Foretold 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375984426
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

When Joanna came to, she was on a stretcher, surrounded by cops and paramedics. Her friends were all holding each other and they looked like they’d been crying. Kelly was there. She was okay. Over Kelly’s head, Joanna saw the slow spinning lights of multiple cop cars. Then she saw Ronny.

There was a huge gash on the side of his face and his head was taped down to the stretcher so he couldn’t move. His right pant leg was covered in blood. Joanna’s heart broke. She’d run over the one person who made her feel safe. How could she have ever thought he had bad intentions? Two paramedics were wheeling him toward the open doors of an ambulance.

“Wait,” Ronny said as they passed Joanna.

The paramedics slowed to a stop.

Joanna’s head was still in a fog from the booze, and from the accident, but she clearly saw Ronny trying to reach for the bulge in his right pocket. He couldn’t get his hand down far enough, though, because of the way he was secured in the stretcher, so one of the paramedics had to help. The man reached into Ronny’s pocket and pulled out a wrapped package. He asked what he should do with it, and Ronny motioned toward Joanna.

The man placed the package on Joanna’s stretcher, then they loaded Ronny onto the ambulance and drove off.

People were leaning over Joanna, asking questions. Cops with their notebooks and paramedics. Her friends. Auntie Helen. But Joanna couldn’t focus. Her forehead was throbbing where it had slammed against the steering wheel. And the world was still spinning. She managed to pick up the package and pull apart the poor wrapping job. And when she saw what it was, she immediately started sobbing.

They wheeled her toward a second ambulance. Two paramedics lifted her stretcher and slid her toward the back, and one of them hopped in with her. The last thing Joanna saw before they closed the doors was the paramedic handing the iPhone box Ronny had given her to Tessa, who looked at it and then looked at Joanna, tears running down her cheeks.

Joanna was still crying, too, as the doors shut out all the outside sound. She felt the engine start, and she stared at the blurry ambulance ceiling, imagining the fortune that would be imprinted in her mind forever: “The hour has finally arrived.”

It had taken running Ronny over in a car to understand what those words actually meant. Not that she would be hurt, but that it was time for her to stop pretending. She’d wanted to be Ronny’s girl all along. And tonight she was supposed to tell him. On her birthday.

She shouted his name. “Ronny!”

Again and again she called for him.

But nobody could hear her.

And nobody could take back what she had done.

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