Bond of the Elements (Book 1 in the BOE Trilogy)

Some people want to watch the world burn

A/N: I'm going to do something different, I'm doing this chapter from Quinn's point of view! Yay!!

Quinn's POV

"Hey, you ok? You seem out of it today," Carter C asked me. 

"Oh, yeah I'm fine," I lied. Truth is, when Cassidy was rude to me the other day, it hurt me. I didn't want our friendship to sink like the Titanic, which we just happened to be learning about for some reason in our history class. This morning, she blamed it on the Dark King, that was the worst lie ever.

"No, your not. We've known you since fifth grade, Q, you can't fool us that easily," Carter M replied.

"Ugh, it's complicated," I groaned, leaning my head back while I got a drank from my milk. 

We were at lunch, today I was eating with the Carters. I've been trying to avoid Cassidy and the others, even though it hurt me to be away from Everly. 

"Tell us," Carter C put a hand on my shoulder in reassurance.

Then it all spilled out. I told them everything about Cassidy and how she's been treating me, the lie, and how it hurt me for this to happen. 

"Wow," Carter M said afterwards. 

All I did was nod. How stupid did she think I was? 

---time skip to after school brought to you by P!ATD--- 

I walked over to the car that would take me into the kingdom. 

"Hey! Quinn!" I turned to the voice. 

"Hey Ever!" I hugged her.

"Ow ow ow, can't breathe!" I heard her gasp.

"Sorry," I muttered.

"Hey, Cassidy had been acting all weird, she looks like she's having this weird war in her head. Like she's fighting over her body, so I thought, 'Hey! Maybe Quinn knows what's going on since she is weird!'" She looked at me with hope.

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "I don't know, and why would I want to help someone who acts so rude to me?" I started walking away when Everly grabbed my hoodie.

I turned on my heel. "Listen, come to my kingdom with us and see how odd she is acting," Everly looked me in the eyes with a puppy dog pout. 

"Fine, but if she tries to kill me it will all be your fault," I pointed at her and gave her a death stare, than followed her to Kamer and the she-devil.

We all got in the car, Ever in the front, Kamer by the left window, me by the right window, and Cassidy in the middle. 

The ride was silent. Very silent, too silent for my liking. After a while I put on my headphones and spaced out. 

We arrived and went into the forest. I looked at the red head to see her brows furrowed like she was in deep thought. Then she did the unexpected. She did a shaky move of putting her hand on a tree aand then she ignited it. I gasped at the sudden movement. 

Before we knew it, we were almost surrounded by flames. The heat blurred my vision and I began to feel dizzy. I looked at Cassidy and she looked like she was about to cry. She pointed a finger at me and a stream of fire came at me. 

"Quinn!" I collapsed and fell onto the grass, a burning sensation on my chest.

I saw Kamer start to put the fire out with her powers, I heard screaming of a girl. It sounded like Cassidy. 

I grabbed my necklace and smiled. 

If I die today, I want you to know, dear Cas, I want you to know you should feel guilty for this. That you should become a better person for this. Maybe even go to jail for this. The rest of you. Good luck with life. 

I looked up and saw Everly on the verge of tears, so I did the one thing any sane person would do at this moment. I used my last breaths to tell her I loved her. NOT.

"Ever," I felt myself getting tired.

"What?" 

"I put the million dollars in the-" then everything went black.