Wicked

Chapter Twenty-Two

The next morning I woke up still reeling from what I had seen. A murder -- and most likely done by the person that attack Michelle and the girl from the coffee shop. What I had seen was horrible, but it burned away any trace amounts of denial I had. Now, I would own my visions because it was apparent I was supposed to save people. I was going to save the girl I had seen in my vision.

I just didn't know how.

I didn't recognize the girl and the small glimpse I got from her wasn't all the accurate. I knew she was around my age, tall, athlete, and had strawberry blonde hair, which wasn't a lot to go off of. The other side of it was that even if I knew who the girl was, how was I going to explain my vision? I didn't even know when the girl was going to get murdered. Except, maybe I did. I remember the moon was full!

After I was ready for school, I grabbed my calendar. The full moon was four days away. How was I supposed to save her with only four days to find out who she was? I was devastated. I needed to save the girl. I couldn't let what I had seen to become true.

I didn't know what to do, but I did know someone who might know. I shut my door, locking it for good measure. This was not something I wanted Dara or my Gran to see. Levi would know what I should do. The only problem was that I had never called him. He was always just appearing, usually at the worst moments.

"Levi?" Yes, I felt foolish, talking to the air. "Levi, are you there?" I asked a little louder this time.

The air was stagnant.
After a few minutes of standing there in silence, I gave up. It was no use, he was probably mad at me.

Sighing, I went downstairs. Yesterday, Daniel had asked if he could pick me up and drive me to school. I think it was because we were now officially girlfriend and boyfriend, the exciting news had been completely taken over by what I saw in my vision. I passed Gran on my way to the door, she gave me a reassuring smile.

"Have a glorious day at school and be safe: It's cold out there." There was something hanging on her tongue, I was missing. She patted my shoulder as she passed me. My phone buzzed in my pocket, signaling Daniel was here. 

"Thanks, Gran," I muttered. 

Daniel was parked at the top of my driveway, like always. I hopped inside and he kissed me on the cheek. Again, the circles under his eyes were dark in color, contrasting against his bone colored skin. He didn't look well. 

"Are you feeling okay?" I finally asked him once we were about halfway to school. His knuckles went white as he gripped the steering wheel tighter. There was an edge about him today I couldn't, but I couldn't place it.

"Y-yeah, why do you ask?" His tone took a defensive turn I hadn't been expecting.

Shrugging, "just wondering. It's getting closer to winter time and people get sick." He visibly relaxed when I said this. His reaction fed my suspicion that was something was wrong. I dropped the subject and Daniel talked about Football. There was another game this weekend and he was really looking forward to it. 

"Now that we're official, you kind of have to go to all my games." He joked and for a split second looked like the old Daniel. His cheeks turned rosy and his hundred-watt smile shone brightly. 

"If that's your way of asking me to go, then no," I responded sarcastically. We joked like this all the way to History. It started to feel normal again, except there was an itch in my brain. It had to be connected to the vision I had yesterday. I'm sure that's why I thought there was something going on with Daniel because he had been there. I was just displacing my frustrations in finding this girl on Daniel.

We were fine.

Daniel was okay.

After fourth period, I excused myself to the bathroom -- to try calling Levi again. It was a little ironic, here I was calling him after so many times of telling him to go away. If it were another day, I might have laughed about the whole event. Except, a girls life was at stake and I couldn't laugh about that.