Blindsided : Part 2 of the Intended Series by Abigail Grant (tharntype novel english txt) 📗

what he was going through to make him act the way he did or especially go out and overdose on drugs, but I feel like he wasn’t that person.” She shrugs. “I guess I just didn’t know him well enough.”

I wrap her in a hug. “I am glad that you found someone who truly cares for you.”

She wipes her eyes. “Me too. There’s no need to look back now. Let’s move forward.

Speaking of which, how was your day with that, Alexa girl? Is she pretty cool?”

“Yeah, I think you’ll really like her.” I struggle to find the words for the bomb I need to drop on her.

She studies my face, reading me like a book in an instant. “El, what’s wrong now?”

I turn away from her and sit on the couch. Hesitantly, I wave her over. “Come sit with me, okay?”

Her face reflects the epitome of concern as she slowly makes her way over. Without a word, she takes a seat on the couch and places her folded hands in her lap, waiting for me to say something else.

I suck in a deep breath and hold it for a moment before exhaling. “All right, um… So, are you ready to hear something that I have been keeping from you since we met all those years ago?”

Her face shows no emotion and after a moment she speaks softly, as if talking to a scared cat that will run away at any second. “I am, as long as you’re ready to tell me.”

“Are you sure, though? Kass, it’s a big deal and it could make you think differently about how you feel about our friendship.”

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She looks at me with disbelief. “I’ve told you, nothing you say will ever make me not want to be your sister. Come on, El. I’m ready.”

I take another deep breath and before I can change my mind, I begin blurting it all out.

“Okay, then. Since I was a little girl, I’ve had visions that make me black out and I see things before they happen, and I can even change them. Well, I just barely found out that apparently there are a lot of other people in the world like me. We are called Seers and I guess when one of us turns eighteen, they can start training to run super-fast, like Edward-from-Twilight-fast, and hear things that people are whispering from over a hundred yards away. It also turns out that my mother was a part of some family that used to live around here that are like me and they are all dead for some reason that I don’t know about yet. Gavin’s family are all Seers, and they have missions, or assignments where they protect people from freaking demons, Kass! Like, literally hell demons! They can fight really well and are insanely creepy. And now I’m going to be training to be a real Seer and kill things. It’s all really ridiculous and terrifying, but true, and I don’t know what to do or how to feel about any of it.” I talk so fast that I have to breathe heavily while I wait for her reaction. I’m fairly sure she missed everything I said because she doesn’t immediately get up and run away from her lunatic best friend.

Kassy just watches me for a moment, not saying anything. I start to imagine all of the worst things that could be going on in her mind right now. Is she going to scream, hit me, faint or call an ambulance? “Kassy, I’m so, so sorry if I scared you or if you don’t believe me…”

She cuts me off before I can finish apologizing. “I knew it,” is all she says.

I lean back, not understanding her. “You knew what exactly?” I ask.

“I totally knew you could see the future, El,” she says calmly.

I sit with my mouth open as she explains. “I mean, I couldn’t be certain, but I just had this feeling that you had some sort of gift, when you saved me from that jerk, Noah, in the tenth grade. El, he had me alone in his car in a dark parking lot. Not one person even knew that I was out with him and you still found me, when I was sure he would end up scarring me for life and there was no hope of stopping him.” Her eyes start to water at the horrible memory of almost being raped.

I grab her hand as she continues. “I couldn’t figure out how you were able to save me.

But when I laid awake that night, too scared to sleep, I thought about the other times you were there for me when tragedy was about to strike. You came out of nowhere and grabbed me when I started to fall off the roof at the fireworks show when we were eight. Then, that time we were swimming at Baker beach during the seventh-grade field trip, a wave went over my head and I couldn’t figure out which way was up to take a breath. I was so scared and sure I would drown, but there you were again, pulling me out.”

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I am in shock over what she is telling me. “You knew? Just because of those times I was there for you?”

She shrugs. “Well, I actually had a few theories. For a minute, I thought maybe you were my guardian angel, but I figured that was too far-fetched, considering you fell off the trampoline in my backyard and broke your leg when we were seven.” She laughs softly. “It wasn’t until my eccentric aunt Sarah took me to that bogus fortune teller just after my sixteenth birthday that I figured it out. She told me she could see my future and I just knew that’s what it had to be.” She smiles and jabs a finger at me. “And I guess I was right.”

I just shake my head, completely at a loss for words. I can’t believe she has known for