A New Mentality

As you lead the woman to the dining room, she stops you right before your parents could see you. “Here, put these on and don’t take them off until I tell you.” She hand you a pair of black sunglasses that look like they were bought at the dollar store. As you take the shades from her, she pulls out another pair from her jacket pocket and puts hers on.

“Ummmm…its not even sunny out yet…why do I-“

“Just put it on!” The woman told you in a stern mother like tone.

You quickly put the sunglasses on, giving yourself a quick look in the hallway mirror as they did look a little good on you.

You enter the dining room where both your parents were just finishing eating breakfast as the woman was a few steps behind you taking out what looked like a silver pen from her jacket pocket.

“Who was at the do-SWEETIE! You can’t just let random strangers in the house!” Your mother shrieked as she stood up from the kitchen table, causing a bit of a panic.

Your father stood up as well and glared at the woman. “Your mother‘s right, you’re 19 years old, I didn’t think we would have to explain this to you! Now as for you lady…”

FLASH

A bright flash of light came from behind you and everything fell silent. The screaming from your parents, and the disapproval and scared looks turned into blank expressions. You quickly look behind you as the woman held what look like a pen up to your parents.

“What the hell was that?! What did you do with them?!” You glare at the woman as you could not decide whether to hit her or to be scared.

“I hate explaining this part, so I’m just gonna give you the short version. I just wiped their memory up until a couple minutes ago. The reset wears off in just a minute or two so let me do my thing.” She walked past you and stood in front of your parents as she cleared her throat. “Your son has already been left for school, as one of his friends decided to pick him up early. You will ignore the sound of the front door closing as you will think it’s just your son leaving for school.”

The woman turned around and grabbed you by the arm and proceeded to lead you outside into a black SUV that soon sped off down the road to an unknown location.