The Woman Who Sold Stillness [chapter 2]
When Lilly was 15, despite the warnings of her mother, she decided to share the most terrifying moment of her childhood with someone else.
She told her classmate Ted about the day she practically froze her mother, and he didn’t believe her. He told his other friends about it and, on the next day, pretty much everyone in class was calling her a liar.
A couple of days later, during Art class, she started crying. The teacher asked what the problem was, but she didn’t answer. Ted quickly got in the middle of it and said she was crying because he didn’t believe the lie she’d told him.
The teacher was wise enough to notice he was messing with her. She told him to calm down and asked Lilly to walk with her, out of the classroom. The teacher opened the door and waited outside.
Lilly stood up, and Ted started laughing at her, followed by the entire class. She was walking towards the door and felt this energy flowing through her body. She just wanted them to stop. And stop them, she did.
She called her mother from a pay phone in school and told her what was going on. Her mother said she had to think about that horrible day when she was 10, and figure out how to fix that.
Lilly felt strange, searching for that feeling, but it turned out to be a very simple task. She just closed her eyes and told herself, several times, what she wanted. Suddenly, she heard screams coming from her classmates and the teacher, who were able to move again.
Her mother picked her up from school and they talked about her situation, over dinner. Together, they decided it was best that Lilly stayed home for a while.
