22. They Went To Fix It!
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It was Friday afternoon and Leah was sitting on the bleachers of the football field, sighing occasionally at the stares she had been receiving for the past two hours. Calum was on the field practicing for the game against Twinstown Turkeys next week and he had dragged her over and made her wait.
She guessed there were things he wanted to ask her to get answers to.
"Where are those idiots?" She wondered out loud. She hadn't seen Paul Jackson and Sarah Foster since lunch break and she had a very bad feeling about it.
"PLAY RIGHT!"
She looked up to see Calum push Max, hard.
She shook her head. "Drama drama drama." She rolled her eyes and looked down at her phone making a checklist of the things she needed to know of.
One, why could Sarah leave the place that was supposed to be her threshold?
Two, what was the pain Leah was experiencing? Though it had been getting duller throughout the week and never came back.
Three, why was she hearing her grandfather in her head all of a sudden, and that too about conversations she never had with him?
Four, what made her disclose her secret to another normal human when she had never done it before nor even thought about it?
Five, how to conceal the light?
Paul was a good boy, probably because by the time they had met, he was done with the typical ghost stuff so she never had to take his powers for long periods. The only time she did was when someone bullied her and he lost his cool so she had to do it until he calmed down. Now that she thought about it, she had saved Calum Foster's ass from a very angry ghost on several occasions.
"Calum, what are you doing?"
She looked up again. The coach was yelling at Calum while some of the boys tended to a Max writhing on the ground.
She sighed. It was going to be one long game.
"Wayne, take your boyfriend away from here!" She looked over at the coach who was looking at her expectantly.
Huh?
All the eyes were once again on her.
She was about to clarify that he was wrong when Calum spoke up, "Come on Leah, I don't want to mingle around with cheaters and dirtbags!" He glared at his sister's ex-boyfriend.
She rubbed her forehead as he walked over towards the benches, gesturing her to join him on his way.
Leah could feel Natalie drill a hole through her skull from where she was doing her cheer practice.
"Are you trying to get me killed, Foster?" She muttered as she joined the pain in the ass.
"It's not like some normal human can even touch your hair with the kind of power you have." He rolled his eyes, taking off his shirt. The cheerleading squad squealed in response while Leah scrunched up her nose from the stench of his sweat.
Calum noticed the cute look on her face and chuckled. "I wonder Leah, are you into women?"
She sighed. "No, I am into men with a triple digit IQ." She sassed. Calum rolled his eyes, feeling his mood lift at once.
Leah too felt a warmth in her chest, soothing the dull almost negligible pain in her body.
She had to research about this too.
"Let's go?" He asked, slinging his bag across his shoulder after putting on a t-shirt over his jersey shorts.
She nodded.
"Have you seen-" She stopped mid-sentence. What kind of question was that?
"Have you seen what?" He asked as they walked away together, all the eyes on them until the coach blew his vessel.
"Your sister and my best friend, but then I realized you can't see them so.. my bad." She shrugged.
"Where are they?" He asked, curious and worried now.
"I don't know." She rolled her eyes. "Why do you think I was asking in the first place?"
"Shouldn't we look around?"
She shook her head and got into his car, closing her eyes as he got in. "You didn't answer-"
She held up a hand shushing him as she awakened her paranormal vision searching for the two deceased souls. This time though, she was able to locate them without fainting spells or increased heart rates. She blinked her eyes open and narrowed them. She looked in the rear-view mirror, this time using her exorcist skills to summon them and again she accomplished it without breaking a sweat, surprising herself. Maybe it was because they were willing to come to her or maybe because her aura and soul had been extremely powerful lately or maybe it was her pure annoyance at her two ghost friends.
The grins on the idiots faces disappeared as soon as they realized they had ended up in the backseats of Calum's black jeep.
"Really now?" She turned to the two and stared them down like she was their mother and them her mischievous troublemaking children.
"What did they do?" Calum played the role of the clueless dad perfectly. He couldn't see them but he had started to get used to the fact that they existed, though he didn't even know what Paul Jackson looked like.
"Dried up Max's fuel tank, poked all the tires including the spare and stuck chewing gum on the car door handles." She recounted.
"How do you know that?" Sarah whined.
"Did you guys really do that?" Calum asked, his eyed widened but sparkling with excitement. Leah shot him down with a death glare and turned to Sarah. "I know everything. Now off you go, reverse it!"
"How?" Sarah looked clueless.
Leah turned to Paul.
"Oh come on, he deserved it!"
"I say not. Let it be!" Calum spoke up.
"Reverse it and I will give your powers back." Leah told Sarah.
Sarah's eyes widened and she nodded without any hesitation, pulling at Paul's arm as she diffused out with a grumpy Paul in tow. He had thoroughly enjoyed doing what he did and he didn't want to reverse it but he decided he and Sarah would have some great fun behind Leah' back after she got her powers back.
"Why aren't you talking?" Calum asked, still clueless. He felt like the odd one out because he didn't know what was going on and what conversation they were having half the time.
"They went to fix it!"
"You should have let them be."
She gave him another glare.
"Let me handle them my way." She pointed her finger at him. "Don't you dare interfere."
"Fine fine.. Jeez!" He put up his hands in surrender, letting out a chuckle in the end.
"ALL DONE!" The two reappeared again.
Leah sighed and held her hand out in Sarah's direction. "Remember, no possessing and no harm!" And the illuminated four-pointed star in her hand was gone, and so were the light swirling around in her eyes.
"Thanks!" The two ghosts abruptly disappeared without another word making Leah face palm.
"These two are gonna be the death of me!" She exclaimed as she turned back to a still clueless Calum. She chuckled, almost feeling bad for him.
His eyes widened.
"Your eyes are normal now."
"Yeah, I gave Sarah her powers back. I hope they don't do anything stupid."
Calum chuckled starting the engine and pulling out of the parking lot. "Well, Sarah redefines the word stupid so I don't know what to expect from her."
"And Paul is such a trouble-maker!" Leah groaned. She did not want to deal with s**t when she came back to school on Monday.
"So when are you leaving?" He asked.
"I will pack and book a cab and leave as soon as possible." She replied, booking the cab on her phone as she did.
Calum looked over and shook his head, waving in the direction of her phone. "Don't book a cab."
"Why?" She looked up at him.
"I will drive you there."
Leah was taken aback, even a bit touched. He was willing to drop her off at her Grandmother's though it was Friday night?
"You don't have to drop me off. I will take a cab. You should chill with your friends-"
Calum sighed and cut her off. "Let me rephrase that, I am coming with you."
"What?"
"And staying the weekend."
"WHAT?"
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