Chapter 2
I wake up to an alarm clock today since my aunt and uncle went to work today. I did my regular morning routine, everything was normal, well except for the note. The note was really strange, it was from my aunt and uncle saying that I had to come home straight from school today because they had something really important to tell me.
That one note had me wondering and worrying all day about what was so important. I was getting really anxious, even though I tried to hide it, Ivy saw how nervous I was at school.
“Well what’s got you so nervous?” Ivy asks.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I say taking my books from my locker hoping that she believed what I said.
“Come on tell me.” Ivy begged.
“There’s nothing to tell,” I say lying through my teeth.
“You realize that there is no point in lying, right? I’ve known you for how many years now? I know when you’re lying so fess up. Is it a boy? Come on start talking.”
“First of all, I won’t be dating anyone for a while after that jerk Noah. Second, it’s really nothing. It’s just this note my aunt and uncle left me this morning. It said they had something extremely important to tell me and it sounded pretty serious. I’m just worried about what it is.”
“Oh, wait a second. Maybe they’re having a baby!”
“That makes so much sense, that’s probably it!” I say excitedly. My aunt and uncle were pretty young, my aunt was 32 and my uncle was 34, so it was possible. The bell rings, again interrupting us.
“I’ll text you later to tell you for sure.” I say making my way to class.
The rest of the day I can’t concentrate. I was trying to figure out whether the baby would be a boy or girl and I was also thinking about possible names for the baby. If it’s a girl, maybe Annabelle or Angela. If it’s a boy, maybe Jacob or Andrew. I am just so excited, I really can’t express myself. The school day really couldn’t end fast enough. Once the final bell sounded no one could stop me, not even the boys’ soccer captain asking me out. I really wasn’t interested, he seemed really nice and was hot but he and I had never really clicked.
Once I get home my aunt and uncle are already sitting at the kitchen table looking nervous, so I decide to break the silence.
“So, when is the baby due?” I say excited breaking into a huge smile.
“The what?” my aunt says looking shocked.
“We’re having a baby?” my uncle asked at the same time looking at my aunt.
“Oh, was that not what you were going to tell me?” I say awkwardly.
“Umm no, but come sit down this might really shock you,” my aunt says gesturing to the seat across from her. “Okay so, sweetheart you know how we said that your parents were dead? Well they’re really not.”
“What? Yes they are. You told me so yourself!” I say in disbelief.
“I’m sorry, but we had to lie to you, there was no other way.”
“What do you mean there was no other way? This is a joke right?” I ask getting up.
“No, I wish it was, but it’s not.”
“Okay, so if my parents are alive, where are they? You would know right?” I am beyond confused and mad. How could they keep a secret so big from me?
“This is kind of hard to tell you but, in a different dimension”
“Are you drunk or something? A different dimension? Please, like that exists.”
“It does, we can show you.”
“Oh yeah, then why don’t you?”
“Okay fine, but you have to be careful okay.”
“Sure,” I say not believing them for a second.
“Ready?”
“Yup.”
“Hold my hand,” my aunt says. I give her my hand and she closes her eyes and starts singing.
All of a sudden, there is a light swirling around us, this isn’t possible. When the shimmering stops we are standing in a bedroom fit for royalty. This cannot be happening, I must’ve fainted and now I’m dreaming, that’s the only reasonable explanation.
“Look, I’m sorry we didn’t tell you sooner, but we wanted you to live a normal life until your powers started kicking in,” says my aunt looking regretfully.
“Okay, let’s pretend I did believe you guys, then where are my parents?”
“Umm, you might want to sit down again.”
“Why? It’s not like they’re royalty.” I say, that would be even more ridiculous.
“Actually,” my aunt says pausing, “they are.”
“Okay seriously, what is going on here?” I scream putting my head in my hands.
“It’s,” my aunt starts saying but is interrupted by a knock on the door. Without bothering to listen for an answer two people come in, a man and a woman. The woman looks so much like me, but it is impossible, they’re dead.
“Oh my, it’s really you.” the woman says tearing up and coming closer to me as if to give me a hug, but I just back away.
“Who are you?”
“Your parents.”
“No you’re not, they’re dead.”
“I’m sorry we did this, but.” I never get to hear the ending to that sentence because I am already running out of the bedroom door, through the hallways, out of the castle doors. The sun is starting to set and looks beautiful but I have no time to admire its beauty. I just have to get as far away as possible. I run and run until I can’t breathe and stop to catch my breath. Once my heart starts beating normally again I look around, but I don’t recognize my surrounding, so I sit at the base of a tree and think about what was just told to me, it still doesn’t seem possible. I watch the sun set and lose all track of time. When it starts to get dark, I decide now is the best time to go back now that I am calm, as I look around I realize I have no idea where to go. I can’t believe I got myself lost, and if my aunt was telling the truth then I’m not even lost in my own dimension, but in a completely different one.
