HELLBOUND
She’s coming clean with me, so I may as well do the same.
“What if it’s too late for me, mama?”
She looked confused and tilted her head at me, “What do you mean, baby?”
Moment of truth. I looked closely at the gloves that I was now wearing and waited for my vision to clear up and for my inner demon to reveal herself. I saw every fiber in the woven-knit gloves appear and I knew that my eyes were changing.
Hesitantly, I looked back to my mother, who had freckles that I had never noticed before. The look on her face told me that my hair was changing as well, it was a look of horror.