Chapter 2
I woke up it was Sunday yay for me big whoop nothing to do because all the boxes were already unpacked and I feel like doing something outside so I might as well vent seeing there's nothing else to do outside by myself other than play sport or read and write. I pushed my sheets off myself to the end of my bed so I could get up I got out of my bed and went over to my closet where my clothes were and picked out a pair of black skinny legged jeans and a red and black striped long sleeved t-shirt. Once I'd picked out my clothes I walked out of my bedroom and into the bathroom across the hall from my room I put my gear on the bench got undressed then got into the shower and turned the knob of the shower handle onto the hottest it could go I felt it bur my skin but I wasn't bothered it didn't hurt I felt the hot water unknotting my muscles and sighed I grabbed my shampoo and lathered my hair, washed it then got out once I'd rinsed myself off. I dried myself on then got dressed leaving my pyjamas in the hamper then walked downstairs to get myself some breakfast I knew my mum wouldn't be up yet so I poured us both a bowl of cereal but I didn't put the milk in hers and left it on the bench.
I ate my cereal in silence hearing the crunching of my cereal and the animals outside thanks to my earth part of my elemental powers. Once I'd finished breakfast I washed my bowl out and stacked it in the drainer beside the sink I didn't bother with drying it I used my telekinesis to grab my mp3 player form beside my bed downstairs and into my hand I wrote a note for my mum then walked out the back door and into the forest behind the house. As I walked along I thought about where I should vent it can't be to close to anything like town or occupied house maybe at the bottom of the mountains I heard there's an old house there that an old man lives at that's perfect apparently everyone thinks he's crazy so even if he does tell someone no one will believe him. I ran around conforming the land so everything grows better the better the land is the better I am soon I was near an big old house that looked uninhabited so I walked into the front yard and started my venting.
I made a motion with my hand then boulders flew up from the ground I made another movement with my other hand and a gust of wind held the boulders up a few trees in the yard grew branches and started whipping around in the wind I'd created I made my shadow move around and do tasks for me whipping up more wind bring up more boulders then I jumped up suddenly onto a boulder then kept going until I was really high in the air on a boulder then I sat down in the lotus position and started to meditate after a while one by one the boulders dropped except my own I just sat there and harmonised with the earth and air then I slowly summoned up another rock right above me it was about six feet in circumference then I made it hove in front of me close enough to touch then I put my hand onto it and it slowly started burning then I moved it just a little bit further away but still close enough to touch and held my hands out into the flames and watched as the flame changed colour yellow to orange then blue, green and red and purple and I wasn't even hurt no one can withstand as much heat as I can no even my ancestors nothing could stop me but my twin brother but he died a few years ago leaving me his power of telekinesis. I lost the only person who truly understood me at all and the only thing I gained is more trouble trying to control a new ability. As soon as he died we had the funeral and moved away to a new town but soon the word got out that trees were too healthy and everything about the elements seemed unnaturally healthy and flourishing so we had to move again and again until we moved to Ipswich where we currently are now residing.
I like to burn things it's good stress relief and it fizzles out a lot of my anger that makes me need to vent so I burn rocks for an hour and that helps. Being a telekinetic elemental isn't that bad but it is troublesome moving around, being cautious about where you vent, who you make friends with and what you tell them and your schedule you have to be really cautious but there are the fun things about it. I heard some twigs snapped so I dropped everything and landed on my feet and turned in the direction of the mountains to make it look like I was exploring the scenery "Hey who's there?" I didn't say anything to the voice but then someone tapped me on the shoulder so I turned to face them and I was met with the most gorgeous forest brown eyes I'd ever seen "What are you doing here this is private property, he asked me I didn't say anything "Are you mute or something?", I laughed and shook my head "Sorry no I only just moved here so I didn't know but everything would be so much easier if I was mute." He laughed then said "How so?" I shook my head "Sorry to long a story to tell anyways I have to get home."I walked away I knew something was weird about his boy because the vibrational patterns that everyone has is different to a normal person or human.
As soon as I was out of sight of the boy I ran as fast as I could without conforming the land after half an hour of running I approached the clearing that was about three minutes walk form my house so I stopped running and started walking cooling myself down as I did before I was in view of the house I made a depression in the ground then summoned some water into it so I could clean myself up I redid my hair and I wiped but of the flecks of dirt I had on me from venting then I made everything look like it had before I came into the area then walked over to the house and through the open door waiting for me. I walked into the kitchen to find my mum eating breakfast at the kitchen bench reading the news paper and drinking her usual morning coffee.
