Part Four
The phone rang and a scream erupted from my
throat. At the same time, I jumped and
spilled the tea on the book, the table and myself. With great trepidation, I reached out, picked
it up and placed my right hand over my heart when I saw Gina’s name flashing on
the screen.
“Oh my God! Gina, where are
you. Are you okay?”
“Yes! Yes! Chelle, how did you
know?”
“Never mind that right now. What happened?”
“Chelle, you’re not going to
believe this. I had gone to the store to
get milk and bread and for whatever reason, I forgot to buy the bread and went
home. So I went back to the store and the
shelf was empty whereas it had been full just minutes before. When I asked the clerk, he acted like I was
crazy. Aggravated, I left and decided to
go to the Cumberland Farms down the road.
“Just as I was getting closer to
Benjamin’s Curve, the car started speeding up and I had no control. I stepped on the brakes and tried to turn but
nothing was working. I started screaming for help and then all of a sudden the
car slowed down and I was able to steer it back into my lane. I don’t know what happened. I’ve been sitting in Cumberland’s parking lot
trying to calm down because I was shaking so much, I couldn’t even call you.”
I heard Gina take a deep breath
and sigh before asking, “How did you know?”
I told her everything that had
happened and when I finished, we were both silent for some time. Gina was the first to speak.
“I know the cause.”
“You do?” I said the shock in my
voice evident.
“Yes. Well, I think I do.”
“What do you mean?”
“I was in New York a couple days
ago with some friends and we were going in and out of all the little shops that
you don’t normally see around here.
Somewhere along the way, I got separated from the others and wandered
into a shop that was filled with voodoo kinds of stuff. There was a strange woman there and she asked
if I wanted to buy something and I told her ‘no’ that I don’t believe in that
crap.
“She kept trying to get me to
try different things until I lost my temper and told her to buzz off and then
she said that I would learn the power of the spirits.”
Gina and I talked for a long
time and agreed that the next day we would go to Zenda’s to try and get some
information about how she knew I would be coming to the store and how she even
knew how to reach me to warn me about the curse on Gina.
We never did get the information
we wanted because a number of things happened that were just as strange as
everything else that had occurred. The next morning after I had showered and
got dressed, I looked on the table for the book and it was gone. I spun around to see the Ouija Board had
disappeared as well and when I checked my computer, there was no history of my
activities regarding Zenda’s.
I snatched up my notebook and
flipped through the pages only to find them blank. The only thing that hadn’t been wiped clean
was my memory. I drove to Gina’s and we
went in search of Zenda’s. The shop was
still there but the name above the door had been changed to:
Chapter Thirteen And A Half
To this very day, we have never been able to
figure it out except to say that it did happen and that whatever it was, for
whatever reason it happened, we are thankful.
The
End
Chelle
Munroe©
June 21, 2015
