Vibrations

Tommy was stressed about an upcoming math test. He got ready as normal and went to school. As he walked through the hallways, he thought to himself "I know I shouldn't have stayed up so late playing video games!" When he finally got into the room and sat down, he was shaking nervously. There was also something very peculiar about his teacher. When Tommy looked up at his teacher as she was passing out the tests, he noticed that she looked very sad. There was like a slow, sad vibration coming from her body. He noticed that her eyes looked red and tired, as if she had been up crying all night. Tommy looked around at his classmates but noone else seemed to notice. Everyone was focused on their own feelings, waiting for the test.

He could see that his friend Harry was nervous too and when he focused a bit harder he could see, or feel, the same kind of vibrations from him as from their teacher, but in a different form. Harrys vibrations were more "jumpy" and erratic. Tommy looked around at the other classmates. Focusing on one after the other he could sense what they all were feeling. He had never experienced anything like this before, but he kind of liked it. He could see from Melanies calm vibrations that she was going to nail this test too. Ed seemed suprisingly nervous, as if he didn't always get a full score!

When he focused on Teresa he noticed a different kind of vibration, more intense, warm and sort of… red. He looked at her face and she was looking right at him, smiling. He felt like he got hit by lightning, an intence but pleasant flash of feelings, straight into his belly area. His face turned red. He smiled and looked away. The test was about to start.

The math test went pretty well, considering how little he had studied, but he felt sort of dizzy and warm the whole day. He kept sensing other peoples emotions. In the afternoon he saw his math teacher again and she had a completely different vibration now, calm and happy. He knew she was ok, and that made him feel good too.

His dizzyness was increasing and he realized he must be having a fever. By 3 p.m. Harry dragged Tommy to the school nurse. She called his mum, who picked him up 15 minutes later. At home Tommy took an Ibuprofen and went to bed. He slept for three hours that day and had a terrible flu for the following three weeks.

Harry brought him homework a couple of times a week, and one of those times he also had a letter with him. "From Teresa" he said with a teasing smile, as he passed the letter to him. "What?" Tommy blushed and took the letter.

He saw a vague, funny looking vibration coming from Harry as he left. That was the last vibration he could sense, for a while. It all went away as he started to recover from the flu. Tommy hoped this strange ability would come back to him, maybe next time he got sick, but for now he was happy with this whole Teresa thing. He didn't need to see her vibrations to know they were there. A new chapter was starting in his life.