Disclaimer: Contains strong brainwashing/mind control elements. I’m reposting chapter 1 since I’m resuming the ongoing ‘perfect family’ series. ‘Perfect Little Sister’ is complete and is readable now. All links below. Enjoy
**Perfect Mother**
**Chapter 1**
The clock hit midnight. I squeezed my eyes shut.
The house was silent except for the drone of the news in the living room. After years of the TV never being switched off and hearing the same rotation of news anchors and reporters, my ears had become accustomed to the chatter, morphing it to silence instead.
Everything was perfectly timed. I had just turned eighteen ten seconds ago and I had just completed my invention a day before that.
Now it was time to test it out and never look back.
I walked out of my room, passed the stacks of cardboard boxes and stepped over the gruel on the floor, knocking several empty bottles of alcohol as I made my way through the living room.
I frowned when I saw the rain splattering through the hole in the roof, once a tiny circle, now a medium-sized crater, the sole bucket under the hole not wide enough to hold back the merciless downpour.