Another title! Wow.

This I wrote three years ago so it's rll old and kinda long gl getting through it. Though if you got through the other stuff you will probably get through this lol.

Elements

By m.c l.

Oooooo my initials!!

Chapter 1

shock

The day my life changed was a pretty normal day, well mostly. It all started with school detention I'm

not sure why I was in detention. My teacher told me that my friends locked themselves in the janitors

closet after school and I was accused of being part of it, actually she was the one who accused me. So, it

was my first time in detention and the second time in my life seeing my principal. She's really nice, but I'm not in

the mood to tell her. Today was like every other Monday minus the detention, it was raining in the

morning and since we don't own a single umbrella I got soaking. We live in Destin Florida, and by "we" I

mean me, my parents, two sisters, and baby brother. After math, we have lunch, I normally sit with my

friends but today jenny was gone so I couldn't find them because she normally finds me. I accidentally

sat at the "cool" kids table, so I moved after they got lunch. Then I got called out of class for my friends'

"incident" as my teacher called it.

After school I went to my locker, there was a note from my mom on my backpack, "I bought an umbrella for you it's in your backpack." I looked inside and there was a pink Minnie mouse umbrella that when it opened it was about the size of a plate. The one time she buys one

he had to buy this one. "Ash!!!" someone down the hall yelled, I glanced over my shoulder to see who had yelled.

Immediately I was jumped on by my best friend Jenny. Jenny was Asian and had the perfect hair, she

had big black glasses, and always had hair-ties around her wrists. Oh, if I didn't tell you my name is Ash short for Ashlyn. "Jenny where have you been?"

"She smiled, New York city!"

"What, you didn't tell me!"

"I know sorry we didn't know we were going till people from my church gave us the plane tickets the day of."

"Can't you call?" I asked forgetting she didn't have a phone.

"Remember?" She said with a look I know so well.

"Oh yeah. When did you get back?"

"Last night, but I had a dentist appointment today, so I got to school during social studies. Why are you still at school?"

"After school detention starts in five." I sighed

"You, in detention! Did I go into another universe?"

"No, Lilly and Emma locked themselves in the janitor's closet." I said acting like I didn't get the joke.

"Oh, do you want me to come?"

"No, not really." I lied knowing she wanted to practice cheer because she missed tryouts.

A look of relief glimmered in her eyes. "ok, I'll be watching cheer. See-yah."

"bye." I said almost trying to look happy.

When I walked into detention everyone was waiting for me. "hi" I said to Lilly and Emma to see if they

would make room for me. I guess not, they didn't even look up they were to busy giggling over

something Hannah, the girl sitting next to them said.

"Ok, I guess I'm sitting here." I snapped sitting next to an older boy. I glanced at him, he had brownish

blond hair, light blue eyes, and you could tell that he liked basketball.

"hey." He said catching me by surprise.

"Hi." I said shyly, not taking my eyes off him, there was something oddly familiar about him.

When I finished my papers for detention I walked up to the front of the room to turn them and when I was going to get my bag I tripped over the boys foot.

"Oh sorry, are you ok?" the boy immediately said realising he tripped me and reaching his hand out to help me.

"Oh I'm fine." I grabbed his hand and immediately felt a shock, fell backwards, and everything turned black. The last thing I remember is the boy's eyes looking fearful as he caught me.

I woke up in a uncomfterble hospital bed with bright lights shining in my eyes. I heard a soft sobbing noise coming from somewhere behind a curtain. I looked down at my hand and saw my doe shaped birthmark, it was kinda my lucky symbol.

"Mom?" I called. My mom appeared from the otherside of the curtain with tears rolling down her face.

"oh, honey" she cried grabbing me in a big hug.

"How long have I been here?" I wondered, thinking it was probably still monday.

"Three days..." My mom answered still grasping me.

"What?!" I hollered.

A steady stream of tears flowed down my mother's face.

"You were in a coma... your heart stopped multiple times, I didn't know if you would wake up..."

Just then I jumped out of bed remembering what happened.

"There was a boy, he touched my hand." I blurted

"Sweetie, it must have been a dream."

"No, no it wasn't..." I stammered. Was it?

"Let's go home honey."

We walked outside, and it was pouring but my mom had an umbrella.

