Elements #Wattys2015

Chapter FourtyOne

"The most confused we ever got is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie." -Karen Moning

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I wake up with this sick feeling in my stomach. Not the feeling you have for a stomach ace but the one you get when you regret doing something. Except I don't remember doing anything I regret. I also convinced myself that I have a throbbing headache from the confusion I wake up to. I don't get how some people wake up-like in the movies- with a smile on there faces and a memory that's so fresh as if they could fill it in with new information needed. Where as I would wake up confused as to what I did or ate yesterday. As if I never existed yesterday. Then like a wave, my mind has a to-do list that needs to be completely by the end of the day. When I wake up I am as confused as a chameleon in a bag of skittles.

"You alright?" Rico asks me as dip my head into the crashing water. He said I'm not acting like myself. But I point out that I've only known him for about two and a half days. Your easy to read.

Is that your power? Reading people?

You'd be surprise Chica at the thinks I'm capable of.

"Nothing." I whisper. But I whisper more to myself then him. I had a feeling things would go down once I started elements. I just never thought it would happen to soon. What sucks is that this seems fake. As if it's just a long April fools joke that lasted a year... Or maybe ten. It seemed as though these people that I talk to are just hired to make things complicated. And the people who I don't talk to are hired to just watch me go insane.

Rico sits next to me taking out a cigarette. "Since when did you smoke?" I stare at him. "First year of elements. Thought it was... Interesting" He was quite for a while. He did t seem like the smoking and with confusion and anger I rip the stick from his mouth.

"There's nothing interesting in getting lung cancer." I say. Although I don't get why I am angry. He stares at me and puts the pack down carefully as if I was holding a weapon. "Alright chica. What's your problem?" He stares at me with a questioning look. I shake my head then add in a low sigh. "I feel like shit."

"not to mention look like it too." Rico adds in a low mumble. I give him an evil glare then a sweet smile. "Why thank you Rico."

He smiles then waits for me to continue. "So? what happened?" he asks now lying on his back looking up at the sky. He moves his feet around splashing the water with them. "I don't know. Things are going fast that even I am lost." I say stuffing my face in my hands. "Oh so the normal problem?"

"You do not know my normal problems." I say. It seemed to me that Rico even though we have only known each other for... 2...3 days? He seems to know more about me then I know about him. And so now I wonder... what if his life is... messed up, like mine. "So what problems do you have?"

"Excuse me?" he says. Now sitting next to me looking at me as if I had told him he was sitting under a bomb. "You heard me. I have been telling you my shit now its your turn." I say with a confident voice. Although someone like Rico might not have problems. He seems to smart to even get himself into any situation. I am not saying that I am stupid, No. I'm just saying that right now my mind is not making right choices.

But what seemed to have now caught my attention which did not before was the fact that Rico smoked when he claimed to be an Air. Airs do not favor smoking. In stead they seem against it. All the other Elements do not mind it. It was either Rico was lying about his Element or hiding his problem with the Airs. If he was caught smoking by an Air I guarantee they'll chastise him.

"I don't have girl problems." He points out.

"I don't even know your last name Rico were you know basically everything about me."

"Rico Braxton." he says.

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Cindy sits at the lunch table fiddling with her food. Cameron next to her staring at something. And when they both see me neither of them is smiling. Noel sits behind them looking at the both of them with frustration painted on her face. Now, I feel as though I should not enter. The entire cafeteria does not look so happy. Everyone is either crying or whining. And some... well those are the people who are to fund of them selves and do not care what is happening.

"Whats going on?" I ask.

"Where not graduating." Noel said from behind. "Shut up!"Cindy begins to yell at her. "This is a trap."Noel says.

"Can you shut yours!"Cindy looks at her. "was she even talking to you?" To the looks of everything Cindy seemed to want a fight. Or at least something to keep her mind busy. "Why?" I ask. Not caring about there hatred between them. The only reason why I was excited about this month was because it was the month everyone graduates. Not sure why I was excited I mean we still have the same classes nothing changes. Just our rooms and our status levels. But maybe the fact that each year I get closer to my last year in Elements then being able to leave my problems behind.

"Apparently there was not even a single person who is eighteen and an Element this year." Cameron explains.

"and so we cant level up?"I ask.

"Not with out the year tens leaving." Noel jumps in. "and with-"

"and with no new people coming in Mrs. Gravel thinks that Elements are being extinct." Cindy stops Noel from speaking. "So? Why cant she let them go."

"Because we are the last of the elements. If she loses the last ten years of Elements then the world wouldn't be balanced." Cameron says. Some times it is an honor to be the last of something. Other times its a struggle because sometimes being the last means that your alone. What bothers me is that I do not want to be trapped here. Its like a broken radio.

All the years walked in seating them selves. The year tens looked like they where about to kill someone. The most mature out of all of us... seemed to have become teenager. Now fighting and settling things with not words but action. Everyone has turned against each other and now this place has became a zoo without cages.

"Elements." Mrs. Gravel spoke. "Elements" She repeats. She smashes her hand against the table. But only some listens. "It has seemed we have hit a wall." Her voice now returning to its normal level. People begin to laugh. Some start to bring there sarcasm into act. "But..." she sighs "But we think we can solve it. That is why we are going to allow pregnancy."

"No!" Cindy yells.

"Pardon Mrs. Ale?" Mrs. Gravel looks at her with wide eyes. "Do you have a problem?"

"Hell I have a problem! Men can't keep them in there pants!" Cindy yells.

"It would help if women could keep there legs closed." Some one yelled in the back. Some laugh and others argue. Then there is me who still couldn't process anything. Kyle sneaks up behind me now wrapping his arms around my waist. He places his head on my shoulder and carefully whispers, "are you okay?" If I got paid a penny each time I was asked that question I would have been a millionaire by now.

"Yeah." No.

Rico's arms are folded on his chest as he leans against the wall with a smirk on his face. I might as well now walk with a sign that says don't touch me. Now the first thing that comes to mind about Elements is that this place is now... the most scariest place I could possibly be stuck in. Kyle attempted to kiss me but I carefully push him away.

He does not say anything but walks away from me towards his group leaving me alone to hear what Mrs. Gravel has to yell about. I have this huge lump in my throat and a heavy feeling at the bottom of my heart. "We will figure things out. If we could find younger years of Elements we might bring them-" she continues to speak but I find my way out of the crowd.

I need space. Because I can not think. This seemed hard to understand. We never run out of Elements. Never.

It seemed impossible that it happens now. Its like everything is beginning to fall. The fact that there could possibly be two Waters living in the same century only three years apart could be the reason why.

Maybe one water has to leave.