Controller of the Elements

Chapter 1 - Madeline

PART ONE

I stuff the final binder into my backpack. This one's pink, pink and glittery, that is. Well, my back is gonna be broken after this year. Then again, I always have a ton of books - and locker decorations, oh so many locker decorations - to carry to school on the first day.The subway ride to school is always the same, but I as I actually walk into the building, gathering up with my friends Kelsie, Serena, Gwen, Tammi and Bridgette, I feel as if something is going to change drastically. I can't tell what will, and frankly I'm a little spaced out in thought about this and I'm not sure why. "It's the first day of school, and you're always a nut then. Probably because you're always sleeping late, and now you're waking up at 7:00," I tell myself silently.

"Tammi, put your phone away," I say, lightly smacking my friend Tammi's phone, which she's always on, literally, always, "You'll get it confiscated."

"Don't really care," she says, not even looking up at me, "Still crushin' candy."

Our friend Serena chimes in.

"You do remember what happened last time you decided to be" - she makes air quotes with her fingers - "'crushin' candy'" - she puts her arms down - "in school, right?"

"Of course I do," Tammi says. She's still not looking at us, she's too busy "crushin' candy", but we can tell she's smiling.

"But seriously," Serena begins, "put it away."

Tammi looks up, and rolls her eyes."Okay, fine, but don't expect me to go and send you more lives when you need them," she says, shoving her phone in to her pocket.

"Had you not been a gamer," Gwen, another one of our friends, begins, "that would have sounded utterly disturbing."

"I know, I know..." Tammi grins. "But, I am, so it's not."

Our friend Bridgette looks at her watch.

"Guys, it's really time to go," she says.

I pull my phone out of my purse enough to see what time it is, and then I let it drop back in. "8:34, and class starts at 8:45. Yup, we should put our locker stuff away."

I forget about the feeling for a while...meaning fifteen minutes. Now it's time for my first class. And the feeling that something will change drastically is raging.

"Madeline, NO!" I yell to myself, out loud.

I was about to think about how much I must have embarrassed myself, however, there was no time: I started to float lightly in the air, and the world started to get bigger...