"Where did you get that?" I asked her.

"Jenny gave it to me for you when he left yesterday." my mom answered. I smiled, too tired to talk, we had to ride a taxi because my dad was using are van at work, when the taxi got to the hospital my mom eagerly jumped in and fell asleep with one arm still around me.

During the ride home I sneezed and asked the driver for a tissue. He pointed down at the big blue tissue box I hadn't noticed before.

"thanks." I said grabbing a tissue.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw the driver looked down at my hand, I think he might have seen my birthmark. He had a deep scar across his face and wore sunglasses, and since it wasn't very bright outside I assumed that he wore them to cover his scar, but I was too tired to think about it so I leaned on my mom's shoulder and fell asleep.

Chapter 2

New popular jenny

School the next day was pretty kaotic, everyone was asking me what happened, Emma and Lilly were extra nice to me and Jenny kept going on and on about how worried she was. I got to my locker earlier than normal because my teacher, mr.T, let class out early just for me. I grabbed my bag and started to walk down the hallway when I saw the boy. I ran to catch up to him.

"Hey, tell me what happened on monday." I demanded.

"Its friday not monday live in the now, not the past." he responded dully.

"Seriously? Whatever happened I almost died so I have the right to know" I demanded loudly.

"Ok, fine but not now or here. meet you on monday after school behind the basketball court." he said as he ran off. "AND SHHH."

The next few days felt like the longest days of my life, friday felt like it was a month away now and monday seemed to get farther away every second. It was sunday night and I kept thinking will he actually come? Today was like every other sunday we go to church then hang out at home for the rest of the day, the only thing that was different is that I had something to look forward to on monday other than seeing Jenny.

I stayed up so late that I only got five hours

of sleep, and in the morning I was so exhausted. I jumped out of bed at five forty quickly changing and running up the stairs. I made myself some toast and orange juice. Ten minutes later my older sister came out of her room and groggily asked me, "Why are you up so early?"

"Hi Miley. Want some toast?" I said pretending I was looking at my phone and didn't hear her. She sat down and grabbed her phone from her pocket and put in one of her ear buds that surprisingly were in her pocket just like yesterday night.

"Do you sleep with those?"

"No, well maybe, sure to the toast, and seriously why are you up so early?" she looked at me seemingly staring into my soul. I jumped up and put bread in the toaster happy for the distraction.

"I dunno why are you up so early?" I said in a as a matter of fact, kind of voice.

"Because you woke me up." she replied in the same tone.

"Oh..." I was defeated so I changed the subject, "Um...So what are your favorite classes?"

"Lunch." Miley said dully, still staring at her phone with one earbud in.

"Ok? You know what nevermind, I'll get your toast..."

We ate in silence until my little sister came out of her room and looked at both of us.

"What's going on? Why is it so quiet?" she yawned

"Um, its quiet?" Miley asked very confused. She still had her earbuds in but had paused the music when she saw Carly, our little sister prance down the hall.

"Morning car-car." I said smiling at her, Carly's nickname was car-car and we all called her that so now it's a habit.

"I want mommy." she said in her trying to be stern voice uh oh! I thought, she's going to cry when I say mom's not awake. Surprisingly though, Miley beat me to distracting Car-Car.

"Do you want some special chocolate milk for a special little girl?" she said with her fake toothy grin plastered all over her face. Uh oh even more, she said the word: little. There was a long pause and Carly's face started to get red.

"I'M NOT LITTLE!!!" Carly screamed

"I'M SO SO SO SO SO BIG, SOOOOOOOO BIG!!!" she burst into tears and ran down the hallway to mom and dad's room. Yup always happens...

"Whoops..." Miley said with her real forgetful grin on her face. "sorry..."

"Mom was trying to sleep."

"Yeah I know, hence the sorry." she said. She put the earbuds back in her oversized ears.
"YOUR GOING TO MISS THE BUS!" I yelled half-heartedly

"Fine with me." she said. "Also talk a bit louder."

