Do You Believe?

Chapter 1: Oh the Life of a College student

"Dude this test will for real be the end of me." I say with a heavy sigh of frustration into the hunk of crappy metal that is my phone.

"Haha man you know you're gonna be the top of the class... Again. Stop sweating. Your freaky mutant brain will come to the rescue. But I'm for serious, when you start seeing dead people... Tell me!" My best friend Jo shouts through the speaker.

I laugh at her joke... But the strange thing is... She really isn't joking. I've always been able to do strange things. Like I swear this one time (not at band camp) I totally read this guy's mind.

I was thirteen and my parents had taken me to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta to see a performance of Beauty and the Beast.

It was insanely gorgeous. But at the entrance there was this guy dressed in a fancy old timey suit, complete with a top hat.

He greeted everyone and said things in a very old timey accent. But as I walked by after he greeted us I heard him say, 'No one ever applaudes my performances. I'm as good as any of them on that stage...'

His tone was so distraught that I turned around and walked back in front of him. He looked shocked for a split second before putting back on his role. But before he could utter another word I started clapping. He just looked stunned; if I wasn't mistaken there were a few stray tears in his eyes.

But he snapped out of it and with a dramatic flutter, pulled a rose out from behind his back and handed it to me with a grateful smile.

"Every man's stage is what he makes of it. Not some preset stage built a hundred years ago." I say and walk back to my family.

I was brought out of my memory by Jo telling me to let her go. I look at the time and realize it's way past midnight. Damn college...

We hang up and I start to hunker down into an intense night of studying. But I do believe my music theory exam will be a shit ton easier than Jo's chemistry final.

I would probably kill myself if I had to take chemistry. The right side of my brain is totally underdeveloped. That is why I'm a music major and not a chemistry major.

"Tomorrow... Tomorrow I can rest." I say to my eerily silent house. My only companion being my pet fish Pip, who swims around day in and day out; to have not a care in the world....

As Krim sinks into her books, across the country her soul mate- unbeknownst to either- is preparing to perform one of his illusion stunts. But in the back of his mind is the image of a young woman who has haunted his dreams for months. Sooner than either would like, their worlds will clash and truths will be uncovered...