Twisted through time a timetravel tale

Chapter Three: whats happing to me

After the boiling water is soaking out the Flavour into the China cup, Helen crept into the kitchen. " are you okay?, my dear" she says as Jessica jumps slightly from the small surprise, " yes mummy, I'm fine" Jessica muffles as her hand is shaking uncontrollably as she is adding the milk. " are you sure?" Helens speaks softly, while reaching out for the tea, " yeah, I said I was fine" she quivered back as she was lifting the cup getting ready to hand it over , as her mother replies " I know your not, don't be worrying my darling, you just had your first jump today didn't you?"

Jessica froze " did she just say my first jump, how would she know" she thinks as she drops the China cup on to the floor smashing it into small fragments " calm down its okay, Come and sit down with me " Helen says as she try's to reassure her.

Taking a seat at the solid oak kitchen table, Jessica nerves were uneasy, she's confused of what does her mother know and why does she know it. Helens uneasy voice echoes fill the room '" I have been waiting for this day since you were born, I know what happened to you last night as it happens to each member of this curst but blessed family"

" mum your not making sense, what's happening to me?" Jessica pleads in confusion as her head is rested upon her hand, " I'm sorry I couldn't tell you through your life, it's forbidden. But you come from a long line of time travelers" Helen explains with a half smile. " time travellers!, mum you must be going crazy just like me,there's no such thing" Jessica scoffs as she rises herself from the table. " it's true, you know your not crazy, you went to the cave didn't you?" Helen says raising her tone to show how serious she had become. " how do you know that?" Jessica question as she plummeted back down into her chair, " everyone's first jumps is to there, they meet the first time traveler"

" the first time traveler?" Jessica say with a rhetorical question, " yes, he was the first in our family, look!!, I have to tell you this quick as I know you will jump again, you can go forward to any point of the future and back to any point of the past, but because it's new to you, it's uncontrollable for now. You have to learn how to use you gift, are you will jump to anywhere at anytime"

Jessica face lights up with fear " I don't want to, how do I make it stop", Helen sets her cup down on the table before placing her warm hand on top of Jessica's before saying " I'm sorry baby girl, you can't stop it, you just have to learn how to control it, you can be stuck at any point of time for any period of time, but you will always come back to the place were you jumped from" she pauses while looking into Jessica's glazed eyes before finishing what she was going to say which was " the present". Jessica feels her body becoming unfamiliar again as she looks down upon her wrist. There again the blue glow appeared under her skin " mummy it happing again!!!" Jessica screams as fear washes over her " it's okay darling, you will be back here soon I'll be...."

Before Helen finished her last words Jessica jumps.

The wind was heavy, the sun was blazing. There Jessica was standing in the middle of a desert at what looks like the beginning of  a sand storm. Jessica's quickly flips her body 360 degrees that looked upon miles and miles of deserted piles of sand.
" aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" she screams as her fist become clinched around the sand she just picked up. " where do I go" she says before scratching her head after calming her thoughts. pointing north followed by south , her thoughts become tied up in a bundle of knots as she kicks the sand. Once more Jessica places her hand above her eyes under the scorching sun to look out in all directions to see what she could gaze upon. Nothing, all there was, was sand, tons of it, not even a tree or a bird in the sky.

Jessica sticks her sweaty hands into her pocked , all she found was a penny, a lighter and a hard sweet. Not the best things she could have in a situation like this. " I know what to do " she says as she flips the coin in the air, " if it's heads I'll go left , if it's tails I'll go right". Tossing the coin in the air it catches the sun, reflecting the light like a star in the night sky. Hitting the ground it lands on heads " left it is " she says hoping it's the right direction to civilisation.

It didn't take long heading left before the heat is draining Jessica from her energy, dragging her feet behind her she feels the sand beginning to hit her harder on her face. It feels like millions of needles piercing her  skin. Within a few moments those millions of needles felt like billions as the storm was in full throttle as Jessica wasn't able to see beyond her hand. The winds knock Jessica off her feet making her begin to crawl for her life, "I'm not going to make this out alive" she thinks as she hears a man voice shouting behind her. Quickly he pulls a sheep skin blanked over them to protect against the sand before she could turn to see were the voice was coming from. As Jessica looks up to find the man starring upon her face, she peers into his  bluely green eyes , it was a unique shade that she has ever seen before, his eyes were beautiful against his olive skin.