Something was weird with the way Arthur smiled. Maybe it was time for Lucy to use the psychic powers she kept secretly! Maybe that way she would learn the truth about that dictaphone Angie was raving about.
She focused on Arthur for a few seconds... Then it hit her like a metal bat in the head.
"Lucy, are you alright?!"
Angie caught her goth friend who almost fell on the floor, seeing flashes of things she didn't understand. She saw Angie small... And flat! How could that be? She always was tall and busty, and her nerdy friend too... She saw... Boys in the school, other that Arthur. Since when? It was weird but... She caught glimpses of Arthur talking, recording thing. Snapping his fingers also. Why? She saw girls with busts enlarging... Tomo's butt growing. Him saying things about Tomo having her swimsuit, then her swimsuit appeared! So she didn't always wear that swimsuit? She saw also a glimpse of his life at home. He had this busty sister Zoey, and like any sister, she enjoyed sitting on his lap... But that was after he recorded that in the dictaphone!
She was really confused. But she understood one thing, the dictaphone really had powers! But why would he record all of that? Why record such trivial things like Angie being a tall and busty girl, having a personal assistant... Every thing he changed about the world was pretty normal stuff... Then she remembered hearing record something... She couldn't remember all of it but it was something like...
“Every... record in the dictaphone won't seem weird, or unnatural... to anyone but me...”
That... Scared Lucy. If he truly could change reality, then he could change how everyone perceives it? Then, what's normal and what's not? Is Tomo wearing a swimsuit weird? It could be, she's the only she knows who does that. But then again, she's the only goth in the school. Is that weird? The fact she had kind of a crush on her best friend Angie, was that weird? Was any of that due to Arthur? Earlier he recorded about her powers, was is it only then she received it? But then all those memories of her using her power in secret, like cleaning her room with telekinesis... Was that not real? What was real anymore?
Angie leaned forward to talk to her friend:
- Lucy, are you feeling okay?
- I'm... Dizzy, that's all.
- Are you sure? You spaced out for a while.
- Yeah... I just... Hum, Angie. Is there anything weird about me, or you? Or the school?
- What do you mean?
- Like... You being tall and all...
- Why would that be weird? Girls grow up faster than others, it happens.
- Yeah I guess but... I have this feeling... Like the whole world is wrong.
- What? Come on... You know. Normality doesn't mean anything. It's all relative, what matters is your point of view. There's no "right" or "wrong" world.
- ... Yeah. I guess you're right.
Angie's wisdom truly helped Lucy. Maybe the dictaphone just changed Arthur's world. Maybe his perception was skewed. Maybe the dictaphone didn't work at all. Maybe it was all just another of her lucid dream. It doesn't matter. What only matters is...
"What do I want, and how do I get it... If this dictaphone can do anything... Then I need it!" Or so Lucy thought.
Sat Mar 10 00:00:00 2018