Remaining Unbroken (Breaking Series #1)

by Jaclyn Lewis

  Mrs. Lingo, thank you for when, all those years ago, you gave me the idea to be an author. I would have never connected the dots on that if you hadn’t done that for me.

  Thanks to Rachel, Bailey, Grace, Sydney, Bina, Kandice, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hope, Sam, Erica, Maya, Michal, Kay, Layne, Paige, Madison, and all of my other friends, for being there for me when I said I wanted to write. Mostly, for not saying it was a stupid dream to become an author.

  Thanks to Parker Bass, for beating me that one time. That really made me change the way I write.

  Thanks to Becky Wallace, my former English teacher. Without you, I really wouldn't have been any good with this.

  I would like to thank my sister, Maegan, because everything you said to me just made me want to write more.

  I would like to thank my brother, Richie, for listening to me as I blabbed on and on and on about this book.

  Finally, my parents, because without you guys, I would never want to get my stories published.

  Andrew Appears

  Extra Scene

  Zane

  Come on. Come on, I thought to myself. I'd just lost him. I'd gotten so close, but then he vanished!

  I rushed over to the school in my normal Air form. I knew Amelia Saunders was attending class today, and I had to make sure she was safe.

  That was when I saw him in the classroom.

  He was sitting in the seat next to her. His human form had been perfected, so I knew he would be able to be around her for hours, like at school.

  I saw red with fury.

  Well, not literally, but close enough.

  Andrew looked right at me and smirked, mouthing, "I've got her now."

  I knew I couldn't do anything with him in a room full of witnesses, but I had to think of something.

  Then I realized something. I only had permission to speak with Amy if Andrew did something first. I couldn't appear to her unless he did, and I couldn't communicate with her unless Andrew had done something threatening.

  That was when the bell rang, and I saw Amy slowly gather her stuff so she would be out last and not be crushed in the crowd of leaving students.

  I wasted no time. I had to warn her.

  "Don't listen to them," I whispered to her. I made sure she was the only one to hear.

  She looked around, looking freaked.

  Then she shook her head and walked away.

  I would have smiled. It was the first time I'd gotten to talk to her in around ten years.

  Those were the days that Andrew first came to Earth, and he started going in Air form and scaring her, so I was always there to assure her that nothing would happen.

  I had to protect her with my life, and it wasn't just because it was my job. It was my mission.

  I was in the air above Amy all day, making sure Andrew was never near her.

  It seemed like she was avoiding him, which was a good thing.

  But I just had to talk to her again. I was too anxious.

  “Listen carefully to me. Don’t listen to Andrew. He’s going to be the death of you.” I whispered.

  She looked around, her face showing her fear and anxiousness.

  She then closed her eyes, and I decided to appear to her in person.

  I hadn't been in human form since Amy was five.

  It really hurt. I closed my eyes and clenched my fists, my teeth grinding into the sides of my cheek.

  I heard her squeal, and that was what made me open my eyes.

  She looked me over and noticed my eyes immediately and I saw her visibly relax when she saw that they were green.

  I looked down at my shirt and noticed that it was the last one I wore as a human. It was a Beatles t-shirt, and it looked kind of old and outdated.

  I still really liked the Beatles.

  I held out my hand for her to shake. "I'm Zane Ellen," I introduced. "I'm Andrew's twin brother."

  Well, technically, we weren't exactly twins. He was a Water and I was an Air. That didn't count if you were two different Leem.

  She cautiously shook my hand, and I immediately noticed that it was trembling. I decided to pretend like I didn't notice.

  Right, I had to play it off like I didn't know her. "Do you have a name?"

  She didn't answer. After a minute, she just shrugged and sat down in the grass next to the school, eating a bag of chips.

  I sat down next to her, feeling awkward while doing it. You could never sit down as air, so I really wasn't used to the concept.

  I decided to break the silence with a warning for her. I had to protect her. "Stay away from Andrew." I said, feeling my vocal chords working, and it was the strangest feeling in the world. I continued with telling her about Andrew and how he would kill her if she started hanging out with him.

  She just sat there, looking aggravated.

  I really didn't understand why she would feel that way, but I remembered a few seconds later.

  She had no idea what I really was, so all of what I had just said sounded like gibberish.

  She looked ready to flee, so I knew that it would be my only chance. I had to get her to trust me.

  "You know, Amy, you can talk to me. I'm not like them. I'll listen."

  I turned to Air right then, knowing she wouldn't ever talk to me.

  That thought made me sad.

  She's Gone

  I was at the palace, wanting nothing more than to go back to Amy. I had the strangest feeling that something was up, but I didn't pay any attention to it.

  Finally, Queen Samira was able to see me.

  "Officer Ellen," she said formally, people still exiting the room. "What is the status on Andrew Ellen?"

  I smiled a bit after everyone was gone. "You don't have to be so formal, Your Grace. It's just me."

  She smiled too. "Yes, that is true."

  Queen Samira was my godmother of sorts. Her mother died at the same time my parents did, and we just sort of bonded. She had been twenty and I had been only eight.

  "Plus, Officer Ellen makes me feel old," I muttered.

  She chuckled at that. "Well, you are only eighteen. You have plenty of time to feel old in the future."

  "I'm thirty-six in Earth years," I said, swirling the air around me out of boredom.

  Then we got right to business.

  "Andrew is going to make a move," I warned. "He's going to do something soon, so I really should get back to Amelia, so I can protect her."

  Queen Samira nodded.

  Right when I was about to leave, she spoke again. "If anything happens to her, Zane, and Andrew gets her powers, you know what will become of you. Even I can't stop the penalty."

  I nodded. Then I bowed and left the room, so I could transport back to Earth and back to Amy.

  The penalty would be either banishment or death. It really depended on what Andrew decided to do when he took over the throne.

  I was back in her room instantly, but she wasn't there.

  I listened. All around the house, nothing made a sound.

  That was when I started freaking out. I saw on her bed how her book was set down with the pages folded out, like she had just set it down and expected to come back.

  I rushed outside, to the front yard, and that was when I saw it.

  On the front door of her house, there was a message written in water.

  The queen dies soon.

  I would have shivered if I was a normal human.

  So I turned into my human form and walked up closer to the message. I swiped it away from the door, making it just a random splash of water.

  Then I sat down in the front lawn and cried.

  I didn't think about myself and what all of this meant for me. I was thinking of Amy, at the mercy of someone who had none.

  Then I heard a car pull up to the driveway. It was the guy who had pretended to be her father, even though he was a crappy excuse of a person.

  He was already out of his car when he noticed me.

  "Get off my property!" he yell
ed, coming up to me.

  I smirked, my eyes turning black. "This isn't your property."

  Terrance's face turned red as he stalked closer. "Get off this property now!"

  I knew I couldn't do anything to him because then I'd become like Andrew. I shook my head and my eyes turned back to green.

  Terrance stared at me for a second in shock. He'd seen my eyes change color.

  I smiled a bit. I could at least scare him.

  I turned into a giant fire-person. I was really just stretched tall and thin, but I made my face look gruesomely horrifying.

  "By the way," I said, manipulating the air around so only he could see me as fire. "If you ever so much as speak to Amy, I'm going to burn you alive."

  With that, I sucked out his energy, since I was running low on this point, and I made him pass out on the concrete.

  Of course, I gently made him glide to the ground, since I wasn't mean enough to let him slam into the ground.

  Then I pushed a current under him and lifted him into the house. I set him down on the couch and left.

  I was going to find Amy, and when I rescued her, I was never going to lose her again.

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