Jackie
830 Words
Dear Journal,
Since we got back home all my siblings are watching me closely, even little Simon, not because they don’t trust me but more so they fear for my safety. They know I have other gifts that I haven’t talked about and they have a few too. Every morning after 1st meal Simon would sit on my lap and have me read his favorite stories. After 2nd meal, I would help tutor some of the younger pups, until my siblings came home from school and took over. Following 3rd meal, I was sent straight to my room and could work on my craft projects until Sammie came in and we would go to sleep. Repeating the same routine the next day.
Finally, the month is almost over and Dad agreed to let me go back to work at the Mom’s hotel closest to pack lands since many members work there too and can keep an eye on me for them. During this time Mom and Sammie have both learned to read Ancient Greek so they can understand the artifacts I bought home from Italy. Grandpa and Grandma Valderez came to stay for a few weeks and spoke of how no one outside of our friends and family remembers her death. Grandpa thinks that Selene, the Moon Goddess, altered everyone else’s memories to include ones of Grandma, but it was really me. Selene did appear to me once more after I woke up and explained the one rule I am not allowed to break. Only she can decide who should be joined together as mates, I can see those connections but am not allowed to attempt to create or change them once they are set by her. After speaking with her about that power I requested she remove my impulse to try, and she agreed because she knew that I would do anything for my family and friends to help them if it was in my power. So having that kind of power would be too much of a temptation to use. She did show me how to use my mental gifts to create memories in everyone’s mind inserting Grandma into them on a global scale as needed. Only those who I choose would retain the memories of her death and being brought back, and the same went with Aunt Denise’s passing and return. I let Mom, Dad, Aunt Charlie, Grandpa, and Grandma Valderez, Uncle Edward and Aunt Denise, Nana and Papa retain these along with myself, so they could also remember that this was one of my gifts and help keep me safe. As the month went on, I replaced the memories in my own siblings and Aunt Charlie’s kids, my cousins, to include Grandma as if she had been there all along. I even transferred all the feelings of love they felt toward her on their wedding days to make it seem like she was there to Grandma herself. She hugged and held me while I gave her the images of Grandpa walking them both down the aisle to their wonderful mates and the joys of watching her grandkids born from the eyes of her own daughters, including how Chris shoved me out of the way so he could go first and I bit his ankle inside Mom’s womb on our birthday. She laughed at that and next time she saw him had him show her the scar I left. The whole time she and Grandpa were visiting she retained firm control on Simon and Chrissy, barely letting anyone else hold or care for them. Mom knew this was because she missed the psychical memories with her other grandkids having to settle for others' thoughts implanted in her mind that now Grandma was trying to make as many real memories as she can by holding and cuddling them as much as possible. Luckily, Aunt Charlie announced she just found out she is carrying her 4th child, which was what lead Grandpa and Grandma to return back to Night Howlers pack so she could be there for her daughter throughout her pregnancy. Mom hinted to Dad about maybe going for the tie-breaker pup, now that Chrissy is almost 4 months old, but Dad firmly put his foot down on that idea and asked for Chris and my help to remove those thoughts from her mind. Aunt Charlie agreeing to let Mom “mind sit” for any appointments that Grandma considers important seemed to appease Mom for now along with refreshing the memories of the pains of childbirth. Mom had expressed many times to Dad after Chrissy’s birth how she would like another, but Dad was practical in pointing out the chances were greater than they would have another set of twins including a boy and girl as opposed to having a single pup because that is how his luck runs.
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