spastic last Saturday when I got home. He told me I can’t see Logan again until they meet him.”
“What does that mean?” Nadine asked, oblivious to the fact that such an event was probably the worst and best case scenario for Bianca.
While Logan had a certain slacker boy appeal, he also had the exact type of style that would drive Bianca’s parents up the wall. Which of course was Bianca’s primary goal.
“It means my parents are in for a shock once they get a load of his piercings, and I’ll end up grounded for the next year of my life.”
I snorted. Bianca’s parents would probably ground her, but somehow she always found a way around her long-term suffering by locating someone, aka Karin, who was suddenly available to tutor her. The bell rang and the three of us reluctantly headed to class.
“Crap,” Nadine said, coming to a stop. “I forgot my homework. I’ll catch up with you.”
She ran back to her locker while Bianca and I continued walking.
“You really think your parents will ground you?” I asked Bianca.
“Who knows. They’ll probably try, and I’ll behave for a few weeks, maybe even let them enroll me in orchestra again.” She grimaced at the thoughts.
“I thought you liked playing the violin.”
“I do. I just hate the heart broken expressions on their faces when they realize I’ll never reach the same level as my sister. They start in with the whole try harder, such a disappointment, no honor for them, blah, blah, blah.”
“Do you want me to check?” It would be so easy to reach into the faint blue glow around her.
“No! It always freaks me out when you do it.”
“I love that you have no problem knowing about Phoebe’s future, but never want to hear about yours.”
She laughed and tucked a jaggedly cut strand of hair behind her ear. “That’s because when Phoebe’s schemes fail I can laugh and then help her get over it. Besides it’s more about the way you stare at me when you’re doing it.”
“Am I that obvious?” I’d never given much thought about how I looked when I was in the midst of a vision. Apparently, it wasn’t a pretty sight.
“It’s like you’re looking at one of those magic pictures, searching for the hidden 3-D image.”
She wasn’t far off. My visions were still images. I’d once described them to Lily as one of those books where images are drawn in the corner of every page, and if you turn them fast enough you can almost believe it’s moving. As for being hidden, well it really depended on how far into their future I went and how much I already knew about their future.
“Anyway, according to you, knowing won’t change anything.” She shrugged and stopped in front of her class. “I’d rather be hopeful that they’ll finally stop their constant nagging rather than wallowing in self-pity at the demise of my social life.”
“Well, don’t say I didn’t try to warn you.”
She snorted. “At least you won’t be able to say I told you so.”
“Maybe not, but I can still gloat over the fact that I could’ve told you.”
I ran a hand over my side braid, smoothing down the wispy pieces that had escaped. My fingers hit the hair tie at the end that belonged to Lily and a vision of her flashed before me. When the pictures faded away, I smiled. I’d seen her future so many times, but parts had been blocked mainly because of Micah. His future intertwined with Lily’s, and he was able to block me from reading him. Now that Micah had started to lower his guard, pieces were filling in.
The two of them had played hot and cold for the past few months. Yesterday had been a turning point when Lily finally figured out that he did want to be with her. I could have told her it was a pointless game. Although the presence of Micah’s ex-girlfriend, Jaime, hadn’t helped his case much. Today, though, Lily and Micah were finally going to be official. It was nice to think that after all the heartache Lily had been through this year, that she
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