The Elementals #1, Kiki XoXo [book club suggestions txt] 📗

shove on  yoga pants, and a sweatshirt. I'm not in the mood for any crap today. Not only is it Wednesday, I'm also still spooked out from yesterday. That boy, and the things he said. "Ah.. what did I say... Sean takes you to school." Harris says as I almost walk out the door. That's right... yesterday. Ah, now I have to deal with Sean!

 

Sliding into the back seat of Sean's car,  he starts the engiene.  "Lyra what happened to you yesterday? You shut all the blinds... and locked yourself in your room last night." He asks, backing  out of the drive way. 

 

"Nothing.... Just... a little spooked out." I sigh, watching out the window.  Surprised that he actually sounds like he wants to know what happened. 

 

"Spooked out? You?" He laughs. "The girl who watches scary movies for fun to laugh at them?" He actually makes me smile.

 

"Yeah... some boy walked up to me yesterday. Saying I was some royal protecter person.... and that my parents were alive.  It was weird.... he also said that like... a dra... drarkal... kidnapped me or something." I sigh, rubbing my eyes, just as we park at school.

 

"What?" Sean turns around looking me in the eyes.

 

"Yeah... it was weird.... I seen him outside my window one night." I say.

 

"If you see him again you need to yell for me! Got it!" He orders, I nod. Over taken by how much he seems like he cares.  Then I get out, and we walk into the school.  Meeting my friends at my locker, the drill me for details about yesterday.  Of course they get nothing true out of me. I don't want them to know what all happened yesterday.  We chill out, since Sean was actually early today. Sophie is carrying around her  sketch book, so I assume she finished her drawing.  She wont show us though.

 

"You've got dibs... no worries! I don't think either of us is going to call dibs on a drawing!" Melanie laughs, helping me try and get her to show us this god like boy... in Sophie's eyes anyway. 

 

"Fine... but... swear you can't even say he is cute!" She laughs breaking. She flips over the notebook. What? This can't be.

 

"Where did you say you saw him?"  I ask.

 

"In the parking lot yesterday..." She sighs, looking at the drawing for the umptinth time.  She thinks I'm hitting on her man! No, I'm not! "I've got dibs!"

 

"I don't want dibs! The guys a jerk!" I sigh, looking away from the photo. So he was really watching me... or at least someone. He was outside my window, outside my school.

 

"You've meet him?" Melanie yells at me, stopping everyone in the hall. We get weird looks, then they all move on. 

 

"Yeah... He stopped me yesterday, when I was walking home. Telling stories about how I-" The bell rings. I sigh getting up. Sophie and I walk to our class, and she doesn't say anything to me. She is mad at me because her new obbsession has talked to me and not her.  "Hey... I told him off... even sprayed him with pepper spray! I don't like him!" I assure her.

 

"If you sprayed him with pepper spray he must really be a creep." She sighs, I nod. Good, everything is okay between us! Sitting in our seats, we  drop the conversation on Chase.  Later in the day it sinks in again that it's Wednesday. Only to more days. What will I do all summer? Read the same books over and over again?  Play cards with Harris? Heading to lunch, Melanie and I talk about how obessesed Sophie still is. Carrying around her drawing like at any second it will turn into the real thing. Chugging down my milk, and eating all my apple sauce in one bite I'm done eating. That's all I can manage, I'm getting depressed great! Sean and his friends ake their grand entrance, ad he eyes me for a second then continues like normal.  I don't understand him at all.  Dumping my tray, I see two girls walking across the hall. I've never seen them before, which is highly unlikely for the small school I go to.  I wonder why they transfered so late in the year, since there is only two days left.  Although, one of them looks like she is only in middle school 5th maybe 6th grade. Short with blonde hair. The other girl looks more my age, brown hair and the greenest eyes I've ever seen. Those must be contacts, although my hair is naturally white... so who knows.

 

I head back into the lunch room, forgetting about the girls. I have bigger and better things to be worried about, like school endiing and my 16th birthday. Harris will throw me a lame little only his parents, and his family will be there party I'll get a marble cake and chocolate icecream with the same pink wrapping paper he's been using the past 4 years for my presents. Which are all books and movies, well last year he got my my ipod. Once the bell rings, I head out to my next class. Tatum tries to talk me into sneaking out, something I've never done suprisingly, so I csn go to his party.  I've thought about it before, but I just don't want to get caught and get in trouble with Harris, so I decide against it. Moving on to a different topic he tells me about what his plans are for the party to be awesome . . . another way for him telling me that I really need to go.  I sign out to get a drink, walking down the hall to closest drinking fountain, I spot the girls  again.  They seem to be in a heated conversation, and I can't help but watch them. I can't hear what they are saying. 

