Ghoul Problems by Sarina Dorie

Author:Sarina Dorie [Dorie, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon.com
Published: 2021-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The Present—Nine Years Later Again:

Time Keeps On Slipping into the Future

Vega sucked in a breath. The sanctuary of the teachers’ quarters had been disturbed by unexpectedly finding a note on her pillow. Just as the one nine years previous had, it looked to be written in Jessica’s nearly illegible handwriting. Scrawled across the new note were the words:

I’m watching you.

Karen Kazmere, Vega’s roommate, was already asleep, probably unaware someone had been in their room. After using a spell to attempt tracing the note to the person who had placed it on her pillow—and failing—Vega slept fitfully, her mind on the mysterious message.

Was this note written by the same person who had left the notes a decade ago or by someone else? Nine years previous, Vega had slipped the note that had been left for her into the journal—which someone could have appropriated to use for reference. This new note was charred, either because it had been near some pyromaniac or because someone thought they were being ominous and dramatic.

When she’d been a teenager, she’d received two notes in the same handwriting after Jessica’s death.

This was the same handwriting but a new note and a new message, nine years later. Did that mean Jessica was still alive?

Vega ruled out the possibility that the note in her hands was from Jessica’s ghost. If Jessica had decided to haunt the living, she would most likely have chosen to harass the person who had given her the last spell in her book—assuming she had coerced someone into giving it to her and someone hadn’t snuck it in. Even if Jessica were a ghost, Vega’s previous readings on restless spirits suggested ghostly presences were stronger right after their deaths. Jessica would have started haunting her killer, or the suspected killer, immediately after her death, not nine years later when it conveniently happened that the same spell had been used again.

Also, ghosts didn’t typically write notes and slip them under blankets. The living did that.

Vega had seen Jessica die herself. It was impossible to resurrect the dead. Vega knew. She had tried—even if it was illegal. It was possible Jessica was a phoenix or some other creature that could be born anew out of the ashes of fire. A possible scenario, but an unlikely one, considering Jessica hadn’t had any feathers or bird characteristics. Even if she had been a shifter, Vega would have spotted a bird hanging out at the school.

The most likely scenario was that someone else had planted the new note. Someone who knew about Vega doing Jessica’s homework and suspected she had created the final spell that had killed Jessica. Or if they knew she hadn’t, they wanted someone else to think she had to take the blame off themself.

When Vega thought back to everyone who had a reason to want Jessica dead, she had only known about the four girls who had been her classmates whom she had blackmailed. The four handwritings that Vega recognized in the book belonged to: Vega, Malisha Bane, Charlotte Winters, and Frida Lakshmi.

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