future is something you can't fully predict, things are always changing and our decisions as well as our choices put us and and change our paths."

"She's in a retirement home, what harm can she really do other than a few choice scary words?" he wondered with a small shrug

"A lot if your as gullible as my brother. Speaking of. I better go find him before he find himself in anymore mischief. Library after school tomorrow. If you can get back on track with maths, then history and science should be easy." I pointed to him as i move around to walk past him.

"You got it coach." I shake my head in amusement and head off to find my brother. I don't end up finding him in any of the usual places and he's not answering his phone so I head back home where he eventually returns.

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She did it again. Cassandra the clairvoyant did it again. Clark did it again because he's a sucker for punishment. He went to see her and now he's ranting and raving about the vision that he apparently saw as well when he held Cassandra's hand.

"Clark, maybe you were having some kind of hallucination," Mom suggested as she, Clark and Dad came downstairs. I was already in the kitchen having breakfast.

"It wasn't a hallucination, it was a glimpse of the future. My future." he replied joining me

"And you saw an endless graveyard."

"Oh don't forget the spooky bit about a baby on my grave. You're going just as senile as she is Clark it's catching ." I had some juice as i was gathering my things for the day.

"Mia, it felt like i was the last person on earth."

"How can you be with a baby crying right next to you. You make no sense." I retorted

"Look, son. I don't know what you did or did not see, but come on you gotta consider the source." Dad poured himself another cup of coffee.

"Your Dad and sister are right, we don't know anything about her." Mom sided with us.

"Aside from the fact that she has the bright idea I'm gonna be a team mom." I start laughing but stopped when I see the others reaction "What? I'm not pregnant. Old age is a killer on the brain cells."

"She said you would have a baby. And there was one on your grave."

"Clark, you need professional help. I'm going, you can catch me up." I grabbed my bag and jacket , leaving the three of them