Now or Never (Scott Wormer)

psychic reading

"this is it", Sam says as the girls ride up to a weird looking building. Sam anxiously walks up and looks back at us. You could hear shuffling on the other side and the door flings open.

"Yes?" The same girl who was their waitress a while back asked. "We need your help", Sam says.

The girl says with a straight face, "I'm a little blue today boys..". The girls look back at Chrissy.

"The money", Flora whispers. "Go on", "give her the money". The girls whisper. Chrissy looks down holding out 10 dollars. "maybe this will cheer you up", Chrissy challenges.

The lady looks at the five for a moment before turning around, "come on in". The girls silently walk in before you hear Chrissy's whine. "I can't believe we're spending 10 treehouse dolla-", but she was interrupted by her friends shushing her.

"What brings you hear today?" The woman asks leading the group into a room. The inside was very cool. It was very hippie, as it had beads, lava lamps, candles, and plant everywhere.

"We've been contacted by a spirit", Sam says. "Hi name is Johnny Person." Teeny says and the lady replies, "I know". The girls look at eachother slightly freaked out.

The sit at an odd shaped table. "I feel a strong spiritual presence here", the lady says. "For ten treehouse dollars I'd feel it too", Chrissy smart mouths. The lady does some kind of prayer, stretch, thing. She then puts her hands out infront of her.

"The spirits are here and yes they want to talk to you", the psychic woman says. She opens her eyes and grabs some cloth.

Flora puts her head in her hand, and looks at the lady questionably. The lady opens a beautiful red velvet cloth, with black lace sew into it.

She grabs these cards and hand the to Samantha. "Ok I want you to shuffle these twice, and then cut them three times facing me", she orders Sam.  While Sam does so she speaks again. "Relax your minds and bodies and be able to be attentive to it's presence. Once Sam finishes the grabs one of the three stacks.

The lays them out on the table in this weird stack. Their eyes lay on a death card. "We want to find out how he died", Sam says.

The lady hesitantly puts down a card. Murder. She covers her mouth with her fist as the group looks around wearily.

--

"Did you see the look on her face?" Roberta says. "She was scared", Sam says.  "Murder is a pretty harsh thing ain't it?" Flora asks and the girls nod.

"You guys we looked into faith", Chrissy says. Roberta looks at Chrissy, "she was scared and so were you".

"Well what do we do now?" Chrissy asks. "The spirits haunt the living for a purpose, dear Johnny wants us to find out how he died." Sam says.

"Well you saw the card, he was murdered", Teeny says. "maybe he wants us to settle the score!" Roberta suggests smirking.

"Come on, this is getting out of hand!" Chrissy says. "We need to talk to someone who was alive when he died", Sam says. "like who?" Flora asks.

"My grandma", Sam suggests "she's the oldest person I know".

--

She gets off the phone and Flora sighs. "Finally, what'd she say?" Flora asks. Sam sighs, "she has her poker game this afternoon, but she said we could stop by tomorrow morning"

"Your grandma plays poker!" Chrissy asks. Sam smiles "she likes to gamble". Roberta suddenly looks back, "oh wait but I promised my dad we'd paint our garage door tomorrow. I mean come on guys it's ten dollars!" Roberta says.

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"Hey Kenny what's the fire?" Flora asks. "Softball game, kettles field!" The kid answers.

"Lets go" Roberta and Flora ask. "It's gonna be all boys!" Chrissy complains. "So what are we waiting for?" Teeny asks.