Chapter 8
Kristina’s POV
Well, what do you say to that? Oh, I already knew, even before you did because I’m a controller? Or, maybe I should say that I knew this day would come since the time I was five years old. Yeah, I saw it… and if I look slightly to my left hiding behind the curtain I’ll see little five year old me. Like I said, I’m a controller. But, when I was six I didn’t have complete control of my powers; which is why in precisely thirteen minutes when this conversation is over I have to get everyone to leave the room and go over there and teach little me all about time travel and Zander is going to stay with me while I do it.
It’s awfully quite in here… I’m going to ‘listen’ in.
‘OH. MY. GOSH. HOW DID HE KNOW? I HAVEN’T TOLD ANYONE YET!’ Alexia is panicking like always.
‘This is just too good, I’m going to be an uncle two times and from the looks of things they will be due just a few weeks apart.’ Michael- as always looking at the fun side of things, he’s not even thinking about the fact that we’re all going to be seventeen year old parents.
‘A… A… A FREAKING BABY! There is no way, he’s just playing tricks on me. It can’t be.’ Chris looks at me.
‘Is it true? Am I going to be a father?’
‘Ask her, I shouldn’t tell you, she should. But don’t listen in, that is NOT the way you should find out.’ I tell him.
‘You already knew what would happen?’ I only nod my head once to confirm what he asked.
‘Opps, maybe I shouldn’t have said anything…. Oh well, too late now.’
‘I want to go home’ Awe, little me.
‘Everything’s okay baby, I will take you home in a few minutes, just don’t move and stay quiet. I will explain everything.’ I tell little me.
‘Who are you? Where am I?’ She quietly asks me.
‘I will explain, I promise. And you are at home. Here, I’ll flash you Berry. You just need to stay still and quiet for a few more minutes.’ And I flash my favorite childhood stuffed bear to her.
‘Thank you.’
‘Watch your language, we have two babies in the room and I do not want any foul language to be heard by my little one, even while in the womb.’ I tell Michael, Chris, and Zander; all of whom just nod to tell me they heard me.
“How’d you know?” I ask the one thing I know everyone in the room wants to know.
“I found the test in the bathroom trash that said ‘pregnant 3-4 weeks’ and I knew it wasn’t my test…. So it had to be Alexia’s… And I figured that it was Chris’ baby because… well, I’ve known about them for a while now…. I mean, really man? Can you please be more quite next time you sneak out? Or while you’re there can you keep my sister quiet?” I laugh at this; if you saw how red Alexia and Chris’ face turned you would’ve laughed too.
“I think we need to let Chris and Alexia go upstairs and talk alone, they have a lot to discuss. Congratulations, and Alexia, we can talk later.” With that they go upstairs to talk. “Michael, you need to leave.”
“What? Why?” He asks me.
My only response is a pointed look at where little me stands. When he sees her feet understanding crosses his face. “Have fun with that. You want me to take lover boy with me.” I shake my head no. “Okay, I’ll be at Angie’s, she was kind of pis-mad” He catches himself “when I had to go to the office.”
“I’m a little lost here…” Zander says when Michael leave.
“Okay, you remember how I told you everything earlier?” When he nods I continue “Well, the part that I left out was that a lot of times we end up training ourselves for most of the things.”
“Okay…. And what does this have to do with anything.” He still doesn’t really understand, I can see it on his face.
“Well, you’re about to find out.” I walk over to the curtain, “Hi Krissy, do you want to come out now?” She nods. “Do you want to meet my friend?” She nods, again. “Do you want to move?” She shakes her head. “How about I carry you?” She nods. I let out a little laugh and bend down to get her.
When I have her picked up and on my hip I turn around to Zander, who is just standing there in shock.
“She’s-“ I put my finger to my lips to get him quiet and nod my head.
I walk into the kitchen holding Krissy and tell Zander to sit down. “Krissy, do you want to sit with my friend? His name is Zander, he is really nice.” She shakes her head. “Are you hungry?” She nods. “Then you either need to be a big girl and sit by yourself or you need to sit with Zander.” She nods. “Use your words please.”
“I will sit with Zander.” I hand her to Zander and walk to the fridge and get out the stuff to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
When I walk to where they are I sit and start to make one for Krissy and myself.
“You want one?” I ask Zander who shakes his head. I make him one anyway, it’ll calm Krissy.
“So, Krissy, what’s the last thing you remember?”
“I was hiding from my brothers and Zander because they were trying to shove cake in my face.” Oh, I forgot, she came on her birthday. “That’s funny, you have a friend named Zander and my brother has a friend named Zander, but he’s always mean to me, except when it is storming, I’m afraid of storms and he comes in and holds me…. Don’t tell him but I kind of love him when he acts all nice.” Zander laughs and I glare at him telling him to shut his mouth.
