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"Oh, shit, and Erik. That's when we found you crying under the tree," Aphrodite
interrupted.
I sighed again, realizing I couldn't ignore her. "Yeah. And Erik announced the
news about Loren and me to everyone."
"In what I would call a very mean way," Aphrodite said.
"Dang," Stevie Rae said. "It must have been really hateful for Aphrodite to say it
was mean."
"It was. Hateful enough for her friends to feel like her sleeping around with Loren
had been a slap in the face to them. So follow Erik's 'Zoey's a slut' bomb with the 'Zoey's
been keeping Stevie Rae's undeadness a secret, too' bomb, and you have a gaggle of
totally pissed nerds who won't want to trust Zoey again."
"Which means then Zoey is alone, just exactly as Neferet planned," I finished for
her, finding it disturbing that it was so easy to fall into talking about myself in the third
person.
"That's the second death I saw for you," Aphrodite said. "You're completely alone.
There's no last glimpse of a cute boy and no nerd herd. Your isolation is the overriding
image I got from the second vision."
"What kills me?"
"Well, that's when it gets confusing again. I get an image of Neferet as a threat to
you, but the vision gets jumbled up all weird when you're actually attacked. I know this is
going to sound bizarre, but at the last moment I saw something black floating around
you."
"Like a ghost or something?" I swallowed hard.
"No. Not really. If Neferet's hair was black, I'd say it was her hair blowing around
you in a big wind, like she's standing behind you. You're alone and you're really, really
scared. You try to call for help, but no one answers you and you're so terrified you freeze
and don't fight back. She, or whatever it is, reaches around and somehow, using
something dark and hooked, slashes your throat. It is so sharp, it cuts through your neck
and severs your head from your shoulders." Aphrodite shuddered and then added,
"Which, in case you're wondering, bleeds. A lot."
"Gross, Aphrodite! Did ya have to go into detail?" Stevie Rae said, putting her
arm back around me.
"No, it's okay," I said quickly. "Aphrodite has to give all the details she can
remember—like she did when she saw visions of the deaths of you and Grandma and
Heath. It's the only way we can figure out how to change things. So, what else did you
see about my second death?" I asked Aphrodite.
"Just that you call for help, but nothing happens. Everyone ignores you,"
Aphrodite said.
"I was scared today when whatever it was came at me out of the night. So scared
that for a second I just froze and didn't know what to do," I said, feeling shaky just
remembering.
"Could Neferet have had something to do with whatever happened to you
earlier?" Stevie Rae asked.
I shrugged. "I don't know. There was nothing for me to see but some creepy
blackness."