 

Then the boy who says his name was Chase rounds the cornner, and joins the conversation. What is he doing here? Who are the girls?  To many questions start going through my mind.  I don't want him to see me, embarrassed he'll tell those girls about his prank. Yet my feet go towards them, I want to know what he is doing here.  The closer I get the more I see my pepper spray didn't really do anything to him.. it must wear off after an hour or so. Darn, I was hoping that stuff burned for hours and hours.

 

"What are you doing here?" I ask interupting their conversation, they  were so distracted by what they were talking about that they didn't even notice me coming. Chase looks at me, and gesture toward me with both his hands smiling like a baboon.

 

"I told you! It's Lyra!" He says to the girls, and the brunnette is standing in shock. The small blonde is giving me the stink eye.  I mentally hit myself, I should've just left it alone!

 

"Again... you have to wrong person.... You need to leave!" I say, shooing them towards the fire exit  the actually just happens to be right to my left.

 

"Holy shit! It is you! Chase wasn't lying!" The brunnette says wraping me in an anaconda like hug. Okay, now I'm mentally shooting myself with a gun. Maybe I should yell for Sean, like he said. But then Iwould attract a lot of attention, I don't want that.

 

"You can put me down now.... ah... girl." I say, and she releases me immediately.  "Well... it wasn't nice meeting your friends who think it's funny to play trick.. have a nice life." I say turning ready to run. I get grabbed, and pulled out the fire exit.  "Let go of me! I have school! I still have that pepper spray!" I yell  profanities.

 

"Flora." the Chase boy says, and the brunnette nods. She bends down placing her hands on the grass, and starts humming some tune that I don't recognize. Then vines burst from the ground, splattering dirt and reaching for me. Chase's grip on my moves just as the vines grip my feet, twisting up my legs.  What is this? I'm dreaming! To much reading about witchs! I close my eyes, I'll pinch myself awake. I pinch my hand, and then open one eye. The three of tehm are standing in front of me still watching me with curiousity.  I try and move, but the vines are to tight. 

 

"She really has forgotten.." The blonde sighs,  looking at her nails.  The boy nods.

 

"Oh think about how happy Molly and Garret will be!" the girl, I assume is Flora, squeels. "Sory about the vines." She adds. Molly and Garret? Those are the names Chase told me about being my parents or something.  I'm still whoozy from the vines.

 

"How... di- how..... what? Vines?" I stutter unsure of what I should ask exactly. Flora smiles, and nods.

 

"I'm an elemantal, like you!" She begins, with the same fairy tale. "I'm earth. I control plants, and dirt." She smiles, touching the dead bush next to her, and humming that same tune. Then it blossoms  with green again. I look in horror. I feel a scream coming.

 

"I could just knock her out ya know.. it'll be the easiest way to get her back to Spridge." the blonde says. Oh, god! I'm going to scream! Controling plants, and bushes! Little middle school girls wanting to knock me out!  I reach down and start pulling at the vines, as I begin hyperventilating. They must all be taking some crap, or... they're like top secret government expirements! I'm still dreaming, I mean what else could be going on?

 

"No, Sierra you might kill her." Flora says, sighing. The vines wont budge, I'm stuck.

 

"Only a little shock." Sierra, begs. SHOCK!? Like electricity?

 

"No." Chase says, she needs to come willingly. The next 20 minutes of my like are like a weird history lesson, on my apparently home realm called Spridge.  About how it's just like earth, and has people. With one royal family how rules the realm, and they have protectors called Elemental. Which I am apparently one of.  "Lyra.. I know you don't believe any of this, but... maybe you can just come with us... and we can show you."

 

"I just want to think about everything." I lie, "I promise... I'll think about it, but I need to get back to school." I say, then Flora does her 'elemental thingy' and the vines go back int the earth. They all hug me accept Sierra, and then dissapear in thin air. I think I'm losing it.  Running back into the school, I take my seat in study hall. Tatum questions me about why I was late, I tell him I also stopped in the bathroom. He seems to have believed me. Leaving studyhall I head to my next class, going through that in a second it feel. Then the same for my lest two other classes. School is out. Sean is giving me a ride home.

 

Nothing is said in the car, alhtough I'm contemptplating telling him about earlier.  No, he'll probably say I'm crazy.  Maybe I am. . . I more then likely imagined everything that just happened. Or I'm in one long dream, once I'm home though I realize I must be awake. I should've woken up by now. What if everything that happen is real and true? That Flora girl might actually be able to control  dirt and plants. Sierra could maybe actually shock me or what ever. Sean heads right to his room, like usual disappearing and never being heard from after clicking his door locked. It's like he disappears from his room, maybe he is going to the magical realm of Spridge.  That's a weird thought, because there is a 10% chanceit could be true.

 

I decide to spend the day with Harris, playing cards to get my mind away from powers and realms. We play rummy, and slap-jack. For an hour and then  we stop to  so he can make super,  I watch because I'm that bored. Heading up to my room a while later