She waved at me with her spoon still in her hand I laughed and pointed to her spoon then said " Good afternoon sleeping beauty." She replied with "good afternoon daughter." Then commenced reading her paper I look at the time and saw it was about one 'o' clock so I decided to fix myself a sandwich for lunch so I got the bread and the peanut butter out as well as some bananas sitting in the fruit bowl. I cut the bananas up then put them to the side on the chopping board I put my peanut butter on then the banana slices then the other slice of bread grabbed a plate then walked upstairs and down the hall to my room after I'd cleaned up the mess with my telekinesis.
I sat on my bed and grabbed my sound system remote from my nightstand and pressed the button to turn it on and if I was correct all my CD's should be the way the were when we had the move then I should go for disk nine out of eighteen because it had a compilation of the bands: As I Lay Dying and 30 Seconds To Mars. I then sat cross legged in the middle of my bed listening o my CD's all in a row all the while eating my sandwich once I'd finished I put the plate on my nightstand then lay down to try and sleep but my attempts failed so I watched a movie on my TV and about halfway through I finally fell asleep.
I woke up to my mum nudging my shoulder and telling me to wake up because dinner was ready so I sat up and rubbed the sleep from my eyes then got up I brushed myself off then went downstairs to and walked into the kitchen to see the sight of my mum dishing up dinner. I sat down across from her at the kitchen bench we didn't have a table because it was just the two of us living together."How's dinner going?" I asked her she just smiled and said in reply "Well dinner is good and is almost done tell me what you think." She held out a spoon for me so I could try the stew on it, I put the stew in my mouth and it tasted amazing it just melted in my mouth. Heaven. "Hey mum it's H-E-A-V-E-N." I said spelling it out "That has to be the best stew you've ever made." She looked really pleased at my comment but she didn't say anything just kept serving dinner up. Once she served dinner up she slid my plate towards me then her own to the spot beside mine then walked around the bench and sat down next to me we watched the rain hit the windows and slide down there were some beautiful patterns on the window because of it.
We washed the dishes together after we'd finished dinner we talked about school I wouldn't be going until Tuesday because my mum still had to get my uniform and books and a dorm hopefully not in a co-ed one I ate having to share with boys especially the seventeen- eighteen year old kinds not after what happened last time with my brother he died because of it and I don't want anyone hurt again because of me and what I can do.
I walked upstairs to my room and over to my mirror in the closet I looked at myself I didn't see anything out of the ordinary I still had the same Long sort of straight-ish black hair that goes to my waist, the same old icy blue grey eyes and the pale face just staring back at me nothing I still had long legs a tallish stature and boring old pink lips which were just a little bit full. Same old boring me with weird-ish interests for a girl nothing special. I got dressed into my pj's then got into bed and then switched on my nature soundtrack to help me sleep I can only sleep if there's some music or background music going I can't sleep with out some sort of noise at all and I mean at all. I really hoped none of my dreams would bother me tonight I'm sick of having one piece of earth both me just because something funny or just out of order happened maybe I might get a decent night's sleep instead of some entity barging into MY dreams and telling that something has happened or gone wrong. Then finally after what seemed hours of nagging I fell asleep.
An annoying beeping woke me up so I silenced it and rolled over and went back to sleep it was only Monday so I didn't even have school it didn't matter. Soon I heard another buzzing noise but this time it wasn't the squeaky buzzing noise my alarm clock usually makes it was a more high pitched and more urgent not at all like my alarm clock so someone must be near the house cause I put up a sort of sensory alarm that would alert me if anyone came within ten feet in any direction outside of the fence around the property then I woke up quickly pulled on a pair of my jeans that were tossed on the floor haphazardly last night when I got into bed I still had my tank top on so I grabbed my black with red designs on it hoodie and ran down stairs knocking on my mum's door as I ran down the hallway.
I ran over to our door and looked out the windows beside it I saw someone and then they walked up the driveway slowly taking their time walking up towards the door I could tell the person was male but I couldn't see any features yet besides the dark brown hair of their figure's head, as soon as he was about two thirds of the way up the driveway my mum came down the stairs and peered out the window alongside mine. Soon enough the figure came to the door and rang the doorbell my mother opened it but didn't reveal me placing the door in front of the stranger's view of me "Yes can I help you?" he nodded "Hi ma'am I'm Tyler Simms and I your neighbour I just came to welcome you to Ipswich do you have anyone living with you?" my mum nodded and said "Yes I live with my daughter as my husband and her brother passed away a while ago thank you for the kind welcome please come in you can meet my daughter if you want if you just wait a second I'll unhook the door." she closed it then motioned for me to go upstairs but I did it silently.
