Make some plans

After you’ve had enough time to compose yourself. You and your mother start planing out your next steps.

“First things first,” your mother says, “do you have a new name for your new body?”

“Alyson.” You responded.

“Alyson. What a beautiful name for my beautiful daughter.”

These words touched your heart in a way nothing had since you transformed. You weren’t quite sure wether it was your mother calling you “beautiful” or “her daughter” that did it. But regardless, you felt safe in the knowledge your mother would be their for you, no matter what.

“Well Alyson,” your mother said, “here’s the plan. You will live with us for the time being. I’ll introduce you to the neighborhood hood as my adopted niece. Your story will be that you got knocked up by your high school sweetheart. Your parents didn’t approve of your relationship so you planned to elope. However, your sweetheart died in a car accident shortly after. Your parents found out and your parents decided to lock you in your room and **** you to get an abortion. You managed to escape and flee to me, your godmother and old college friend of you mother. We’ll say that Alyson is your new name, and that you’ll be living here in secret until we can find somewhere else for you to go. That should help explain why we suddenly have a pregnant teen girl with no identifying documents living in our house.”

“What about John? How will we explain your only son suddenly disappearing off the face of the earth?”

“John will go soul-searching over the summer, doing charity work in South America. When summer is over we’ll announce that John found god and decided to travel to Ireland and join a monastery. I’ll even occasionally show off some letters he wrote back to me to my church friends when they come over for tea and gossip.”

Your mother might’ve not been the best at math or science, but it was times like this that made you truly appreciate how cunning she could be. In mere minutes, she had created a new you from thin air. John was dead, and Alyson had killed him.