Back And Forth

• Georgia Dickie, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2015

Hi I’m Harper, I am 15, this is the story of my life, or is it. I wake up one morning, in a really good mood, I see the photos on my bedside table of my mum Tracy, my dad andy, my six year old twin brothers Raven and Hunter, and I on our holiday last year. I walk into the kitchen and see my mum happily making school lunches, my dad getting the twins ready for school, I grab my bag, mum grabs the keys and we head out the door.

When we get to school I go to get out but mum grabs me and gives me a kiss.

“Ewww mum your so embarrassing” I say and I get out of the car.

I go join my friends Katrina and Rachel. Out of the corner of my eye I see something strange like a little hurricane.

“hey are you alright” Kat asks.

“yeah its nothing I’m just going to the toilet I will catch you up” I reply. I walk towards the mini hurricane to check it out, thats when I went blank.

I wake up at school, it doesn’t seem any different it is just dark at night. I start to walk home, I see my mum, she looks a lot younger but she is pregnant this in when I first realised something was weird was happening, I call her but she doesn’t hear me, then I turn around and have total deja vu I see what looks like me when I was younger, the girl trips over I go over to help her she thanks me, hey why don’t you come with me I’ll buy you a milkshake we have a great chat then she has to go.

A minute later I hear her scream and I see a body on the floor just been hit by a car it’s my mum.Thats when I realised the little girl was actually me and I had travelled back in time.I go blank again and wake in the schools sickbay there is my dad.

“Hey dad where is mum” I asked concerned about my dream.

“ Bubs you must have got hit hard, mum died six years ago” dad replies, with a tear in his eye.

Then I realise what I had done. I had gone back in time to the day my mum had almost got hit by a car, I had called her, she had turned round and ran to me then a car zoomed past where she had been but when I went back in time I had distracted the younger me I never got to save my mum.

I wish I had my mum here to kiss me goodbye before school, I wish my younger brothers were here to annoy me, when I am doing my homework, but there not here all because of me.