My Wife Jodie by V. A. Rudys

Author:V. A. Rudys [Rudys, V. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BLINKENLIGHT
Published: 2021-07-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Jodie

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If I were like everyone else, what would my life have been like? Would it have been simpler? Happier? Certainly shorter. Would my parents have loved me? Would Ethan have stopped cheating on me, if I had not changed anything, if I had faced the consequences together with him? Would Laura still be alive? I needed to stop thinking about it.

I was four years old the first time I realised I was different. It happened in kindergarten. One of the troubled girls went to another who just finished her drawing, paint still wet, and just ripped it right there in front of her. Viciously with no glimpse of remorse. The other girl cried, and I didn’t blame her. The headteacher was busy dealing with the mean girl when I approached the victim and just told her to go back, to save her drawing. I remember her being confused, and as I kept explaining it to her, she started to smile. She thought I was trying to tell her a story. That was the first clue that something was different, that I experienced my life in a way that no one else did. By the time I was six, I had realised just how alone and how special I really was.

When I was a teenager, I found the courage to talk to two of my best friends from school, Bridget and Lizzie. I told them to write the most random sentence they could think of on a piece of paper, and I’d guess what they wrote. They both lost their shit when I closed my eyes and read it back to them - one word at a time. The tests didn’t stop there. I enjoyed it - showing them what I could do. After I passed every test they could think of, they both hugged me. You’re special, Lizzie told me. Don’t tell this to anyone.

Not even a week had passed before they started asking me to use my power to help them. At first, it was small things - like finding out whether their crushes liked them, or selecting the best dessert in the cafeteria. I liked it at first, sharing my gift with my friends, them knowing who I really was, but their demands grew over time. They wanted me to do more and more, to tell them the answers to the end-of-year exams, to go back and warn them every time they were about to be busted for smoking cigarettes, or sometimes just when they wanted to play tricks on other girls in class. I didn’t want to go back in time more than I had to - all I wanted was to get to my sixteenth birthday, and get the hell away from my parents. Every time I went back, I had to live through more days at home, more time spent avoiding my parents, more time surviving their abuse. But when I finally said no to Bridget’s and Lizzie’s demands, they got upset.

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