A/N: So those of you who didn't read the other authors note( all of you?) bella is 9, not 10. If you didn't read the note, go back. It has some useful info. The first part of this is a little choppy. Sorry.

"Bye mom! Bye Phil!" I called out as I slung my backpack over my shoulder and headed out the door.

My mom and Phil had been married about a month now and we were happily living in Starr, Mississippi.

It was hard to believe I was in the fifth grade-only the fifth grade. I didn't bond well with others my age so I had spare time on my hands which I spent studying and getting well ahead of my class-well, until Aaron and the elemental thing came along.

But even then, I was still way ahead of my class.

My teachers often caught me falling asleep but they couldn't really get me in trouble because I could always easily answer their questions.

They always rolled their eyes in irritation when I still got the answer right when it was obvious I hadn't been listening.

At school I was popular. Not in the sense that I had a lot of friends but that I was by far the most fashionable in school. A far cry from what it had been back in phoenix.

Aaron had opened up his clothesline and I often got first hand sample outfits. I was also the promoter because I wore the clothes and everyone wanted them and such.

I had even started designing some of my own clothes at his little shop.

To say that my classmates were jealous of my clothes would be the understatement of the year.

The name of Aaron's clothes line-although he insisted it was mine too-was Eternal. Our little inside joke since he was an eternal being.

My mom had eventually found out about Aaron in Mississippi.

She was livid up until he chased away bullies from me and a couple robbers from the house.

After that, she welcomed Aaron with open arms.

Although, she did demand that he come over to our house sometimes instead of me always going over there which definitely made it hard to practice my bending.

Instead, I usually did homework while he pretended to help until we could escape to the park-which is where I was headed now.

It was usually sunny in Starr so I often had to move the few clouds that were visible to cover us up enough so Aaron wouldn't attract attention.

Or I just created some clouds for coverup.

We would sit in the shade-under what we now considered our tree-and talk or hone my air sense.

One of our common exercises-well I exercised while he instructed-was to create different shapes in the clouds and then increase the number of clouds I could manipulate.

As of yet, I could do up to three if I concentrated really hard.

Aaron always told me what to make and I usually could do what he asked.

"Make a falling star."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at the simple shape.

"Add a girl."

"Make the girl jumping to grab the star."

"A boy running to catch the girl that is jumping to catch the star."

"Add a second star to the first."

My face scrunched as I concentrated.

For a moment I succeeded, but then the two stars started to combine together.

"Bella!"

I jumped at the voice that didn't belong to Aaron and my cloud pictures dissolved.

I turned to see Maddie running towards me. Her blue eyes were bright and her blonde curls bouncing.

I smiled at her as she reached us with her mom trailing behind.

We always met here before me and maddie headed to school across the street.

Maddie was one of the few friends that I had at school. Her mom trusts Aaron absolutely as he treated both of us like sisters.

"Hi Aaron!"

He gave a little laugh at her enthusiasm and smiled at maddie and her mom.

"Hello Maddie. Are you ready for school today?"

She nodded excitedly.

"Ya-huh. The fifth grade spelling bee is today and I practiced really hard to I think I'm gonna win. Well, if Bella doesn't enter cause everyone knows she's the smartest kid in school but-"

She squeaked in surprise as her mom's hand cover her mouth.

"Sorry. She's excited and hyper this morning. I trust everything is good with you and Bella?"

Aaron nodded. "Everything is going great Mrs. Kress. And you?"

"Just fine. Thank you Aaron."

The ring of the 15-minute warning bell made us jump.

And then Maddie kept up with the jumping-excitedly.

"Come on Bella!" She grabbed my arm and started tugging me towards school.

I waved to Aaron before I relented and let maddie pull me along towards school.

I had been helping Maddie practice the last few weeks for the spelling bee. I wouldn't be entering because I was 'the smartest kid in school.'

I would wait til middle school to beat everyone.

"Just a couple more hours Bella!" Maddie squealed as we slid into our seats.

I didn't know how the others were supposed to learn anything; they were going to be excited up til lunchtime and not paying attention. I already knew everything that was being taught so I didn't have a problem.

The contest was right before lunchtime and everyone was bouncing with excitement.

Maddie had won; just like I had known she would.

She was ecstatic was victory energy as we walked to our desks in our classroom with our lunch, but I was tense.

"Bella, are you okay? You seem really tense."

"I'm fine, maddie. Really. And didn't I tell you were going to win today?"

Maddie continued to chatter on excitedly while I pretended to pay attention.

I was actually far from fine.

Halfway through the spelling bee, warning bells went off in my head. I had automatically tightened and became alert to my air sense but I couldn't feel anything.

I couldn't feel what was wrong, only that something was wrong.

I sat down to eat and pretended to listen to Maddie prattle on about her cousin's party as I continued sifting through the air around the school.

We were about halfway through lunch when I felt it.