“I promise I won’t tell him, but, sweetheart, you know how you can do some cool things? You’re little ‘secret things’?” She nods. “This is another one of those things. You see, I am you, but a few years later.”
“How many years later? Are you an adult? I heard you were having a baby.”
“About twelve years later, and yes I am, but when you go back home, you can’t tell anyone about this time. And when you get here, you have to have this same conversation that I’m having with you with another little girl. Okay? You have to promise.”
“I pinkey promise.” She holds out her pinkey and I link mine in hers “So, if you are me, who is he?” She points to Zander.
“That’s the same Zander that used to be mean to you, but he’s not mean anymore.”
“Why?”
“Because I’ve always loved her too, and when I figured out she loved me I stopped being mean.” He tells her.
“So you were only mean to me because you thought I didn’t love you?” When he nods she pouts and pulls her little fist back; he doesn’t even see it coming until after her little fist meets his face.
“Oww, what was that for?” He asks, yeah, I hit hard even as a little kid.
“That’s for all the times you’ve been mean to me.” She tells him then turns to me and asks “Why are boys so stupid?”
“Because they are scared; remember, you can’t tell anyone anything you know from this trip.” I tell her.
“I know.”
“So, the reason why you’re here, well, if I remember right, you hid behind the curtain and wished that you could go to when you were all grown up and no one was mean to you?” She nods. “Okay, it doesn’t always happen like that, sometimes there is no control why you go somewhere. And when that happens, you have to do whatever it is you are sent there to do before you can go home. Like today, you came here because I needed to teach you how to travel.” She nods to show she’s following what I’m saying. “Okay, so, to go where you want in time traveling you just have to think about it, and you have to want to go there, like really want to go there. Somehow your mind knows if you are just thinking about it and if you actually want to go there. You have to be specific, like month, day, time, and the year. As well as where you want to go. And when you go forward you are not allowed to mess anything up or tell anyone what you saw. But, when you go backward you can’t tell anyone where you are from and you can’t tell them anything about what you know from your time unless that is what you are there for. Okay?” I was kind of confusing but, she is me so she’ll understand.
“Got it, can’t tell anyone where I’m from, can’t mess anything up, and if you go backwards you can’t get in the middle of things that aren’t your business.” She gives Zander a pointed look. Okay…?
“Now you should be able to go home.”
“Thank you.” She tries, and tries, but she can’t get it. “What’s wrong? Why can’t I do it? I am thinking about going back to the curtain on my fifth birthday, right when I made my wish; but I can’t, what’s wrong?”
“I told you everything I needed to tell you. Is there something you need to tell me? Something you overheard while you were behind the curtain?”
“No.”
“Think, try really hard.”
“Um… well, mommy and daddy were in there talking to some other big people I didn’t know.”
“What did they say?”
“Mommy said, ‘What do you mean they aren’t the ones? The prophecy says-‘ Then the man interrupted her and said ‘I know what the prophecy says, but we misinterpreted it; It says
‘Among the line of the first great controller of Zimes there will be multiples born- whom shall be from another line, a curse to have multiples, they will put an end to The Great Controller War; unless, the one who means nothing but places the curse destroys it all.’
Then he continued and said ‘This means that it is not the twins, but when they have children with someone from another family who has a curse on them to have multiples, those children will be the ones to end the war.’
Then daddy said ‘So you mean, they are not the end of this, but they will produce the heirs to end this?’
‘Yes’ The woman answered.
‘But which controller family has a curse to have multiples?’ Mommy asked.
‘That’s the thing, it is not a controller family; there is only one known family to have a curse of multiples. But there is one other family, a werewolf family.’
‘Well, who are they?’ Daddy asked the man.
‘Look out the window, they live next door.’ The woman said.
‘Marcus’s children?’ Daddy asked.
‘Yes’
‘Who is the one whom means nothing and placed the curse?’
‘We are not sure yet, obviously he would be the one who placed the curse on the Williamson family. But no one knows who that is. And we think he will try to get to the children’s babies, but then we thought what if he tries to get to one of the kids instead? You know, stop them from even having the babies, or even stop them from raising them properly. But, we do know that whoever he is, they won’t know until it is too late.’ The woman told them.
‘Are you sure?’ Daddy asked.
And that’s when I came here.” She finished her story.
“You did great sweetheart; why don’t you try to go home now?”
She got up and gave me a hug “I love you big Krissy. And little babies.”
“Babies? Like, as in more than one?” Luke asked her. She pulled her fist back and punched him. “Oww, what was that for?”
