Yesterday and Today by Phoebe Rivers

Author:Phoebe Rivers [Rivers, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781442489639
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

At school on Monday I barely had a chance to talk with Lily alone. I managed to find her just before lunch. I asked her if she wanted to go to the construction site after school, but she told me she had to get home to watch Cammie while her mother took her brothers to buy soccer cleats.

Just before last period, I slammed my locker door closed and found myself staring at the spirit of Barkus, the old gym teacher who haunted the school. Usually I made a point of avoiding him. But just recently I’d finally caved and listened to what he had been trying to ask me.

“Collins,” he said gruffly.

I sighed. Stopped. “Hi, Mr. Barkus,” I said. “I have to hustle to math class.”

“Thanks again for what you did. I owe ya one,” he said.

“It was nothing,” I said. All I’d done was go see an old lady who was in a nursing home. Decades ago, she and Barkus had been secretly in love with each other. He had asked me to tell her that he had always loved her, but that he’d died in a car accident before he’d gotten up the courage to tell her.

He shimmered away. And once again, I found myself staring at Jody Jenner.

She didn’t say anything. Just cocked one eyebrow in my direction, turned, and headed away.

I sighed to myself. Why did she always have to be there to witness me talking to spirits? I used to be so careful about it at school. I had let my guard down way too much. I had to work on that. It was almost as if because I knew that Mason and Lily knew, I didn’t care who else found out. But that wasn’t totally true . . . it would lead to all sorts of questions if all the kids at school found out what I could do. And some of it is really private. I mean, I shouldn’t have to explain it to everyone. Answer all the questions about it.

But that was different from being ashamed or embarrassed.

I smiled as I thought about it. I honestly didn’t care so much what the people thought anymore. It felt really good to know that.

When I got home from school, I could see that Lady Azura had a client. A strange car was in the driveway, and the purple curtain was pulled across the doorway to her séance room. I didn’t feel like reading more in the diary. Maybe I should start my own diary, I thought.

But the thought of doing all that writing didn’t really appeal to me. I’m a visual person. Maybe, I thought, I’d keep a visual diary. I raced upstairs to grab my camera, then headed back outside and wheeled my bike out of the shed.

I’d start by taking pictures of places around town that my mom might have gone to. When we’d first arrived here from California, my dad had shown me where she and her mom had once lived, although the house was no longer there.

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