"No." I muttered under my breath while stalking away to my room. I grabbed my bright red tee-shirt that said, It's an Ashlyn thing you wouldnt understand. I ran to the bathroom and took THEE shortest shower ever known to mankind. I got completely ready for school then looked in the mirror, I was wearing my red tee, a pair of jean shorts, my long-brown hair was in a high pony, and I had sunglasses on. "Nope." I said aloud "No sunglasses for me." I threw them into the living room and ran out the door, like always, somehow Miley was outside before me. She was already sopping wet from the rain, but lucky for me I had an umbrella, actually two if you count the lopsided minnie mouse one.

"Where'd you get that?" she said with a look of longing on her face.

"From Jenny. You can have this one if you want it." I said pulling the minnie mouse umbrella from my backpack.

"No thankyou. I'd rather show up soaked then with that." I shoved it back in my B-P.Yup that's what I thought. Miley's bus showed up before mine and she mumbled bye. I jumped into my bus a minute later. Jenny was sitting in our usual spot, I was about to sit down when I saw a girl sitting in my spot, she had half blonde hair and half bubble gum pink, her eyes were a bright blue, she was wearing a camo tank-top, jean shorts, flip-flops, and a lot of jewelry was curled around her wrists. Jenny0g at her phone. I looked closer and realized it was a video of her and Jenny playing in the snow somewhere other than florida.

"Ummm..." I mumbled

Jenny looked up. "OH, sorry, um... well this is my best- I mean used to be best friend from montana."

Ouch, she looks so excited...

"Um... ok did she just move here?" I said trying to hide my feelings.

"Yeah, and I'm so, so SO, excited because we're neighbors and we were neighbors in montana yay, yay, YAY! She moved here yesterday and YAY!!!" I paused wondering what to say...

"Ok... I'll sit back here..." Jenny didn't even look back at me, let alone offer to move her B-P from the seat so I could sit down. I spent the rest of the ride doodling my feelings, I was MAD, sad, hurt, and confused. When we got to school I was hoping I could walk in by Jenny but she was already talking loudly with a group a popular girls who saw her friend. My classes passed pretty quickly and when It was lunch I stood where I wait for Jenny when I saw her... she was sitting at the cool kids' table with everyone chanting what I guessed was her friend's name. "Leanna! Leanna! Lea! Lea!.." and so on. Lea was chugging everyone's chocolate milk and when she finished all the peoples' milk at that table other people started giving her theirs. I glanced around and saw Emma and Lilly sitting at a table alone. I walked over to them and they looked up.

"Hey guys, is Jenny completely ignoring you to or is it just me?"

"Not just you." Emma said looking at Jenny and glaring.

"Can I sit here?" I sat down not waiting for an answer. We ate the rest of lunch in silence with the chanting getting louder and louder.

After school I went to my locker and stood there shock and realization hitting me like when you drop a bowling ball on your foot. She replaced me... Oh my goodness. I thought, I forgot! I ran to the basketball court and there he was.

CHAPTER 3

EXPLANATIONS

"Hey..." he said looking worried and glancing at all the people watching the game going on. I looked and saw the taxi driver wearing the same suit he was wearing when he drove the taxi, he also had his sunglasses still on. Weird, why would he be wearing those... and what is he doing here? Well duh... watching the game?

"We can't talk here" he whispered glancing at another guy in a suit with sunglasses on.

"Why?"

"Shhh!!!" he ran back into the school and opened the janitors closet.

"Wait no, I'm not going in there." I said stopping, "it loc-" I heard footsteps in the hall and the boy grabbed me and shoved me in the closet with him as he shut the door.

"Locks in the inside when you shut it..." I Whispered.

"That's the point. And by the way, my name is Trayton, but I like Tray." he said smiling as he locked the door from the outside too. I sat down on a cardboard box but it was empty so it sank when I sat on it. I stood up quickly and folded my arms. "So, Tray, WHY DID YOU SHOVE ME IN THE JANITORS CLOSET???"

"So, first of all you've got to give me some credit, I got us away from them. And I had no idea it would lock from the inside to, so... we'll just be here for a while no biggie. Also you don't have to act oblivious, I know your secret, is it... um, Water?" he said acting like he was so smart.

"What secret, I have no-" he put his hand on my mouth and shushed me. I heard footsteps in the hall and Tray made a motion that I guess was don't say a word. I made a why? Motion and he just looked very serious. I went to explore the rest of the room, it was actually pretty big it was almost as if it was made to be something bigger. I turned around and saw Tray following me noiselessly. He turned back and put his ear to the door.

