Page 39 of Oh No! There's an Incubus in my Hot Spring
“You seriously never noticed that I’m like the opposite of your id?”
“Bro, you’re a duck. You’re a rubber duck!”
“Stop talking with your mouth full. It’s rude.”
I spit out my food into a napkin. “Apollo, what have you done to my struggle ducky?”
He shrugs helplessly. “Nothing.”
I march over to the duck and pick him up.
“Hey, what’s good?”
“You…stop it,” I turn, glaring at Apollo. “Stop talking in my head and sounding like my duck!”
He swallows his food. “I’m not speaking in your head. You initiated the mental connection with Charlie years ago. He told me a lot about you while you were unconscious.”
“Charlie!” I whip around and glare at the duck.
“We were bored!”he quacks in my mind.
What the fuck is my life right now?
“You know what? I bet I actually died when I fell down the stairs. That’s it. I died, and this is my weird afterlife.”
“Stop being so dramatic.”
I slump down in my chair with Charlie in one hand and pick up a fry. “I’ve had my mind blown too many times in the last twenty-four hours.”
“Let’s watch one of those funny ViewTubes,” Apollo says, grabbing the laptop. “That will help you not think about it.”
“You know what…you’re right. Fuck it. Let’s watch some memes.”
I flip over to my favorite compiler and turn on his most recent video.
“Turn me so I can watch too, please,”Charlie says.
I shake my head at the absolute nonsensicalness that is a talking rubber duck and set him down so that his painted eye dots are facing the screen.
“Thanks.”
I’ve gone insane.
Within a few moments, Apollo and I are both laughing at the video. When it’s over, I remember that my entire reality has shifted. It’s not as if my life is ruined, or over, it’s just the future holds more uncertainty than I was expecting.
And that’s scary.
“Is it as scary as leaving Jason?”
It’s scarier. The fabric of my life and of the universe as I know it has been altered. Jason was just five years of my time.
“Well, you can sit there like a petrified little kitten, or you can do something about it. What can you do about it?”
Learn more about my powers and what it means to be a witch. Make a plan for how to live with this new information.
“What can you do right now?”
Get that flooring done before the move tomorrow.
