You Call This a Gift?
Chapter 7: Anna’s Mom

My face lit up with excitement, she had her powers! Unfortunately, she got her father’s power instead of mine, but nonetheless a power. My daughter has the gift of telekinesis, or as we call it, “object manipulation”. The ability to summon an object just by thinking of it. “Wow, my daughter is an object manipulator,” I thought to myself smiling. Now all she needs is to realize that she has a gift. She will have so much fun at training camp and become well prepared. I smiled with glee as I made my way to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

As I stood pushing the food around on the pan, I thought of Anna’s dad and their power. I smiled remembering the way he proposed to me. We were sitting on the beach watching the sunset, our feet catching the splashes from the waves. He asked me and summoned the ring and it dropped in my lap. It was really comedic to me because when the ring dropped, it fell into the sand and then a big wave washed over our laps the ring being pulled away with it. He chased the waves and dove in and out of the water searching for it for at least ten minutes while I sat laughing. When he finally came out aggravated and defeated, he looked at me asking why on earth I was laughing. I then reminded him of his own gift and that he could have simply summoned the ring back from the waves. The look on his face was priceless and it was for sure marked a night we would always remember.