Now You See Her
Chapter One
Hope is vanishing.
Does that sound too dramatic?
Okay, fine. It's really just barely dramatic enough. Maybe not even enough.
I don't mean "hope" the way they think. How could I explain it to them? They're beyond stupid. They're clueless and retarded. All of them. I hear my mother and father say, "She doesn't realize the gravity of all this. . . ." and I want to yell, Are you crazy? Are you on crack?
I'm the one it happened to. So I, like, sort of understand the gravity. I had the bruises on my wrists for weeks. I wouldn't even go outside to walk to the classroom building from my gorgeous dorm here for months, either. And I still won't go out at night. I don't even like to look out the window when it's dark.
Let's try this again, class. This time with motions!
I was a girl with a gift, who was totally going places, and now I'm the girl no one will ever know except as "that Hope somebody-or-other, the girl who vanished." Well, at least for the time being, until I can straighten everyone's head out. That's not exactly fu ... read full excerpt from Now You See Her ebook
