Elements

Chapter 4: reflection

Phil pov

I was laying in bed, thinking about everything and nothing at the same time. My fellow water benders seemed really worried, possibly because I stayed there, unblinking, for four hours. Now, my eyes hurt, a lot, but I still didn't close them. I was stuck in thought.

What I was completely sucked into thought was how random today was.
I talked to myself about wishing to find a fire elementer, and what happens? Dan Howell stumbles into the school, collapses, and starts burning the grass in an eclipse circle about 2 feet in diameter*. Not that it could mean anything, right? (He's being sArCaStIc)

And that wasn't the only thing. He seemed to walk toward me when he finally "woke up," for lack of a better phrase.
You see, I can't stand seeing something that could possibly harm my anxiety level. I've become a really stressed person ever since my roommates decided to make me the head of the "pack," making it harder for me to concentrate on anything else. And when I see someone in a distressed state, I build up on my own stress for no apparent reason. But... That's just my own thoughts.....

Soon I realized I had to do some things, so my train of thought disappeared before they could get too deep. I didn't rather quickly finishing, though, which wasn't much of a help towards my worries and 'what ifs' that are swirling around my mind.

'What if my theories are correct? And with the verge of... No. I need to stop and calm down," I thought as I realized my breathing quickening and my hands reaching for my head to hide my face. Since I was the eldest water elementer, I was like the "councilor" in the cabins for the books of Rick Riordan's PJO and HoO series*. (Sorry I haddddd to add the illusion. Sue me.)

Soon I looked at the time, getting out of my half-lucid, half-conscious state. It was currently five minutes away from the time we are all gathered to eat our last meal of the day. I was the only one here as far as I knew. I bumped into many pillars, walls, and corners, saying sorry to each object like a mad-man. And there were a lot of things I bumped into because of my train of thought, which made me late.

Upon entering the area of dining, I was greeted by many stares entering my vision. (It was quite a natural occurrence.) Mostly out of shock, because if you don't eat by the time they stop serving, you don't eat at all. That's how it is here... And most likely everywhere.

As I watched everyone while they watched me, I glided my feet along the floor to sit down. Louise knows I get in thought plenty of times, missing countless things, so she knew what was happening here.

"Spill." She eagerly said as I sat down.

"Spill what? I'm pretty thirsty." My mind wondered until she said another metaphor in which I had a joke to.

"Come on. Let the cat out of the bag."

"More of a dog person." Though it wasn't true, as I adored lions– which are just large fluffy cats.

"Do you smell that? It smells like... Bullshit. We both know you love lions. Remember when I showed you the plushy?" She stated, using a slight undertone of sass in her voice.

Let me explain. Me, Louise, Pj, and Chris are childhood friends. I was abandoned, Pj and Chris ran away, and Louise was born of two elementers who knew of this place for their kids. Louise had the better of all of us.

Well, when I arrived I was dirtied and probably looked like someone who was willing to steal food, though that was not the case. I stumbled into the woods while I was just letting myself be guided by the magnetic pull towards the school. When I arrived, I was seven years old and knew plenty of things, oddly.