My mother pretended to unhook the door then ushered the boy in by now I had recognised him as the boy I saw while I in the middle of my venting. She sat him down at one of the five barstools we had at the bench then she grabbed a plate of cookies she had set out the night before because she had been baking she said to help himself then she walked over to the bottom of the staircase and then called out my name "Willow we have a guest come down please." My mum NEVER yells she always calls even when she's angry because when she got angry last time my father died mysteriously and I was left fatherless she never wanted to cause anyone pain but she lost control."Coming mother I'll be right down." From my room into the hallway I quickly ran a brush through my hair and changed my tank top for a long sleeved shirt hat was back and grey striped. I ran downstairs then slowed to a walk when I came in view of the kitchen I walked into the kitchen and greeted my mother with a good morning and went over to the cupboards so I could get my cereal and pour it into the bowl which I had already placed onto the bench, my mum slid the milk to me so I could pour it in with my cereal I did so but I didn't sit down at the bench and eat I stood up and ate my breakfast while standing next to my mum she scolded me in a playful manner "Willow that's not very ladylike go sit down." I laughed but I still sat down on the end barstool of the bench "Mum since when have I ever been ladylike?" she shook her head and resumed conversation with the boy that made himself know to be out neighbour.
He offered me a ride later on this morning to school because at the moment it's only six 'o' clock in the morning I accepted he said goodbye and said he's see us at eight. We said goodbye then I proceeded to pack the rest of my stuff because my mum had got me a dorm at Spencer Academy so I'd stay there and come home every weekend sometime during yesterday my mum had gotten me uniforms and books so I packed those got dressed in my new uniform but I put a few changes on it let my tie loose and undid the top two buttons and I put a few badges on my bag flap I had quite a few like: It takes 44 muscles to frown and only 4 muscles to stick up my middle finger and say bite me, reality is for those who don't have an imagination, I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour and a few more I also decided to paint my nails black and put my hair up in a messy pony tail with my fringe in the way so it could shadow my eyes it's bad enough I get made fun of them and get called the ice queen because of them and my attitude.
I brought my stuff downstairs and put t beside the door I left my mp3 in my pocket though along with my pen and a few hair ties and a chain bracelet in case I go out of control at school I can store energy in them so I don't have so much built up inside me. I ate had a glass of juice while I waited then suddenly the door bell rang. My mum answered it and invited him into the lounge he sat down and talked to my mum for a bit I walked into the lounge after I grabbed a granola bar and ate it because the last thing I ate was two hours ago. I sat down he told us a bit about Ipswich and the surrounding area then he said we'd better be going soon because classes start at nine I grabbed my suitcase and my duffel bag then walked outside the boy grabbed my bags and put them in the back of his car he came back over to where my mum and I was and said goodbye to her and he was going to start up the engine of his car . I was in the middle of saying goodbye to mum when I heard another car roll up the driveway and the driver said "Hey Tyler hurry up or we're gonna be late!" then drove off in the direction of Ipswich town area where just outside of it is Spencer my new school. I finished saying goodbye to my mum hugged her then told her she'd see me in a few days when I came home for the weekend I got into the open door of the boy's car closed it then we drove off down the driveway and out onto the road. "Hi my name is Tyler I'm your next door neighbour I saw you yesterday in the forest." So it was him I thought "I'm Willow." I said plainly he looked intrigued by me somehow whether by my lack of talking, my attitude, the way I dressed or the even the way I acted the other day "So how do you like Ipswich so far?" he asked me I didn't say anything because I was thinking then I finally came up with an answer "Well it's okay but I really haven't had a chance to explore yet because we only moved here Saturday afternoon." He looked surprised "You family unpacks pretty fast how many of you are there must be a few cause it's such a big house." I shook my head "No it's just me and my mum my twin brother died not three years ago and my dad as well but before I was born." I looked out the window.
I watched the passing scenery the forest and the town for about half an hour then we came to a stop outside a huge building which I assumed to be Spencer Academy he parked the car in the parking lot to the side of the large building "Hey Tyler I was wondering if I could leave my bags in your car until I have to move into my dorm so I don't have to carry them everywhere all day?" he nodded "yeah sure but you'll have to come and get me when you want to get them okay." I nodded then I walked out of the parking lot with Tyler by my side and into the building then he directed me to the school office and proceeded to wait outside the office for me. I walked over to the receptionists desk where she was filing something on her desk I cleared my throat so that she looked up "Umm excuse me I'm a new student my mother enrolled me yesterday to the school my name is Willow Hargraves." She looked down to what she was filing then pulled something out form between the sheets and said "Ahh yes I remember now here is your time table and your map of the school as well as your dorm room key."She handed me two slips of paper and a key with the number 317 on it I thanked her then walked out of the school office and into Tyler.
