Heartless

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"Alright, so we are headed to this witch's house but I think we should stop and get something green to wear before we go up into the mountains." Sam said into the camera causing me to furrow my brows, "why?" I asked.

"When we had a psychic read us, she said to protect us we need to wear green, since it's the color of the heart." Colby said and pulled into a shopping center. "That makes sense." I looked down noticing I was wearing all black. "What does black mean?" I said causing Colby to bite his lip as he pulled into the parking spot. "She may or may not have said to not wear all black." My mouth fell open. "Well shit." I said causing them all to laugh, "don't worry Cora we all wear black every video and we haven't died yet." Jake said and I smiled, I wasn't really believing the whole 'wear green it will protect you' thing anyways.

We went into the store and only found one thing that was green, a pair of socks. "Well looks like we are dying." Corey said dramatically as he put the socks on his hands, "don't worry shrek will protect us." Jake said and held up a stuffed shrek.

As we drove further into the mountains the foggier it got, Colby focused on the road quietly as everyone else was goofing off a little. "Why so serious Colby?" Jake said and put shrek on his shoulder causing Colby to laugh, but also miss the turn he was supposed to take. "Way to go, Jake" he said with a laugh and pulled his phone out to get directions. As he did this Sam pulled the camera out, "Guys Jake made me miss my turn so now we are lost in these foggy ass mountains and I have to use- oh shit!" He said as we swirved avoiding the car coming at us. "We almost just died" Colby said as his eyes darted back at me through the rear view mirror, he immediately turned his eyes back to the road shoving the phone to Sam, "help me know where to go so I can focus." He said and Sam told him to slow down as he tossed the camera to Jake, asking him to turn it off.

After a silent couple of minutes, Colby parked the car and looked back at us, "is everyone okay?" His eyes lingered on me, "I'm okay." I reassured and so did the boys.

I was getting nervous as I walked up to the door, Colby's hand in mine. He squeezed it lightly, "sorry for scaring you." He whispered in my ear causing me to shake my head, "it's not your fault." I gave him a reassuring smile as the door opened.

We were greeted by a girl who had a nice smile, she wasn't what I was expecting. "Hi guys, it's nice to meet you." She said as we each introduced ourselves, "I am going to sage you as you come in if that's alright." She said and we all agreed as she lit the sage and started to sage us all.

We sat at a table as she explained the stories of the forest, and her experiences with the paranormal. She also explained what being a Wiccan was like. Everything she said was very interesting, but I couldn't help but feel like someone was staring at me the whole time. It was really unsettling.

"Do you want me to do a tarot card reading?" She said playing with the deck. "Uh yeah that would be awesome." Sam said and she nodded, handing the deck to Colby, "I want you to shuffle the deck and close your eyes, really think about the journey you're going on tonight." She said and he nodded, closing his eyes and shuffling it for a second, "that's pretty shuffled, I would say." He said and handed the cards to Sam. Sam did the same thing, passing them to me. I took a deep breath. The cards almost burned my hands as I held them, closing my eyes and focusing as I shuffled them. I could feel the energy on each card as I explained my intentions for the night in my head.  I want everyone to be safe as we do this, and for nothing horrible to happen. But I want the content for the video to be good.

I took a deep breath and passed the cards along. Jake and Corey did the same action and handed them back to the witch. She flipped over three cards, the tower, a Roman numeral card, and the death card. My eyes flared at the death card. "It's interesting." The witch spoke and looked up at me, "but it's not as bad as you're thinking. The tower card essentially means chaos. It means everything will fall apart before it can be built back up, which ties nicely with the death card actually. It's essentially a new era-" she said and Sam laughed nervously, "the next era of my life is death?" The witch laughed, "no no it just means it's a new chapter of life. Something will happen, causing you guys to go into a new chapter of life. And this card in the middle hear represents fear and anxiety" she pointed to the card and I felt my heart race a bit more, "most of the time it's all in your head, the fear of something. It's not real. It's like when you're in a dream and nothing scary is really happening but you're scared."

We talked about the reading a little more off camera, then decided it was time to set up camp in the forest.

Once we got to the car, Colby took a deep breath, "that was insane." He spoke slowly. We all nodded in agreement. "But it was really interesting! It's good to know that we probably aren't going to die." Sam said and laughed. "You're right, but we should get going before it gets too dark to set up." Corey said and we agreed, making our way into the forest.