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Personal Narrative: Kiesta

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1. Kiesta Glancing at the clock on my table, I sigh. Even though I’m supposed to be studying for that history test on Friday, my thoughts keep returning to that one subject. Jobs. My best friend, Ryzel Demaris, and I are detectives while in 10th grade, but with school work still going on, it’s not an easy job. However, it does help that our powers are useful in this field of work, mine being able to use telekinesis and freeze inanimate objects in space and time and his being able to heal or help an organism after analyzing what is wrong with them. Suddenly, my phone rings. I check the caller’s ID, Officer Lien, and quickly answer. “Hello, sir?” “Kiesta, you have a case. Missing person Pernia Smizzel, aged 38. Search the …show more content…

I feel myself warming up with the essence of power as it flows through my body. My eyes are already changing into gold. I slowly raise my arms on opposite sides on me and stop when they are parallel with the floor. My hands start glowing blue. The center of me filled to the brim with power suddenly explodes and I feel everything in me rush out like adrenaline. The house is immediately frozen within time and space. Nothing will move or change unless I want it to. All pieces of evidence are technically unable to be damaged. Unless it is living, of …show more content…

Pernia was related to my parents? What does this mean? Mom was accused of an outrageous crime that she would never do, no matter what. Murder. She had worked as a secretary for Mr. Malmory. He was the CEO, president, and founder of a small, yet honorable and profitable company that wasn’t well known. But one day, somehow, he died in a fire that started in his office building. Unfortunately, there was evidence leading towards Mom. False evidence. She still went to jail and was trialed. And found guilty. Three weeks after my 11th birthday, she died. Dad and I grew apart after that. We just drowned in our sorrows, too far away to help each other up. And just two months after Mom’s death, Dad went. “Suicide” they called it. It was murder. No matter how desperate or depressed he was, Dad would never kill himself. He wouldn’t leave his only child behind, letting them slowly die by themselves from the pain. Dad would never. So what does Pernia have to do with any of that? Why did she die, after five years? There’s only one way to find out. I open the door and come face to face with Ryzel. “Zel, we’re going to look for clues. In the old, burnt

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