THE FIFTH ELEMENT 🌊🔥🌪️⛰️☯️
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Chapter 30⛰️⛰️⛰️
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~ Cassie's POV ☯️~
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I stood there and watched Jake's back as he walked away from me.
I don't get him.. I don't get him one bit.
Firstly he tells me to stay away from him, that he's bad news and now he's trying to look out for me?
I just don't get his mixed signals.
He's nice one minute then the next, he's acting like a total jerk.
Boys are confusing. He is confusing.
I silently went back to where Madeline and the rest were sitting.
"So... what was all that?" Stacy asked me once I sat down.
"Huh?" I said out of surprise.
"We just watched You have series of convos with the top 2 hot guys in school.... You have to explain." David, one of Madeline's friends said.
"Oh. It was nothing serious. Just small talk." I said to them.
"Small talk? What small talk could have pissed Jake off that fast?" Madeline asked me with furrowed eyebrows.
I looked over to her.
"Are you worried about Jake or are you worried that he and I was having a conversation?." I asked to her.
"I don't care about Jake, but I do care about you talking to him. Haven't I warned you about him not being a good person. And about keeping your distance from him?" Madeline folded her arms.
"Ah yes you did. But you also warned me about Damon. So How come you're not all bothered that I was also talking to him. Why only focus on Jake?" I asked her, knowing exactly what I was doing.
"I wasn't focusing only on Jake. Both Him and Damon have the same destructive trait. And you should keep your distance from them. I get that we had a little adventure with the monster hunt together with them but it doesn't mean they're good people to be around with." Madeline said.
I didn't say anything else. I just sat there looking at Madeline.
I tried to pry my way into her head to check if her mind matches her words this time.
But I got distracted.
"Okay guys enough of the distractions from what's more important!" Stacy said on top of her voice making me flinch a little.
Ouch. My ears. Why does Stacy have to talk so loudly.
"Sooo Cassieeeee..." Stacy said drawing my name and then wiggled her eyebrows.
I gave her a small fake smile.
"What did you talk about with the hot boys?" Stacy asked, positioning herself well to hear the gossip.
"Um.... small talk." I said and chuckled awkwardly.
I saw Madeline roll her eyes at me from the corner of my eyes.
"Please elaborate." Stacy said and blinked a few times.
I took a deep breath, trying to think of something.
Stacy, David, Madeline, and the rest had their eyes on me. Waiting for an answer.
"Damon was trying to get me to go out with him, you know, on a date... Jake found out about it and....got...mad." I told the biggest lie with gritted teeth.
I regretted the lie immediately it came out of my mouth.
Everyone of them, except Madeline literally gasped.
"Shut up!" Stacy said sounding like I just told her that dragons were ponies with wings.
"Why would Jake get mad about that?" Madeline asked.
"I have no idea. Do you have any suggestions why?" I asked Madeline and smirked.
Madeline just scoffed.
"This is boring. I'm going to train and warm up before the instructor shows up for the day. David come be my sparing partner please." Madeline said and dragged David with her.
It's now obvious to me that Madeline likes Jake. Just like I do.
I sighed softly to myself.
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SAGE'S POV
I saw my brother chatting with Cassie again at the training center.
Why does he keep getting close to her.
Is he still doing mother's bidding or is this just him?
I observed them talk for a while before deciding to focus on something else.
It's weird watching my brother flirt.
I sat down on the ground at one corner. Away from everyone else. Even my fellow water Elementals. They were too judgemental.
I was observing everything and everyone with a straight face.
This was tiring....I wanted some actual action of any sort.
"Okay! Everyone! Sorry for being late. Without wasting more time, let's get in position." The Instructor finally showed up.
Thank goodness. I was starting to get depressed.
Everyone started forming clean lines, each Elemental sectioned as usual.
I slowly went over to my clan and joined the line.
"In today's work, what we'll be doing would be really simple. You'll be learning about the defensive part of your magic. Pretty simple am I right?" The Instructor said and everyone murmured.
"But I thought fire magic was more about offense than defense." Cara said loudly from her line.
"True. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a defensive side too. Infact all magic has a defensive side and an offensive side as well. But some are more lethal than others." The Instructor explained.
He was about saying something else but the door of the center opened loudly which transferred the attention of everyone to that direction.
My mother and the other elementals barged in.
They walked in elegantly and swiftly and paused when they got to the podium.
"Never mind us Mr instructor. We just came to observe the students and how far they've gone." Mrs Stone said to the instructor.
My mother just stood there scanning us, the students, her eyes landed on me and that made me look away from her.
I peeped at her once more and saw she was still scanning everyone.
Was she looking for someone?
I notice her eyes pause at Damon for a second and then continued scanning until her gaze was finally stationed on someone.
I traced her gaze back to Cassie.
Ofcourse. She was looking for Cassie.
Did she find out something about Cassie and her powers?
Or she decided to keep an eye on her herself.
I kept my cool and focused back on what the instructor was saying.
"Okay guys, let's do a little sparing and pairing. Pair yourselves up with anyone who doesn't have the same element as you. Please do that quickly and quietly. Thank you." The Instructor said loudly which earned more murmuring from students.
"Wanna pair?" I heard Cara say to me amidst the loud noise and chattering.
"Huh... are you talking to me?" I asked her to be sure.
"Are you blind or deaf? If not then I'm sure you know it's you I'm talking to." She replied.
I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Fine. Let's pair. I've always wanted a rematch after that last trick you pulled on our last fight." I say coldly to her.
She scrunched up her eyes at me.
"Today's lesson isn't about fighting you know. Does everything have to be about violence with you?" She said to me.
"Who cares about what today's lesson is. I mean, you never liked following rules so why start now." I said and smirked.
"Yeah. You're right. I love breaking the rules but...are you really sure you want to do that with me? Now and here?" Cara said and motioned towards my mom with her head.
Shit. I completely forgot my mother was here.
"Oh. Right." I muttered.
"So I suggest we both respect ourselves. Atleast until the trouble is gone." She said in reference to the Elementals.
"Fine. I guess today's your lucky day." I said to her and she scoffed.
"More like yours. You know I don't want to embarrass you in front of your mom." She said to me.
"You're delusional to think you'll be victorious in our next fight. I won't be holding back like last time." I said to her and she smirked.
"What? Will you finally start using your magic again? Last time I checked you were scared of it." She said to me with a stupid smirked on her face.
She knew very well how much I hated being teased about not using my powers.
She knew it hurt me when I couldn't even use the one thing that made me who I was all because of fear of going overboard and exposing my true fears.
She knew I was afraid of something that was associated with my powers. She didn't know exactly what it was but still. She knew I was afraid.
"You know what? I don't think I want to pair with you anymore. Go find someone else." I said to her and walked away but not without shoving her with my shoulder.
I moved to another corner and just stood there, watching everyone else pair up with someone.
I closed my eyes and let out a heavy breath.
I pictured myself, with my conjured sword hung up on my shoulder, ready to face and conquer my fears, if I dared.
I suddenly felt someone tap my shoulder which made me open up my eyes again.
"Hey Sage...um I was wondering if you wanted to pair up with me?" Cassie asked me sounding unsure.
I looked at her weirdly and blinked a few times contemplating whether to tell her to scram or stay.
Why does she keep talking to me?
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