Live, Laugh, Love
What's going on? I can't see anything. Am I floating?
Who am I asking?
Suddenly I’m being squeezed through something. But what— ACK!
A pair of hands grab my head and pull, a moment later I gasp, flailing my arms.
I try to open my eyes but they feel so heavy.
“Congratulations Mr and Mrs Hartz, you have a healthy baby girl!” A cheery voice booms.
Wait a minute.
Why am I being wrapped up in some cloth.
Why am I being cradled?
Oh god no.
I finally open my eyes.
A sweaty red faced women is cooing at me, alongside a crying man.
Who are these people!?!
I start wailing my heart out while being rocked.
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.
I know I should try to calm down and and figure out what’s happening but I can’t!
What do people do when they’re panicking?!
Maybe I should try to sing something? Only problem is my minds blank!
Before I can fall into even more hysterics a soft voice reaches my ears.
“Hello my beautiful girl. Oh Mary she has your eyes!” He gushed.
“And your mole, Johnny!” She exclaimed.
They both turned to the other lady still standing there.
“When do you think we could go home?” Mary asked.
Against my better judgement I start to tune them out. All that yelling has got me exhausted!
Maybe when I ‘wake up’ again everything will be normal.
And with that my eyes close as I drift away.
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When I open my eyes I’m back home. My original home.
…Why did I have a dream about someone giving birth to me?
Im sitting with my family around the dinner table, which is strange since we almost never eat together.
Must be some special occasion. I think.
My mom’s making pozole, the small kitchen is flooded with the smell of spices.
Everyone is talking to each other. Until their heads snap towards me.
UHM? Im starting to get creeped out so I cross my fingers and hope they aren’t skin walkers or something.
A minute of awkward silence passes.
Why aren’t they saying anything? They just keep looking at me.
I hear a ringing in my ears before my vision starts to fade out. Everyone’s hugging me and the last thing I hear is whispered goodbyes.
I snap out of the trance , and I’m being cradled still.
You know what? Even if this all turns out to be fake ill just enjoy it for a while. It’s not like I have anything new waiting for me at home.
As they put me in the car seat I start to daydream about how I could get rich in the future by investing in stuff.
I spend the majority of time daydreaming until im old enough to do stuff on my own…..
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Timeskip- 11 years later
ELEVEN YEARS.
After all this time all I’ve done is play, and go to school. PRIMARY school which was easy enough since I’ve already done it before.
The only thing that surprised me was my superpowers! I could jump up to my roof and back down unharmed, and I could guess on all my tests and always get 100% with my eyes closed! I’ve even started experimenting with water! Trying to get it into a long line so I can jump rope. I haven’t told anyone about my powers for fear that the government would take me away and experiment on me.
I made friends but none were considered close friends. They’re just kids after all.
The hardest thing for me was getting used to calling biscuits, ‘scones’ and spelling. All the looks I got from asking for biscuits and gravy…
Anyways! I learned a lot about my family, my new mom is Evangeline Hartz, an only child with one living parent, Carol. While my father John Hartz is the youngest of 5, and his parents are dead. He doesn’t talk to his siblings much. My new mom is a plump woman with brown hair, green eyes and ivory skin, while my new dad is a lanky man with light brown eyes with a mole above his eyebrow, caramel colored hair and the palest skin I’ve ever seen.
And finally my name is Tallulah Elaine Hartz. There’s not much to say about me, except that im a gorgeous, smart, pretty girl. I have brown hair, green eyes and a mole above my left eyebrow and I’m an only child. WHICH IS THE BEST THING since I had 6 siblings before.
We live in Crowthorne, a nice village with a cult or something who wear robes and I get my own room! Boring af though, but a playground is being built so that’s nice.
BUT today is a special day because today is June 23, my birthday and a Friday! Which means we can go anywhere I want! And I chose to go to the zoo because where am I really gonna go at 11 years old.
Im wearing a baby blue dress with white stockings and black Maryjane's, simple and cute.
“So what do you want to see first?” My mom asks as we park our red ford fiesta.
“The penguins!” I exclaim
As my dad pays the entrance fee I see an ice cream stand. A godsend on this hot day.
I ask for a large cookies and cream cup and the lady hands it to me with a smile.
“Hmm… the penguins are at the back, how about we stop at the reptiles first?” My dad asks.
As we enter the reptile enclosure I see a group of people that seem familiar, maybe I saw them in a shop? Hmm.
There’s a fat man and boy, a skinny woman and other two boys.
I go look at the lizards first while keeping an eye on them.
I notice one of the boys with messy black hair break off from the group and go to a python in a glass enclosure.
HMM.
This seems kind of familiar.
I watch as the python interacts with the black haired kid, and the other skinny boy looking at him and shouting,
“DUDLEY! MR. DURSLEY! COME AND LOOK AT THIS SNAKE! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT'S DOING!"
The chubby kid pushing the black haired kid and then I saw the glass disappear.
OH MY GOD.
The chubby kid- Dudley fell in and the snake came out. UHM? As everyone was panicking or running away my gaze was on Harry as his mouth moved as the snake went away.
My parents grabbed me at that moment and were rushing me to the car. Me and Harry made eye contact at that moment and as I moved my eyes up to his forehead I could see the iconic lightning bolt scar.