After what had happened, I refused to get up out of the spot I was in when my mom slowly died. I wouldn’t get up to go eat, or sleep, I didn’t even get up to bury my mom’s body. I just sat there staring at her cold dead body as I watched her rot. It felt like time had froze, trapping me, forbidding me to get up, putting a curse on me. ‘Wherever you go you’ll only bring death’ I kept hearing that in my head over and over again. My only solution was to stay put and never leave this place that once was my home, and is now my hell.
“Scar” Sky put her hand on my shoulder. “Let’s bury her please.”
“But if I get up someone else might die.”
“That won’t happen come on, we’ll make her grave beautiful and-”
“How do you know?! It’s already happened twice! You are basically dead, you’re just using my body as a vessel!” I yelled not meaning a word I said. Sky got so angry that she slapped me across my face.
“TAKE THAT BACK NOW!!!!!” I had realized what I had done and started crying.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I JUST WANT HER BACK, I WANT EVERYTHING TO BE THE WAY IT USED TO BE! I want to wake up to a horrible dream and mom and dad are okay, and you are too. I wish we didn’t have these powers, then maybe this wouldn’t have happened.”
“I know I do to, but we can’t change anything. Not now, not ever, we wouldn’t be ourselves if we weren’t like this.” Sky holds her hand out to me. “Come on, let’s give them a proper burial.”
“Okay, let’s do it.” I say and I grab her hand and stand up. I look at mom’s broken mirror one last time. “Oh, I hadn’t realized that we changed back.”
“It happened a few hours after mom died.” I carried mom’s body to the backyard, it was dark out, so no one would see me.
I got a shovel and began to dig a grave for my mom. I picked some hydrangeas, they were her favorite flower. I put them into her hands and made a flower crown for her. I then put her in the grave and began to bury her, when I was done I just stood there for a while.
“It’s missing something.” I use my powers to break a cement block and carved my mother’s name and birthday.
‘Christina Cooper, a loving mother, from 1982-2017’
“We’ll miss you mom, I love you.” Sky and I held hands and stared at our mother’s grave.
“I’ll get your body back, no matter what it takes. I promise you I will return you to your body.”
“We’ll have to leave, are you sure you’re okay with that?”
“Yeah, but if I am to leave, I don’t want to come back. This is no longer our home, it’s just a graveyard.”
“Okay, then we’ll leave and never come back”
“That won’t do anything, I want no one else to touch this house. I don’t even want it to exist.”
“What do you want us to do then?”
“I want to burn it.” Sky gives me a sad look, but then realizes why I want to burn the place down.
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“Very clever, if we want to find my body we need to disappear forever.”
“Let’s get to work.” I walk into my bathroom and take a shower to wash all of the blood off. I dry my hair and put on some clothes. I put on these pinkish red sweatpants, with a white loose crop top that just barely goes to the waist of my sweatpants. I grab a navy green hoodie and quickly put in on. I go into my mom’s room and grab all the money I could find, I then put on my black converse and black snapback hat.
“Ready to go?”
“Yeah, let’s get out of this hell hole.” I start to walk out the door and then snap my fingers. The house caught on fire and I just put my hands in the pockets of my hoodie, and I slowly walked away, a single tear fell down my cheek. I stopped for a minute and slowly turned around and put on a closed eyed smile. “I’ll be going now, goodbye. It was fun while it lasted, but it’s time for me to go now. I’ll miss you, mom.”
I turn back and started walking again. ‘I’ll miss you too.’ My eyes widened and I quickly turned to the burning house to see my mom smiling at me.
“Mom?” A man walked next to my mother and put his hand on her shoulder. “Dad?”
‘Go save your sister okay?’ I dropped to my knees and began crying. At that time I knew that, that was the last time I would cry for the rest of my life. I wipe some of the tears off of my face, I slowly get up and give a closed eyed smile one last time.
“Mhm, and I’ll tell you the long journey we had when I get back.” I turn away again and start walking.
‘No you won’t’ I hear my mom say as she faded away.
I stopped for a minute. “I know, but a girl can dream right?” With that she was gone. I wipe the rest of my tears away and started to look straight ahead. “Let’s invade this world.”
“Hehe, you sound like we’re aliens.”
“Well we might as well be.” I look around and take a deep breathe. “Alright, time to go into the world we never knew.” I said and started walking forward. As I was walking I turned into my merge form once again.
“I don’t know where I’m going, or how long it will take, but if I ever find that man I saw in my dream.”
“I’m going to kill him.”
“Anyone who get’s in our way.”
“Demon or not”
“Will parish by my hands!”
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