Glitch in Time (The Time Keepers Book 1) by Jill Cooper & Eva Cooper

Author:Jill Cooper & Eva Cooper [Cooper, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve: Trapped!

With a gasp of breath, my eyes snap open and I sit up in my bed. I’m back in my room at home before all of this started. The room is pieced back together just as I remember. My purple comforter is around me and my favorite stuffed animals line the edge of my bed. My favorite green dinosaur, Pickle, and my penguin sits right beside him. I toss the covers aside and pick Wa-Wa up. Squeezing him close.

This can’t be real. I can’t be really here.

It’s wrong. I can feel it in my gut.

There’s a knock at my door. I jump back. “Who is it?”

“You’re going to be late for school, honey. Come on down for breakfast. Dad’s making pancakes.” Mom smiles and turns before I can stop her.

Dad? He’s here, too? Maybe he can help me find the branch if we’re both stuck in the same dream. Or maybe I’ve slipped into one of the multistreams that they told me about in the Cosmos. Either way, Dad might be able to help me.

I quickly throw on a pair of leggings and a comfortable t-shirt. With my Chuck Taylor sneakers on my feet, I bound down the stairs as fast as I can.

Mom’s right. Dad is in the kitchen placing pancakes on a platter. My sister is already at the table and she’s at least three years old. No longer a baby. She sips juice out of a sippy cup and seeing her grown up like that sends me into shock. I touch my face. Am I older, too? I don’t feel older but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

I’m wondering how everyone sees me.

“There you are, squirt,” Dad says. “I hope you’re hungry!”

My stomach growls and I steal a glance at my reflection in the toaster. I’m a teenager but I don’t feel any different than I did an hour ago. Still, this is what everyone sees.

I stand next to Dad. “We need to talk.”

His face barely reacts to what I say. He’s focused on the task of making breakfast and getting it to the table. “Later, hon. You have to get to school and I have to get to work. Grab your seat, okay?” As Dad says it, Mom walks by and they quickly kiss.

I don’t want to sit and as much as I love seeing Mom and Dad together, I know this is all wrong. We aren’t supposed to be here, doing mundane family things as much as I want to. “Dad,” I say to jog his memory. I stand with my back to the cabinets and grab his wrist. “The branch. The God of Chaos. Do any of these things ring a bell?”

He laughs, a look of confusion on his face. “Well, sure honey. I’ve been to the branch hundreds of times. That’s where I deposit my weekly paycheck.” Dad ribs me, elbowing me gently in the side. He places coffee on the table and goes to grab the orange juice from the fridge.

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