I sat eating my cheerios in a bad mood. The dream unsettled me, usually I could easily get over them, but that one felt real. Not to mention that my knee still throbbed from when I jumped from the window. As if I really did do it. My mom and dad were already out for work and Jen was getting ready to walk to her elementary that was a few blocks away. I smiled a small bit. At least I didn't have school today because of the teacher meetings, that was a plus side. 

Then I remembered. Liam had said he had a bad dream, and suddenly he felt a lot of pain... Did I just have that dream too? 

I shuddered at the thought and grabbed my phone, pocket knife and a kitkat and shoved it into my backpack that had no use at the moment. I grab my coat and go outside, I walk down the familiar roads towards Liams house. It wasn't too far, plus I've walked it so many time. I was best friends with Liam, when people thought of Liam; they thought of me, and vice-versa.

Despite my way coat, shivers were sent down my spine and the wind seemed to get into every nook and cranny. I felt like I would freeze and nothing mattered anymore. I was going numb. I was scared. I didn't know what I would find out from Liam. I turned onto his street, he wasn't far now. Gathering my courage I walked the final hundred meters and walked up his driveway.

I knocked on the door, the loud banging the sole sound I could hear in the cold empty neighbourhood. The door opens and there stands Liam.

I jump up, "What's wrong? What happened to you?"

He stood there awkwardly, "Come in."

I followed him towards his room, he ignored my torrent of questions and defiantly remained quite. When we got there he shut the door and locked it.

"Something happened to me Finn."

"I know, are you in pain still or...?"

"No, the pain didn't last long at all, its what happened when the pain ended. Finn I can't believe this is actually Real."

"What?! What is?"

"Finn, like in the movies and stories. I have magic! Like superpowers! You know how my family thinks that stuff is nonsense so I couldn't talk to them about it but please believe me."

I know he's not lying. It wasn't just his tone of voice or the tears in his eyes, even though i've seen him lie like this before. There was just an air around him that was... strange.

"Show me, you I can't believe without proof."

He looked around nervously, as if there were people hiding and watching. When he was sure no one was looking but me, he held out his palm. I waited, and nothing happened.

"Oh wait!" He called out, obviously forgetting something.

He spat in his hand, "Dude thats gross!" I said but then to my amazement. The magic happened.

The spit/water levitated from his hand, swirling in circles and forming into a ball then breaking, it shouldn't have been possible. No movie could re-create what was happening in front of him. Magic, Arcane magic.

"Holy..." I whisper. The spit fell down onto his hand and he wiped it off on his pants.

"I know, last thing I knew was I had a bad dream with some guy, then I feel pain all over my body then this."

My heart stops. I can't breath. "What sort of dream."

Liam became a bit awkward. "There was this guy, he called me outside and when I saw him I ran back inside. He kept saying 'you are mine'. Then when he finally caught me I started falling and then when I hit the ground wherever I was- I woke up and it was morning. Then that night I felt the pain... I wake up and this...." He was out of words.

I cough, my mouth was dry. "I had a dream like that last night."

He looked up, "what?"

"Yeah... does that mean... I might get powers too?"

He shrugged. "I don't know."

"How long was it after the dream until you felt like that?"

"I dunno... 12 hours?"

"Oh god." I shivered, not that it was cold- in fear.

"I... I don't know what to do? I suddenly have powers, what now? Use them for good? I'm not some idiot like our friends at school and you know it Finn, but should I? I can't show my powers to my parents, you know what they would do..."

"They would throw you out."

"Yeah, yeah they would." He said bitterly.

I sad there silently, I felt numb almost. "You could hide your powers? Just assume a normal like like in movies? You could secretly help people out at school?"

He laughed a tiny bit, almost enough to make him smile. Almost. I sighed, "Well I'm out of ideas as well, and as we know it I might be in the same situation as you soon enough. Let's just hope for the best. Maybe for now lets go into the forest and test your powers out? See if you can do anything else?"

He instantly brightened. "Good idea! For a minute there I almost forgot I had powers... I still can't believe it." Said Liam.

I smiled at him, "you have freaking magical powers Liam, real life powers. Just like we've always imagined as kids! Stop thinking about the what ifs and lets go use them. Come on, what's the worst that can happen? Not like your parents or government official looking for supernatural teenagers walking around the forest? Lets go!"

Liam grinned at me. "Lets go!" He said.

He opened the door to his room and I followed him down the hall, "Mom we're going to the forest! We'll be back soon!"

"Ok! Have fun my little monkey!" Said his mom, yelling from her room upstairs.

"I will!" He said, blushing at his nickname.

We left his house and raced each other to the forest, Liam was faster than me so I quickly fell behind. I ran in gasping, Liam of course was already there and laughing at me. I grinned, I was cheering him up. We headed inwards, we needed to get away from sight. About a hundred meters into the forest I stop. Something felt familiar.

Liam noticed I had stopped walking, "You okay?"

"I remember this place... from my dream."

"Really? I thought that evil guy would of just caught you in your house. That's what happened to me."

"No... I jumped from my window, I ran into the woods and hid..." I looked around, I see the small hole I hid in. "There! That's why this place was so familiar. This was where I hid when... He caught me."

Liam frowned. "That's really different from my dream. Anything else was different? Did you fall to the ground? Did you hear his voice right when you woke up? Saying 'you are mine' for the millionth time?"

"No I fell, but when I woke up, I heard the 'you are mine' but he also said something else. Something about me being his..."

My legs suddenly got pins and needles, my head started hurting and I fell to my knees in the sudden pain. "Star."

Liam panicked, "Finn! Finn! Are you okay? What's happening? This can't be the pain I was talking about, it shouldn't happen until tonight!"

I writhed on the ground in pain, my body was on fire, muscles contorted and I felt like my joints were ripping apart. I felt like I was... dying. My head was a swarm of bees, my stomach was being punch by the strongest man alive, my neck was being ripped from the chest. It hurt, so, so much. Through the pain and agony, I pulled my thoughts together. This was what Liam had felt last night... But why so early, it shouldn't be until tonight.

I scream in pain, but my voice cracks so almost no noise escapes. I try to get up, move or grab my phone but I feel like my hands had fallen off and been cut into pieces. 

Slowly, the pain started to stop, at first I could use my hands. I tried to speak, or move but I still couldn't do either through the pain. This is when Liam must have texted me...

Part by part I could move again without burning my throat in screams that wouldn't come out. I suddenly opened my eyes- I hadn't even realized I had closed them. The pain had stopped, I only noticed because I had started to get used to it.

I got up shakily, Liam was at my side helping me up. 

"I think I just had the Passing." I said.

"What's the Passing?" Liam asked, confused.

I grinned, "well we need to call it something."

Liam, seeing me grinning grinned back, "I like it."

But what Liam didn't know, is that beneath my smile. My heart was pounding, I felt cold, I felt numb. I had the shivers. What Liam didn't know was that I was scared. 

He turned around and started walking deeper into the forest, I looked back down in the hole.

A slight breeze came by and with it came a voice.

"My star..."