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I’m sorry. He was a great man.” Mr. Hamilton took a step toward Justin.
    The pain was too much for Justin. His grandpa had been his best friend and the accident had ripped him away. Justin still had a hard time believing he was gone. It wasn’t fair. During the last month, Justin’s heart couldn’t decide what to do. Did it prefer to wallow in sadness or boil in anger at the injustice of it all? And to top it all off, his dad still decided to take this new job and move them across the country.
    Suddenly, the storm inside Justin switched from sadness to anger. Anger at the stupid gasoline truck driver who collided into his grandpa’s car and exploded. Anger that his parents dragged him across the country and abandoned his grandma at such a time. Anger that he wouldn’t see any of his friends again. Anger about a lot of things.
    But then something else occurred to Justin.
    “Wait. So you’re saying my grandpa was a Wind Elementer?”
    “Yes. One of the best,” Mr. Hamilton confirmed.
    “Why didn’t he ever tell me? We never kept any secrets from each other. We told each other everything.”
    “Justin, Elementers can’t tell anybody about their powers. It’s simply too dangerous,” Mr. Hamilton gently explained.
    “I wasn’t anybody! I was his grandson and his best friend!  How could he lie to me?” Justin fumed. He loved his grandpa and his anger wasn’t really directed toward him. But he couldn’t hold the hurt inside any longer, and he had to lash out somehow.
    “Justin, he wouldn’t have told anyone, not even his wife.”
    That didn’t make Justin feel any better. Sure, he hadn’t spent as much time with Grandpa this last year. He’d been busy with school and friends. But that didn’t change the fact that they were still close. His grandpa was the only person who had ever really understood him. The sadness began to win out, but when he thought of his grandpa keeping such a big secret from him, the anger built up even more. Justin felt like he had to fling his anger at someone before it exploded. “I have no interest in being any kind of Elementer if it means lying to those you care about. I’m outta here!”
    Justin spun around and began to storm away from them, but then he halted and turned around. He refused to look at either Mr. Hamilton or Raven in the eyes, but he said, “I can’t go walking back into the school with wet pants. Raven?”
    Raven took her school jacket off and tossed it to him. “Justin—” she began to say, but before she could utter anything more, Justin quickly walked in the direction of the school holding Raven’s jacket in front of him.
     

Chapter 7
     

     
    Raven couldn’t decide if she was more irritated with Mr. Hamilton, Justin, or herself. Mr. Hamilton had flown to New York City to meet with the Elementer Council. Justin refused to speak to her. And she was the fool that promised Mr. Hamilton she would convince Justin not to communicate with any other Elementers until her teacher spoke to the Elementer Council. But each time she tried to talk to Justin today, he either shushed her in class or simply headed in the opposite direction. Now it was the end of the school day and she still hadn’t been able to talk to him.
    The only choice left was for her to show up at his house, but there was one problem with that option. She had no idea where he lived. She made up a white lie to one of the office secretaries explaining why she needed Justin’s address, but the grumpy, gray haired woman stubbornly refused to give Justin’s address to Raven spouting privacy rights of the students. Raven considered giving up. She had done her best. What more could she do without his address? But her conversation with Mr. Hamilton replayed in her mind.
    “I’m concerned how Elementers are going to react to the news about Justin,” Mr. Hamilton said.
    “What do you mean?” Raven asked.
    “Some Elementers believe the universe gives this ability to Elementers to help