Remembering Yesterday

The girls were making quick sketches and listening to the radio. “Are you and James still mad at each other?” Zoey let out a soft sigh. “Yeah.” “What is it you fought about?” “He told me I had an obsession with the band. I know it may be true, but I didn’t like the way he said it. Like he was talking with a maniac, that’s what ticked me off the most.” Alex nodded not wanting to argue. She knew Zoey and James couldn’t be mad for long. They would make up soon. “It’s six and our homework is done. Want to get the balloons now?” Zoey nodded and stood up stretching. “Sure, let’s go.” They walked out of Zoey’s room and into the dim hallway. They stopped at the far right end and Zoey opened the door turning a light switch on. “You go first.” “Are you telling me you’re scared?” “No! But this is your attic. You know it better than I do.” “Fine.” Alex followed Zoey grabbing the back of her shirt. “Alex, I can’t believe you’re scared. It’s just an attic, the basement is scarier.” “That’s true. Okay, I suppose I don’t feel so scared now.” “Cool, now help me look through the boxes.” And so the long search began.

“You’ve got some awesome stuff here. Look.” Alex stood up putting a blonde wig on. “You look so cute! You should dye your hair blonde.” “You really think so?” She looked at herself in the old full length mirror and smiled. “You’re right. I’ll think about it. Here you try it.” She tossed the wig at Zoey and she caught it. “Hmm let’s see...” She looked at the wig. “You know, I think I’ve seen this before…” “Really? Maybe your mom wore it once?” “Probably…” She put the wig on and looked at herself in the mirror. Alex stood behind her eyes widening. “Wow, you look so pretty! That color makes your eyes really stand out.” Zoey looked at herself in the mirror confused. She felt like she knew that person in the mirror. Of course it was her, yet, she felt it was someone else. She gently touched the mirror and felt her heart picking up pace. “What’s wrong?” “I know this may sound weird, but it’s like I’ve seen myself like this before.” “Wow, really? Have you ever dyed your hair blonde?” “No, I haven’t really ever dyed my hair. It’s always been this burnet color.” “Hmm…well I think you should forget about it, this is making me freak out a little.” Zoey felt Goosebumps run through her body and she dropped the wig quickly as if it had just shocked her. “You’re right. Let’s keep looking for the balloons.” Zoey couldn’t help but think about the wig, the blonde hair. It reminded her of Kathie. Now that she thought about it, she hadn’t dreamed of Kathie at all, or about Dennis. She shrugged to herself as she opened another box.

“Hey I think I found them.” Alex started taking random balloon bags out of the box. “Wow, you’ve got an awful lot of balloons here. Does your mom collect them or something?” Alex looked at Zoey who was on the other side of the room. “Zo, are you okay?” She stood up and walked to the other side of the room. “Earth, to Zoey. Zoey?” Alex looked at the picture in Zoey’s hand. “Aw that’s such a cute baby. Do you know her?” Zoey looked at the picture of Kathie shocked. “Why would her mom have a picture of her? Her mom hated Kathie.” “This is my cousin.” “You never told me about this cousin, and I’ve never seen anyone with blonde hair at your parties. “Um, yeah, my mom said she was a bad influence. “Really? Wow. She looks very innocent to me.” “That’s what I told her too.” “What did she do to make her so bad?” “I don’t know, my mom didn’t want to tell me.” Alex let out a soft whistle, “Then it must be pretty bad then.” Zoey reached into the box and took a white dress out. The dress had flowers of all colors on it.

“Okay, this is getting super creepy.” “What is it?” “I know this dress.” “What do you mean you know the dress?” “Well, I’ve dreamed about Kathie before. It was a few weeks ago. And she had this same dress on.” “Holy shit, now that’s creepy as hell.” “Yeah…I know.” “Zoey, please, let’s get out of here. We got the balloons.” Zoey kept looking at the dress and remembered that her mom had appeared at the end of the dream when she had seen Kathie wearing the dress. “But what did it all mean?” “Zoey! Is it me or is it getting super cold up here?” Zoey looked at Alex confused. “What-” She gasped as she saw her breathe as she talked. “Damn…” “Zoey I don’t really like paranormal stuff, can we get out of here!?” Zoey nodded as she threw the picture and the dress in the box, and then quickly shut it. Alex ran down the stairs and Zoey followed close behind. She looked back one more time and saw the wig was still on the floor. She felt Goosebumps again and quickly ran down the stairs. She didn’t ever want to come up here again.

It was only two days before the concert. Zoey still wasn’t talking to James. And he knew what Allison had done. He wished he could talk to her, but she seemed to be awfully busy. He didn’t understand why if she wasn’t on the squad anymore. He walked to his locker and was surprised to see Nick standing in front of it. Nick stood up straight as he saw James. “Hey loser. I was just waiting for you.” “What do you want?” “I think you should be a bit more polite.” James scowled, “Why should I be polite to you?” “You’ll have to after I tell you something. Something you want.” James looked at him confused. “Let’s just say I got two tickets to see this awful band. An awful band full of fags that you seem to like very much.” “Black Veil Brides.” “Yes, that band.” James raised an eyebrow at him. “What’s the catch?” Nick chuckled, “You’re not as stupid as you look. It’s nothing big. You just gotta do me a little favor.” “What favor?” Nick opened his locker and took a sign out. James looked at the sign. “You just have to stand in the cafeteria and hold this up. But not only that, you also gotta shout it to everyone in the cafeteria.” “You’re insane!” “Do you want the tickets or not?” James looked at Nick then at the sign.

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