HEART ON FIRE

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I trudged to my next class, history.

 I sigh and glance at my Apple Watch. It's 1:15. I take a seat In the back row and wave to my best friend, Sofi. She waves back. The class is always chatty and today is no different. I sigh, our history teacher Mr. Howard rants about world war 2, blahs blah nobody fucking cares, At least I certainly don't. I want to be an oceanographer and learn about the wonders of the sea and water. Then he instructs us to open our history books to page 120. I get out my book as well and set it on the table. I mostly zone out when I'm reading though, and glance at Sofi every now and then. She's staring straight ahead not reading. I caught her eye. She has pretty eyes, a brown hazel color, and dirty blond hair. Her boyfriend, Jace, is a basketball player and very cute- but not my type. She smiles at me and mouths:

" Azula, this is so damn boring." and I mouth "I know."

"Maybe you could drown him in his bathtub to prevent us from having any more boring lessons."

I'm about to respond but instead, I burst out laughing, she joins in. "Anything interesting to share with the class, Ms. Martinez and Ms. Swindell?" Mr. Howard asks.

"Nope, Azula and I are so sorry, we didn't mean to interrupt."

"I accept your apology, now please get back to work."

"Yes sir." we both say.

Unlike most people, my best friend knows about my water powers. My mother always told me never to ever use them, but sometimes it just happens. Like once when I was 3 I was at daycare and it was nap time. I didn't want to take a nap, so I went by the fishbowl. I was sitting there until I started crying, and since I couldn't control my powers, I ended up making a really big splash, and let's just say that I was banned from Happy Friends Daycare Center, but my mother took my hand, her softness and kindness was a bandage over the hard attitude of the preschool workers.

She said softly to me, "You are my bebé. No one can ever ban you from my arms." "Te amare por siempre mi hermosa niña."

I look a lot like my mother, with jet black wavy hair very very pale skin. -I hate it- I'm a Latina with very blue eyes. My parents named me Azula after my blue eyes. Azul means blue in Spanish, and eyes which I got from my father.

I'm also really short, I'm only about 5 feet tall .

A loud telephone ring is what startles me back to the present. M.r Howard answers

"hello?" pause.

"Yes" pause.

"Oh, my" pause.

"Ok.... I'll inform her. That's very upsetting. I know it'll be very hard for her," Because of the fact that I can only hear his side of the conversation I don't know what the dick is even talking about .pause.

"Alrighty, thank you goodbye now"

Mr. Howard hangs up and pauses for a second with an almost concerned look on his face then he recovers.

Then he says "Azula, please meet me in the hall." I do reluctantly, glancing at Sofi as I stand up from my seat.

She has an amused perplexed look on her face. Once I'm in the hall he says "Azula I'm so sorry to tell you this but your mother has passed away." My heart stops. No, this can't be.

Mr. Howard goes on. "I know it will be hard. She died in the bathtub, she drowned, I'm very sorry."I crumple to the floor

"No..... I say.