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Odette Alarie live in Europe all her life until one summer when her cousin and uncle came to visit. When they left to go home, she came along with them. She knew the history of the town, but she wasn't prepared for how bad it actually...
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Chapter Sixty-Seven ⚔ After Images ⚔
"You all right?" Corey asked as he, Mason, Lydia and Odette sat around in the chemistry class. Lydia was staring at a fire with a pencil and paper, trying to trigger a premonition to find Brett who was hurt and missing. And Odette had her eyes closed holding Brett's bloody lacrosse stick trying to find his energy. "Yeah, why?" Mason asked and Corey shrugged slightly, "Just checking."
"No, it's okay. I don't see anything." Mason said, glancing around the room before looking back at the girls making Corey furrow his brows. "Huh?" He asked and Mason shook his head, "Nothing."
"Quiet! Please." Lydia said making the boys awkward purse their lips, "Sorry." They said at the same time. It was quiet for a moment before Corey leaned closer to Mason, "Have they ever tried this before?" He whispered. "Initiating a premonition and finding someone through energy? A few times. They usually find her and energy thing is usually a 50/50." Mason said.
"How will it help us find him?" Corey asked and Mason shrugged slightly, "I don't know. But, if Brett's seriously hurt Odette would be able to find his energy a lot easier but if he's dead, I think Lydia would already know." Mason said and Corey nodded slightly as they watched the girls.
"Do you think it's working?" Corey asked and Odette sighed and opened her eyes, "It might if you stop talking." She said, shooting them a look making their eyes widen as they stopped talking. Lydia and Odette glanced at each other and sighed softly before Lydia turned back to the flame and Odette closed her eyes.
A second later Corey picked up one of the balls on the Newton's Cradle that sat on the desk before dropping it making the bead hit each other. Mason panickedly grabbed the thing, trying to stop it while also making more noise making the girls look that them again.
"Sorry."
Odette sighed softly and was about to close her eyes again but stopped when she saw the distant look on Lydia's face before she started writing. Odette glanced at Mason and Corey before holding her finger up to her lips, signaling for them to keep quiet as they watched Lydia rapidly write one the paper.
"Does anyone speak Chinese?" Corey asked after a moment when Lydia was finished writing. "My phone does." Mason said pulling out his phone before taking a picture at the paper, "Lux-vee..." Corey started to say until Odette cut him off.
"It's a Roman numeral. Sixty-eight. It also says sixty-eight in French right here." She said, pointing at one of the words and Lydia nodded in agreement, "Sixty-eight. That's what the Chinese says, too." Mason said as he looked down at his phone.
"E-R..." Lydia said looking down at the paper and Corey furrow his brows, "E-R what?" He asked. "Erubium. The atomic number for erubium is sixty-eight." Lydia said, looking back at the element chart behind them while Odette nodded slightly as she looked over the page, "Everything on this just says sixty-eight." She said.
"Sixty-eight what?" Mason asked and Lydia sighed softly, "I have no idea." She said. "Okay, so what do we try next?" Mason asked and Lydia squinted slightly in thought, "I'm going back to where my last premonition was..." She said before turning to look at the guys.
"And only Odette is coming with me." She said making the guys frown slightly and look at each other guilty.
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"Sixty-five... sixty-six... sixty-seven... sixty-eight." Lydia said, counting as she slowly took a step with each count. Odette, who was leaning against the wall waited until Lydia stopped before walking over to her. Lydia turned to the locker she stood next to with pursed lips before lifting up the lock then letting it fall back against the locker making realization cross over her features.
"Sixty-eight." She said, glancing over at Odette who looked up at the numbers on the lockers, seemingly getting what Lydia was thinking. They walked over to locker #068 which didn't have a lock on it and Lydia quickly opened it only to reveal it completely empty.
She sighed before closing it and turning to Odette who pursed her lips, "Okay, so maybe not locker number sixty-eight." She said and Lydia nodded before they started walking. "What else could Sixty-eight mean?" Lydia asked and Odette sighed softly and shrugged, "That's the thing. Does it mean the number sixty-eight or sixty-eight things or... something else?" Odette said making Lydia sigh softly.
They turned the corner and almost ran into a kid named Nolan making them all jump slightly, "Sorry." Lydia said before walking past him. Odette glanced back before her eyes widened when she saw his lacrosse sweater. "Lyds." Odette said making Lydia look at her, "Yeah?" She asked and Odette gestured to Nolan.
"Sixty-eight." She said making Lydia look at Nolan's sweatshirt before her eyes widened, "Hey, sixty-eight! Hey, hey!" She said running over to him and grabbing his arm making him stop. "Do you know anything about Brett?" Odette asked making him look at her confused, "Who?" He asked.
"Brett Talbot. Lacrosse player. What happened to him?" Lydia asked and Nolan looked at her deeply confused, "I don't know any Brett." He said before glancing in between the girls and his eyes widened slightly.
"You're both one of them, aren't you?" He asked and this time they looked at him confused, "One of who?" Odette asked. He didn't answer her just quickly ran away from them looked freaked out making the girls glance at each other confused.
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"It was about Nolan." Lydia said as they stood in front of Mason and Corey again, "Would've been nice to know before he attacked me." Corey said and Odette shook her head slightly. "He wasn't trying to hurt you. He was trying to expose you. That was a test." She said and Lydia nodded.
"Well, you definitely failed. It was a geyser- half the library was staring. You didn't even have a scratch!" Mason said and Corey nodded irritably, "Yeah, I remember, because it was, like, five minutes ago." He said and Mason looked back at the girls.
"Why would Nolan do that?" He asked and Lydia shook her head slightly, "He's afraid." She said and Corey raised his eyebrows. "Of me?" He asked and Odette sighed softly and shook her head, "Of us." She said and Mason looked at Lydia. "I thought your premonition was about people turning on each other?" He asked and she slowly shook her head.
"I was wrong. They're gonna turn on us.... And I think it's already started."
♤♧♤♧♤ Author's Note: Just wanna say, I'm so disappointed that this chapter was all about the number sixty-eight but it's chapter sixty-seven.
