Two estranged sisters must use their paranormal gifts to prove themselves innocent when a college student goes missing.
Having escaped her dysfunctional past, Jess has been quietly enjoying her normal college experience. But all that changed the ni...
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Jess looked at Laura's empty bed, the sheets crisply straightened with not even a wrinkle. She'd slipped into her bedroom the day before, avoiding everyone, and remained there with only the occasional trips to the bathroom. She'd been preparing herself to talk to Laura, but Laura never came home. Which only increased Jess's anxiety.
She'd already deleted three texts to her best friend, reasoning that if Laura had wanted her to know where she was, then she would have messaged her.
She took the narrow steps down to the kitchen, where her sorority sisters were already up making breakfast. All conversation reduced to whispers when they spotted her. Her shoulders hunched as she felt eyes watching her as she made a quick breakfast.
'So you did come back?' Mira said, leaning against the counter with her arms crossed. 'The girls said you skipped class.'
'I wasn't feeling the best, so my sister dropped me back here,' Jess lied.
'And you stayed with your sister?' Another girl asked.
Jess nodded whilst stuffing her face with her unappealing cereal. It was cloggy and when she finally swallowed it; it sat heavy in her churning stomach.
All other conversations had died as they watched her and Mira.
'I think Laura is right. Your sister is a bad influence.'
Jess blinked, taken aback by the venom in Mira's tone.
'So you've been talking about me?' Jess asked, hurt.
'Laura has been concerned for you. We all are.'
'Or you just like to gossip,' snapped Jess.
A number of heads looked away with guilty expressions, but Mira didn't back down.
'We don't want your sister coming around here anymore.'
'My sister hadn't done anything.'
'She got arrested. The police think she has something to do with Charity going missing,' shouted Mira.
'And the police are complete idiots if they believe that. My sister only came here because the cops called her after I got arrested,' Jess reminded her forcefully, locking eyes with a few of her other housemates.
'A sister that we never knew existed,' piped another girl to a chorus of agreement.
'That's true. If your sister is such a good egg, then why have you never mentioned her?' Mira demanded.
'Because it's complicated.'
'Doesn't seem so complicated to me. Your sister is trouble. And when you came here, you got away from her.'
'That...isn't true. Not anymore. My sister is a good person. She's always been a good person.'
'Good people aren't suspects in a missing persons case,' Mira snarled.
