Among the Stars by Matthew Ellis

Author:Matthew Ellis [Ellis, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Watermelon Mountain
Published: 2015-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Revelation

Sylvia thought about the events of the last two days. She couldn’t stop thinking about it on the train. She went all the way across the country looking for answers. She got them, but they didn’t make sense.

She thought, “I can’t even tell anyone. They’ll think I’m crazy.”

The train ride back home took just as long as the one before it, but it seemed much shorter. Sylvia tried to process all the information she received in the last 48 hours, but it was a jumbled mess. She needed a thousand lifetimes to make sense of what her life meant.

She thought, “I have to tell someone. If I try to keep this bottled up, I’ll go insane. Who can I call?”

She thought about calling her boyfriend, but she couldn’t trust him to keep her secret. She envisioned him turning her over to the mental health hospital.

She thought, “It really sucks that I don’t trust Brian enough to tell him my secrets. Relationships are supposed to be built on trust, but I can’t trust him with this. I need to call him when I get back, though.”

She considered calling the pastor at the church she went to before she took her trip. Clergy were supposed to listen to people and help them with their problems without being judgmental. However, Sylvia wasn’t so sure she wanted a theological discourse to try and make sense of her problems.

For a moment, she was tempted to call her father to gloat that she knew he was dead in other realities. She didn’t want to actually do it because it would put her in danger again.

Sylvia thought, “Immortal or not, his beatings hurt. Besides that, calling him to gloat would serve no valuable purpose.”

She thought about calling her mom, but Mrs. Castellanes had enough trouble without worrying about an insane daughter.

Sylvia stared at her phone. She blocked her number from the caller identification. Then she dialed a number. The phone rang twice and Jenni answered.

Jenni said, “Hello?”

Sylvia asked, “Can you keep a secret?”

Jenni asked, “Who is this?”

Sylvia asked, “Can you keep a secret?”

The universe grabbed Jenni and held her hand to the phone. She lost control of her speech and her movement.

Jenni said, “Yes, Sylvia. I can keep any secret you choose to tell me.”

Sylvia thought, “She must’ve recognized my voice. I wonder how?”

Jenni’s voice suddenly lost all inflection and emotion. She was speaking as if reading a cue card.

Sylvia said, “I have a major secret to tell you, but you can’t tell anyone, ever. Can you do that?”

Jenni answered, “Yes, Sylvia. I can do that.”

Sylvia didn’t notice the change in Jenni’s inflection. She was unaware that the universe had control of her best friend.

Sylvia told Jenni, “I’m a traveler. That’s a person who can travel between parallel realities. It’s a big deal because I can’t die until my specific time. I just jump from one reality to another. There are people who don’t like that I can do this, though. I've been warned to avoid psychiatrists at all costs.

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