CHAPTER 10! WOOT! Never thought this would happen!!
Hey guys! I gotta hurry and update because
I've got three major tests to study for and I've got to read a 200 page book
by Tuesday and work on a DNA model and memorize my lines and stuff for the play...
But hey, no one said high school was easy...except for this girl at my school
But she's a robot I swear!
Anyway, here's your last update for a while. I'll try and update Tuesday!
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Autumn
This will be confusing, but I promise you, everything will make sense in a few chapters. Just give it time.
I stood up. I couldn't look anywhere but where the girl had just jumped.
Cee must have read in my face that something was wrong, since she said, "Oo! I recognize that face."
Jesse must have too, since he walked away from Adam and said, "Susannah? What..who is it?"
I just kept staring. Jesse and Cee exchanged glances and she said, "Gosh, I haven't seen you this pale since that whole thing with Micheal."
"Querida, wha-" I ran past him. "Susannah!"
I ran down the boardwalk, I could hear Jesse and Cee running behind me. "Suze, wait up!"
When I got to the edge I looked over it, breathing heavily. Somehow this brought back memories...I don't know why.
But maybe it wasn't memories, maybe it was...
...memories yet to come.
"Querida, what the hell?" Jesse asked, panting as they finally caught up to me.
I sat down at the edge, not taking my eyes off of the water. "Susannah?" Jesse asked me, as he walked over beside me.
"Quick! She's not babbling! Do something." Cee said, in a very serious tone. Jesse looked over at her and said something, then to me he said, "What's wrong?"
I just shook my head. "Something is wrong." He said to me.
"No..." I choked out. I was scared. I really was. I didn't know why, but I was. "She jumped."
"Susannah, who?" He asked me.
"The girl...she jumped off..." I said as he lifted me off of the ground.
"Querida, I was with you the whole time, and I didn't see anyone." I looked at him to see if he was laughing, but he wasn't.
"How did you not see her? She was here!" I said. "You're a Mediator! Even if she was a ghost you should have seen her."
"There wasn't anyone up here, querida." He said. "Are you sure you're ok?"
I leaned into him, because I seriously felt like I was going to faint. "No."
He slipped his arm around me and said, "Come on."
As we were walking, I looked back at the cliff one last time, just in case she appeared again...
...but she didn't.
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"Suze...SUZE. Earth to Simon!" Cee slammed her fist on my desk.
I sat up fast. So fast I thought my brain was going to come out the back of my head.
What...
The...
Hell?
Wait I...
Deja vu.
I screamed. I literally screamed. Screamed screamed screamed screamed screamed...screamed.
"Miss Simon! What on earth is wrong with you?" Sister Erenstine asked me in a 'Don't-You-Mess-With-Me' voice. She was peering at me over the top of her Biblical Reference book.
"I'm sorry...I just think I'm going to be sick." I said. I wasn't lying.
She glared at me and said, "Well, go to the principal's office, Susannah." She muttered something under her breath as I walked out.
"I'm reliving the same day again." I said to myself as I walked down the hall. "Why am I reliving the same day again?"
"I don't know. Why are you?" Paul asked as he walked over to the water fountain. I jumped when he said that. I didn't see him come up. He smirked as he wiped his mouth and said, "What's gotten into you lately, Simon? You're more...jumpy...then usual."
"It's not funny when you use your shifting ablilities to sneak up on people, Paul." I said, turning around to look at him. His smirk turned into a smile as he said, "You figured it out."
I smiled back and said, "How else would you stalk me and get to History on time?"
He laughed and said, "You're something, Susannah."
I smiled as I walked past him and said, "I should certainly hope so."
He, to my disappointment, caught up with me and said, "What did you do now?"
"Nothing. I don't feel good."
He smiled, "Liar."
I stopped and gaped at him. He smiled again and said, "I know you. You're lying."
"Fine. I'm lying. Something happened and I want to go home."
"Rico dump you?" He asked me.
I rolled my eyes at him as I walked off. "I was just asking a question, Suze."
"A question that doesn't involve you." I said.
"So he did!" Paul said with a smirk.
"No, he didn't." I said, as I kept walking.
"You dumped him..."
"No, I didn't Paul. Get over it, ok?" I said to him as we got closer to Father Dom's office.
I turned away from him, but stopped when he said, "You were suppossed to punch me."
I froze. Even though my back was turned, I knew he was smiling. I also knew I had the exact reaction he wanted from me.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said, in a squeaky voice.
He came closer to me and said, "Oh, but I think you do, Miss Simon."
I turned around and stared at him. I knew my jaw was practially dropped down to the floor.
"What the hell did you do?" I asked in a voice that was way too shaky.
He smiled and said, "This time, I can honestly say nothing."
"Liar." I said to him.
He smiled even bigger and said, "Sticks and stones, my dear. Sticks and stones." He kissed my cheek and walked off.
And I stood there, open-mouthed, cheek burning...staring at the wall in horror.
The bell rang, but now I didn't want to go home...
I wanted to stay and see what the Evil Mr. Slater did this time.
"Susannah, did you need to see me?" Father D asked me as he walked out of his office.
"No." I said quickly as I walked back down the hallway.
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"Suze, I think you're overreacting about this." Cee said as she took a sip of her Diet Coke.
"No, I'm not. Cee, this guys leaves me for dead! And now...I don't know." I said, slamming my head on the table in front of me.
