My summer began like any other summer after you leave school by sleeping in. Only my sleeping in stop at eight A.M. that’s when I always woke up. I tried sleeping in more but it never worked, I finally gave up and got up. I didn’t know what to do so I sat on the edge of my bed and just stared at the wall lost in thought. When I finally snapped out of it I noticed I was still in my pj’s.
Once I noticed that I was just staring at a wall I immediately went over to my closet and rummaged through my clothes to find the right match, perfect, my neon yellow striped tank top and a pair of jean shorts. I looked around my room for my necklace, which was a heart with an infinity loop attached to it. As I took off my pajamas I noticed I had none of my scars. I quickly looked at my hand, the scar I got to a piece of glass when I was a kid playing with a snow globe, it wasn’t there I frantically look for the others… None of them were there.
As I think about what could’ve happened to my scars I pull the shirt over my head and I look out the window. I notice something isn’t right, I wasn’t in my house, the landscape outside was different but everything inside my house like: my clothes, my bed and my jewlery were here . As I walked past my mirror on my wall I noticed something else that was different my hair; it was straight and was red instead of being brown and rather wavy.
As I walked down the stairs, I looked at the pictures on the walls to see what had happened to me. Since I was looking at the pictures to see what had changed, I ran into someones back. When they turned around I recognized them. It was someone haven’t seen in fifeteen years… My dad, he was alive.
“Morning sweety”, It was the first thing I can remember him saying. I just stood there and stared. I couldn’t believe my eyes and my mind couldn’t get over the fact that he is alive. How was my mom and brother going to take this. My brother blamed himself for dad's death. He would cry himself to sleep a lot of the times. I finally got past the fact and replied, “Uhhh, Good morning Dad.” After getting that out of my stuttering mouth, I quickly hurried past him and didn’t look back. I quickly found the kitchen table and saw my mom and brother sitting down eating normally. The only thing wrong was their hair. My mom’s and brothers is usually brown like mine, but now it’s blonde. Something different but I can’t place it. I feels like I belong here, like nothing is wrong. I’ve seen this before . ‘Everything was ok’ was what I kept telling myself. After a few weeks of being surprised by my dad waking me up, I got used to it.
A few weeks before school I woke up one morning and looked out the window. The landscape was how I remembered it! I never thought I’d be happy to see the rose bushes I always fell into. The only thing I could think of, about what happened was I was in a alternate universe. I ran down stairs and hugged my mom who was in the kitchen and said, “I love you”. She turned around and screamed. She gave me this horrified look and held a knife out in front of her. “Who are you??” She screamed. I tried to say, “Im your daughter, Victoria!” but all that came out was some gibberish. I ran to the bathroom and saw myself. I ran up to my bedroom to try to find my necklace which gives me the appearance of a human. I found it but a little too late. I could hear the sirens. Since my mom knew that I wasn’t of this world and I wasn’t her daughter. So I erased her memory of me and returned her real daughter with the memories that I had, then I ran away. After living with them for ten years I almost forgot about me being this thing, but that incident reminded me that I can never be normal.