Josie's Pov 

He pushed me into the car and slammed the door. What the hell. He Just pulled me out of the building and shoved me in a car. I barely know him. This is when it hit me. Someone just threw a fireball through the window. How is that even possible. I was thrown out of my thinking by Jack speaking to me. I realized we were no longer in the school parking lot. How long had I been lost in my maze of thoughts.

“ Look I know you’re terrified, but I promise to explain when we’re at the safe house. Okay,” he whispered to me, his voice soft. I looked down at my shaking hand. After a second of thought, I turned my head and nodded to him, before looking away again. We turned down a street then turned into a driveway. Jack got out of the car and walked over to my door. He opened the door and helped me out onto my shaking legs. “Come on into the house,” he said guiding me into the house and closed the door behind us.

He guided me over to a chair and sat me down before striding around a table to sit on the chair across from me. To avoid looking at him for a while longer, I studied the room around us. The walls of the room were tan with white borders. The carpet was also a tan color. The furniture was outdated. This was obviously an older house that wasn’t used very often. There was dust everywhere. After a while Jack cleared his throat to get my attention.

“ I know you have questions. What do you want answered first.” What did I want answered first? I had so many questions I couldn’t simply pick one to start on. Seeing my uncertainty he picked one for me.

“ How about what happened in class. Let’s start there.” He thought for a moment, probably needed to figure out how to say this without freaking me out.

“ What happened today,” Jack started, “ is that the darkness sensed your spark and decided to take you out before we could train you.” The darkness, My spark, what is he talking about.

“ What do you mean Spark?”

“ A Spark is what we call people who if trained could wield magic. They have a, for lack of a better word, flame which is what gives them the capability to do magic.” So it’s official this guy’s crazy. I’m out of here.

“ You’re crazy and I’m leaving,” I say finally. “ Don’t you think that if I had magical abilities I would’ve noticed by now.”

“They don’t manifest until you’re older. They also can’t be used without being trained.”

“ Okay well , new question. Who was that man outside the window and how did he do that?”

“ That man was part of the darkness. He conjured a fireball and threw it at the window hoping to kill you.”

“ What is the darkness?”

`'' The darkness is a secret society trying to kill the magic warriors.”

“ Magic Warriors?”

“ Magic warriors are witches and Warlocks that are trained to fight threats to the Society.”

I can’t believe what I’m hearing. I have magic. I’m a Spark. Jack watched my expressions change as I processed the information I had just heard. He didn’t change his expression at all during explaining these things to me. What do I do with this?

“ Why did you come to me?”

“ You have a strong signal. I had to find who had such a signal.” How do I respond to that?