Elemental

Chapter 2 - Oh No

I stand there not knowing what to do. These people continue to stare at me, they're probably trying to figure out if I'm human or not.

"Uh, hi!" I say to the group of people. They look at me confused, and they wave their hands, showing they want me to move out of the way. I take some steps to the right and they start taking pictures. I turn around seeing the whole wall was covered in street art. Thank god that was what they were looking at, rather than me. People these days, missing out on things they've never seen before.

I take a look at my hands, I can be a hero someday. I continue the journey back to my house, and I finally make it to my porch. I knock on the door, seeing if anyone was home. I hear Sparky run up to the door and he immediately starts barking and jumping with excitement. Mum walks up to the door, telling Sparky to calm down. She opens the door, she gives me the biggest look of disappointment I've ever seen in a long time.

"Well, you better have a damn good reason for the phone call I received today." She says while hinting me to go inside. "And don't go to your room! We need to talk." I turn away from the stairs leading to my room and head into the kitchen. I see a chair sitting deliberately in the middle of the room, I sit in it.

"You run out of class because you had no work to hand up. You ran down the hall with your poor professor after you. He gives you detention that you don't show up to, and now you're sitting in front of me with burn marks on your uniform. Explain!" She says to me. I look at my lap, knowing I did something really bad.

"Mum, you know I still can't control my powers." She looks at me now knowing the reason for this catastrophe. "Sparky startled me and I set my work on fire, I couldn't say that at school so I just ran out of the classroom. On my way back here I was attacked by a man and had to use my powers to get out of the situation. I'm sorry."

"Tahlia, you need to be able to control your powers. You're going to get yourself into a lot of trouble if you don't know." I face away from her knowing its the truth.

"I know, Mum, I just struggle to find places to practice away from everyone."

"I know, darling, I know." Wow, this convocation turned from her ripping my neck out to being super nice to me. "Sweetheart, I struggled with my powers, a lot. I didn't learn how to use them until I caused some serious harm to someone close." She says while looking at the ground, I can see her grip of her hands getting tighter to the kitchen bench she's holding onto. Mum can shapeshift into different things and creatures, this is why I have to be careful with what I do all the time. She never told me what happened that day, where everything changed, but she learnt how to control her powers. I try not to bother her too much about it.

"I know, Mum," I say back, I get up from my chair and give her a hug. She cries into my shoulder, now I feel bad for letting this go too far. "I'll try to fix it." She looks up and gives me a small nod. "I'll start in the backyard." I let go of the hug and open the glass door into the backyard.

I sit on the grass area in our backyard and I begin meditating in an attempt of calming myself down. Deep breath in, hold, breath out. Deep breath in, hold, breath out. *ring* Deep breath in, hold, breath out. *ring* Deep breath in, hold, deep breath out. *ring* Annoyance! I look up at my phone sitting on the bench outside my house, I get up and as soon as I reach my phone it stops ringing. I look at who it was, it was Garret. I wonder what he wanted.

I sit back down out on the grass and I meditate for a bit longer. I stand up thinking I have made enough peace in my inner mind, I hold my hand out in front of me and I create water bubble floating just above my hand. I try using this water and throw it at the tree, instead, it disappeared. I look at my hand in annoyance then the water reappeared again, only existing on my face now. I sit back down and meditate again, clearly I'm not rested enough yet.

Deep breath in, hold, deep breath out. I try controlling the wind around my body, I open my eyes seeing that I've created a ring of wind around myself. I attempt to use fire by creating different symbols, first I make different Greek symbols. I'm starting to get the hang of this. I decide to make a ring of fire surrounding my body.

"What the hell?" Those words startle me and completely take me out of concentration. I see Garret standing behind me, looking at me like I'm an alien. Oh no, this isn't going to be good.