"Morning Sweety!" Jennifer's mom Silvia said as she waved her hand and placed a slice of bread with no topping on the kitchen table. Even the quality of the breakfast was looking, well, poor-er that usual. A glass to heated tap water straight out of the plastic container and a slice of plain toast was something.
Jennifer quickly took big bites of the toast and took an one cupful of water before sprinting towards the front door. Silvia looked in confusion as Jennifer quickly ran back to the kitchen asking where was her school bag.
"Silly goose. You can't go to school with that belly of yours. Don't you remember that we made a pinkie promise when your belly balloon was just had a dent." Silvia laughed. "I remember how my mom shouted at me and just sent me... Anyway you're heading straight to the living room if you're done eating and start studying."
Jennifer felt terrified as she heard this. There was no way that her mother had skills to homeschool her but without any protests she walked to the living room and pick-up the book to 'learn'.
As hours passed and Silvia came to check on her progress Jennifer asked from her mother why she wasn't at work.
"Work..? Well, you see. Mommy has to take care of Jennifer here and going to work while you are here alone would cause mommy too much trouble." Silvia explained.
Somehow her mother acted different and Jennifer noticed this. It was if her mother was treated her as if she was babysitting her more than her own child. There's no way an eight grader's mom would act or talk like this even if she was younger. So Jennifer nodded her head and didn't say a single word to her mother's explanation.
Silvia gave a hug to her daughter and thanked for understanding. She almost felt as if she was crying but quickly stood back up and walked to the opposite room. It seemed that Silvia was changing her clothes and opening a phone application with a very old phone. Jennifer had to ask what was her mother doing and she just smiled and closed the door until it only had a smidge of an opening left. Whatever she was doing there felt dodgy to Jennifer but instead of doing anything rash she decided to focus on the textbooks.
She wanted to go back to her own time and leave this crummy timeline before anything bad happens. But something weird was going on the household and Jennifer knew it.