“That was because you haven’t changed. You really need to listen. There is more than one baby, for both big Krissy and big Chris. That’s what the guy said.” She stated the obvious. “Big Krissy, will you please be careful?”
“I pinkey promise.” I held out my finger for her and she wrapped her finger in mine. Right at that moment Luke walked in…. what the heck is he still doing here? “Um, Luke, we’re kind of busy right now. Will you go home or something? Michael isn’t here and Chris and Alexia really need to spend some alone time. So, goodbye.” I tell him rather rudely. He just leaves. I look at Krissy and she looks scared of something… odd. “What’s wrong sweetheart?”
“That’s the guy from the store.”
“What guy? From what store? Are you sure you’re not thinking of someone else? He is only a few years older than me so he would have looked different when he was with you.”
“No, that is the same exact guy from the store. I was at the store with mommy and she turned around to get something and then I see this guy- that same guy- turn around and say ‘you’re mine, you always have been and you always will be’ and then turn and walk away.” Maybe she had a bad dream or something…
“Are you sure?” I ask her.
“Really sure.” She says… okay, I’ll keep that in mind.
“Krissy, I think you need to go home now. You’ve done all you came to do, but I want to tell you two more things and you have to always remember them. First, if you ever, at any age, need someone to talk to, come find me at seventeen or older, and second, always remember, everywhere you are someone loves you; Mommy and Daddy will always love you no matter what, Chris and Michael will always love you no matter what. You understand?” She nods.
“And I will always love you no matter what age I am or how I treat you.” Zander tells her and me for that matter.
She gets up and gives us both a hug “I’m sorry I hit you, I just can’t hit little Zander. And I love you both.”
“Next time little Zander gives you problems, just tell him that he doesn’t want you to tell everyone about Teddy. Don’t tell him anymore but don’t let him talk you out of it. And whatever you do, don’t actually tell anyone about Teddy, just scare him with it.” She giggles.
“Okay. Bye.” And with that she’s gone.
“Who is Freddy?” I ask him as we make our way upstairs after cleaning up the kitchen.
“When I was little and I wasn’t in your room with you I had a bear that I named Teddy that I slept with because I couldn’t sleep alone after the first time I held you. And to me at any age up until now, that would be horrifying to have everyone find out.” I laugh.
“Then why would you help little me hold that over little you?”
“Because I was really mean to her; also because I promised that if you ever found out I’d kiss you. And I figured it was time that little me stepped up his game.” By this point we’re lying on my bed so he leans over and gives me a peck on the lips.
“But the first time you kissed me was on our… oh… wow, on our fifth birthday; so why tell her if you were going to do it anyway?”
“Like I said, I was mean; maybe this will help a little. By the way, why was little Krissy so strong?”
“Hello, super strength, she already had control of it so she knew exactly how hard to hit a werewolf and make it hurt.”
“Oh, okay. All of this will take some getting used to.”
“I know.”
“So, we’re having more than one little baby?” He asks while rubbing my stomach from behind.
“Little Krissy just thinks that, but that’s the way it sounds. Are you okay with that?”
“Are you kidding? I am excited about that! Do you think they’ll be identical twins? I don’t know how I’d tell them apart if they were…. I kind of hope they aren’t; how stupid would I look? The dad that can’t tell his kids apart.”
“Zander, stop, breath, it will be okay. If they are identical they will still be your kids and even as babies their personalities may be different. There is always a way to tell identical twins apart. Now, I am going to sleep.” I tell him.
“Goodnight” He tells me. And that’s how I fall asleep, with his arms around me and him rubbing my tummy- he’s always done that, ever since we were kids, I’d always find him rubbing my tummy when I was going to sleep or not feeling good. Someday I’ll have to ask him about it. But not now, now it is sleep time.
I’m sick. Uggg! I found time to write and I tried to make this one longer. It’s like 13 pages in word… but that’s double spaced. Anyway, I realized the last chapter that all the chapters up to this point are the same day. How much can you really write about the same freaking day? Apparently the answer is at least 8 chapters. Next chapter will skip some time. I mean, common, I can’t write 8 chapters for each day all the way up to the end of her pregnancy. That’s a lot of chapters- she’s ONLY seven weeks. I actually posted when I said I would… I think, didn’t I say on Friday or Saturday? Oh well, sorry if I’m late. Anyway, what do you think of the prophecy? The fact that there is more than one baby, or do you think little Krissy was wrong? Maybe she didn’t say everything back how it was said? What about Luke? How can he be “The man from the store?” if he’s the same age as Michael? I’ll give you a hint, he’s NOT a controller. What do you think he is? How does he play into the story? Give me some feedback.
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