“But you do like him.” It wasn’t a question.
I shrugged and reached for the white carton in her hand. She held it out and my hand brushed against hers when I grabbed it.
The vision came on fast, strong, and it took over everything else I was seeing and hearing.
And then it was gone.
But the devastation it left would stay with me forever.
“Piper?” Frankie said, pulling me away from the assaulting vision.
I pulled away and set the carton beside me on the table. “Sorry,” I mumbled, still caught in the pain of what I saw.
“Did you have a vision?” Frankie asked, looking at me with curiosity on her face.
I blinked and cleared my throat, forcing what I really felt down deep. “Yeah, but it wasn’t anything big.”
“Well, what’d you see?”
“You know I don’t like to talk about my visions.”
“Yeah, but your reaction just now…” Her voice trailed off and she bit her lip nervously.
I forced myself to smile. A real smile, not something fake. “It just caught me off guard like they do sometimes. I hadn’t been thinking about visions, just how hungry I am.”
Frankie nodded. “So it wasn’t anything?”
I shook my head and glanced at the daisies. They actually lessened the knot of panic in my gut. “Nope.” I looked back at my friend and grinned. “And don’t worry; you still look hot.”
She smiled and fluffed her hair. “Of course I do.” She grabbed up the container of beef and broccoli. “Let’s eat.”
I picked up the container of lo mein I’d been so hungry for just minutes before. But now, my appetite was gone. The truth was that vision hadn’t been nothing. It was something.
Something very bad.
Chapter Twenty-One
“Nightshade - Any of several plants of the genus Solanum, such as the bittersweet nightshade, most of which have a poisonous juice.”
Dex
All through my typical breakfast of bacon, eggs, and coffee I thought about what Storm said. I did need a plan. Seeing Piper’s reaction to the peanut oil had given me an idea, but I wasn’t sure if it would work or not so I pulled out my laptop and typed the wordnightshadeinto Google.
I smiled as I read. It was possible to die from ingesting the poisonous berry, and it could cause adverse effects like dizziness, trouble breathing, and nausea. If I acted fast I could somehow get it into her system and then say she was having complications from the anaphylaxis.
Brilliant.
Now that I had a plan, all I needed was a way to get the deadly nightshade. I could probably find it online, but that would take forever to get here and I needed it fast.
There was one way…
It was in a place I never planned to go again. A place I was all too happy to be rid of.
I guess the old saying that history sometimes repeats itself was true. To get what I wanted I was going to have to go back… back to where I came from.
Back to the streets.
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