Water |lrh|

02

Luke's point of view

I closed the front door and looked at my mum, who was sitting in the couch still dressed in her work uniform with her eyes shut. I smiled smally and went to her bedroom, grabbing her a blanket.

I laid the blanket on top of her when I came back and she shifted slightly, opening her eyes and looking at me quickly. "How was school?" She asked me sleepily.

"I'll tell you when you wake up. Take a nap, you need it." I suggested and she just looked at me with worry. "It's fine." I reassured and she nodded.

"Alright."

"Night mum." I hummed and she closed her eyes, curling into a ball on the couch to get some sleep before starting her second job. She hummed softly and I turned the television off.

I went to my room and then closed the door behind me quietly. I set my bag down and then took off my shirt to get comfortable. I looked in the mirror that hung up behind my door and I didn't have a bruise on my stomach like I thought I would. It was all clear skin - pale and flabby skin.

I just got punched, shouldn't I be bruised?

"The water healed you son." I jumped in surprise at the mystic voice and then that lady appeared in my mirror. "You don't know, and you didn't then, but it had healed your wound."

"How? Why?" I asked her and she raised her hand. She spun her index finger around in a circle and then suddenly, one of the million half empty bottles of water in my room opened.

I watched as it came from out of the bottle, spinning around in the air. It was as if the laws of gravity didn't effect it.

"It's a trick my son. You'll learn soon enough." She laughed and I watched as the water spun and made unique shapes above my head. "You'll soon be the one to control water, how it ices away or how it evaporates into thin air." She told me and suddenly all the water fell on top of me.

"Nice. I'm wet now." I grumbled and wiped my face. I looked all the lady and she had her hand flat against my mirror. "Am I supposed to-"

"Watch." She shushed me and I nodded. It was quiet, but the room was heating up slightly. The water dried off of my skin and clothes, and the carpet didn't make that weird squishy sound when I stepped on it.

"Why are you showing me this? What's going on?" I asked her and she smiled at me as she faded out. "Please don't go. I need answers. I'm scared. I don't know what to do and how to stop it."

"You don't for now." She declared and her image began to disappear. "You'll see soon my son, everything will make sense to you in time." She told me and then vanished.

I took a deep breath and turned around J  frustration. I ran my hand through my hair and then fell to my knees as the bottles of water around the room spilt and wet my carpet.

I was so confused and scared. I didn't know what was going on or how to control this... this thing. I don't know anything about this, or who the woman in my mirror is. She follows me around.

Maybe this is a dream. Maybe I'm going crazy. There's logical explanations to this, right? These elementals don't exist and this woman in my mirror is just my imagination. My crazy imagination.

Yeah, that sounds right. I'm dreaming. I'll wake up due to a loud annoying alarm clock and then I'll leave for school. None of this is real. None of this is actually happening.

"Okay, I can wake up now." I took a deep breath and began to pinch myself. "Wake up, you're going to wake up." I chanted quietly and kept pinching myself.