Revived Spirits by Julia Watts

Author:Julia Watts [Watts, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780983103226
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2011-08-27T21:00:18+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I finally got a chance to talk to my mom without Mamaw listening in,” Caylie says. She and Adam and I are standing under the big maple tree in front of the school where we agreed to meet after the final bell.

“What did you tell her?” I ask, hoping that Caylie’s mamaw had indeed been out of earshot.

“I told her who you really are—that you’re the one people call the Witch Girl.”

“Even if I wish they didn’t,” I say.

“And I told her you used your Sight on her and saw that she’s innocent and that it was probably Daryl who planted the drugs.”

“And what did she say?” Adam asks.

“She didn’t say nothing for a while. She just cried ’cause she was so happy that somebody saw she was telling the truth.”

My chest aches when I think how alone Caylie’s mom must feel. I’m glad that me knowing she’s innocent makes her feel better, but I hope she knows nobody’s going to let her out of jail on the word of a twelve-year-old girl who claims to have psychic powers. “The question is how do we make other people believe she’s telling the truth?”

“That’s easy,” Adam says, shrugging. “We get Daryl Chumley. We looked him up...we know he’s in Morgan.”

I say, “But that doesn’t mean getting him’s easy.” Adam says “get Daryl Chumley” the same way he might talk about getting a gallon of milk at the store.

“No, it ain’t easy,” Caylie says. “But I’ve got an idea.”

“Let’s hear it,” I say. Anything she has will be better than the big fat nothing we’re sitting on right now.

“Okay,” Caylie says, swinging her long braid over her shoulder. “When Daryl was living with Mom, he always made a big deal out of wanting me to be his daughter since my real daddy’s dead. He wanted me to call him Daddy Daryl and do things for him—make him sandwiches and get him beers out of the fridge.”

“So he wanted you to be his daughter just so he could make you wait on him?” Adam says.

“Pretty much, yeah. And he always thought I was crazy about him for some reason I couldn’t figure out. I bet if I was to call him up and say I missed him he’d want to see me. You and Adam could come along and you could use the Sight on him...see if you can find anything that might give us some evidence.”

“That sounds like a plan,” Adam says.

“Yeah,” Caylie says, wrinkling her brow. “But I’m still not sure how to pull it off because Mamaw and Papaw think he’s scum. Which he is. They don’t want me to see him.”

“Maybe you could spend the night at my house and we could go see him then,” I say.

“That could work,” Caylie says. “As long as Mamaw and Papaw think you’re Ruth and don’t know I’m spending the night at the Witch House.”

“And as long as we can get an adult to drive us into Morgan without letting them know we’re going to meet a drug dealer,” Adam says.

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