Lightning

Who I was before

I was walking out of the bathroom after finished puting on my eyeliner. I headed to the kitchen counter to grab my backpack. As I turned to leave, my sister triped me.

"Brittany! What's the matter with you?" I got up from our carpeted floor.

"Elysia, don't yell at your sister." My mom said from the kitchen table, not looking up from her computer. "She's only 3."

"I said Brittany not Alex, mom. You know, the 18 year old senior in high school who is too old to play children games." I said with a tone as I picked up my backpack from the floor.

"There's no need for that attitude young lady." She glanced up, took one look at me, and stared down at the laptop again. "I thought I told you to stop wearing black all the time. And please put on makeup that isn't depressing."

I was wearing a black tank top and over it a long sleeve sweater with cute skulls all over it, tight black jeans and my favorite black knee high combat boots. Also my everyday dark makeup.

I threw my hands in the air. "This is who I am mom, and if you don't like it well to bad it's something that you have to deal with because I'm not changing. I never will no matter how much I try."

"It's too early to argue. And its never a good time to argue with you, no one ever wins with you." She closed her laptop.

Brittany got herself a cup of coffee. "She's undefeated."

"Whatever, I gonna get some coffee." I ruffled my recently styled hair.

It was died black. And after I colored it, it became naturally wavy in a almost beautiful way. I always have it grown to the lower part of my back. I did it without permission so when I came home last week my mom was screaming. She said that I was grounded intell my stepfather came to my defense. Mom was pissed that he was on my side on all of this. I call him by his name which also gets my mom pissed off. His name is Ben, when we first met two years ago, we didn't really get along which of course gets my mom pissed off.

Brittany gave me a look as she took out a mug for me. "Why haven't you redied your hair? I mean it looks crazy beautiful but mom still gets mad when she sees you without a hat."

"Are we still having this conversation? It's only hair. She's acting as if I got a tattoo or something." I groaned. I was starting to get worried about my after school plans.

I drank my coffee, said goodbye to my family. And was off to one of my least favorite places.

8th grade.

⚡

I walked to my first hour class as I was talking to my only friend. His name is Andy Murray. His hair was black and short, his eyes green. Like me always wore black and had only one friend and that was me.

"Why not just one? I mean ten piercing on each ear is too much. So many earrings to keep track of." He said in a dark voice.

"It's something I always wanted to do. Ben gave me the money and promised to talk to my mom when I came home." I responded as I checked the time on the hallways clocks.

"I thought you didn't like your stepdad?" He said.

"I don't, but he trys to get me to like him."

"Look, I got to get to class. Just eight hours intell we get to allow strangers to poke holes in our ears and noses." Andy gave me a wave and went down another hallway.

I walked down alone to all my classes for the rest of the day. Just a normal day in my school life.

⚡
"Are you ready?" The lady who was piercing my ears asked.

"Just do it." I sat back on the leather chair, waiting for the pain.

She put some kind of machine on my ear that pierced ten hole at once. It also puts on the earrings after their made.

I closed my eyes and gasped as ten sharp blades cut through each ear. The coldness of the earrings calmed the pain down a little.

I did it. I pierced my ears. Mom is so going to be pissed.

"I'm done." Andy came in with a gold band around his left nostril. He like black and gold. I like black and silver. Each earring is silver and one of a kind. Some had charms and others had designs on the bands.

"I just finished. Ready to go home?" I asked, grabing my backpack.

"We got to hurry though. The weather man said its gonna rain with chances of lightning." He walked out of the store and I followed. The earring with a bell ringing in my right ear. The sound almost made me, me of all people, smile.

We where walking home, the sky dark with clouds, the sound of thunder in our ears.

We pasted a pond with R2-Q3 water. R2-Q3 water was made of chemicals that made electrical waves bounce of it. Anyone who is in the water survives being stuck by lightning. But it was never done before so its only partly true.

"I dare you to jump in that water." Andy said out of the blue.

"Your kidding. Andy, it's freezing." I crossed my arms.

"You scared?" He teased.

I threw my backpack at him. "Hold this."

The water was only knee deep for me. I walked into the ice cold water, turned to face Andy, held my arms up in a T-shape, and leaned back.

I held my breath as my body relaxed with the antarctic like water. After awhile, I came up for air, also to see what reaction Andy had. He was impressed.

There was a flash in the sky, I look up to see bolts of lightning crash and burn roads, buildings, lampposts, trees, houses, and hills. All at once.

I couldn't move. Even when I saw a comit hit the R2-Q3 water. The round rock floated to me, and to my surprise, opened.

I looked inside it and saw a blue sapphire. It was oval shape and bright. I reached out and grabed it. It was the size of my hand and it shined like lightning.

There was a bang and a light in the sky. I looked up to see a bolt of lightning coming for me.

"ANDY!" I screamed. But it was to late. The bolt hit me so fast I didn't get a chance to see his face.

The pain was unbearable. My entire body felt like it was on fire. I screamed like never before. The sapphire burned in my hand. I knew I was going to die.

It felt like hours, but the shock finally stop. I felt weak. I was close to shore, so when I fell over, I landed on the right side of my face in the dirt.

I hear Andy scream my name as I passed out.

Okay that was my first update on Lightning please contact other people to read it. Leave good comments and chech out my other book called The American Apocalypse.
Thanks.
I'll update soon. Bye.

P.s. the YouTube video will be the books official song. It called lightning by alex goot.