Fear is present

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Crystal POV:

I followed Bloom as she made her way through the border. I looked around as we got to an old gateway in a cometary that looked abandoned. I watched as Bloom put Stella's ring on her finger before opening the door. I glanced around as we stepped through.

"This is where I stayed after the whole fire incident." Bloom explained.
"You weren't kidding about the creepiness of it." I joked slightly.
"Yeah. I guess not." She smiled lightly before going towards a fire exit.

I looked around one last time before following after my sister. I sighed as I seen our house up ahead. Turning to Bloom I seen her getting out her phone before putting it to her ear. I looked at her in confusion before she put it on speaker.

"Whoa twice in one day. Hold on I'm calling the news." Dad joked.
"Real chatty Cathy here. All it took was moving across the world." Mom stated.
"I know right, easy solutions." Bloom joked back, tears filing her eyes.
"Hey is your sister there?"
"Yeah I'm here. Hi mom, dad." I smiled with watery eyes.
"Hi sweetie. You want to video chat?" Dad asked.
I looked towards the window to see them sitting at the dinner table.
"No um....... we just wanted to check in, we got cut of before and." Bloom trailed off.
"You must be jet lagged." Dad stated.
"Mm, probably." I smiled weakly, wiping my eyes.
"Is everything ok Crystal, BLoom?"
"Yeah I'm, I'm okay." Bloom smiled as I just watched the ones who raised me through the window.
"You know you don't have to be okay. Your only sixteen. And Crystal your only fifteen." Mum stated
"I couldn't of done it when I was your age. You should be thankful you have your moms bravery." Dad joked.
Bloom smiled weakly and gave a small laugh.
"What if I like, made a mistake" I asked, allowing the emotions to come into my voice, causing Bloom to take my hand and give it a squeeze.
"Your too special for here guys. It's not who you are." Mom said.
"What if you don't know who we are?" Bloom asked, tears falling down her cheeks.
"Hey we're your parents guys. If we don't know you nobody does." Dad stated.
"Is there something else Something you wanna tell us." Mum asked, concerned.

I looked away and ignored the rest of the conversation between Bloom and our non biological parents. I jumped a little as I felt Bloom put her arm around my shoulder. I smiled at her and wiped my tears before looking back at our house one last time before leaving.

We made our way back to the abandoned building and Bloom took out the ring again. I watched as she stalled before moving further into the building. I looked in confusion before following her. As she got to an old bed and took out a book I sat down beside her.

"Bloom?" I asked, confused.
"When I didn't know what was going on I experimented a bit. Sounds silly but I played with legit fire. But I never got a burn. I wrote it all down, trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me. And now I know, it's just crazy. All of it." She explained, looking at me.
"I know but Bloom you didn't know. It's not your fault that it happened because you didn't know that you could do it. I mean it's not like you done it on purpose." I explained.
"Yeah but I did it Crystal, I caused that fire. I caused it and injured mom. I trapped you in there, you could of died because of me." She shouted, standing up and turning to face me.
"But we didn't. We're alive. I'm ok, your ok, their ok. You can stop it from happening again." I stated, also standing up.

We stopped when we heard a noise. Looking at each other we turned our heads to see a figure that was burned all over looking around. I gasped and Bloom grabbed me to push us down when it turned in our direction. I cried silently as my sister held me, trying to keep hidden when suddenly the window above us smashed. We Screamed and pushed away from the wall to see an ugly burned face trying to get at us.

"Oh no the ring." Bloom gasped as she opened the wiring and went under.
"Bloom." I called, following her, closing it behind me.

She went to reach it when the creature got in front of us, grabbing the ring. I gasped and pulled my sister back before we both took off in the opposite direction. Bloom kicked open the wiring and I cried as I seen Miss Dowling in front of us.

"Don't stop now." She said, pointing to the door.

Bloom grabbed my hand and we ran out of the building. As we turned back we seen the door slam shut before looking at each other.

"Are you ok?" 
We turned to see Aisha, Musa and Terra looking at us.
"Yeah, I think so." Bloom asked, looking at me.
"What the hell was that thing?" I asked, out of breath.
"I'm pretty sure it's called a burned thing." Terra explained
"huh?" I asked in confusion.
"Wait, Where, where's Stella?" Bloom asked.
"SHe's at school. Why?" Aisha asked.
"That thing just took her ring." Bloom explained.
"Okay. Let's just get out of here. Dowling's gonna take care of that thing." Musa stated, turning slightly.

I nodded and we began walking back to the school. I lagged behind and Terra stopped to wait for me. I smiled at her weakly as she put her arm around me.

"Are you ok?" She asked.
"You know for a first day it's been pretty adventurous." I slightly joked with a faint smile.
"Yeah, gonna be honest, this is the most I've had being here, and I grew up here." She laughed with me.
"Yeah." I laughed, agreeing.
"I'm here if you want to talk." She said as we walked into the suite.
"I think I'm just going to head to bed. But thanks." I smiled at her, pointing to my room.
"Okay, well you know where I am if you need me." She said and I smiled before leaving to my room.

I sighed as I closed my door. I got ready for bed and got out my tablets before taking them. Since the incident of the fire I had trouble sleeping so my parents brought me to the doctor and they gave me sleeping medication. I then crawled into bed and turned off the light, welcoming the darkness.


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