May 28th 2002
Another school day had finished, another school day where Elle was kept behind for fighting, the principal had called her into his office to talk about her behaviour
"Elle, this is the fourth fight this week from you. You and your little gang of misbehaved teenagers need to explain, is there a reason for this fighting?" the principal asked in his deep voice
Elle sat in a chair in front of his desk chewing bubble gum and swinging her legs.
"Yeah, there's a reason for my so called bad behaviour" Elle snapped angrily
The principal removed his glasses and nodded
"go on, tell me" he said
Elle rolled her eyes and huffed, she folded her arms and glowered at the principal
"that little bitch, Madeline Tate, my so called best friend slept with my retard of a boyfriend Tommy Reese. You expect me to just stand back, be calm and watch that slut laugh in my face?, I don't think so. So I smacked that whore's head off of the toilet's mirror, and you know what, I feel damn good about that!" Elle explained angrily.
The principal got to his feet and frowned at Elle
"I will not have that language in my office, Miss Bennet!, I'm calling your parents to a meeting about you. I'll be back in a few moments, in the mean time, you sit here and don't even think about moving or it's an automatic triple detention!" the principal shouted loudly.
Elle shrugged her shoulders and shook her head as the principal disappeared out of the office, Elle sighed and smiled and the thought of Madeline's head crashing against the glass mirror
"I'm going to kick her ass tomorrow and the next day, stupid little bitch" Elle said to herself
She reached into her pocket of her blue jeans and pulled out her phone and dialled in a number. She turned to see if anyone was about to enter the room, once the coast was clear she called the number and waited for an answer
"hi, Lara, yeah it's me Elle, listen I've got a plan for beating up the principal's daughter." Elle sad into her phone smiling
"why the hell would you want to do that?, I mean you're definitely going to get expelled!" her friend Lara said down the phone.
Elle nodded
"I know, I'm sick and tired of this damn school, I'm going to beat Madeline and the principal's perfect little daughter." Elle said
Lara laughed
"fine, if that's what you want to do, but isn't your sister friends with the principal's daughter?" Lara asked
Elle nodded
"I don't give a damn if Claire's friends with her or not. You wont get involved and if she does then I'll kick her ass too" Elle said
Lara laughed again
"okay, I have to go, I'll see you tomorrow, right?" Lara asked
Elle nodded
"tomorrow, see you" Elle said then hung up the phone.
Suddenly the principal walked back into the office followed by Noah and Sandra who didn't look at all pleased with Elle
"Mr and Mrs Bennet, I have to take some sort of action with your daughter, she has been physically and verbally abusive to a number of pupils attending my school" the principal began.
Elle blew a big pink bubble of her bubble gum, she turned her head and looked up to see her father frowning down at her, she rolled her eyes and burst the bubble
"look this is getting way to boring so can I leave?, I mean whatever, I really don't give a crap about all this conversations that you have. I don't care about my education and I certainly don't give a crap about hurting Madeline Slut Bitch face, she's nothing but a dirty little AIDS prostitute anyway" Elle said.
Mr Bennet placed a hand on Elle's shoulder
"Elle, you will stay here and listen, do not use that language in front of me, your mother or anyone else again, am I clear?" Noah asked
Elle was about to complain but Noah stopped her
"Elle!" Noah said firmly, he didn't look at all impressed with her.
Elle knew she was going to get into a lot of trouble when she got home, she really didn't care,
"NO!, I won't say here!, I'm sick and tired of this damn school, I'm sick of being bossed around by YOU!" Elle shouted loudly at her father
Once she saw his surprised reaction, Elle sighed and got to her feet, she stormed out of the office. She just wanted to go home and relax, she hated rules, she wanted to be independent, she needed someone to take her anger out on. She was desperate to zap somebody with electricity, all the anger and frustration had build up and she was on the edge of really hurting somebody. She stormed out of the school and into the car park, she looked around and growled in anger, she was furious and already blue sparks had began to flicker up and down her arms and blonde hair. She ran as fast as she could away from the school, she had to burn off some energy, maybe get rid of her anger.
