Ember - The elements part 1

water

*bell rings* Emma! i hear from behind me, i look over to see my friend Julia steels a light element who just so happens to be my bestfriend bolting at me in full speed. I cast a water barrier slightly to my left and with in the few seconds it take her to get from the end of the hall way to were i was she slams right into the little blob of water. Did you hear?! she says screaming in my ear after getting back onto her feet and drying herself off. Hear what? i ask her, The ball, its tonight and Jeff Handson wants to go with you!! I shoot her a look, The Jeff Handson? like earth element Jeff? Julia smiles wide and slaps my shoulder, The one and Only, Jeff Handson she says not making any eye contact what so ever. You must Be joking, i'm a simple water element that literally has no life out side of school and my books, why would he want anything to do with me? oh i don't know Julia says razing her hand to her face, maybe, just maybe its because you are a living element that has feeling and a personality! i look down and start to walk out the doors of the school, yea maybe your right, but i don't think someone so full of adventure would want anything to do with me.  

The next day, my phone lights up with a text and instead of reading it i shove the phone off my bed and roll over to go back to sleep.  few moments later i hear Nina, my older sister, and jack my youngest brother fighting with our adopted mom Martha Lancast. The door slams and i now hear Nina running up the stairs and burst open my door, EMMA, she calls as i pretend to sleep, SPIRIT! she yells louder then the last time. then i hear her take one step closer so i roll over, Moms gone and Jack is still crying i need your help you sloth! i slowly get up and put on a sweater and follow Nina down stairs and not to my surprise Jack was sitting there, were he normally sits but this time has isolated himself in his own tiny water cave. i walk up to his water cave and sit in front of him. hey little buddy i say in a clam voice but Jack keeps fitteling with his fingers. I reach my hand out and into his little cave. He didn't seem to mind me being here so i made my own cave and contected our little caves. Jack what happened? i ask in my soft voice again but this time he puts his hands to him face and throws himself onto me and starts crying heavily again. Come on jack honey please talk to me, what did mama do? he takes down one of his hands and softly through cry's says Nina, just Nina. i get up and hug jack and tell him to keep in his water cave and that i would come back in a few minutes. i walk up to Nina's room and open the door. Shes sitting there with a tiny ball of light coming out her right hand and to my surprise shes holding a book, one of MY books. i walk closer to her, she jumps and drops the book on the floor. Were you just... reading? i ask her. She glares at me, No, i don't read i was just looking, how do you even know i was reading i could have been in the mists of destroying it!  your not like that Nina, you don't brake my stuff i saw in my know it all voice. She smiles and pats the side of her bed. i smile back and jump onto the side of the bed. Why was Jack crying? i ask after we are done having a bit of a giggle fit. her smile dropped. Spirit, look things with mom are getting weird don't you think? i give her my look, i mean shes keeping secrets from us and there is odiously something happening in our family that shes not telling us.... i mean come on don't you feel it to?  okay yes-, See you get it... i mean like...like we don't even know our real parents, what if they were killers, or apart of the glenroy-darkbrothers! shut up! i say in a controling voice, everything mama dose for us is to keep us safe, and so what we don't know our birth parents... why do you even want to know! its not like they cared enough to keep us! Nina's face drops and she tells me to get out. Nina look im sorry but honestly, you cant keep doing this, they are gone.. if they were going to come back for us they would have already... dont you think? no...maybe, i just wish we were normal! 

i put my hand on her shoulder, Nina... my sister... she pauses Emma.. my sister. i look to her jack and i our your family no mater what and so what if we are not normal, that just means were- i get cut off by the loud sound of jack screaming. Nina and i both jump up and run down stairs. when we get down stairs we see mom wracking jacks water cave with a wooden spoon, luckily the water is to deep for her  spoon to come anywhere near jack. Nina runs up and pushes mom off. i grab jack and hold him in my lap (he always loved being able to fall asleep or just lay in my lap) mom and Nina start fighting, nothing gets physical but Nina keeps yelling "you keep lies, tell me, we need to know what you aren't telling us" our mom seems like shes out of words but she still continues to deny any and everything Nina is saying. 

