Ghostcoming! by Orli Zuravicky

Author:Orli Zuravicky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

On Saturday morning, Cecily and I head out of the dorm to explore the rest of Limbo—or begin exploring it, anyway. First stop is the Clairvoyance Café for breakfast. We’re still not eating completely normally yet, but at this point I can down way more than a smoothie and I can’t wait to get my hands on a—

“Blueberry muffin and a small hot chocolate with skim milk, right?” the girl behind the counter says, as she starts ringing me up.

“Uhm, yeah, how did you know that?” I ask, amazed.

She nonchalantly points to the sign hanging above the counter that reads: WELCOME TO THE CLAIRVOYANCE CAFÉ: IF WE CAN’T PREDICT YOUR ORDER, IT’S ON US!

Underneath the sign there’s a little counter thingy that says: 103,624,512 CORRECT ORDERS AND COUNTING!

Mind. Blown.

“I guess this is where all the A-plus Telepathy students end up working,” I say to Cecily, who has just been told she’ll have a sesame bagel with cream cheese and a small soy latte.

She chuckles. “All I can say is, they really earn their tips here.”

We get our orders and walk outside to sit out front so we can ghost watch.

“This is delish!” I say, biting into the side of my sweet, buttery breakfast treat. “I literally can’t remember the last time I had a blueberry muffin. They’re my fave.”

“I had one a few weeks ago,” Cecily says. “But it was fat free and gluten free and sugar free, and something else free … I can’t remember.”

“Taste free?” I suggest.

“Oh, it was definitely that. So, what are you going to show me today, Teach?”

“Well, I thought we’d just hang for a bit first, walk around, see the sights. Then we can head down to the beach and I’ll work with you on how to stand. Sound like a plan?”

“Works for me. Hey, do you think Colin and Georgia are going to break up after what happened last night?”

“Who knows,” I say, though I can’t help but feel secretly giddy that she’s wondering this, too.

After I realized I was the one who was fixing the bowling game—accidentally—Cecily and I gracefully took our leave. We grabbed some ice cream on the way home and made it an early night. When we left the Bowl-o-Rama, Georgia and Colin were arguing in the corner. Again.

“I know she’s horrible and all,” I tell Cecily, “but I don’t think I want to wish the pain of a breakup on anyone. Even her. It feels like that’s the kind of thing karma would pay forward, only in a bad way. Is paying it backward a thing? Anyway, you know what I mean.”

“Yeah, breakups are the worst.”

“Did you have anyone to help you get through yours with Parker?”

“Kind of,” Cecily says, but I can tell what she really means to say is no, she’s just too nice to make me feel guilty.

I feel bad anyway, but I deserve to, so it’s okay.

“You don’t really feel like talking much when that kind of thing happens, anyway,” she adds.

“What did happen

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