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Claire sat at home watching TV, she knew that Elle was in trouble again and it didn't surprise her one little bit, Elle was always the rebel in the family, hated rules, never wanted to obey anyone. She usually got her own way, Claire was the opposite, she didn't have the courage to stand up to her father and was expected to obey the rules. Suddenly the front door burst open, crashing against the wall, Elle stormed in the house, she was still angry, Claire frowned and looked confused
"are you alright, Elle?" Claire asked as she walked towards her sister.
Elle stood silent, Claire gulped and put her hands on Elle's arms
"hey!, Elle, are you okay?" Claire asked again
Elle still stayed silent, Claire began to shake Elle
"get away from me!!" Elle screamed as her whole body became engulfed in blue electricity.
Elle grabbed Claire by the neck and threw her electricity through Claire's body, she screamed loudly in anger as high voltage electricity currents shot through Claire at rapid speed causing her to shake violently. Claire couldn't scream, her eyes rolled back into her head and blood spurted from her nose, ears and eyes. The veins in her head started to bulge
"E.,ll,e" Claire stuttered, as blood bubbled in her lungs
Elle finally dropped her arms as the anger drained from her body. Claire fell to the floor, smoke rose from her body, her eyes were shot open and she had stopped breathing, Elle finally realised what she had done and screamed loudly. She fell to her knees and stared at Claire until she started to move again, Elle sighed in relief as her sister healed again, Elle reached down to touch Claire
"I'm so sorry" Elle said but Claire flinched away from her in fear.
Claire got to her feet and ran upstairs away from Elle
"I hate you!" Claire screamed
Elle was angry with herself, she was angry that she couldn't control herself. Angry at herself because she hurt her little sister, the sister who she was supposed to protect, but she shook her head and gulped. Claire could heal, she wasn't going to have scars all over her body for the rest of her life, but Elle wondered about the mental scars in the mind of Claire. Would they ever heal?
Mr Bennet and Sandra stormed into the house to find Elle on her knees on the floor, she frowned up at them, Noah approached her angrily
"you're grounded young lady!, that behaviour today was out of order, no TV for a week, straight home after school everyday for a month and you go to bed at nine o'clock, is that understood?" Noah shouted.
Elle felt tears behind her eyes but she wouldn't let them show, she needed to be strong, something inside her told her that she couldn't be weak in front of her father
"you don't control me!" Elle said
Noah shook his head
"I'm your father, Elle!, I do control you, and I also love you, I love you so much Elle. But why are you acting this way?, what's gotten into you?" Noah asked.
A tear fell down Elle's cheek, she was surprised, Noah and Sandra were surprised, Elle shook her head
"I'll never be perfect like Claire, never. She's always been your favourite, hasn't she?" Elle cried out as the tears streamed down her heartbroken cheeks
Noah felt like he had been kicked in the stomach. He felt weak all over, he couldn't believe it, he never wanted his little girls to feel like the odd one out
"Elle…, I never wanted you to feel this way, why didn't you tell me before?" Noah asked as he got on his knees beside her.
Elle shook her head
"I don't know daddy" Elle replied honestly
Noah sighed and wrapped his arms around her, he held her tightly, Sandra walked towards them and cuddled the two together in her arms.
Claire stood at the top of the staircase with tears in her blue eyes, she felt so guilty once those words left Elle's mouth, why couldn't she have spotted the signs earlier. She hated seeing Elle hurt, even if Elle had hurt her. Claire didn't want to feel better than Elle, she always thought that Elle was better than her. After all she was more popular in school, she had a super cool power and she was so beautiful. Claire took a few steps down the staircase
"Elle?" Claire said softly
Elle raised her head and saw Claire standing on the step with that cute little face that Elle always had to smile at
"I'm sorry that you feel this way, it's my fault. I should've stepped back and let you do the stuff that you liked" Claire said.
Elle quickly wiped her tears away and got to her feet, she walked up the stairs and threw her arms around Claire, pulling her close
"it's okay, it's not your fault, I'm the one who should apologize. If you didn't have a power, I would've killed you, I love you Claire Bear, I didn't mean to hurt you" Elle whispered into Claire's ear
Claire felt so safe with Elle, she was the best sister anyone could have had. Even if things did get a little rough at times between them, they always forgave each other, always.
"I love you too, Elle" Claire said smiling.
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