> The Adventures of Stevie #35
>
> These stories were told to me by friends and other people. Some of them
> are true. Some of them are only partly true. Some of them should have
> been true. LOL
>
> My first post about Stevie ("Call me Stephen!") was when he was 12 and
> in summer camp and was told by another camper. This was from a time
> before computers would fit on a desk and when people communicated with
> friends in other countries by actual letters sent through the postal
> service. When children did this those friends were called "penpals".
> Carlos is Stevie's penpal in Argentina and knows English. This is a
> fictional contrivance to enable Stevie to tell us his stories because
> he isn't here in person. I think.
> All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
> that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
> Stevie's school is for gifted children who don't fit in regular schools.
> The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
> Stevie is 11 in this story. It takes place 3 weeks after story #34.
>
> The Adventures of Stevie #35 "Exploration"
>
> Dear Carlos,
>
> are very important. It's good for me too, because I have more time for
> other things. Chad still hugs me at least once a day. I don't mind that
> at all. He hugs the other students and the teachers who like it too.
> That's good for everybody. He is a very good student of fighting. His
> ability with gymnastics really helps. He already knew how to fall and
> he has very good body control. I am teaching him more control. When you
> control your body, you are controlling your mind too, which is a very
> good thing, because it helps you use both better.
>
> things from her, because it's very hard to concentrate when we are
> holding hands because her sadness is so bad. She doesn't want to be
> living in this world. That's why she lives inside her mind in the
> beautiful stories she makes up and writes down for us. She says writing
> them down makes them more real for her. I think something really bad
> happened to her that made this happen, but she won't tell me what it is
> completely.
>
> a telepath. She was that way from when she was 12. She doesn't need to
> hold hands with people to know what they are thinking, but it is hard
> to understand very much of what happens in their minds because each
> person has a private language of words and pictures and sounds and
> smells and feelings, so it is mostly when they talk to themselves she
> can figure out what they are thinking. She said I am not a telepath,
> but I can feel people's feelings. She said I always could do that but
> didn't know it. She showed me how it works, so now I can feel people's
> feelings in different rooms I can't see or hear into, but not if I want
> to, too much. I have to be almost not thinking about it for it to
> happen. She said it would get better when I'm older. She said I have
> another ability I didn't know I had. I can feel objects without looking
> at them or without using my special hearing. She said I got it mixed up
> with my hearing and didn't know I was doing it. I know now. It's
> strange.
>
> said she is hiding from people who want to use her abilities in a bad
> way. She said I should be very careful not to let people know I can do
> these things, or they would make me do bad things and do bad things to
> me to study how I do them. I don't want to believe people would do
> that, but I have to believe her because father would. She said I can
> trust Dr. Knot and Kit and father, and the Abbot, and nobody else
> unless father says so. I agree with that. She reads minds, so she would
> really know. I really like knowing for sure. She showed me how to use
> my abilities to check if anybody is spying on me, even if they use
> electronics, so I can talk with people I trust about secret things in
> real private.
>
> before her trouble started. There is one more thing she taught me,
> which is how to close my third eye so I don't see auras when I don't
> want to, which is most of the time. She said I should keep it open as
> much as I can, so I will get better with these new abilities, and
> discover and learn about knew ones. I will, but not when I'm with
> friends. I found out right away you HAVE to let your friends have
> privacy from you, or they can't be friends. I don't know how to explain
> why, but it's true. I don't want to tell you how I found it out. I
> don't even want to think about it. It makes me feel dirty and mean and
> really horrible to know private things and secrets about people. I
> would get rid of that ability if I could, but she said I can't. I don't
> know how Victoria lives with that. I just thought maybe she doesn't
> want to.
>
> me about the things I already could do but didn't know I could. She
> said it would be bad to try to teach me different things I didn't know,
> because they would keep me from learning things she didn't know which I
> might be able to do. That sounds true so I didn't argue. She loves me.
> I know that. I love her too. We know it every time our hands touch. She
> wants to help and protect me. All that's not enough. She did all she
> could for me, and now she wants to be left alone in her imaginary
> world, where she doesn't have to be sad. Love forces me to respect what
> she wants and needs even if I don't want to. I am very sad for her. She
> told me not to be, because she is happy there. It doesn't help. I cry
> for her at night sometimes. Then I let Jeremy hug me to sleep. Not the
> real Jeremy I really wish for, but my memory of him. That's what love
> is for, and lots of other things too.
>
> Your friend,
>
> Stephen
>
> --
> Grant
Very nicely written thanks
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