Tough Love 12

The new me :

Living in darkness for a whole week felt terrible. Not able to see anyone, hear anyone. Feeling the urge to claw my way out of darkness, but all I felt was weakness and pain flowing through my body. As soon as I get over this phase I am going to kill Decklan. He told me it wouldn’t be painful. He knew what was going to happen to him if I was going to feel pain. I don’t remember any of my brothers staying in bed this long. It felt like years living in darkness.
The first thing I heard was my mothers sobbing. Why was she crying? Had something happened? She couldn’t possibly be crying for me. I mean I wasn’t dead, was I? I couldn’t be dead if I could hear her voice. I tried to say something, anything, but nothing came out. I could feel my mothers hand moving in my hair, saying something I couldn’t hear. I heard movements next to me.

"How long is she going to be in bed for?" I heard my mother say. It felt so much better than being in the dark for more than a week. Or maybe I’ve been in the darkness a whole lot longer than I knew.
"It’s okay hun, she’ll pull through, she always does" said my father.
"I know she always finds a way out, but its been more than a week, it’s been more than a week. She should be awake now. Oh my poor little girl. What if something is wrong with her? We should have taken her to the hospital"
"Hey, nothing is wrong with her and you know it. I know she can hear us, I could feel it. Look as long as she is breathing she is going to be fine. Decklan go get your mother something to drink. She’ll die of dehydration soon if you don’t hurry" said my father. I heard Decklan move.

I moved my fingers.
"Dad look, her fingers are moving. I guess that’s a good sign" said Tye.
My mother stopped her crying and leaned over me. "Honey, if you could hear me could you please squeeze my hand."
I squeezed her hand a bit too hard for her liking. I felt her try and squirm out of my grip.
"Yeop, she could hear us. Honey you could let go of me now. Honey, Jess it’s okay you could let go of my hand."
I tried to remove my hand from hers but I couldn’t. I couldn’t move my hand even if I wanted to. I tried to open my left eye, then opened my right eye slowly. Decklan saw me first and walked over to me.

"Guys she’s awake. Come on Jess let go of mums hand. That’s it, good girl" said Decklan, removing my fingers from my mothers hand. She winced and moved away, but not to far from me.
I sat up leaning against the headboard of the bed. They all looked at me, all six of them.
"What?" I asked.
"Um mum, dad, are you sure this girl that’s sitting in front of us right now is your daughter?" asked Beau. I had no idea what he was talking about, but he kept looking at me longer than I expected him to. A few minutes went by, I couldn’t take the silence any longer. It was bad enough to live in the dark for a week without hearing anybody, and to go through that again, I just couldn’t do it.

"What the hell is wrong with you guys? You act as if you’ve never met me before. It’s me Jess. In case you have forgotten."
They still kept looking at me. It was Deck that broke the silence.
"Here, I bought it for mum but I guess you need it more than she does."
I hadn’t realized how thirsty I was until now. I took the cup and drank the water in one gulp.
"Thanks, guess I really did need it. So, whats with all the staring guys?" I asked.
They looked at each other, which meant only one thing: Something was wrong with my face. I got out of bed and stood in front of the mirror.
"Oh my goodness. What the hell happened to my hair?! My eyes?! You guys what did you do?" I asked, then turned to face them. They didn’t look like they knew anything. I looked back at the mirror.

"Got to say Jess, what ever that phasing thing did to you, you sure as hell look sexy" said Beau. Ugh, he is such a perv sometimes. My father hit Beau’s head with his hand.
"Stop being such a perv you little punk. She’s your sister" said Tye.
Beau shrugged. "Hey you know I’m right. Better to hear it from me than anybody else."
"Uh no. It’s better to hear it from somebody else than you, you turd" said Bow, then wacked Beau’s head with his hand. I ignored them and turned back to look into the mirror.
My hair no longer a wavy brown color, but a straight black colour with green streaks down past my shoulder. My eyes changed into a dark navy colour. My lips a rosy colour. When I looked into the mirror, I wasn’t sure if it was really me that was staring back or maybe it was someone else.

