Awaken the Elements (Elemental Trilogy) by Ellie Potts

ever lay your head on, and closed her eyes. She reached out feeling for Autumn. Nothing. She walked into the store.
                  “Autumn?” she called out in a whisper. She saw the big pile of pillows on the floor which she assumed had to be her bed.
                  Anatha left the store and looked at the elevators. She could go down, but to tell the truth, she was scared. Just then Envy and Ivy Lee came out of the elevator.
                  “Hey, Anatha, whatcha doing up?” Envy asked. Her mannish voice overly loud in the quiet area.
                  “I couldn’t sleep, and I guess neither could Autumn. She has disappeared. Were you two up on the fourth?”
                  “Yep, they got a killer bar up there,” Ivy Lee said.
                  “You guys are already drinking?”
                  “No, we snuck up to scope out the goodies,” Envy said. “The parents have started. You’d think they want to drink themselves to death already.”
                  “Yeah, saving it up so they don’t drink it all before we get any.” Ivy Lee showed her a bottle of vodka she had in her shirt.
                  “Oh, well. If they drink it all, we wouldn’t have to worry about drunken parents any more. But you see, the problem is, my mom knows the recipe to make moonshine, and we all better pray it doesn’t come to that.” She told them, craning her head over the edge of the railing to look for Autumn.
                  “So where do you think Autumn went?” Envy asked.
                  Anatha tilted her head, her mind reaching out. “I think she’s down below.”
                  “She went down there?” Ivy Lee looked over the edge to the second floor.
                  “Yeah,” she said, her voice a whisper, as her eyes wandered over to the infected behind the doors. They couldn’t get in, but seeing them frightened her. They were so close, yet they weren’t. And it didn’t help that night made the infected spookier than during the day. It was all the scary movies they watched when they were younger.
                  “Well, let’s go find her.” Envy made her way back to the elevator.
                  “Envy wants to see if Autumn has made friends with the members of Tune N’ yet. She hopes Autumn isn’t flirting with the one she likes.” Ivy Lee whispered to Anatha. “Hold the elevator!” Ivy Lee grabbed the bottle of vodka and the couple of bottles Envy had on her and ran off. She came back a few minutes later empty handed.
                  “Had to put them away,” she told them, getting into the elevator.
                  “Autumn, flirt? Please, she just lost her fiancé,” Anatha whispered back to Ivy Lee as Envy hit the button for the second floor.
                  “Rowan is cuter in person. Actually, they are all cuter in person,” Ivy Lee said, a huge goofy smile on her face.
     
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                  They didn’t know Autumn was down on the other end looking at something in a store window. Her eyes were drawn to something shiny and brand new, and she knew she had to have it. It was a lava lamp, a purple one at that, shaped like a monkey. She had always wanted a purple lava lamp, and she liked monkeys, so that was a bonus. The store itself looked interesting, some kind of retro seventies store. The annoying rapper was bugging her, talking her ear off about his career and so on. She was ignoring him the best she could without being too rude. She went into the store. Jaime followed behind her like an obedient dog, still talking.
                 
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                  “River, you up?” Rowan called out. River and Rowan decided on sharing a room, since they got along better than the other guys. Oh, they could all tolerate each other, but