Do you believe in superstition? I definitely believe there’s something to it—so much so, that I would purposefully avoid stepping on cracks just in case it were to hurt my mother in real life.
I incorporated this in Fallen Through during Chapter 32 where it’s Tyler’s birthday and he’s at a restaurant with his family. It’s important that when blowing out your castles on your birthday cake, you’re not supposed to say your wish aloud or it won’t come true. Tyler does tell his family his wish, much to the dismay of his younger sister, Natasha. She warns him that because he told everyone what he wished for, it wouldn’t come true now, which Tyler shrugs off as superstition. However—Natasha is right—his wish for everything to go back to normal won’t come true now, and it doesn’t.
I purposefully chose to foreshadow this in Fallen Through as it does hint that there is a tragic ending in store for our main protagonists and that there won’t be a happily ever after. Even if some of my readers believe that superstition is nonsense, I hoped that this scene would stick in their mind because it’s purposefully in there and very much alludes to Tyler’s eventual fate.
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