Touch the Sky Page #3

• Science fiction

								


"I love you, Mom."

I closed the shell and looked at Jack who was silently watching me. I turned my back and started to undress myself before I lay down on the incubator next to my mom. He smiled at me before he closed the shell, "You look so beautiful."

I rolled my eyes. I tried to watch his reflection on the side of my incubator. I saw him taking off his shirt and pants and clicking the button on his father's shell the same way I did to my mom before he entered the shell beside me. He tilted his head to look at me.

"Let's travel back in time, shall we?"

I nodded and smiled.
 


A few minutes passed by and I felt my body being numb as I shouted without any voice. It was painful, and all I could do was cry. And as everything went black, I lost consciousness of my own reality of life.

"Carolyne!" I woke up with a heavy head and was shocked to see myself in a teenager's body. I was moving, but I'm not in control.

It feels like watching a movie show.

"Carolyne, wake up! Your friend is here!"

Carolyne? That's my mom's name! Was it successful?

"Alright, Mom! I'm cleaning my bed!"

I was in awe when I heard my mom's angelic voice. I was waiting for her to clean up her bed, but all she did was to look in front of a full-body mirror and apply some tint on her lips and cheeks.

"Now I know why I am a good liar.'' I said to my mind.

When she finished fixing herself, I smiled. My mom is so beautiful.

She started running out of her room and joined the teenagers outside her house. And as they rested their bodies on a cloth laid on the grass, I breathed out.

"Here comes Carolyne. She really loves to show up, huh? What a flirt.''

I was shocked when I realized that I had heard someone speak, even without talking! That girl! Her audacity to call my mom a flirt! If only I could control this body!

And just as I realized it, I was half-suppressed. How will I be able to change my mom's life if all that I can do is read other people's minds?

Where on earth is Jack?

"Here they are, Carolyne! Your love of your life!" One of her friends shouted.

I looked at the teenage boy walking. Was that my father? No way! He doesn't look like that—wait!

"Timothy!" my mom shouted, and I was shocked when they hugged each other.

'Oh, Great. My father is surely lucky to have this girl in her life. But Samantha is way prettier.'

I heard his mind! I wanted to punch him for cheating in front of my mom, but as he looked into my eyes, we were both startled.

"Jack?!"

"Fudge?! Samantha? Can you read my mind?!"

"Stop fantasizing my mom!"

"No, I'm not. I'm fantasizing you!''

I can see him smirking from the inside.

"Sam, it looks like we're really meant for each other."
"Meant your ass."

We were in such a trice that we had forgotten our purpose here. The story of my mom seemed to flow just as it is, like I was just watching her grow and be my mom. It's senseless! I told Jack about what I discovered and said that everything was not working the way we perceived it. He hushed me down and said that he could control his dad's body. I totally freaked out because I couldn't even do it. He said that I have to feel my mom's senses to be able to acquire her body, but it's not as easy as I thought it would be.

As I traveled back into my mother's time, I got to see her traumas and mishaps. And while being in my mother's body, I tried to change the flow of the story. We still have the ability to think on our own, as we have only traveled back in time. And it was here that we came to realize that Jack's father and my mother were in love with each other, but fate made its worst part.

"Carolyne! Are you with Timothy again?"

"N-no, Dad."

He slapped her, and I was shocked.
"Liar! I saw you with him! How many times have I warned you not to associate with him and his family? They took away our wealth, that's why we're suffering! "

His father grabbed my mom by her arm and started to drag her inside their house. This was such a nightmare!

He continued cursing my mom, and all she could do was cry. I saw my grandmother on the other side, but she didn't do anything. She just lowered her head off and didn't even try to stop this old man!

And as we got to enjoy the lives of our parents, I finally realized that my mother's trauma was caused by her abusive father and how her father stopped their relationship. I could not do anything to help my mom. Every night she was crying and I was not able to comfort her.

As my mom took a rest, my mind was still awake. I was trying to call Jack through my mom's mind, but he couldn't be reached. I was slowly surrendering, but I didn't want to see my mom suffering!

"Sam, are you there?"

"Jack?"
"I'm in front of your house. Don't wake her up. I just came here to say I miss you."

I was not in the mood to get along with his joke, so I shouted in my mind, "You have the urge to take it as a joke while my mom and your father are suffering?! What are you thinking? It's all your fault!"

"Sam, I'm sorry. Please don't cry. Just hang on, okay? Remember what I taught you back in our time? Control her senses and feel as if you own them. Breathe and focus. Trust me, Sam. I'm here with you."

I didn't want to see her suffering, so I did exactly what he told me to. I breathed heavily and felt her body. I commanded her body to do the things I thought while she was dozing off, and slowly, I was able to raise her hands and wake her up from sleep.

I even tried to speak. "Samantha."

"Jack! Jack, I did it! I did it!"

"I wish I was in front of you so you could give me a hug."

"Jerk but thank you! Thank you!"

"Sleep now, my princess. We still have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Good night."

I smiled. We know we're not in our own timeline, but as we get to live the passing years together, I know that I'm shortly falling for Jack. But I would not let him know how I felt. 




Early in the morning my mom was planning to flee from her house to meet Timothy, but I stopped her. I don’t want to see her being abused again. Not in my control. But she was resisting, and I just sighed. This is my mother’s life at all, so at the very least I let her talk with Timothy by telephone. I reset myself for a while and allowed her to take full control of her body.

“Timothy, it’s me, Carolyne. I will not be able to meet you today because my instinct stopped me.”

“It’s okay with me, as long as you are safe. How are you? “

“I’m fine. My parents went out for groceries, and I’m cleaning our house. “

“Gracious. I’m so worried about you! Glad you are safe! Let’s meet when we have free time, shall we?”

Was it Timothy talking to my mom or Jack talking to me?

“I love you, Amber.”

My heart throbbed fast. Surely it can’t be Jack. My mother’s second name is Amber too. But something pushed me to take control of my mom’s words.

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