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SADIE
Sadie watched as Lucas weaved his way through the crowd. Her hand absentmindedly touched where his hand had just been. The spark she felt when he had touched her was like something she'd ever felt before.
"Are ye lookin’ for something particular, lass?"
She turned to find a short woman with a plump figure and wild red hair. There was a twinkle in her eye and grin like the Cheshire cat.
"Oh, no. I'm just looking."
"Are ye new to the area?"
Sadie nodded. "Yeah, I moved her a couple days ago. My aunt left me her house, and I was having a bit of a rough patch. I always had such a good time when we would visit her here in the summers so I thought I would give it a chance."
Wow. Why did she just say all that? It was like the words just fell out of her mouth of their own accord. There was a time in Sadie’s life where she’d been an open book, and would have gladly shared personal information, but not anymore. Even before NDA’s and broken hearts were involved, she’d started living her life a little more guarded, so she wasn’t sure where that came from.
"Oooh are ye Rosemary’s niece then?"
“I am.”
The woman cocked her head and seemed to be evaluating her. "My name’s Bridget. I've been staying here for a few years myself, and yer right. There's no place quite like it. Would ye like a reading?"
"I'm sorry?" Sadie wasn't quite following.
"Yer cards?" Bridget gestured to a small round table that was covered by a purple cloth with two chairs opposite each other. In the center of the table was a well-worn deck of cards.
"Oh," Sadie perked up. She loved this kind of stuff. "Yeah, I would love it."
"Come have a seat, lass."
She followed Bridget over to the table and sat down across from her.
“Let’s see what the cards have to say,” she said as she shuffled a well-worn deck of cards in her hand. “Here, cut the stack.” She laid them in the middle of the table and motioned for her to cut it.
As Sadie cut the deck she felt a small jolt of electricity, like the one she’d just felt when Lucas touched her.
“Let’s see what the cards have to say, shall we?”
Bridget flipped over the first card and gave a little gasp. Sadie’s brows drew together as she peered down at the cars. The Ten of Swords. Before her lay a card depicting a person lying face down on the beach with ten swords sticking out of their back. That didn’t look great.
“Oh, my dear, it seems ye’ve really been put through the ringer. The Ten of Swords is a high card of betrayal. It seems people ye thought ye could trust turned out to be terrible snakes on the grass.”
Bridget looked up at her with kindness in her eyes where the mischief had been. “Tis’ a good thing this card is in the past, mydear. Let’s see if we can get a little insight into the present, shall we?”
She flipped over another card revealing The Fool, a bright yellow card depicting a man setting out on a journey. The name on the card did make her bristle though.
“Ahhh, the Fool. Don’t befooledby its name,” she said, clearly pleased with her own pun. “The Fool is about embarking on a new journey. It is a clean slate. And with the betrayal in yer past and yer appearance in Mystic Falls, I would imagine a fresh start is exactly what yer looking for, are ye not?”
“Well, you’re not wrong,” Sadie said, slightly uneasy with the strange exactness of this reading.
“Now, let’s see what lies ahead.” The woman flipped over the final card to reveal The Sun. The card before her depicted a big golden sun with a child riding a white horse carrying a big red banner.
“Och, my dear, yer about to shine so bright. I think ye will find Mystic Falls is about to be a wonderful new home to start this journey, and in the end ye will have everything you ever hoped for plus some things ye never even knew ye wanted. It’s all about to open up for ye, lass.”
“Wow.” She sat there stunned, unsure of what to say.
"What do ye say, lass? Do the cards ring true?"
Sadie looked up at this curious woman with wide eyes. "Yeah, I mean, here’s hoping they do," she said with a rough chuckle. "A little too on the nose if you ask me. How did you do that?"
