The Elemental Wars - Caged Book 2

Chapter VIII

Grace POV

I was brushing my long black hair when Freya walked in,

"Hi. Bad sleep?" Freya had deep shadows under her eyes and her hair was rated.

"Yeah." She yawned and picked up my hair curler, she grabbed it by the metal end.

"Ouch!" She withdrew her hand and ran to my bathroom, she turned on the tap and ran her hand under the cold water. I got up and walked to my bedside table and grabbed my empty jug of water and filled it full of ice cold water. I walked up and rubbed Freya back,

"Come sit. I'll do your hair and makeup and you put your hand in the water." She nodded and sat in my set, she put her hand in the jug. I brushed and untangled her hair, I sprayed her blond hair with products and then put it up in a bun. I grabbed the curler and curled a strand on either side and made her hair look elegant. Then I moved to her face, I covered the circles under her eyes and underlined her cheekbones. Then of course the eyeliner and mascara, I did her a natural look. I applied red lipstick and lipgloss, I stepped back to look at my handy work,

"You've been crying." I could tell from her eyes,

"Yeah." That's all she said.

Then the door swung open and Brianna walked in with a laundry bag. She looked well rested and relatively happy,

"Hi. I'm just dropping of some of your cloths. I passed them through the washing machine. And in an hour we need to go and get school supplies. Then I'm going to go food shopping, were running short on food." She smiled and placed a clean pile of clothes of my bed. I suddenly remembered that her 18th birthday is only in three days!

"Oh can I come to. I need to pick up more stuff because I'm making a roast dinner tomorrow." I shrugged absentmindedly. 

"Sure!" She didn't suspect a thing, she left and went to Jay room.

"I can't believe I forgot! It's her birthday in three days!! I don't think she's ever had a big birthday because she was poor and everything. We need to plan this, you know! Talk to the others and keep it secret and Kyle can keep her busy and we can set everything up!! This will be so fun!!" Freya suddenly got all excited.

"This is going to be huge!!" Freya began to literally glow all her tiredness left the building and excitement filled the room. 

We all stood at the door putting on our shoes and talking, Bree was really quiet but she looked happy. Her eyes were bright and alive, and a very small smile was traced across her lips. Liam and Ash were chatting loudly about football and stuff, Gray and Edlen were talking quietly. I had told them about our secret plans and Edlen was very happy to help, she is really sweet and happy nowadays. At first when we all were rather shy and hurt and we didn't talk at all, there was a lot of tension between Jay and Bree especially. And I'm pretty sure Liam and I are over! All are relationships frayed and fell to pieces and new relationships grew, I don't think Jay has moved on! It will take him a long time to let go of her. If he actually stopped living in the past and looked up, he would see that Kyle and Bree were full into a 18 year old relationship. Liam and I we haven't really talked about a breakup, but it was definitely growing awkward! I guess we need to talk. Soon!      

Jay POV

We all sat in the blue van, my body was smashed against the sid and Grace. Each little bump in the road jostled us all, grunts of complaints echoed through the van. The van was getting way too small for 10 people, well technically 7 people since Gray and Edlen sat in the front and Cameron didn't need to even be in the van, he just flue. But even so we were all completely squashed on the wood benches. I wished that Bree was next to me, but she was against the door on the other side of me with Dem squashed up against her. He jokingly brushed a strand of hair from her face and plucked up his lips and tried to kiss her in a disgusting manner, she laughed and gave him a light punch in the arm. He just laughed and said something under his breath she widened her eyes and pretended to look hurt. Then we hit a red light, the van lurched and we all jerked to the left, I think I'm going to have a sister imprint on my thigh for life. I heard a thunk and looked around to see Freya phone sliding of the bottom of the van. I was about to pick it up when Kyle scooped it up from right across from me. I looked up and glared at him, he just gave me a shrug and tossed the phone to Freya. That was unlike Kyle, normally he would be willing to pick a fight. He would glare back and start to talk, then I would start to yell and it would build up from there. But no, he was nicer then when he was when he first went into the maze. I had changed too, now I had more anger. I had a beast inside me trying to escape, but Bree somehow got nicer and funnier. She started to learn that she was beautiful and using her body to her advantage, she started to wear makeup and shorts. She would ask questions and want an answer, she was interested when people talked. She would step into the spotlight and put on a show, and all in all she was hotter, she will use her body. A screech of brakes jerked me back to reality, the metal door swung open and Bree and Ash got out. The second Kyle got out he walked over to Bree and wrapped his arms around her and she didn't pull away this time, I was starting to think that I really think that maybe I've changed too much. Maybe I'm not the same person that Bree fell in love with before, we all walked into the store and crossed over to the school section.

"Ok, girls here's a list you go get books and backpacks. And boys go get pencil case and other stuff, then we switch. Take these lists it's all the materials we need for this school year, we will be going EastWood High." Gray handed me and Grace two separate lists, then we started to shop.

Brianna POV

We walked along the rows of bags, Freya stopped and spied a hot pink handbag. It was a big bag so it would fit schoolbooks and other utensils. I saw a average sized black backpack, I took it down and dropped it in the basket and Grace chose a blue grey backpack, Edlen got the same as me but in grey. We started to walk to the book section when we passed a grope of teenaged guys, they whooped and whistled as we passed and yelled stuff like,

"Come hear hot stuff." Freya just glared at them so ferociously I though she might punch them, we finally found what we were looking for. And looked at the list, it said;

· 4 ringed binders size A4

· 6 paperback note book size A4

· Math, Science, French, English, Geography and History book will be supplied

· All students will be expected to have a light computer for schoolwork, with a long battery stretch.

· One addenda

· Lock and key

· Colored pens

· Colored pencils

· 3B and B2 pencils

· Glue

· Ruler

· Four pens in blue, red, green and black

· And any other needs to support your school year.

By the time we had collected everything on the list plus a few extra decors for our lockers and textbooks. I insisted we got labels because it would be complicated to remember witch book is witch. We meet up with the boys at the front desk, 

"Hey, I need to go shop for food. I'll get a taxi home, any requests?" I smiled.

"Oh we need ice-cream! By one of each flyover they have." Freya demanded clutching her stomach.

"I'm coming with you to pick up some spatial ingredients for diner." Grace said stepping towards me, with no other requests we started to shop.

Around an hour later we were sitting in a very uncomfortable taxi, to start with, we had at least 10 shopping bags full of heavy food! And the place smelt strongly of smock, I closed my eyes and thought of sweet and amazing smells. Then the air was full of amazing scents, Grace inhaled deeply and smiled. I saw the driver shoulders relaxed and breath heavily. The song Chasing Cars came on the radio. I relaxed, I looked at the drivers back. Making sure he wasn't watching, then I levitated all our bags about 5 centiliters above the ground. Grace gave me a thankful look as she stretched her legs, my phone buzzed as Kyle texted me,

Hi Love,

When are you going to be back?

I love you

I texted him back,

We will be back in 5 minutes.

Love you too. <3

I looked over at Grace she looked really tired,

"Hey, I can cook tonight. You look really tired! You will probably set the place on fire."

She looked at me and yawned,

"No! No! It's ok! I'll be fine." She blinked slowly. I raised my eyebrows, I knew that she new that I was right.

"Fine." She looked down in defeat. I didn't know that it was all an act.