There were about twelve different people moving with a stealth and sneakiness that could only mean trouble.

I also knew immediately why I hadn't recognized them as a threat beforehand.

They were human; I had been searching for something supernatural.

I was enrolled in an advanced school so we only had 9 classrooms with two offices and a cafeteria.

One man for each room.

I knew I was going to have to concentrate without my eyes being seen and me being suspected so I laid my head down and thanked my stars we were in the back.

"Bella?" Maddie asked. "What's wrong?"

I was about to answer her with a lie, when I felt and heard fifteen gunshots ring out.

Three more men had joined the others. They guarded the hall.

"Everyone freeze!"

Several kids started screaming in fear, which apparently annoyed the man in my classroom.

I felt him take aim and fire at one of the screaming kids.

I redirected the bullet just slightly so it simply looked like he missed.

"Shut up and sit down!"

Kids were now silently crying as I crept my senses to a fax machine in the corner of one of the offices. Thankfully away from people.

I wrote:

Starline Elementary being held hostage.

Send police to surround building. 15 men inside with guns.

I can implode the guns, force some of them out, and free some hostages.

Do not rush in. Wait for my signal: glass shattering.

Enter classrooms carefully. Full of children.

-Carthy.

I faxed that to 911 while mentally praying no one was named carthy at the school.

I felt the man in the office whirl towards the fax machine but when he saw no one was near it he turned back around.

Not that he could have stopped it anyways, but it was nice not to have suspicion.

A couple minutes later I felt the police surround the school.

One of them whispered, "awaiting shattering glass carthy."

Huh. They figured out I was supernatural. Good for them.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

I concentrated on the three 'guards' first.

I had to implode the guns instead of have them explode so the pieces would hit the man's hand instead of the innocents.

Which was what the problem was.

Exploding things is easy; imploding them is a pain in the neck.

I couldn't pull the guns from their hands right away or they would alert the others and then we would have even more of a mess.

I pulled the air out of the gun and started to press the center inwards and collapsing onto itself.

I could feel my heart rate and breathing increase the more I concentrated.

I compressed the middle with one final push, yanked the guns away and felt them implode.

While the 'guards' stared in shock, the hallways hostages immediately ran to safety.

I started to concentrate on the others when I heard the worst sound in the world: shattering glass.

Dang it.

The police were instantly in the room pointing the guns at the intruders.

They apparently didn't get the meaning of 'enter carefully.'

Each intruder instantly grabbed the closest kid and pointed a gun at their head.

I blew out a breath in frustration as my heart rate continued to climb.

Now, I had to implode the guns, get the out of the guy's hands, and block the pieces from hurting anyone.

All at the same time.

Great.

My heart rate had reached a dangerous level and I was sure it would continue to increase.

I was glad the paramedics were here. Aaron too, no doubt. I would need them after this.

Taking a shuddering breath, I started to compress the centers of all the guns.

It took several minutes since I was concentrating on twelve guns at the same time.

With each passing moment, my heart rate climbed.

Eventually, I got to the point where I was one final push away.

The guns were being held at such an angle that I had no choice but to bring the guns through the hands.

Gasps sounded around me as my heart rate reached a deadly speed.

I don't know why, but a warning sounded in my head not to destroy the guns.

Instead, I held them up high above their owner's heads and forced their owners to the ground and forced their hands behind their backs.

They were quickly cuffed and led away and I let the guns drop to the floor.

For some reason I didn't quite understand, I kept the pressure in the air to keep my heart rate up.

We were being rushed out of the school now and I was glad.

But, it took several attempts on my part and quite a bit of help from Maddie to finally be able to stand up and leave the classroom.

It was a long strenuous walk getting out of the building.

People were crowding and kept running into me-as if I wasn't having a hard enough time breathing.

When we finally reached the exit, my breathing was ragged and coming in gasps.

When we got outside I immediately felt out Aaron and my mom.

Since Aaron was closest I immediately called out. Well, tried.

It took several tries before I could get anything past my lips.

"Aaron." I finally managed to gasp out. Though it barely had any sound to it.

Luckily, Maddie heard me and immediately called out to him.

"Aaron!" she shrieked, making me wince.

My head was spinning and everything hurt.

The paramedics thankfully let him in and he paused to point out my mom before rushing over to me and Maddie.

I fell into his arms as Maddie ran to her parents and my legs fell out from under me.

"It's okay, Bella." I heard Aaron say around my gasps for air. "You can let it go now."

I did as he asked and felt relief before I felt panic. My heart rate was declining way too fast.

Dangerously fast.

I felt as if I was disconnected from my body. Aaron's voice sounded as if it was coming through a tunnel. I barley could hear him or even my mom when she arrived.

I felt myself fade out and pain take its place.

I felt my heart beat once…

"Bella, stay with us!" I was floating now.

Twice…

"Help! We need help!"

Three times…

"Her heart-!"

And it was still.

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