Verity by Farrell Claire

Author:Farrell, Claire [Farrell, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781463630522
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-07-12T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

At school the next day, Tammie asked me if I’d go into town with her that evening. I waited for her to turn up for hours, eventualy ringing her to see what was going on.

“Oh, sorry,” she said. “I’m out with Joey.”

“Em, okay. Did you forget you asked me to go to town with you?”

“I went with Joey instead. Listen, I have to go, I’l see you tomorrow, okay?”

She hung up before I could say anything else. I stood there looking at my phone in confusion for a few minutes until it beeped to let me know I had received a text. It was from Amelia asking if I had seen anything nice in town. I texted her back to let her know we hadn’t gone. Her next message invited me over. I figured if Dad was going to let me go into town with Tammie then he wouldn’t have a problem with me heading over to Amelia’s house, so I agreed.

At Amelia’s house, I was half-relieved, half-disappointed to find she was completely alone.

“Where’s everyone?”

Her bottom lip jutted out into a sulky pout. “They had to go somewhere and couldn’t take me along.”

“Oh? Where?” I sort of blurted it out without thinking.

Amelia flushed scarlet. “Um, they’re al at the cinema together. Anyway, you’re here now. Wanna see my room?” She led me up the stairs before I could ask her why on earth her family couldn’t take her to the pictures with them. I saw even more pictures of wolves.

“Your family realy like wolves,” I muttered.

She giggled as if I had just made a realy funny joke. Her cluttered bedroom was not what I expected. Dream catchers hung around her bed and wind chimes decorated her windows. There were pictures and ornaments al over the place. She was a total hoarder; al of her shelves overflowed.

“Wow,” I said, wandering over to her bookshelf. “This is some room.” Al of her books were on the occult or ancient mythology. I had expected it to be filed with teen romances or something.

“Thanks,” she said, beaming. She picked up a smal silk bag and pointed at it.

“Want me to do a reading?”

My mind went blank. “A reading?”

“Yeah, like, tarot cards.”

“Um, okay. I don’t believe in any of that stuff though.”

“That’s alright. You wil soon enough.”

I laughed, but she didn’t look like she was kidding.

She took a pack of cards from the silk pouch and shuffled them.

“Sit on the bed. I’l do a simple three card reading. One card for your past, your present, and your future.” I gave a careless shrug in reply but sat down and waited. Part of me was intrigued, part of me thought she might be a little crazy.

“Okay,” she said, sitting across from me. “Pick a card, but don’t touch it, or I’l have to cleanse them.”

“Laying it on a bit thick aren’t we? Okay, that one.” I pointed to the middle of the spread deck. She turned the card over revealing a heart being stabbed by three long swords.

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