"Okay guys this isn’t funny. Games over now alright. I’m up now, what ever you guys did to me while I was asleep you can tell me now" I said, a little frustrated. I turned around to look at their faces. None of them looked like they knew what I was talking about. Maybe I was still asleep, maybe, just maybe I was hallucinating. Yeah that’s right, it just has to be.
"It must have been the effects of her phasing. Why didn’t we notice this before? When she was still phasing. I mean look at her, she doesn’t look like the Jess I know" said my mother.
"I’m just glad you’re okay little sis" said Decklan. I looked at him with narrowed eyes. He backed away a little with his hands up in the air. "Jess, come on now, why are you looking at me like that?"

"You" I said pointing my finger at him. "You said. No, you told me that I wouldn’t feel pain while I was going through my phasing. You said it wouldn’t hurt." My voice was starting to get louder every time I growled at Decklan. I didn’t know why but I couldn’t stop myself. I could feel the power run through me like fire. With my mind I used my anger. The furniture in my room started to lift up into the air. I could see the fear in their eyes. Something didn’t feel right, this didn’t feel right. "You lied to me brother. Remember that deal we had? I told you, you would be the first one that I was going to hunt down." This didn’t feel right. I kept telling myself to stop but I couldn’t. Something was controlling me and there was nothing I could do about it. I looked into the mirror and saw myself. Now I knew why they all looked so scared. My whole body had turned into a dark colour. Me eyes sparkling white with anger. I looked like a monster. It reminded me of that movie X-men: The last stand.
"Honey calm down. Decklan was just kidding. That’s what you do, remember. You tease each other" said my mother, soothing me. Slowly I put the furniture down, my hair back in place, my body back into its normal self.

"I'm sorry. It’s-just-well, I couldn’t stop myself. I’m so so sorry" I whispered. My mother walked over to me and put her hand around my shoulders.
"It’s okay honey… it happens all the time. Most females go through this. And what the hell did you brother tell you huh? Never listen to a thing those idiots tell you."
I laughed. "I really am sorry. I tried to stop myself but I couldn’t. By the looks on yall faces, guess I scared the crap out of you."
I dropped onto my knees. I didn’t have any idea what was going on. I wasn’t in control. I would never try and hurt my family, never.
My brothers and father laughed. Tye scratched his head. Beau and Bow shrugged at the same time. I looked at Decklan, he looked like he was still in shock because his hands were still held up from earlier on.
"Dude, you a’ight? Scared of your little sister?" teased Bow.
Deck shook his head. "Uh yeah. Damn little sis, almost pissed my pants because of you" said Deck shakily.

Beau laughed. "Dude, I think you did piss your damn pants." They all laughed.
"Guess we know what your ability is I guess. What ever power you have little sis, it must be pretty damn powerful. Seeing the way you just turned, you know" said Tye.
The room grew silent again. As long as I could control it, everything would be okay.
"Is it possible for someone to gain at least more than one ability?" I asked.
My parents looked at each other. "What do you mean?" he asked.
I shrugged. "I don’t know. Just asking I guess"
"Well I guess it’s your first time. I suppose that happens. Anyway, enough talk. I hope you’re hungry because we’re going out for breakfast today. No complaining from any of you. Now get up and have your showers, were leaving in half an hour" said my mother. Talking about food just made me more hungry.

"Sweet, I am starving" said Beau. I rolled my eyes.
"Dude, you’re always starving. Since when haven’t you gone without food"
Beau laughed. "Ah, she’s back."
I rolled my eyes then stood up. "Shows over turds. Get out of my room, I need to have a shower."
"Come on guys, you heard the lady, shows over. Time for you guys to have your showers as well. Oh goodness Beau, I could smell you from here" teased my father.
"Hey why do you guys always put the blame on me?"
"’Cause it’s always you boy. Geese"
They were finally out the door. I could still hear them arguing outside.
I shook my head then laughed to myself. It felt good to finally see their faces again. I sure did miss them and all their jokes and arguing. I still couldn’t belive I actually tried to hurt Decklan. Now he wouldn’t even look at me. I had to make things right with him.
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