Accidentally Evil by Lara Chapman

Author:Lara Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Fourteen

I stumble beside Lady Rose, her voice soft and calming. “Ssh. It’s okay. Hang on. Almost there.”

She takes me into her classroom, closes the door, and sits me in her chair.

“Breathe with me. In two-three-four, out two-three-four.”

I follow her breathing, and in a few minutes I don’t feel like I’m going to die. Lady Rose squats in front of me, her hands on my knees and an orangey-red haze all around her.

“What do you see when you look at me?” she asks.

“Orange. Or red. Maybe a mix of the two.”

She smiles and stands up. “That’s wonderful. Perfect, actually.”

I shake my head at her. “It feels the exact opposite of perfect.”

She drags a chair over and sits in front of me. “Let me explain what’s happening, Hallie.”

“Please. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m losing it. I’m going crazy here.”

She pats her soft hand on my sweaty one. “You are not going crazy. You have inherited another gift.”

My mind rewinds in warp speed. “But I’ve been so careful. I haven’t touched anything that wasn’t mine.”

“Yes, you have,” she says. “You borrowed my pen today. Remember?”

In that moment everything becomes clear. The pen. The colors.

“I inherited your gift.”

“You did. Well, if you want to get technical, you inherited my mother’s gift. It was her pen you were using. She gave it to me a few years before she died. I didn’t think about it until after I’d put the pen in your hand. That’s interesting,” she says, teacher turned scientist observing her test subject.

“How?”

“My mother was a medium. Can you hear or see spirits?” she asks.

I shake my head. “No.” I hope I never do.

“So you inherited my gift, not my deceased mother’s. That’s different than what we thought.”

I don’t like the way this sounds. Like everyone is watching me to see what freakish thing happens next. Like I’m an alien that must be dissected and figured out.

“Honestly, Hallie, I think you’ll find this gift helpful. And I can help you read them.”

“Read what?”

“Those colors you’re seeing behind everyone? Those are their auras.”

“How is that going to help me?”

She folds her arms over her chest. “For starters you can figure out right away what people are like. No more surprises when someone spreads a rumor about you. You will know not to trust someone if their aura is deep purple.”

I don’t say anything. “I didn’t even know auras were real. I thought it was one of those hippy things.”

Lady Rose laughs. “No, Hallie, they’re very real. Let me ask you something. What color is Ivy’s aura?”

“Blue. Light blue.”

Lady Rose nods. “Yup. She’s all the things that light blue represents. Peaceful, honest, intuitive.”

“So you can see all these colors too?” I ask her.

She nods. “For almost twenty years now.”

“Do they go away? Or will I always see them?”

“Once you’ve seen them, you’ll always see them.”

“I can’t live like that. It’s too distracting.”

“I felt that way at first too. Trust me. You get used to it.”

I find that incredibly hard to believe.

“Yeah, I know you find it hard to believe.

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