I know from all the movies and comic books and stuff that you're never supposed to tell
anyone about these kinds of things--just look at how it works out when people find out you're some kind of freak. But I can't deal with this any more by myself, and I need to tell
somebody, and I guess you'll be who. Consider yourself dead if you tell anyone, and I'm not kidding about that.
My name's
Mina. (
Adamina Maura Kerr if you need the long version.
My dad's name is
Adam, see, and he had kind of an ego.) I'm twenty-three years old and still in school; becoming a doctor takes forever, and I've only really just begun. I've got dark brown hair in a shaggy mess around my face and dark blue eyes (if you can find them under all the hair). And...well, I'm
different.
I don't know how to explain it except that I'm weird. Some kind of freak. I noticed when I was little that when I was excited about something, the floor would tremble a little. As I got older, it got worse--but I could control it more. I could make the ground shake if I wanted, and it sometimes would whether I wanted to or not. The night I won concert tickets off the radio, I broke my mother's favourite lamp.
I've been trying to hide it from everyone, even my parents. I mean, I'm sure they've noticed, but we lived in San
Francisco (I'm over in Chicago now), and I tried to play up the tremors thing as much as I could. Where I live now, I try and blame it on the El...and I try as much as I can
not to lose my temper or get too into anything. It doesn't work that great--I'm a pretty passionate person--but I've spent enough years trying to control this weirdness that even when I do lose my cool, it doesn't do
too much, usually.
I wish I could stop it. I
hate it. It's weird. But I can't. So I'm
Mina with a secret she'd like to lose, and
you are going to keep it if you know what's good for you.
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Adamina Maura Kerr = "to make great rough wet ground"--that is, an earthquake (apparently in the rain). :D
Her significant other--let's make it a gentleman--would like the letter, um. D.
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