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Chapter 27 – Fair fortune
SPOV:
"Chad, you know you love me?" I asked in my cutest voice. The fair was in town and I knew it would be even better if he came. There was no way he'd resist my cute voice.
"What do you want?" He asked, raising his eyebrows at me. We were in my dressing room and I was touching up my make up before lunch. I know that sounds like a Tawni thing, but I'd been painted up like a clown…not good for a girl's rep, especially not when you're dating Hollywood's heartthrob. Chad was sitting on my vanity table, watching my over the top of his magazine. His face looked at me from the cover of the magazine as well.
"Why do you think I want something?" I asked, feigning hurt.
"Because you do." We chuckled.
"Fine."
"Fine." He replied lazily.
"Good."
"Good."
"So, you'll go?" I asked, creating this cunning plan on the spot.
"Fine." I waited for him to realise his mistake. Slowly he pulled the magazine down and closed it. "What did I just agree to?" He sighed.
"That you'd come to the fair with me tonight." I stated, applying mascara.
"Oh, is that all?" He said, surprised. "You could have just asked."
I smiled at him.
"C'mon. Let's go to lunch." I grabbed his hand and dragged him off to the cafeteria.
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CPOV:
I walked to Sonny's dressing room after rehearsals, having changed into something less dressy. I was wearing plain blue jeans, not ripped, and a dark blue top and black leather jacket. I knocked on her door, since she could be changing. The door was normally open or ajar if she was open to visitors.
"Come in." She called.
I opened the door and saw her. She had her back to me and she was wearing a knee-length denim skirt, long, black, high-heeled boots and a blue denim jacket. She turned around to face me.
"Hey." She said, walking towards me. I contemplated how unfair it was that she could look so adorable or beautiful in everything she wore. Today it was beautiful.
"Hey, beautiful." I replied. Urgh, Chad. Cheesy or what? I asked myself.
She chuckled as if she could read my thoughts.
"Shall we?" I asked, offering my arm and trying to appear cooler than I was.
"We shall." She replied.
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SPOV:
We arrived at the fair earlier than I had expected. It was only four in the afternoon, but rehearsals had gone well today so Marshal had given me the afternoon, after 3.00 pm, off. Chad, being Chad, had just said he was having the afternoon off and had got it. How did he do that?
We walked by stalls and activities that brought back my memories of fairs in Wisconsin. Chad was holding my hand and it was odd how that little amount of contact still made my heart race.
We approached one of those games where you have three shots to knock a tower of cans down with a ball. I barely glanced at it and was about to move on when Chad asked.
"Does m'lady want me to win her something?" I smiled in return.
"You don't have to." I replied, but it would be really sweet of him to do so.
"Yes, I do. Anything for m'lady." He grinned and approached the man who owned the stall, who had been watching us eagerly until then, scenting potential customers.
"C'mon then, me fine young man. Win this 'ere fine teddy for your lady." The man said. He was slightly overweight and balding and for some reason reminded me of Marshal, but with a different accent. Chad handed over the money.
Chad took the first of the three balls and hit down the first tower. He needed to hit down all three towers with only three balls to win the indicated teddy. Being the great Chad Dylan Cooper, he had no trouble with the second tower either. He accepted the third ball and threw it at the tower. Two of the cans went down immediately, but the third wobbled precariously. Eventually, in slow motion, that can fell too. The man looked disgruntled that Chad had won so easily. Chad did a fist pump and accepted the teddy.
"Here you go m'lady." He said, handing me the teddy. It was a lovely gift and even more lovely because it had come from Chad.
"Thank you." I said, accepting the gift and giving him a peck on the cheek. We walked on, my one hand holding Chad's and the other clasping onto the bear.
We went on a variety of rides and tried several games. We were considering heading home when we passed a fortuneteller.
"This looks like fun." I commented.
"Worth a shot." Chad replied. We walked together into the tent. The lady called us in one-by-one. Chad went in first. I heard indistinct murmurings and muttering from within the inner tent, but didn't listen closely. Chad came out several minutes later with a huge smile plastered on his face.
I raised my eyebrows at him, but he merely shook his head and gestured me inside.
I sat on a little purple cushion on the ground, with the teddy bear on my lap.
"Hello, my dear." The lady greeted. She was your typical, stereotypical fortuneteller with long grey hair and several beads woven through the locks.
"Hello." I replied.
"Give me your palm and let me tell you your future." She whispered. I gave her my palm. She ran her fingers over it humming and harring for a while. I looked around the inner tent. There were beads and bangles everywhere and the tent smelt strongly of a heavy perfume. On a table between the lady and me sat a crystal ball. I gazed into it. From its depths stirred something. I leant closer, squinting slightly. A flash of yellow flew across the surface and I glanced behind me, thinking it was a reflection. There was nothing yellow there for it to reflect. I returned to the ball. The yellow flashed by again and the depths of the ball began to swirl mysteriously. I saw my own face, but older swim before me.
A sharp intake of breath from the lady opposite me broke my concentration and the sight disappeared. I glanced up to the lady, who looked from me to the ball and back to me, her grey brow knitting together and her mouth forming a comical O.
"You saw?" She breathed. I contracted my own brow and nodded once. "What?" She whispered leaning closer to me, still holding my hand.
"Yellow. Myself, but older. It was very vague." I whispered back, still trying to make sense of it. She drew back, gazing at me strangely. Eventually she looked at my hand in hers and whispered my future to me.
"You have many great things before you, but also the suffering of a terrible illness." A sweat broke out on my forehead. Not cancer again? I asked myself. "No, not cancer." She said. I didn't speak aloud, but then how did she know? "A sickness of the heart. One that can only be healed by the one who caused it. Twice you will be taken apart by life and twice you shall come together again and then forever more will you remain in each other's company." She continued in her breathy voice. "Follow your heart, my dear. Fate has many things in store for you, Sonny Munroe." She said and I took that to be my dismissal. I offered her money, but she shook her head. Puzzled I left and returned to Chad.
Together we headed home and the events swirled around my head like the mists in the crystal ball. Did I really believe her? Yes, yes I did and I had good reason to as well. Firstly, there was something odd about that ball and she seemed genuinely shocked, secondly, I had never given her my name…
Fortuneteller's POV:
I watched the brown-headed one go, the one the fates of the universe called Sonny Munroe. Her blond friend had been trivial in his mind, yet his fate and the fate of the intriguing brown-eyed girl were so closely wrapped as to be impossible to unravel. He too had seen in the ball, but his merely showed a vision the girl had had on arriving home one day; an accurate show of her future. That was how her future would unravel if it were left to fate. I puzzled over her and her companion. Sonny Munroe. The name echoed in my head. Sonny, Sonny Munroe. The girl had no idea of her hidden power as a teller, but I knew that she would never develop it. I had seen in her palm that the way of telling had long been deserted by her line. Still, she was an interesting object. Sonny Munroe.
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