Shadow-Dancer: We're Not So Different [ALTERNATE UNIVERSE VERSION]

Chapter 10: Back to Ireland

*October 12, 2016*

Becca's POV

Another day of school. Maybe today will be better than the last few days. I hopped out of bed and started getting dressed. I had just finished when I heard a knock at the door.

"Hey, Becca," Jack called. "Can I come in?"

"Sure thing," I answered. Jack walked in, still in the clothes he wore yesterday. I wonder if he even took them off.

"Hey... so ya have a snow day today," Jack said slowly. My mouth hung open for a second.

"A snow day?!" I repeated. "But it's only October!"

"The snow starts comin' down a lot earlier this far north," Jack explained.

"Thanks," I said. I walked out of the room with him to go to the kitchen. I grabbed the cereal box, a bowl, a spoon, and a carton of milk and started eating.

"So what are ya gonna do today?" Jack asked. We hadn't really talked since the first day l came. He was either too busy with his Youtube channel, or I was too busy trying to keep in touch with all my friends back home (which is going pretty well, but it's really exhausting).

"I don't know," I answered. "Do you have the stuff to make hot chocolate?"

"Do l?!" Jack shouted, walking towards the cupboard. He grabbed all the stuff to make hot chocolate and set it all out on the table. "Do ya know how ta make hot chocolate?"

"Yeah," I answered. "I'd make it all the time with my... my mom." I slumped my shoulders and looked down at the floor. All the emotions that I felt that day after rehearsal came flooding back. I felt Jack's arms wrap around me in a hug.

"Hey, don't worry," he said. "I know it's hard. I can't begin ta imagine what yer goin' through right now, but if ya ever need ta talk, don't be afraid ta come ta me."

"Thanks, Jack," I replied. I went over to the table. "Though I think all I need right now is a nice cup of hot chocolate."

Jack left to go record some videos, and I started making hot chocolate. After about fifteen minutes (Ob was trying to figure out the perfect "hot chocolate to marshmallow" ratio.) I was sitting in my room, sipping on cocoa.

"What do you want to do?" l asked/thought.

"Hmmmm... We could talk to Lily," Ob suggested.

"But we don't have her number," I replied. Note to self: Get Lily's phone number.

"No need, mon amie," Ob said. "I might have briefly snuck into her mind and got her number."

Becca: Now that I look back, I'm actually glad you got Lily's number.

Ob: So am I.

"Ob!" I practically shrieked inside my head. "You promised that you wouldn't do that!" During October, Ob becomes more powerful. We're not entirely sure why, but we think it has something to with the fact that she's technically a demon, but that's besides the point. One of the powers she has in October is that she can leave my mind and go into the minds of others. It's only temporary, and if she tried to leave for more than a day she would be forced back into my head (Believe me, we checked. It was so painful...). Ob had promised me that she wouldn't go into other people's minds unless we both agreed it was okay, and she wouldn't take any personal information or mess with their minds. Here I was thinking that I could trust a demon!

"I know," Ob tried to argue. "But I knew that you would want her number at some point, so l thought I would save you the trouble of trying to ask and making a fool of yourself."