Page 27 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

Just like that, the smile falls off my face.

“Alright, now that we have adequately verbally berated Raiden, what’s up?” Ransom says with a smile as his gaze moves back to me.

“Can you all sit down, please?” I ask.

I don’t need them to sit down. I’m just trying to stall. They share a look again, all of them looking confused and slightly worried.

River sits next to me and gasps suddenly, clutching his hand over his heart and asking dramatically, “Oh my god, are you breaking up with us?”

I can’t help but giggle, his actions making me smile. I shake my head, “No, of course not.”

“Thank fuck for that,” River exhales dramatically, and I giggle.

“Alright, Nene, stop stalling,” Evander starts, “what’s wrong?”

I take a deep breath. I need to do this, I know I do, and underneath all the fear and anxiety, I know that this is the right thing to do. Just because I know that, doesn't mean that it is any less scary.

“So, Raiden told me about the thing that Ty said and that he didn’t seem to know that he said it,” I start.

“That’s what this is about?” Griff asks.

“You don’t need to worry about that. We’re going to figure it out,” Reed adds.

“Can I finish, please?” I ask, giving them a raised eyebrow look for interrupting me.

The guys' relieved expressions drop into frowns again as they realize that’s not what I want to talk to them about. I wish it were. It would be a lot less scary.

“Yeah, of course,” River says.

“We won’t interrupt again,” Doc adds.

I nod, I really hope that he means that because I don’t think that I’m going to be able to get through this if they do keep interrupting. The voices stir at my thoughts but quickly settle again when I start talking. They clearly think that it’s important that I tell them too.

“I think that I know what it’s referring to, or at least the part that refers to the voices,” I say, and then pause because I don’t really know how to phrase this next bit. Maybe the best thing to do is just to come out and say it. “For as long as I can remember, I have heard voices. They are always there; they get louder sometimes, but I can never understand them. They never say any definitive words. Except for yesterday, when they said danger when Mael came to get us. Mostly, the voices just murmur, they whisper.”

“The voices whisper, don’t fall off track,” Raiden mutters.

I nod.

“Why didn’t you tell me when we were kids?” Van asks, looking slightly hurt.

“Because a human that can hear voices in her head is crazy,” I reply bluntly. “If I’m being honest, I am still not convinced that I am not crazy and that the voices aren’t because of that. However,since what Ty said specifically mentions the voices, I thought that I better bite the bullet and risk you all thinking that I am insane.”

“We don’t think you are insane,” Reed says.

“You don’t?” I can’t help but ask.

River shakes his head, “No, of course not. It is curious. I can’t think of any kind of supernatural where the voices behave quite like you are describing. What about you guys?”

Raiden starts to open his mouth but clearly thinks better of it and just frowns instead.

“I’ve done a lot of research, granted in human books, so I could be very wrong, but I haven’t managed to find anything that could explain exactly how they behave. They aren’t people’s thoughts because I hear them even when no one else is anywhere near me, and it’s just indistinct noise. It’s not actual words.”

“Sort of like white noise?” Doc asks.

I nod, “Yeah. Except they have opinions.”

Evander frowns, “What do you mean?”

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