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How would anyone react in my shoes?
I don’t know if it’s seeing my moms so upset or the news itself, but I can’t take the flood of emotion for long. I phase into the Quiet. Once the world around me is still, I pick up the coffee cup and throw it across the room. It shatters against the TV, coffee spilling everywhere. I get up, grab the empty chair next to the one where my frozen self is sitting, and hurl it across the room after the cup, yelling as loudly as I can. I stop myself from breaking more stuff, though; even though I know it will go back to normal after I phase out, it still feels like vandalism.
Then I take a couple of deep breaths, trying to pull myself together.
This explains things—things that Eugene and Mira told me about. Sara didn’t lie to me. She never had my abilit
