The sensation of pushing offagainst the Earth's pull felt natural and familiar and in seconds I was upat tree height. It was a joyous feeling. My body...felt weightless and here,in the air, I could push myself in any direction I wished. I felt free andunencumbered. I was flying, soaring higher.I had to stop myself going too high in case I was seen, so I dived and dida gentle glide around the clearing near treetop height, enjoying thesensation, my forcefield fending off bugs. It was like one of. My sister and I tried at every turn to comfort our mother whenever she would start down the path of utter chaos. We both noticed that when mom herself would come home from work or stay home for the lack of; we would find her deeper into a bottle of some kind of heavy drink. Almost every night my mom would pass out on the couch smashed with bottles lying about and it would be up to me and Nikki to try to drag her off to bed. A few times I couldn’t help myself when my mother’s top would come off. “Well, you never tell me you love me. Sorry, that’s unfair, you do tell me you love me when you want a blow-job, or sex, or chocolate bars and bananas from the supermarket.”“That’s not fair and you know that’s not true.” I shouted back, huffing into the air and looking at the TV over my glasses.We both parked the conversation when the lady on the TV was deliberating as to who to choose as her mentor. She finally went with Tom Jones, but for the life of me I couldn’t make out why she chose him.I. They could only afford a single room for the night, so Daniel and his mother were sharing the bed. Daniel was surprised to see that his mother was still awake....and still naked. He felt the blood rush back to his groin and the shame of lusting for his mother.He laid back on the pillow beside his mother and she immediately cuddled against him and rested her head on his chest. "Thank you for not doing anything stupid and making that awful man do anything worse to us." I need to learn how to.