It’s been two days since I watched Lee die before my eyes. I swear to God I will kill him, his ass is as good as mine, I am coming for you, you sick son of a bi-Oh shit sorry you all probably so confused I should start from the beginning to explain how the hell I got to planning someone’s murder.
I started today just like I started any other day woke up at 6a.m, an hour earlier then when I should get up for school. It was Monday morning, the 15th of January 2018, in other words the first day of school. I got up, got dressed and went outside to go sit under the big maple tree, where I would sit and read and or contemplate life.
Little did I know that my whole life was going to go from bad to worse, but let me not get ahead of myself, I obviously must explain everything first, so here I go:
So, as you know our world has been hit by some huge war thing which no adult, including my history teacher will go into depth about, so all I know is the same story we’ve been thought since we were kids, alright so you know that our world or what’s left of it is divided into 4 districts or whatever you want to call it. Number 1: Water, Number 2: Fire, Number 3: Earth, Number 4: Air. You were first placed in the district of your parents , until your element claimed you on the night of your 16th Birthday , you usually stay at the same district, but there are a few rare people who gets chosen for another element in which their forced to forsaken their family and friends they grew up with , I mean sure you can still meet up with them whenever but it’s not the same thing as being in the same district , but I am getting side - tracked. Now as you know there is one Elemental power that is even more rare than any other one The Element of Life, this power keeps all the other elements in line, but there are evil ones which we call dark ones and good is obviously light.
Many years ago, a Man named Enzo Rhys was the first ever Light element to go dark, he felt that his kinds powers were going to waste protecting, maintaining and controlling the elements and the environment when they could use all their powers to either generate all the elemental powers into them and of course the easiest way to do that was to kill us normal elementals who only had one power and steal and absorb our power. Enzo managed to convince half of the Life element to join him, the rest became the light and they became the dark. The dark managed to kill a quarter of us , but before they could finish us off , The lights stepped in and saved our lives , the war killed all the Life elements , some people think Enzo is still out there , hanging on life , waiting on another chance to strike and if that’s the case we screwed cause we don’t got no more Life elements(which sucks , because we all gotta try maintain the world now and it’s a real shitty job when you don’t got the ability , which we all don’t)...
Legend has it a new Light will arise, this person will be our saviour, He or She will assemble a team of all the elements, which will protect us from an evil that is destined to rise once again, the fate of the universe lies in their hands, will they succeed and save the world, or will they fail and doom us all?
I’ve been asking myself that question since the first time I heard the story, from my Grade 1 teacher , Miss Herrington and to think the legend still hasn’t come true , it makes me wonder how much longer will we have to wait for that day to come. I was born in the water district and this is my year, the year where my whole life gets decided on my birthday, I mean what ever happened to a simple birthday cake, birthday wish , presents , friends and family. But no, we gotta be extra and have our whole life depending on our birthday, it decides where your goanna stay forever, if you gonna leave the people you love or not, your official elemental power, like a lot is riding all on that one birthday, talk about pressure much, anyway that’s enough on history let’s get back to my awesome maple tree
Today’s energy in the atmosphere felt off, like there was a new presence in town, someone who radiates with energy, but it didn’t feel like a good presence, it felt bad, kinda brought a chill to me. I felt like I had to tell someone , but it wouldn’t be the first time I cry wolf , I brought lots of people on edge the last time I had a freak out moment at least that’s what the town calls them , but I swear every time I do cry wolf something weird always happens later that day or week , but to them it’s always just a coincidence. But I am telling you it’s not, its my gut feeling everyone thinks I just want to be the chosen one, which is true for everyone, I mean come on, who doesn’t want to save the world? Who doesn’t wanna be the chosen one, I mean have you seen Harry Potter? Percy Jackson?, The Hunger Games even The Chronicles of Narnia! Every great movie and book has a chosen one and man do I wish I was in a movie and was Thee chosen one, I mean sure shit happens to them, but they always win at the end, but this was not a movie and if it was I would be the freak, but hey freaks are awesome, I mean quoting Johnathon byers No one normal ever did anything meaningful in life. Yes, I am a Stranger Things freak, oh and IT, like man would I be in the losers club or the party. Anyway, I just got sidetracked.
I left the house at 6:35 a.m. , and got to school at 7:00a.m , I was an hour early , I mean not even the teachers were here yet , but there it was that energy I sensed before , it felt like the presence was right in front of me , but it wasn’t and then the scent just disappeared , “hi” I screamed and swung around ready to attack the guy with the deep sexy voice , but then I heard him chuckle and actually decided to take a look at my attacker.
He had dark brown hair and looked kind of built , he was super tall , actually no he was the perfect height for me , he wore a plain black shirt with some jeans , oh and did I mention he had green eyes, I of course had dark brown hair and eyes that were chocolate brown , I wore ripped jeans and shirt that said don’t even try on it. He broke me out of my trance by saying, “You really shouldn’t stare, I mean you didn’t even say hi back and yet you already checking me out, by the way love the shirt” all with an obnoxious smirk might I add. I finally spoke ,  “hey sorry , I am Mae Bell it’s really nice to meet you---" ,  “Ryland thorn is the name and its really lovely to meet you Mae Bell----" I didn’t hear what else he said after that , because there it was again that energy it was coming from him , Ryland was the presence I sensed , so I can sense cute boys now wow ain’t this just great , I guess there’s an upside for the dance this year. “Oh, why thank you, I am quite handsome aren’t I?”. Oh, shit you said that out loud you moron, I was blushing so much I swear a tomato could mistake me for its mother. “So I am assuming you didn’t here my question” , said Mr. Cocky pants, “but I asked if you go to this school, because if you do this town and school don’t seem so bad anymore”, he said with the cockiest smirk you could ever conjure , and those eyes seemed to not only be looking in my eyes but searching for my soul , I swear they could suck me in to whatever awesome universe is in there , I eventually answered the question with a yes , “and tell me Ryland Thorn are you always this cocky or is there more to you?” and the little bastard said , “You call this cocky , oh sweetie this is just the tip of the iceberg oh and don’t worry princess the more you chip at it the better I get” , with a little wink/smirk added. Oh, he was cocky alright and gave off a bad boy exterior, but I liked that, I was weirdly drawn to him, it felt like we were soul mates or something, I know it sounds stupid and sappy, but you didn’t feel what I felt all that mushy feely vibes and I could tell he felt it too.
I gave him a pre-tour of our beloved school, Hill Side High. “If you wondering why is our high school called Hill Side High, it’s because our school is on the side of a hill at a specific angle so that we don’t you know fall off the hill. Our school nicknames are Hill Hide High or SHH as in loads of the kids bunk or hide from teachers and the shh is obviously telling all students that if they catch someone bunking or breaking the rules, they gotta shut the hell up, or else you know the famous saying, snitches get stitches, and some people take it literally. So, no snitching, got it?”.Ryland looked kinda scared after I told him some people take it literally. “Okay listen here, just have everyone’s backs, I mean if we don’t have trust between our peers who can we trust, so don’t stress you’ll be fine”. And wait for it “I already got stitches from bitches, so I’d like to see them try, and I was and never will be a snitch.”  And BOOM the cockiness returned.
Its 7:45 a.m. now and we sitting in the music room and my heart is melting, he can play every single instrument in that classroom and has such a husky singing voice, and all I can think of at that moment was: Where have you been all my life?