Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton

Author:Linda Joy Singleton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Teen, Sabine, Young Adult, Linda Joy Singleton, Singleton, The Seer, Fiction, spring0410, The Seer series, Don't Die Dragonfly
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2005-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Before I could say anything else, the overhead lights flashed on.

Blinded by the intense brightness, I shut my eyes.

When I opened them, Chloe was gone.

The lights seemed to break the spell I’d been under, and maybe the audience, too. Everything went crazy. Chaotic voices rose excitedly as people shoved their way to the pavilion. They swarmed forward like an angry mob, shouting and pushing. I blinked, like a sleepwalker shocked awake. For a confused moment I wasn’t sure what I was doing on a stage. Then memory crashed in and I panicked. Backing away, I whirled and leaped to the ground.

Then I ran.

Footsteps crunched behind me, so I ran faster. I kept replaying Chloe’s last words. She was crazy if she expected me to hurt someone. No way!

Behind me, footsteps came closer. Fear choked me and I kept running. I wasn’t even sure where I was heading, just far away.

A rock rolled beneath my foot and I stumbled. My arms flailed, but I managed to steady myself. There was a sound behind me. Before I could turn, someone grabbed my shoulder.

“Let go!” I struggled to break free. “Leave me a—”

“Chill Sabine, it’s just me.”

“Thorn?” I wiped raindrops from my eyes as I whirled to stare at my friend. “Wow, am I glad to see you.”

“You’re soaking wet. Here, take this.” She handed me my umbrella.

“Thanks.” I pressed the release and the umbrella sprang open. I’d hardly noticed the rain before, but now I shivered from the cold.

“Why didn’t you wait for me?” Thorn demanded. “There’s a reason why I didn’t sign up for the track team. I hate running.”

“Sorry … and thanks.”

“What were you thinking anyway?”

“I don’t know.” Shudders rippled through me. “I can’t believe I was up there—the pavilion—in front of people. But it was like I was walking in a dream. I must have been insane.”

“It was weird, but it’s over now. You can relax.”

“Relax? Doubtful.” I gave a shaky laugh, looking around at the rocky ground and realizing with a shock where I was. In my haste to get away, I’d run uphill and now stood mere feet away from a cliff—the deadly cliff where Chloe had lost her life.

“Let’s get out of here.”

Thorn nodded, and we made a wide circle around the festival grounds to the road. “You okay?” she asked gently.

“As okay as anyone can be after acting like some kind of one-girl freak show. I can’t believe I went up in front of people! What if the reporter filmed me? The last thing I want is to have people know about me—what I can see. But I didn’t have control, like I wasn’t even me.”

“I couldn’t believe it when you jumped up and started talking to yourself.”

“I was talking to Chloe.”

“If you say so,” she said doubtfully. “Did she talk back?”

“Yeah, but not aloud the way we’re talking. It was like she was inside me. Yet I saw her, too, and felt her emotions.”

“She’s possessing you?”

“It’s more like she’s forcing me to help her. Only I’m afraid of what she plans to do.

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