Following Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Author:Carol Plum-Ucci [Plum-Ucci, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
FIFTEEN
THE ONE THING I DIDN'T DOUBT, due to personal experience, was that if I got too close to Justin, he would sense my skepticism. A part of me related—this place could make you believe weird things were true—but he was carried away, and I was afraid the results could be devastating to him.
But he didn't sense my negative energy. In fact, he beckoned me closer. I didn't move, and he didn't seem to notice that either.
"I'm not always good at this," he confessed, shutting his eyes tighter while clutching the trunk. "You've had your personality tests, and I've had mine. Getting diagnosed as bipolar started with a symptom that kept getting me in trouble in school. When my mind races, I can't slow down and observe things like other people do. I can't tell when I'm hurting people's feelings and when I'm being inappropriate. They say most people learn that just from watching others' responses to them. I ... don't watch. So, the fact that this has even worked for me a few times—that I can see details of a person I'm not even looking at—is utterly amazing."
"Okay..." I said, though "utterly fictional" seemed more reasonable. "What exactly have you done?"
"I saw him. It was not my imagination. I had never seen this place before, had no reason to throw it into my own head. It was just a big, dark room filled with guys. Looked like an army barracks. Lots of guys' voices..."
"Looked like an army barracks," I parroted. It kind of reminded me of psychics always saying things like "You'll find the missing person in a watery grave." Pacific, Atlantic, Lake Superior always seemed to be missing among the details.
"What did he look like?" I settled on.
"I don't know. It's more like ... I was in him. I was seeing the place through his wet eyes. He was crying about something. I think his soul reaches out when he's upset. Because this other time I saw him, he was also crying. This is why I don't tell my friends much. They'd think he was some sort of a ghost if they heard this one. But one time I felt like I was seeing though his eyes, he was passing through a cemetery. He was reading all the names on the tombstones."
I felt a little weird. Memories charged through me—of seeing the trees under the glow of a white moon last night, of Kobe Lydee calling upon the dead, of RayAnn seeing lightning come from the ground, of my mother manifesting in a terribly abusive dream...
I found myself framing out the edges of the field, far off, and into the darkened woods, looking for—
Stop, my generally stable mind shouted to me. Stop and find common sense here.
"Justin. Stop obsessing and talk to me."
"About what?" He opened his red eyes and watched me. Skepticism must have been written all over my face, because he said, "What? You think I'm being a loadie, right? You can think what you want. But
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