Changed Time

Chapter Five

My eyes widened. My ears barely heard Jessie mutter a non-lady-like word. Wyatt turned around and stopped dead.

I finally found my voice. "Sophie, what are you doing here?" I tried to act as if I wasn't just talking about her dead sister.

She threw something across the floor and it came to a halt at my feet. I looked down and recognized my backpack. I touched my shoulder, acknowledging that it was absent.

"You left it in the booth, I'm on my break so I figured I'd bring it back to you." Anger was suppressed on her face. "Why are you talking about my sister?" She demanded.

"Sophie, Drew was just telling us about her." Wyatt tried.

"You said she was dead." Sophie said, her voice almost failing her. "You said that I didn't know she was dead." She shook her head. "Why would you say such a thing? Jamie's not dead! She can't be, she called saying that she was on her way home," Sophie stopped. "She called saying that she couldn't make it."

I nodded. It was part of the information I'd gotten from the vision. The murderers forced her to call and say she couldn't make it. It gave them more time with her. "I'm sorry, Sophie." I said. "I saw it-"

"Drew...," Wyatt warned.
She already knows, Wyatt!" I growled. I looked at Sophie, who had mixtures of expressions on her face. She had fear, angry and most of all, confusion. "Sophie, could we just talk outside, please. I need to explain, and it's a lot to take in.

She hesitated.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I promise. I need to explain everything, but not in here." I picked up my backpack and put down the rifle bag. "See." I opened the backpack and held it wide. "You can trust me."

She weighed her options, then finally nodded. "Okay." She turned around and started back to the entrance of the garage.

I shot a look back to Wyatt - who sent me a warning with his eyes. Only say the essential, they said.

I nodded and followed Sophie out into the street.

She was sitting on one of the benches that are laid out every few blocks along the sidewalk. I swallowed hard, took a deep breath and walked over, taking a seat beside her.

"Tell me." She said strongly. "Everything." I turned towards her , but she was staring straight ahead. I noticed that she was holding her cell phone in her hand. I read the screen.

Jamie

Call disconnected

"I want to know everything."

I narrowed my eyes. "You're probably not going to believe me." I said truthfully. "What I saw, what I can see...it really isn't possible."

Sophie snapped her head in my direction, her eyes glare into mine. "Try me."

I searched her eyes for any doubt, but came up with nothing. I nodded. "A little over a year ago, my family got into a car accident. My parents and my older sister, Hailey died instantly, and I had to go to the ER. I almost died."

"What about your brother?" She asked, her tone less strict than before.

I shook my head. "Wyatt wasn't in the car. He was staying at Jessie's at the time."

She nodded and gave me a go ahead.

I continued, "That's when the visions started. The first time it was an eight your old boy named Liam. He was drowned by his step-father in a lake after he'd accidentally broken the step-dad's model mustang." I closed my eyes. "When I woke up, I thought it was just some sick nightmare. But later that day, I was watching the news and there he was. A picture of an eight year old boy staring back at me. The police had found the body in a nearby lake."