after everything clams down and we are all sitting around out tiny wooden table mom comes out with a plate of chicken, no one talked all dinner except for Jack who's playing with his food and cup of water. i look over at Nina, she looks back at me then back at her plate. mom notices our little eye contact and starts trying to make convocation with us. Nina says nothing and just gets up and walks back up stairs, i can tell mom is hurt but also still mad about the fight. mom looks to me and starts talking, she seems nervous but i guess it might just be because she is scared ill act like Nina or maybe shes afraid of losing us, whatever it is she seems worried about it.  mom.. i love you... you know that right. mom looks shocked, well of coarse i know that you love me, i love you to sweetheart. She smiles at me but it seems forced, i continue to talk to her and notice she is acting a bit weird, like every word she says in carefully planed out in her head, like one wrong word and something bad could happen. hey, mom are you okay taking care of Jack and putting him to bed on your own for tonight, i want to go talk to Nina?  she hesitates, then finally she agrees and lets me go.  

** Nina, i wispier... your.. your right, something is up. she looks me in the eyes, i know there is.. there's been something up for a while, why haven't you noticed, you should have been the first one taking your a- i look to her, don't say it.. i get it waters our like all knowing and have higher senses but mine don't work like the others Nina!  i know.. i think that has something to do with it. what do you mean? you think i have something to do with it? she looks down and grabs the book she dropped from earlier, not that you have something to do with it, but something about you... something Martha knows and wont tell us. She hands me the door, i open it and intently slam it shut.  no, no way not in a million years, your crazy, its not possible!! Nina looks at me, i can see shes almost about to cry. Yes, i think this is true, theirs no other way to excelling you, you are special and you act like no other element out there. SO! i say slamming my hands down beside me, that dose not mean im the lost element, the Spirit Element has been dead for years no one has been born into it since the age of dragons, also if i were the Spirit element don't you think we would have known this?  Nina laughs, really? you think after all theses years that even the most eldest and wisest would even know, its been lost for years so if it were to come back, would we notice, would we really notice? i start blackly for a while, ye...s, Spirit was the most advanced element, if it were to come back i think we would know, or at least could pick up on the signs of it appearing. Nina jumps up in exsitment, exsacly, Emma, Spirit you have the Spirit element, it makes sense! you didnt show signs of an element till you were 6 years old, you can tell the slitest change in anything, you can tell when something bad is about to happen, i mean Gods Emma you talk to the wind sometimes, these are all in the book! Emma you are special! NO! Nina its been gone for years, and so what i was a late bloomer, and many people can tell things these are all normal things, also not to make you mad, but didnt you just say you wanted a "normal" family? Nina sits again, thats not the point, yes having a normal life might be nice but i wouldn't give this life up for the Gods, but Emma even if you dont have Spirit, i think there is still something great about you. 

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i sit on my bed and pull my phone out from under the bed. - 8 new unread messages- i swipe on Julia's text and open it. "Spirit, girl why are you not answering its past 12 you are most defently awake, Jeff msg u, he texted me asking her your number and i just couldnt say no.- i breath and then open the messages from Jeff. -Emma hey its Jeff Handson, i know we dont talk like at all but for the past years iv always been seeing you around and i would really like to get to know you, this might sound weird but i want you to come to the dance with me, if you dont reply thats okay, i understand. - i stare at the text for a long time then call Julia 

-phone rings- -Julia answers- 

me: julie! how long did you know?

julia: know what -giggles- 

me: no really, how long?

julia: a couple weeks, belive or not he was the one who didnt want to say anything yet, if it wasnt for him being scared i would have told you!

me: you are such a horrible lair, you know that right - laughing- 

julia: at least i tried, okay fine i didnt tell you, but i wanted it to be special  for you, you have been off lately, and i thought this would make you happy.

me: julie i told you already im not acting off my family just needs me more!    

julia: yea okay spirit. -laughing- 

julia: i have to go ill talk later?

Emma: so you will. 

-End call-