Chapter One

Beginning

Amelia Rogers lived in London with her aunt, Paula, and her cousin, Phil. Her parents didn’t want her when she was born after seeing that she had brown hair. Her mother had a dream that her child would have brown hair and live to kill three people. Nobody believed that this would happen, what are the odds? Think about it, tons of people have brown hair. In the room where I’m writing this there are sixteen people with brown hair. Seventeen, forgot the teacher.

Everyone thought her mother was mad, even her husband. I still wonder why they stayed together in my head. Now her Aunt Paula didn’t believe a girl could be so bad, how could someone have a premonition their daughter would be a killer? That shouldn’t happen. Doesn’t.

So Paula took the girl when her sister-in-law wanted to give her up for adoption. No child should ever live without family. She raised her with Phil as her own. Fed her, bathed her, and gave her all the necessities and then some. Now I don’t want this to be one of those stories where the girl is Cinderella and she meets her prince. Those stories don’t happen. This is real fiction. None of that here.

Paula and her children as I said, lived in London, current times. Now for sake of their fictional privacy, I will not reveal where exactly they lived, but they live in an old log cabin with faded wallpaper and dark green painted floors. There were books everywhere, on the shelfs, in piles on the floor, and on the night stands. Paula and Phil loved to read. They were immersed in their novels, classic literature, mythology, factual books, and such. Regretfully, our main character, Amelia, hates reading. Despises it. What joy does one find staring at inked paper that people decipher into words. Reading is a very interesting act, but she just didn’t enjoy it.

What Amelia enjoyed was psychology, why do people think the way they do? Why do people get up in the morning? What inspires people to pursue their careers? Why did her mother believe the dream instead of giving her a chance? What makes dreams so believable?

Did her parents simply want an excuse to get rid of her?

Amelia sulks in her room at least once a month, especially during the summer, maybe twice. All of that extra time out of school, just thinking of her parents. Where are they now, are they happy? Are they happier without her?

Now after seventeen years of this, you’d imagine she’d be okay with the fact that she doesn’t have a typical family. At least she has one that loves her, but was Annie okay without knowing her folks? No. Neither was Amelia. One day she just wanted to meet her mom and yell at her for abandoning her. She didn’t want to make up with her, she didn’t need her mother.

Another thing Amelia enjoyed was Netflix. She was really into the dramatic crime shows where there always death and mysteries to be solved. She’d always thought she’d enjoy being a forensic scientist so she could study the crime scenes. Blood and death never bothered her. In fact, when she was younger and her Great Grandfather died (not so surprisingly, her mother didn’t bother to come). At the funeral, she didn’t even cry. She needed something to do while her family was crying, so she gave herself the job of looking after the small children so they didn’t ask their parents why they were crying and make them cry harder.

Death is inevitable, it just happens. Death makes it so that there is enough room and supplies for everyone. Darwinism was a major belief of hers. If people were going to be dumb and get themselves killed, so be it. Should’ve been smarter.

People often thought her to be heartless, but she knows how the world works a lot better than the average person. Most people just don’t know.

Now’s a good time to talk about Amelia’s odd abilities. Bet you didn’t think it was going to be this kind of story. Wells she can move things with her thoughts. Say she drops a mug of coffee, before it hits the ground, she has it levitating at eye level.

Generally this is a good thing, comes to her advantage. At the same time it doesn’t help. You become dependent. What if someone throws a dodgeball at her and she makes it stop? Everyone will know, so to stop this from happening, Amelia has to make sure she stays in the shadows. She gets a lower grade in gym, but it works. The one time it didn’t work, she lucked out. Nobody saw. Thank God.

Now when did this start? Well she almost got in a car crash with a massive cemi while driving passenger with Paula. The traumatic experience brought her ability to the forefront. She was thinking about how they were all going to die, how did they get into this situation? She wanted this to stop.

And then it stopped.

But Paula was still swerving away while pressing on the breaks, so they roughly landed in a ditch. When the ambulance came for them, Paula was passed out and Amelia had very low blood. I personally don’t want to go into detail as to how Amelia got the stab wound. But it was about six stitches on her back, parallel to her spine. Their vehicle saw lightly smashed. Paula came to two days after, she has a heavy concussion. Everyone was fine.

Now what would she say to Paula when Paula asked rhetorically how they were still alive? Well figures that Amelia thought that it was simply a miracle and didn’t have me to tell her that she had the ability to move things with her mind. So all she would say was that she didn’t know. Now while they were in the hospital, Phil came by often. He was in his early twenties, commuting to college, so he lived at home. He was almost always there when Paula was out. The doctors were all troubled that she wouldn’t wake. Don’t have the story wrong, Phil cared about Amelia, but he was sure she would live, nobody was sure about Paula.

But alas she awoke, Amelia told Paula that it was some sort of miracle that they were all alive. It was a miracle that the cemi went from seventy to zero in the blink of an eye. Sure, a miracle they say. I personally hate to wonder what the truck driver thought. Will he remember what happened? Story goes he hit his steering wheel hard after stopping so fast he went into a coma.

   

Author's Note

Please ignore all grammar mistakes as you see them.