Commission: The Pregnant Promise by auraman9005, literature
Literature
Commission: The Pregnant Promise
Katie began to doze off little by little by the fireside of the electric fireplace, its sparking heat warming both the body and soul of her middle aged body as the weather outside brings forth the end of an autumn descent, the beginning of winter most palpable to both her presence and the creaking of the rocking chair that she sits on and the place that she considered to be home. Just as she is about to doze off completely, a firm and light sensation lit her eyes back up once again, the welcome feeling of life moving around inside her womb being a daily, yet ever so exciting change of pace to whatever she does, whenever it happens be it at convenient or inconvenient times. Thinking further at the sensation as she lovingly places her left hand on top of her firm and taut baby bump of moderate size, she remembered of how it all started and how she first thought of it: a drunken and reckless, yet memorable slip of the tongue kind of mistake of a promise to a gracefully aging couple.
At 18, we get our powers. Most get the usual, Extreme strength, Telekinesis, Pyropowers of various effect; but a few of us, get something strange. I had yet to get anything. This was not unusual as my birthday happened late in May, but at the rate things were going, it looked like it might never happen. Though it was rare, the changeless, as they were called, were not something anyone wanted to be as it meant you had limited possibilities in the real world after graduation. Yet, because developing powers were somewhat unstable until you learned how to control them, anyone who approached their 18th birthday, were transferred to a specialized learning class until their powers were controlled. These classes spanned a time right before your birthday, usually the Monday of the week your birthday fell within. This was because your powers didn’t manifest until the forty-eight hours spanning your birthday, which meant that, depending on the day of your birthday, you may spend up to four