Element

Chapter 1

I lay my head down for the night thinking of all the terrors that come to mind and push them back to keep them from showing up in my dreams the next morning. I sleep on the same floor as my parents in my house and sometimes the conversations burst through the silence as mice squeaking along the empty walls. The silence being a lot longer today is finally broken by the whispers if my parents. The same whispers I hear every night but these fill me with dread in fear I hear things I probably shouldn't every night, this being one of them.

"Why her?" my mom weeps siting in her bed but I can infer that my father is comforting her.

"Honey, she's fine she's got a month that's plenty of time to find out her power and change her eyes." My dad in his most soothing voice, the one I hear everyday.

"But it's so rare to have a human child what if she is one." I could tell she was crying as I could hear her holding back the fighting tears. The word human send shivers down my spine. I'm not sure why it makes me shake but I've heard story's from my parents about them be full of hate towards us.

"Honey you need to calm down, you had your powers come late it's ok for that to happen."

My mother got her element when she was 15 it says that it takes a certain amount of time depending on the age, but I'm one of the five who haven't gotten her powers till at least 16. Fear set in as tears did as well, they filled up my wide brown black eyes. I tried to cry silently so that no one would hear but clearly my brother did.

Trace my brother has eyes of a hazel yellow, light always illuminated off of him like a golden sunshine. As he came in the room his face was frightened. He was a great big brother, always there for me ever since I was young. We would tell story's of which power we would get and what color our eyes would change. I had always hoped for the water and the bright blue eyes and when we played house that is what I would be. Trace on the other hand was always light even now he was never wrong.

Trace seemed to effortlessly slide into my room just like every other day he did when I was crying. He seemed to have a sense when tears were falling and he always new what to do.

"Bree I heard you crying." He said slowly slipping into my room making his way towards my bed. "Is it the element thing again." He said sitting on my bed.

I sit up and sit next to him leaning my head into his shoulder. "Trace I don't know anymore, I have a month to live." More tears escape my eyes.

"I wouldn't say it quite like that, think of it more like we have a month to figure out what element you have." He says rubbing my back in a comforting way making me feel at home.

"Remember when we used to play house." I laugh wiping the tears from my eyes. He smiles too.

"Ya." He says.

"And when I used to get my power and it would always be water and it would be on my 14 birthday, I could only dream that on my birthday I would get my powers and then for another year and a half to pass. Trace I'm scared, I don't want to die." I'm still wiping my eyes on my hands.

"Listen Bree I know your scared and I'm not saying you shouldn't be scared but I'm your big brother and I will protect you promise you that" He slowly gets up from his seat. "I love Bree and nothing will ever change that." He began to walk out of the room those words being the last he said before tomorrow morning.

"Trace" I said softly my voice sweet and tired. "Ya." he says bluntly grabbing the door knob preparing to close the door. "I love you too." I say. He smiles silently shutting the door leaving my room in complete silence. I slowly drifted back on my pillow letting my head sink into the lightness of it. I no longer heard my parents talking, they must of heard Trace come and talk to me and decided to shut up after they found out I could hear there every word.

I turned on my side and let the darkness of sleeping drift me away into an endless pool of dreams. Resting my head on the pillow my dreams took a different turn towards the better way thanks to Trace.

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I sit up joy felling my happy grin. For once in so many unrestful nights I hadn't had a nightmare. I slide my legs to the side of the bed and slowly lean off letting my toes softly touch the cold wood floor sending shivers up my body.

I silently limped over to the window rubbing my eyes with my balled up fists trying to focus my eyes on my small bright room. Sun light seeped in through the shades window. I went over to the blinds and pulled them up making light quickly flash about the room filling each crease in the room with a blinding light that floods the room.

I release my dark brown hair from the tight ponytail. My brown curls cascaded down my shoulders like the river rapids shaping my square face. I pull some hair in front of my small shoulders and tuck my wavy bangs behind my my small ears.

I shuffle over to the full length mirror hanging on the wall examining my figure. I was very thin and I have many boney parts too, including my tiny arms and ankles. My hands and feet are very small but matched the rest of my short body.

I look at my alarm clock through the mirror and my eyes shoot open as I realize that if I don't hurry I'll be late for element school. I start to run frantically around the room first to my dresser in search for a pair of high-waisted jean shorts and because school was all year long and it was summer I was going to wear light clothing.

I closed the dresser hard which causes a loud thud echoing across the room, I kneel down on my knees opening the next dresser and grab the first shirt I see, which is a floral ruffle sleeveless tank. I slip it on over my camisole and then tucking it into my pants.

"Bree were gonna be late." Trace says slamming his fist to the door waiting for a response. "I'll be right out I'm almost done." Even though I clearly wasn't. I went over to my vanity smearing eye shadow, but because I did this so often it never turned out bad. I put a little black eyeliner on poking my eye causing me to tear up. I thought to myself, oh like this day wasn't bad enough.

I finished up and opened the door but slammed into Trace on my way out. "What's that about?" He says a little sass to his voice and lifting an eyebrow clearly giving me the inference he was joking. But I still don't answer. I grab my backpack from the chair well my brother takes his keys to the car off the rack. "Ok grumpy." he says rattling the keys as he leads the way to his car which is now parked in the car.

Like the gentleman I know he is he steps aside opening the car door and the beckons me to get inside. I walk to the car in no hurry as I sit down and he shuts the door and goes around making his way to the front seat.

I feel as though it's the first day of school again. I'm afraid, everyone makes fun of me or ignores me because of my eyes. They know I don't have a power and frankly if I were them I would laugh to. The problem was that I would never get to have friends. The thought crosses more than once in my head, I mean why do I even care if they like me or what they think.

But then again what's life if your alone.

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Ok so here's the first chapter!!! Yay sooooooo excited and I hope you liked it I will be working on it a lot more I'm very happy to write this!! I will say that by no means was I trying to copy anyone trust me I would never try to!! I've so badly wanted to write about this and about the elements because I'm soooooo much into it. Another thing these characters were also created by me so I was not trying to copy anyone.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and I believe I will be co-writing this book with @tayraeann my real life best friend. We still haven't figured out how we are going to do that whether we're alternating chapters or just discussing and writing together but for now thanks for reading. last ling Taylor/tayraeann is writing a new book called chasing fawn go check it out even though I think she only has the intro posted.

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