Powerful Elements

Chapter 10

~Adrianna's P.O.V~

I stepped off the bus and was surprised when I saw Kai waving at me from afar. 

Kai came up to me, took my hand and led me away from the bus station.

'Let go of me.' I demanded

He was leading us away from the direction of his house so I was getting nervous.

'Where are we going?' Kai didn't respond, instead he looked straight ahead with his mouth shut tight. After a few minutes he let me go and I yelled,

'What the hell was that?!'  

Kai didn't say anything. He continued to walk straight ahead and then he turned left all of a sudden and I panicked when I couldn't see him. I ran to the spot he disapeared and breathed in relief as I saw him. 

Kai's back was against me but I could tell he was nervous. He drew his hands into a fist and then released. He repeated this action a few times until he turned around to face me.

'Something happened last night. After you left...' his voice cracked and I could tell something was wrong. 

I walked closer to him but I hesitated as Kai tensed. 

'Kai.' I said softly. No reaction. No answer. Until he suddenly lifted his right hand up and turned around. I stepped back with my hand over my mouth in shock. Above his open palm, a small fire flame floated in the air. His hair and eyes had both changed into an amber-like color. 

'I accidently made this the other day, and now it seems as if I can do it whenever I want to. I really don't know how, it just pops up out of nowhere when I think of it.' He explained while stepping forward. Which automatically made me step back once more. 

'Adrianna please, I won't hurt you. I swear.' His face expressions showed a lot of mixed emotions; worried, scared, hurt. I hope no one is seeing this or he will get arrested. 

'Does it burn? Or is it an illusion?' I asked him while stepping forward, which made him relax a bit. 

'Uh.. No it burns, not me of course. I can just feel heat but it burns like a real fire, I tried it on a tree branch.' 

'Oh really, don't tell me you burned the whole tree down did you?' I joked with him to relax the mood a bit since I can still see how nervous he is. He laughed and shaked his head. 

'Adrianna, the reason why I told you this first is because I think you have the same ability. Except that you can produce water instead.'

'How come?' 

'The birthmarks, you know, yours is a water wave.' 

Well that made a little sense. Maybe if I tried I could have a floating water drop above my palm too, it actually sounded pretty tempting. But did I dare? What if I could, what would I do with it then? Well, that way you will never die of thirst. No, more than that, was there a point of this? 

'Adrianna?' Kai whispered my name and I looked up at him.

'What?'

'So.. Are you gonna try or not?' he asked flashing a very charming smile towards me.

I thought some more. Was it worth it? I already was a outcast and this would make people think that I was more creepy. But did I even care? I guess I did.

'Umm... I'm not up for it today.'

Kai seemed disapointed but I really didn't feel like testing out with another person. If I was going to try out my 'powers'  (if I even had any) I was going to try by myself first.

'Aren't you creeped out or scared?'

Kai frowned at me and said, 

'Why should I be?'

I shrugged a little confused. This wasn't the reaction I had been hoping for. I had hoped that like me he would at least be a little bit scared that his all so normal and perfect life turned out to be not so perfect just because of some creepy powers.

'I think this is great! It's really exciting, don't you think so too?' he asked smiling

Shrugging again I turned my back on him and started walking towards the direction we had come from. 

'Isn't your mother waiting for us?' I avoided his question and thankfully Kai let it pass.

Kai catched up and shook his head. 

'My mother won't be for a week.'

'Something happen?' I asked

'Nope. Just personal things. I don't know.' he sighed

'There's a lot she doesn't tell me.' Kai sounded a little angry so I stayed quite until we reached the bus station. 

I could tell that Kai was itching to say something but I stayed calm. I wondered if I should ask for his phone number so he could text me when his mother came back. But then again, what if he took it the wrong way and thought that I was interested in him?

Boys that I had met would have taken it the wrong way. Would Kai?

Kai was a little different... 

Ok.

A lot different.

But it didn't mean that I was going to open up. 

Even as a friend.

I'd never opened up before to a guy, even if it was a girl. Well, once. My best friend who I recken, would never see again.

I looked up at Kai and saw him blush. Actually I felt myself getting a little hot in the cheeks as well. Turning away I cleared my throught and pretended to see if the bus was coming-

'You know, there is a screen here where it tells you when the buss is gonna come... So you don't have to look for the bus like that haha.'

I blushed harder and stared at my feet. Don't stare at your feet, you idiot! That doesn't look natural! You look like a clown! You're super red!!!

My subconsciousness was definetly not helping today. Actually there wasn't a single day it did. 

'Uh, no I.. Just uhm,' I started saying but ended up trailing off since I actually didn't know what I was trying to say. I guess I wanted to come up with an excuse of why I looked at the street to see if the bus was coming. And since I trailed off awkwardly, it made me blush even harder. But Kai didn't seem annoyed at all with my stupidness, instead, he looked.. amused? 

'Okay, I'm gonna go home now. But don't worry, I can text you when my mom is ready to tutor us again!'

'Wait, how are you going to text me? I mean, do you even have my number?' 

But I didn't get an answer. Well I guess I did, sort of. But not in words. Because Kai just winked and grinned at me as he was turning away to head home. 

And that's when I realized that I had missed the bus while watching him walk away.