Chapter One(:

Okay so here is Chapter One of my story! I don't have a title for it, so please help me out on that one. Also try and tell me what I can do to do better. Thanks!

Chapter One

~Rochelle~

The sea was all I could think about. It washed over my toes slowly and gently, like it was saying a soft "hello". The wind had been long gone by then. But in eleven hours, the wind and waves would be roaring, the women and men would be talking, children would be splashing, and seagulls would be squawking... but for now, the night sea was my own personal heaven. It dragged me towards the depths. I gave in, wading a little deeper before letting the warm, peaceful water swallow me whole.

I stayed underwater in content of the freeing feeling of the water surrounding me. There was no noise, just the peace of the calm ocean covering me on all sides. I opened my eyes to find green, murky water all around me. The yellowish-green sand was filled with various types of sea shells, washed up from the tide. I looked towards the shore and saw a strange shape through the green haze. Although I was running out of breath, I swam towards the object instead of poking my head out to see what it was. I swam closer and closer to realize it was... a pair of feet.

I underwater-screamed in shock and instantly jumped out of the water so fast that I fell right back on my butt in the three-foot water. I sputtered and rubbed my eyes before looking up.

There was a tall guy around my age with tan skin and slightly tousled black hair looming over me. He looked at me with slight confusion. He had an angular face and... whoa. His eyes were the most beautiful bright green color I had ever seen. The dark surroundings of night made the illusion that they were glowing. He wordlessly offered a hand to help me up. I half smiled, taking his offering. He pulled and I pulled, which soon resulted with me back on my feet. Yay.

"Sorry I scared you." He murmured quietly. His voice was deep, but with a light, mischievous tone to it.

I grinned, mostly because he was cute, not because he was apologizing.

"It's alright, I get scared easily."

"Is tat so?/" he asked, a smlie tugging at the side of his lips. "I'm Josh. I thought I was the only one who came to swim at night. But I usually swim over there." He said, gesturing to the other side of the beach.

"I'm Rochelle, but you can call me Roch." I said, trying to keep my voice as soft and femine as possible. "And I thought I was the only one. I always swim over here. Are you here for the summer?"

He nodded. "Well, whats left of it, anyways. School starts in two weeks for me. I'm here with my dad. And the eight-year-old brat I call 'sister'."

I giggled. "I can tell." I said, looking at the temporary (unless his sister was VERY evil) tattoo of a pair of hot pink lips on his upper arm. While looking there, I saw he had some nice muscles. I smiled a little bit more. He was really cute.

He tried to cover up the temporary tattoo, embarassed. "Uh, yeah." He said simply in monotone. There was an awkward silence. I tried to be cute by running my hand through my hair. I'd forgotten I had just been swimming through seaweed infested water. The tiny pieces always got caught in my hair. My finger got caught on one. I tugged a little bit. My hand stayed in the same position, caught in snarls of seaweed. I could feel myself turn bright red.

Josh didn't laugh like I would expect him to. He just smiled and helped me force my hand out of my hair. "Seaweed?" he asked understandingly. I just nodded. When his hand touched my wrist, I felt a small electric crush-charges running through my veins. I wonder if he felt them too.

Once my hand was free, I saw a flashing at the corner of my eye. A house right on the side of the beach was flashing its lights quickly. I frowned. I had to go home now? Right when my crush cells had found a new home?

"Uh, that's my signal to go home." I told Josh sadly, pointing at my house's flickering lights.

"You're staying there?" Josh asked in amazement, looking at the modern all-glass house right on the beach. I just nodded, and he ran over to his bag, kicking up sand with every step. He pulled out a small rectangular object out of his bag- a cell phone. He handed it to me and told me to program my number in, with the promise that he would text me. I smile-typed in my number, then ran over to my house, waving good-bye to Josh on my way there. I opened the sliding door and stepped into my house, still smiling.

"Gosh Roch, how long were you over there?" complained a snotty voice. It belonged to Jacqueline, who stepped out of the kitchen. Well, she didn't really step, she kind of... floated.

"I was only there for like, an hour. Sorry if I want to get out of this house and away from you." I snapped back at her. She didn't bother retorting like she would do with the other girls. Because she knew I was the second most powerful, next to her, and I might be able to take over. Which I so would as soon as I got the chance.

I shared the house with four other girls- Jamie, Cameron, Hannah, and of course, Jacqueline, the leader. We hare a huge bedroom in our little vacation house. (Okay, not so little) I walked into our room to see the girls settling down, doing some night activities. Jamie was making sparks in the fireplace, Cameron was painting her toenails black and deep purple, and Hannah was dimming the lights. Sounds normal? Well, Jamie didn't have any matches or sticks or rocks; she was making the sparks with her fingers. Cameron was changing the dark shades of her nail polish with the blink of an eye. Hannah was using her mind to dim the lights, not a switch.

Yeah, you heard me. We were freaks with the powers of the elements. I controlled water, Jamie controlled fire, Cameron controlled darkness, and Hannah controlled light. And where did Jacqueline fall into this, you're wondering? She controls all of them. She's the queen bee, the alpha. You get it now? We were messed up from the moment we were born. We met a few months ago, at my house. It had been some thing my parents had set up because they had somehow met the other parents. It was extremely odd, but cool to know we werent the only freak who can control an element. We found out about people in past generations that were like us, having five girls or guys who can control elements. Always, the most powerful (In this case Jacqueline) got to control all the elements. However, if someone over ruled her, they got all the powers. Pretty cool, right?

However, since one of us had an awfully large mouth (Hannah) I guess some bad people that want to use our powers for bad things (Jacqueline didn't go into specifics, so I'm still not completely sure about what's going on) found out about us, so now we are all together, trying to act like normal kids. For safety reasons, our parents didn't stay with us, in case they would be taken hostage or something so then we will have to surrender to save them. Sorry to rush all of that information on you. It may seem jumbled, but that was basically all I knew.

Although it was kind of weird to live with a bunch of girls I had just met a few months ago, it was fun. It was like a sleepover every night. We were kind of like long-lost sisters, seperated at birth. Though we all had seperate parents, we were all born at the same exact time. Like, legit, November 23rd, 1993, at 3:46 P.M. so we were like twins. Kind of.

I went to the bathroom and turned on the hot water. I scrubbed my hair untill it was free of all tiny seaweed clumps and gave it a deep conditioning. After getting all clean and moisturized, I jumped on my bed and went under the covers. I was exausted and had some serious dreaming to do about Josh.


Okay, so I couldn't paste on to blogger so I had to just re-type everything. UGH. Note to self: Type on blogger originially!

Love,
Chella