Short Stories: The Little Psychic by V. C. Andrews

Author:V. C. Andrews [Andrews, V. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9780743448680
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2001-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

“That was Doctor Bloomingdale. He wants to send her to some special clinic. He said she was beyond him.”

“Really?” Daddy said with a soft smile. He looked pleased, and that made Mommy angrier.

“What did you say about his wife, Tiffany?”

Daddy turned to me.

I thought a moment.

“I just told him he would be unhappy about something she was doing today,” I said.

“What was she doing?” Daddy asked quickly.

“I don’t know, Daddy.”

He looked at Mommy.

“She invested a large amount of their money in her girlfriend’s restaurant, and he was very angry at her for doing so without his approval. Did you hear his secretary talking about that, or another one of his patients?” Mommy asked me.

“No, Mommy.”

“Well, why did you say such a thing to him?”

she demanded, practically screaming. “I heard...”

“Don’t,” she cried, pressing her hand to her breast as if she had to hold in her heart. “Don’t say it.

Marshall,” she wailed.

“Now, now, Jocelyn, don’t get yourself all worked up.”

“Maybe she should go to a clinic.”

“Absolutely not. There’s nothing any clinic can do but harm her. Enough is enough. Leave her alone.

She’s an excellent student. She doesn’t do anything to bring shame on us like the children of so many of your friends are doing to their parents. She just has a wonderful imagination. She’ll make some good use of it someday, perhaps.” He smiled at me. “Perhaps someday she’ll write books.”

“Make her stop talking about these damn voices,” Mommy ordered. “Do you understand, Marshall? Do you?”

“All right, Jocelyn, all right. Calm down.

Tiffany and I will have a little talk. I didn’t want you to send her to that doctor in the first place. He’s a quack if the only thing he can do is send her to someone else instead of telling you there’s absolutely nothing mentally wrong with your child. She’s gifted and a blessing.”

It was the longest speech about me that I ever heard Daddy make. Even Mommy was impressed enough to reduce the swelling in her shoulders and take a deep breath.

“I’m not going to think about it anymore,” she declared. “It’s your problem from here on in.” “I accept,” Daddy said.

Mommy shook her head and left us.

Daddy gazed down at the chessboard.

“You know what I’m going to do next, don’t you?” he asked without looking up at me. “Yes, Daddy,” I admitted.

He smiled and deliberately changed his mind. It wasn’t much of a move. When he looked up at me, we both laughed.

“I don’t know if you have some special power or you’re just an extraordinary little girl, Tiffany, but let me give you some good advice. Keep your secrets to yourself. People are uncomfortable around someone who might know more about them than they know about themselves. Can you understand and appreciate that?”

I nodded.

“Good,” he said. “I love you, princess,” he said,

“and your mother does too. She just doesn’t know how to show it.”

That advice Daddy gave me was the best advice anyone could have given me. I never forgot it. I saw and felt many things in the years that followed, but I didn’t reveal them.

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