Warnings: Melodrama. Oh, yes.
III.
At the age of ten, she is about two feet shorter than her mother is, and so makes it a point to scream at her from the top of the stairs. He mother shouts back as loudly, her elegant evening gown and her latest boyfriend hanging off her.
These scenes have become so common, her nanny and the housekeeper merely listen with their eyes turned towards the heavens. They've become so much of a gossip topic that her mother's date merely looks bored. She knows she should stop and wait it out till her mother is back to being sober, however briefly; but the helpless tears she gets then makes her as miserable as these yelling matches they get into now.
She screams, her mother screams. Over them, another lightbulb explodes, just as so many have over the last two days, and she feels power surge through her in time to it.
Her mother shies away from the exploding shards, and screeches at her to stop it; tells her how she's exactly like her no-good father.
Thaila Grace is confused and terrified, and she responds to her mother by shouting some more.
