It happened just like that. I didnt see it coming. I never had before, didnt now, and most likely wouldn't ever. In a blink of an eye, everything just changes and I'm left somewhere different with no idea of how I got here, or where I am. Much less when I am. It's happened about five times before, the first time when I was seven years old and was scared out of my mind. I didn't know what happened, and being so young, I began to cry. I just sat there and cried and cried until someone found me. They took me tot he police station to set up a missing persons report. As soon as I set foot in the station, though, I came back. I had only been gone a few minutes, although I was stuck there for almost an hour.
The second time it happened, I was 10 years old. And it lasted longer, and I went back farther. When I came back home, I apparently had been gone for 15 hours. My father, being a paranoid man, set up a missing persons report after 3 hours. They found me in the next city over, scared and alone. They said I had just wandered after school and ended up lost, but I knew better. I didnt day dream. I was still having nightmares about being lost from the first time.
It happened 3 more times after that, each going back farther and lasting longer on both ends. I have stopped trying to explain it only a week after the second time, considering every one assumed I went a little crazy. Each time slipped, I would just say that I got lost, or day dreamed, or fell asleep somewhere. No body believed me, it was impossible. Some said I could be schizophrenic. My doctor told me I was not, just a little imaginative.
Only my mother believed me, because it had hapened to her hundreds of times before I was born. She said I took her "ability" when I was born and it didnt take effect until I was seven. She never told me father, because he was a no-nonsense man. When they dated, she just said she dozed off somewhere or would cancel dates do to a "feeling" she got. I still dont understand how she just knew she would slip within moments of it happening. I still cant. Its not an ability, to me, it's a curse.
I came up the with the name when I was 13, due to watching many documentaries about the supposed slip, the entries on the topic in old journals people now have forgotten.
Time Walk.
