Death In Her Eyes - Erin Bedford Page 0,12

the angels.”

I let that thought swim around my head while Ayden jumped into the fray nearby. The moment the twins both red headed and freckle faced saw her they dropped their arms. The dark headed guy making the fire also stopped and the fiery cyclone dispersed into thin air.

“Hey Ayden. What’s up?” One of the twins asked, the other one saw me over Ayden’s shoulder and grinned.

“Oooh…fresh meat.” He sauntered over to me and reached out. I ducked before he could throw his arm around my shoulder and backed up several steps.

Ayden caught the action. “She’s a seer.”

The others collectively nodded in understanding before returning to what they were doing. The guy who had tried to touch me offered me an apologetic look. “Sorry. I didn’t know.”

“It’s fine.” I held a hand up, still a bit dumbfounded by the lot of them.

“I’m Zephyr. That handsome bastard over there is my brother, Bayu.” He gave me a lopsided grin. “And who might you be?”

“Elle.” I quipped simply. I thought I was done with the whole school introduction stuff until I went to college. I didn’t really want to meet new people if I was just going to leave again. I had enough of my own issues to deal with without adding all their deaths to my vault.

“That was a cool trick you did,” I continued, making conversation. “What are you some kind of elemental?”

“Good guess!” Ayden popped back into our conversation beaming. “I was just going to show you the different groups. We’re elementals.” She gestured to herself, the twins, and the other fire guy. “The twins can control wind obviously. Joash and I both do fire.”

“I’m Coral!” A pink haired girl with a pixie cut poked her head into the group. “I can control water.” She swirled her hands in the air, water pooling into the shape of a horse. It neighed and jumped across the air before me. When I reached out to touch it, it splashed to the ground soaking my stockings. “Oops.” The girl giggled. “I’m not that good yet.”

“Normally, the elementals stick together and the mentals do the same but since our liege assigned you to me. I think we can make an exception.” Ayden grinned, proud of herself for her benevolence.

I cocked a brow at her but then frowned and asked, “Mentals?”

The one named Joash answered, “Them lot over there.” He pointed toward the opposite side of the room. Most of them weren’t talking but seemed to be staring at each other intently while the others were flipping pages without touching them. A few of the younger ones were tossing a ball without their hands.

“You would normally be over there with your kind being a seer and all.” Zephyr patted me on the shoulder and then jerked his hand back with a wince. “Oops, sorry.”

I breathed through the attack of a violent death something that seemed to be a theme here at the school. I grasped my head and shook it. “I’m fine. Just hurts more with you guys.”

“Hurts more?” Zephyr exchanged a look with the others. “I’ve never heard of visions hurting before.”

Oh. Well. That sucked. Not wanting to talk about it anymore, I turned to Ayden. “Uh, could I see my room? I do have a room, right?”

Ayden’s face brightened. “Oh, yeah. Of course. Let’s go.” She waved to the others and ushered me out of the room. The mentals stared at me as I walked pass them with pity in their eyes. I avoided their gazes knowing they could see into my mind. Get a good look because I was happy to spread the misery around.

Chapter 5

Ayden dropped me off at my room telling me about the coed bathroom across the hall before leaving. The room itself wasn’t much bigger than some of the dorm rooms I’d seen in the brochures Nikki and I had looked at.

Shit.

Nikki!

She must be freaking out right now. I’d totally disappeared. I patted myself and realized I didn’t have pockets in this dress and hence no phone.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

“Uh, hey. Ayden.” I called out to her as she left me at my room.

“Yeah? What’s up?” Ayden cocked her head to the side. “Need a map? I can come back at dinner time.”

“Oh.” My brows shot up. “That would be great, but I was going to ask if I could borrow your phone or if you knew where I could get one.”

Ayden frowned, walking back toward me. “Isn’t it with your stuff?”

I leaned my hand on the door