The Elements and Her Lover

The Change

It burns, the pain burns! Lights are sparking all around me. The pain is unbearable. I screamed out in pain. flashing in and out of 

Catori POV

    My name is Catori. I'm turning 18 in a few days and have one more year of school left. I can't wait for it to be over. The days are always hot, and we rarely get rain. Getting ready for school is still a drag to me. -As I put on my clothes- I walk to a small wooden desk that is worn down with age, and paint is faded, making it look vintage. I sit down to brush my hair, looking at the mirror that sits on top of the desk with my neatly arrange hair products. My home is in the wood that was used as a camping cabin but was abandoned and covered by bushes. I found it when I was in my first year of high school. I lost my family when I was young and was sent to distant relatives that beat me because I looked like my mother. So when I was old enough, I ran until I found this place.

    After getting dressed, I head out the door. My clothes are from a bargain store that sells already used for garments. I can only buy what I can from the job that pays a little. My situation may not seem like fun like most people do, but to me, it's refreshing and calming. I work at a flower shop that is a couple of miles from my house. I work after school, which is the best time of the day for me. The old lady there seen me asking for a job when I first made it into the town. She knew I was new here and looked like I had a rough day. The old lady's name is Ms. Penny.

Flashback

    Her husband and herself ran the store until he died years ago before I made it into town. She said that when he died, he said: "I love the smell of the flowers, and it reminded him of home." She would always walk out the store, smell the flowers, and remember those words till one day she met a young girl smelling her flowers and said: "these flowers smell like home." Penny knew in an instant that she had to ask where she came from. The place that was home was a place I don't remember too well, just the smell. It smelt like wildflowers on a field and fresh-cut green grass on a dew morning. 

    I walked to school every morning, making sure I leave before the sun even rises to avoid anyone seeing where I live. I treated every day when I reached the school gates. Why does this school hate me so much? I'm the first one that enters the school every day after going to my locker to put my things away and get the things I need out for each class. I always check on the small garden in the back of the school. It was a small garden covered with dead weeds and dried up the ivy. I worked on it at the end of my first year of school here. It was my only safe place to go after that thing that happened to me. As my eyes looked upon the dead, dried up the garden, I saw a small beautiful purple rose. The rose wasn't like a regular red rose, nor was a full purple rose; it was a rose that deep int the middle was purple than lighten up to a white tip. I wanted to protect the rose. I destroyed all the dead plants around the only alive plant in the whole dead garden. I was excited to see how strong this flower was to stay alive when everything else was killed. 

    After taking care of my rose garden, which was now filled with many flowers but circled the single rosed, each color was different, but nothing came close to that purple rose. I made my way down the hall, always pacing myself and be sneaky not to be seen. Before I can reach the building where my class was only a few doors down, I get slammed to the lockers where my head hit it before the rest of my body. I looked up in a blurry daze and saw them standing in front of me.

    There stood Bella, the leader, and her twin sister Mia. They stood over me, laughing, pointing at all my faults on my body. They pointed at my clothes and how ugly I looked. "Look at her dress. They don't even match her shoes," said Bella. While Mia laughed, " aww, you poor thing, why are you always tripping with your two left feet." It wasn't just them but others around them laughing at me and making me feel worse about myself. I would always stand up dust myself off and keep walking, but this time I felt this sharp pain in my body, and my blood started to boil.

    I can feel the tingling in my fingertips and felt my face was turning red. Everyone just laughed as I turn the corner into my classroom. I stayed strong through another beat down my evil twin sisters. I would sit in the back of the school, keeping to myself not allowing others to notice me. What they didn't know was I am the smartest one in the classroom. I used my long dark brown hair to hid my face from those who felt that it was ok to stare at me and make comments. Rumors spread, saying I am a witch or something like that because flowers always bloom around me when I take care of them. 

    Classes flew by, and I try to make my way out of school before I make it out I felt a book hitting my head. I turn around to see Chase, Bella's handsome boyfriend, that every muscle was toned and fit. His shirts fit tight on him so you can see his six-pack show through his shirt. Making every girl want him. Chase screamed out, "Hey, watch out dork" way after the book hit me. Chase also doesn't like me. It wasn't always like that, but It is just how it is now. I keep walking even though the pain from this morning and soon were making my head pound over and over. As I reached the flower shop making sure I am not followed. 

    "Catori!" Ms. Penny cried out when she saw a small amount of blood trickle down the side of my head. " you're always hurt when you get here," said Ms. Penny while she cleaned up the wound. I always just smile at her and say I fall. After she was done, I get back to work. 

Once work started to slow down for the day, I feel this dizzy urge that almost makes me pass out. I say "good-bye" to Ms. Penny as I head home. My temperature is heating up. I can feel my blood boil. I make it back and reach my bed in time before the dizziness takes over. I can feel my body burn. It burns, the pain burns! Lights are sparking all around me. The pain is unbearable. I screamed out in pain. Flashing in and out of consciousness before the darkness engulfed me. I feel like I'm falling into an endless depth of darkness. The night made school felt like nothing compared to it. Night made me feel like death was inviting me to follow him. I see the light and bright purple light. So warm yet so bright. The light reaches me. It started to form in front of me. It was a purple silhouette of a female body. Thin, prominent chested, beautiful long figure and curves in all the right places. It reaches its hand out of me. I hesitate when I reach out my hand to hold the lights hand. I just didn't want to feel that feeling the darkness made me think, empty, cold, useless, so much more that I didn't realize I was holding the light's hand when all those words melted away. The pain came back, but this time flashes of blue, white, green, and red flew around me. It spun around me, forming into one, then it faded into my body. I pass out.

Echos in my head

"Momma...Momma...Dad...Dad...wake up...don't leave me...please don't leave me.....please don't leave me" I screamed before a light exploded out of me. The power forced windows to shatter, trees to move, the wind to pick up, and animals to start acting out. Then I pass out.