Allen (my best friend) believes in this crap, and they thought that we should go see the old hag who was coming to town in her pop-up shop. I told them like a million times that I didn’t want to go but they insisted.

“Fine!” I said Fed up with their asking. We were in my car, on our way to get some bubble tea. “When you want to go?” I asked with a sigh.

“Well………”

“What?”

“I kinda hack ed your GPS”

“No”

“And we’re on our way right now”

“What!” I yelled “you were going to take me whether I wanted to or not. Come on, not cool”

“I’m sorry,” they said defensively “it’s just, you’ve been acting kinda weird lately, this was the first thing I thought of.”

“What? You mean you don’t actually believe in this shit?”

“I mean, I don’t know. It could be real or not. But I thought that we could try this. You never know. Come on don’t be mad, I’ll be with you the entire time.”

“Fine. But I’m not going to believe what she says.”

They sighed, but I kept driving

We got in and got out of the car. “This way,” they said motioning for me to follow them.

When we entered I immediately felt dizzy, the lady had the strongest incense I had ever smiled The old lady was sitting on a beanbag at a small circular table and when we entered she said

“My dear, you have a very strong aura,” she said in an airy, mystical tone

I rolled my eyes

“Look into the ball, what do you see”

“This is crap, let's go,” I said annoyed

The old lady broke out of character and said in a normal voice “young lady I can’t leave, I work here.”

“I wasn’t talking to you!” I said

“Then who were you talking to?” She asked looking concerned

I gestured to Allen thinking that it was obvious who I was talking to

The old lady said “I don’t understand”

“Allen! They're right next to me can’t you see them or are you blind?”

Allen looked at me, they’re face looked like I felt annoyed and confused.

“My dear,” said the old lady now looking scared “I’m not blind, I can see you perfectly. But there’s no one else in here but me and you”

“This is ridiculous, Allen is right here”

“Yeah!” Said Allen, they looked at me and said “come on let's just go.”

I started to walk out with Allen when the lady said

“My, my dear would you like some water?”

“NO!” I shouted “No I don’t want your water. It’ll probably make me hallucinate or something”

I turned my back when she yelled “Oh, Oh help me I-I’m C-choking H-Help me!”

I looked at Allen, I didn’t like the lady but I couldn’t just let her die. I ran over to her and started to give her the Heimlich maneuver. But something was off, the lady’s choking sounded fake, I stopped and said

“You’re not choking!”

The lady stopped pretending “My dear, listen-“ but just then three policemen came in the door,

“Hands in the air!”

“What!” Me and Allen shouted, but we put our hands up nevertheless.

“What’s going on?!” I yelled

“I-I called them,” said the old lady

“Why?!” Me and Allen asked

“Be-Because you young lady, are seeing things,” she said pointing a long finger at me

“What are you talking about?” I asked

“You said you came in with your friend, Allen”

“Yes, and?”

“You also said that he-“ “they” I corrected her

“Yes, you said that they are here right now”

“And they are,” I said, “they're right there,” I said nodding my head over to the spot where Allen was standing, a little to my right

“What is going on?” Asked one of the police officers, he had a deep voice

“This old hag thinks that my friend Allen who is right there isn’t here, or something”

“What are you talking about,” he asked “there’s no one else in this room”

“There right beside me!” I yelled

Allen looked too stunned to speak, which was unhelpful.

One of the cops said, “you really think there’s another person in this room, don’t you?”

There were too many words to finish, but I have the rest on the story as a part 2. I’d love it if you would read it:)