"Ok." He whispered, "It's fine to whisper now... I think?"

"Whats going on? I promise I don't have any big secrets." I said looking exasperated. He looked really surprised.

"Are you sure? You can trust me." he said hopefully

"I would know if I had a big secret." I said

"Well, it seems like you don't... um so how do I explain this..." he said confusing me even more. I would know right? Yes I would. I thought firmly

"So well, on December, 13, 2008-"

"My birthday?" I wondered aloud.

"Yeah, yeah, Ok continuing, December, 13, 2008, on a full moon, and on a friday, only 6 kids were born, or so they say-"

"Who sa-"

"Nevermind that, 6 kids were born in the whole world, one at 12:01, the next at 1:01, then one at 2:01, and one at 3:01, me, so on till 6:01." he said as if he were reading a book "you."

"Wai- wai- wait... No, I mean yes but no... how do you know? WAIT!!!" I ran back to my B-P and rushed to open it. I dug through it until I found what I was looking for. I held out a golden envelope I got for my sixth birthday.

"I thought it was from Miley..."

"Yeah, that was their hope... I thought mine was from my... my dad" Tray said with a shaky voice. I looked up, he looked very, very... sad.

"What's the matter?" I asked him.

"My dad died when I was three, he died on my birthday... I found my card and thought he was going to give it to me..." he sat down. I had no idea what I should say

"I'm so sorry. But can I ask you, why did you think it was from your dad?"

"It said little doe on the front and that was his nickname for me because of my birthmark, I know you have one to." he answered lifting his hand up and showing me his birthmark. It was identical to mine! I looked down at mine and felt weirdly... happy.

"Hey, hey, hey... I don't even know your name yet." I realised he was talking to me and it snapped out of my thoughts.

"Um, oh yeah I'm Ashlyn, call me Ash though." I said.

"Ok, well do you know if there is a key out somewhere?" he asked.

"Umm no, but we should look around. And you should finish your story." I said.

"I promise I will after we get out of here."Tray grabbed his backpack and pulled out a flashlight, I didn't question him but I looked confused. He just shrugged and pulled another flashlight out and handed it to me. I flipped the switch and we started to look around all the junk. If I was a janitor were would I put my key... on a shelf near the door? I looked on all the nearest shelves but had no luck.

"Mew?"

I jumped back from the box I had just opened.

"Tray... did you hear that?" I asked loudly.

"Um, yeah." he said. I shined the flashlight in his direction and saw him frozen in place too. I stepped back to the box and peered inside. There was a tiny kitten curled up in a shivering ball, it was a tiny biocolor cat that was black and white. It looked up at me with it's huge blue eyes.

"Roaw?"

"Hey Tray, it's just a kitten." I heard rustling as he continued looking.

"A kitten? But Mr. Malvanc is allergic to animals..." he said. Mr. Malvanc is the Janitor.

"I don't think it's his." I said reaching my hand down into the box. The kitten just peered at it but didn't back away.

"Hey little kitty." I coaxed. It let me pick it up and I felt it purring in my hands. It felt lighter than I expected. I don't think it's eaten in days! I thought. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my granola bar and fed it to the kitten. Just then I realised what it had in its paws. A rusted key!

"I think I found it!" I shouted. I ran to the door with Tray right behind me. I shoved the key into the door handle and heard a soft click. YES! I thought. I slowly opened the door and glanced down the hallway. I saw Jenny and a big group of kids walking out the front doors but other than that we were clear. I looked at Jenny as she tossed her head back and laughed. Why did you leave me? I thought.

"All clear..." I said slowly.

"Um you still have the cat." Tray said.

"And you still haven't finished your story." I answered. I was planning on keeping the kitten because I could tell it was abandoned.

"Ok, ok, fair enough. Well the note," he reached for my envelope and I handed it to him. He pulled the paper out and showed me all the gibberish and the thing he had told me about my birthday. He turned the page over and the other side was blank but then he shined the flashlight underneath the paper and it all made sense! It said,

Dear little miss doe,

On your birthday six kids were born. The first has the power to attract people or otherwise she just is very