The Origin by Youkey Wilette

Author:Youkey, Wilette [Youkey, Wilette]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Phoenix House Press
Published: 2012-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

18 | … EMERGE THE TRUTH

“Okay, so now what?” Lisa said, hunching further down into her coat. “I don’t mean to be a nag but I’m starting to get really cold. I can’t believe we left our food back there.”

The snow was coming down around them in tiny flakes that dissolved on Coral’s glasses. She looked around, trying to find a sign that her premonition to come had been right. They were definitely at the right place – the Eagle’s Movies blue and red sign had appeared to her in a vision on the way down from Brooklyn – she just didn’t know if they were at the right time.

“Let’s go in here,” she said and headed towards the small coffee shop next door. “We can sit by the window.”

“Why are we here, exactly?”

Coral glanced up and down the relatively quiet street. “I’m not sure.”

“Then what are we doing here when we could have been eating our food instead?“

“I already told you…”

“No. You didn’t. You said you would, but you never–“

“Lisa, please!” Coral said, trying to contain the vitriol that was threatening to overflow from her mouth. More than anything, she needed some stillness in order to decipher destiny’s clues. “Do you want to go then? I need to stay here for now, but you’re welcome to leave.”

Lisa’s brown eyes narrowed and her lips began to quiver. I shouldn’t have come, she thought. Even the person who saved me doesn’t want me around. Rodrigo was right, I am just a useless waste of space.

Coral sighed impatiently. She didn’t have time for this right now. “That’s so not true!” she said, stamping her foot. “Rodrigo was a low-life piece of shit who thought he could control you by breaking your confidence down.”

“I didn’t say anything about Rodrigo?” Lisa’s face went white. “What… what are you talking about?”

Oops. “Nothing. I’m going to order a cappuccino. What would you like?”

Neither woman said a word as they waited for their coffee, but Coral heard every unstable, self-destructive thought in Lisa’s head. Her ex-boyfriend had definitely ripped her self-esteem to shreds, had broken her down until she believed she was nothing without him. And then the beatings had begun.

Unfortunately, Coral could relate to this oft-told tale. She was just glad to have found a way out.

Coral was opening her mouth to tell Lisa something she herself had been told by a trusted friend, when something outside the café window caught her attention.

“Oh my God! The building across the street is on fire! Call 911!” she shouted to the startled coffee shop employee and raced outside.

She was about to cross the street when she froze at the curb, the tiny hairs on her neck rising. Slowly, her head turned and she saw a tall, black-clad figure standing eerily still underneath the video store’s neon sign.

“Daniel.”

His eyes were glued to the burning building and she had to call his name a few times before she was able to break his trance. When he turned his head to

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