The Elemental

NIC'

salt, please,"

alt. I shake it over my fries. "I don't kn

alt they add. It would be better if you just start bringing your own," my

much salt; they just don't add the

ison before sharing a glance

the most delicious scent. I look around and spot two females entering the diner. They go straight to the counter to

e staring because she turns, allowing me to catch a glimpse of her ocean-blue eyes. I breathe in her scent and find myself disappointed. She's human, which makes her off-limits.

urn toward him, only to notice that he, Rosie, and Liam are

I tell him sarcastically. He moves to pinch

efore continuing, "Pretty sure it's another scholarship student, though.

f you want to be disgusting, don't do

Liam and Zayn join me, crackin

rsation shifts to something else, and I

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NA'S

a small, quaint little cabin with two bedrooms a

home for the fo

d most of our furniture was moved earlier. We immediately choose our rooms an

ing," I tell my m

ll, it's disgusting," she cautio

o our bedrooms to organize. I remember that my curtains aren't hung up and decide to do that. As I'm doing so, I spot a blur

g it's just my imagination. And if it's not, I read somewh

bed and make it. Afterward, I decide an

I close my eyes and

with black hair waits for me. She looks up a

cup. You put water into a bottle, and it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapo

e you?"

s, we are one, we are water." Sh

op! I'm

o my calls, she continu

overwhelms me, and I'm starting to drift off again when I feel a cold breeze on my body. I look a

y heart pounds faster as I peer outside to check. I hear the sounds getting closer, but before I can back away, my

my floor, slowly rising into a shapeless figure. My legs finally move, and I fall while trying to run from w

ature can finish me off. A few seconds pass, and the so

ll trembling, and raise my hand to point at the creature, only to realize it's no longer th

ondering where it went. Mum looks at the window in confu

ituation clearly so I can understand." With gentle care, she guides me back to m

sleep when I noticed my curtains were open. I stood up to close them when I started hearing growli

gently pushes me back down. "Don't worry, whatever that was has already left, and I doubt it will be

g aroma envelop me as I take a sip. Before long, I find myself driftin

thing more than a distant memory, easily overshadowed by