"Did you tell Jesse?" She asked me.
"No. Because he would overreact." I said, my voice muffled against the table. "And plus, the last time I lived through this day, he didn't believe me."
"Well, Suze. If what you're telling me is true, Jesse will want to know." She was right. I knew she was. I just didn't want to tell him.
"This is so messed up." I groaned as I sat back up. "I mean, at last, at long last...I finally think that everything's going to be normal, and BOOM! There ya go, 40 year old Jesse comes along and tells me that Paul split my soul in three...killing one of me in the process. I mean, that's just a little too much for a 16 year old girl to handle."
She smiled, "More than a dead boyfriend?"
I smiled up at her and said, "Yep."
"Wow, you must be messed up." She said, putting her can down. "Have you tried talking to Paul?"
"Like I would."
"Why? It's not like he's going to kill you. He loves you! Why would he kill you-"
"He's tried before. He may not have meant to, but he did." I said, poking my sandwich. "I mean, you know what...I don't even know what I mean...I don't..." I sighed. "I am just so tired of this!"
"You're The Mediator. No one said your life was going to be easy." She said, looking sadly at me.
"Yeah, I just wish for one day that it was." I said, putting my head back on the table.
She rubbed my shoulder and said, "I would tell him."
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"Susannah..." He trailed off and stared at me. I looked over at Cee and hoped that I gave her an 'I-told-ya-so' look.
"Ok...Paul wanted you...nothing new there. And he split your soul into three parts?" Jesse asked, smiling as he looked over from the window seat. "And I magically appear because you've been friends with my sister, who in this century doesn't even exist...and you expect me to believe that?"
He and Cee both looked shocked when I moved my mouth along with what he just said. When he just kept staring, I said, "You said that the last time that I told you."
He smiled, "You know we've done that before." I knew he meant the times when we ' read ' each other's minds.
"I can't believe you don't believe her!" Cee said.
He looked over at her and said, "And you do?"
She nodded, "My best friend can talk to dead people and had a dead boyfriend, so yeah I do believe her." That got him for a minute, before he said, "Well, fine. Just say I believe you...why would he make you relive a day again? Did anything happen last time you were on this day?"
"Yeah. We went to the Valentine's Bash down at the beach. I saw a girl jump off the boardwalk, but no one could see her." I said, sitting down across from Jesse.
"Because she was a ghost." Jesse said. I shook my head and said, "You couldn't see her either."
"Well, maybe Jesse's mediating abilities was just temporary. You know, like a side-affect from bringing him back to the future." Cee said hopefully.
I shook my head, "It's been three months though. Don't you think if it was going to go away it would have already?"
At that time, David walked into the room. He relaxed when he saw Cee was in the room with me and Jesse. He's walked in on some stuff. When Jesse was a ghost too.
"How about you, Do-David. You're smart. You think it's possible to relive a day?" I asked him.
He smiled and said, "I think with you anything's possible."
Jesse laughed at that. I glared at him and Doc said, "I can look into it for you."
"Actually, that would help a lot."
We waited for a long time, before Doc came back into the room. "Ok. I looked it up for you. Soul splitting goes all the way back to biblical times...like before Christ...anyways, about the time of the Salem Witch Trials, there was a group of so-called 'priests' who developed a new way of casting out demons. It was suppossedly safer than exorcising. Which, I think we all know how dangerous that is."
I glared at him and said, "Continue."
He smiled at me and said, "They called themselves Los Santos or-"
"-The Holy Ones." Jesse finished for him. Doc nodded and said, "Yeah. But they were the complete opposite of Holy. They were witches..or warlocks, whatever you want to call them. They developed a place for the souls to go. It was a way of torture. They'd split their souls, put them in different worlds, then they'd go on to live almost a half-life, reliving days, people not knowing who they were...it was a mess. It'd go on like that until worlds collided. Then, well...the souls would be destroyed. Not to heaven, nor hell. No where. End of story. They were gone."
"And they did this why?" I asked after the stunned silence passed.
"Because they were evil and that's how evil people get thier kicks. They eventually were hanged for their crimes when the people of Salinas found out that they weren't Holy Ones. Just before they died, they put a curse on the doors so that they would forever stay open."
"Ouch." Cee said, finally.
"Can't I just shift up to the Shadowland, get my souls and come back down?" I asked him.
"No. You can shift all you want, Suze. But once you go in one of those doors, you can't come back out." He said.
"Oh, this sucks." I said, as I dramatically fell on to the chair and started breathing deeply and heavily.
"Susannah, you're going to hyperventilate." Jesse said, in a bored voice. I ignored him as I prepared to have yet another frequent and completely unhealthy dramatic episode. He sighed and said to Cee, "Hand me that pillow." She did, and he gave it to me. And I put it over my fae and screamed loud.
"THIS SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS! SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled into the pillow.
"You done?" Jesse asked me.
"Yep." I said, handing him the pillow, acting like nothing ever happened. "So, what now?"
"Well, you said that you saw a girl last night that Jesse couldn't see." Doc said.
"Yeah, so?"
He smiled and said, "Why don't we pay her a little visit."
Not much of a cliffie, I know.
I gotta go, and I'll try and update as soon as I can!
Mwah!
Love and Jesse shaped cookies/dog biscuits to all!
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-SASTMJ