The Change: Life by J.C. Nichols

Author:J.C. Nichols [Nichols, J.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Change Trilogy
Published: 2016-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

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Everything that Jacob told me didn't really sink in until later that night, when I was in the bathtub soaking. Ivy had abilities – powers – that allowed her to do something so extreme as turn a person into a pool of flesh. And, I'm not going to lie, it did sting that she tried to keep this from me altogether. We were closer than that. I thought.

But what really scared me was her abilities. Where did they come from? What were their limits? What if she lost control of them? So many thoughts bounced around in my mind as I stared out the bathroom window, looking but not looking at the night's sky. Looking at the moon and stars always helped me think.

And then a face appeared in the window looking back at me.

I screamed and scrambled out of the bath, slipping and falling on the wet bathroom floor, looking frantically for any kind of weapon but finding none.

It was then I realized several things that made me pause: for one, the face in the window was Jacob. For two, it was upside down. And finally, he looked just as freaked as I was. I stood a little straighter, whipping a towel around myself to conceal my nakedness. I walked over to the window to open it but suddenly his head was gone. I whipped the door to the bathroom open and stomped around until I reached the end of the house that the bathroom window was on. Jacob and Ivy were sitting on the roof; it looked like she was trying to calm him down.

"Jacob! What the fuck?!" I yelled up at him.

Ivy turned and looked down at me. "Mom! It wasn't his fault! We were talking on the roof and I gently bumped him, but he's not used to being on roofs so he fell. I-uh-he caught himself before he hit the ground."

I stared hard at my daughter, waiting for her to break down and tell me the truth. She still didn't know that I knew she had those strange, inhuman powers of hers.

"Really?! He caught himself by his feet and then pulled himself back up?"

Ivy looked away from me and shrugged. "Yeah."

"Get your ass down here, young woman. It's time we had a talk. And what the hell are you two doing on the roof to begin with? Are you trying to break your necks? As if we don't have enough shit trying to kill us already?!"

Ivy didn't say anything, but she began to scramble off the roof, helping Jacob down at the same time.

"And you-" I told Jacob as I walked closer. "- you forget everything you saw in there. Accident or not, you better wipe those images out of your mind."

Ivy grinned. "Welcome to the club, mom. He saw me naked first."

My eyes widened and my mouth fell open. Ivy's went downcast again, and she rushed into the house.

"Ma'am, I'm really-"

I didn't let him finish. "Jacob, go to bed. Now. I need to have a serious talk to my daughter about lying.

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