The Children with the Color Names

Chapter 33- Practice Makes Perfect

          Blue shuts her bedroom door and places her book bag on her cold bed. She sits down and grabs her small brown soft teddy bear and squeezes it.

           What are we to do? She thinks rocking back and forth with her toy in her arms. We can’t find the stone and there are powerful people against us…we cannot do this. We can get killed if we’re not careful.

          Blue’s breathing becomes heavier that before and she shuts her eyes and continues rocking back and forth worrying about what just happened and the secrets that were just reveled to her and her friends.

          She slowly stops and places her teddy bear on the bed. Carefully, she slides off her bed and begins to walk around in circles talking to herself.

           “What are we going to do? We need to find the stone before it’s too late, as the evil girls will take it. Seriously, they had to give us a fake stone just to delay us, what cruel people.” She mumbles and stomps her foot onto the ground. “It just doesn’t make sense, I’m sure they grew up with good hearts. And just when they discovered they were destined to ruin the world, why on earth would they decide to be evil? It doesn’t really work like that, I don’t think it does.” Blue says and crosses her arms.

           Shaking her head, she grabs the keys hanging by her door walks out of her room and closes the door behind her. She walks through the empty school hallways and makes it to the girl’s bathroom.

          She closes the door and looks at herself in the mirror. Her skin seems pale and her hair is still wet from the rain from earlier. “I guess Red’s powers didn’t work so well after all.” She says and sighs.

          I really need to practice my powers again…she thinks. Blue begins to turn her head and looks around the bathroom. It’s empty and she is the only one in there.

          Sighing, she closes the water drain in the sink and turns on the water, letting it fill up the sink bowl.

          Once it’s done filling, she looks at the clear water and turns off the faucet. She looks in her reflection in the water and her light blue eyes begin to glow blue.

          Blue backs up from her position from in front of her.  She stretches out her arms and tries to begin to control the water. After focusing for quite some time, a little bit of water rises. Blue gasps excitedly, losing focus and the water falls back down and it makes a small splash.

          “Dang it,” Blue mumbles in frustration.

          She tries again. Her eyes concentrate on the water, and in her mind she moves it around. Once she starts moving her arm, the water begins to move again. Blue smiles and stays focused.

          She looks over at the other faucet and moves her hand, and is surprised as it turns on. The water controlled by her other hand falls down and makes a splash, which causes her to get wet and she lets out a small high pitched scream.

          Blue shakes it off, and tries again, taking water from both of the two sink bowls and manages to control it into pretty designs.

          Oh my god, I’m doing it! I’m really doing it! She chants in her head without taking her eyes off the water and forms it into a heart.

          She begins to jump up and down a bit and the water follows her, so Blue starts to spin around. Waves of the water circle around her and spin around her as she continues to spin.

          “What in the world are you doing?” A voice screeches from behind Blue.

          Blue quickly turns around and the water falls on top of her and to her feet and she is frozen in shock. She looks at Suzy who has a confused and shocked look as she’s at the entrance of the bathroom.

          “I said, what are you doing and how did you do that?" Suzy sneers at Blue.

          “Um…ah…n-n-nothing,” Blue stutters. “Bye now, I have to go,” Blue squeaks and run pasts Suzy, nearly slipping on the now wet floor.

          She runs through the empty hall way and reaches the door to her room, opens it and slams it closed, and locks it after her. She puts the key back on the hook and sighs.

          Blue quickly takes off her now soaking wet outfit, puts it in her hamper in her closet and takes out short jean shorts and a yellow shirt with a flower on it. She puts it on and grabs a brush and brushes her shoulder length hair.

          She sighs and sits down on her bed once she’s dry. She looks at the clock and it’s already four twenty-eight in the afternoon. She lies down on her back and picks up her teddy bear and hugs it, not making a sound and tries to fall asleep, but can’t.

           As she is beginning to zone out, the phone in her room begins to ring. Startled, she jumps and a small scream escapes her lips. She looks at the phone and picks it up.

          “Hello,” she asks, her voice sounding tired.

           “Blue, it’s me Violet. Red and I are at the Pizza Hut down town with Daniel and Greyson, and we found the violet stone.”