Page 24 of Date with Destiny

CHAPTER TEN

UNI DICKS GROUP

Myfanwy

Gin, what are you wearing for the funeral on Friday? What should Sonali and I wear? Is it the standard black or is it that modern funeral thing of wanting everyone to wear bright clothes and ‘celebrate life’?

Sonali

She made that sound a lot more sarcastic than she meant it.

Myfanwy

I was being pretty sarcastic. Life is shit and this situation is shit, why do we have to celebrate it?

Ginny

I actually have no idea what to wear!

Emily

So sorry I can’t make it!! Hope it goes well, will be thinking of you, Gin xxx

Ginny

I’ve tried to talk to Celeste about what she wants and what she thinks we should do, but I can’t get through. It’s like she’s had a hard drive wipe and I don’t know how to reboot her. It’s freaking me out TBH.

Myfanwy

Hold on, I’m coming over xx

Myfanwy arrives at the house half an hour later and, on seeing her lovely, sweet face on my doorstep, it takes about three seconds for me to break down.

A woman standing on the pavement stares at me over the fence and I hide my face as Myfanwy half carries me up to my bedroom, where I weep in her arms for a while. When the tears eventually start to slow, she shifts underneath me, pulling something out of her top.

‘Here.’ She hands me a small, smooth purple stone. ‘It’s a crystal.’

I peer at her. ‘Did you just take this out of your bra?’

‘Yes,’ she acknowledges impatiently. ‘But now it’s yours to carry in your bra.’

‘Um…’ I rub a thumb along the palm-sized item.‘That’s really kind and it’s very pretty, but what exactly am I looking at?’

‘It’s an amethyst crystal,’ she nods authoritatively. ‘It’s a good starter crystal for you. It’s a soothing stone, really good for anxiety and sleep problems.’ She stops and regards me closely, taking in my eyebags. ‘You still having that dream?’

I nod slowly, staring down at the swirling patterns in the crystal. It really is very pretty. But it’s also just a stone – isn’t it?

‘It will help,’ Myfanwy nods. ‘Just keep it close. It’s also good for helping to align you with your higher purpose.’

‘Which is?’ I ask, genuinely intrigued.

‘That’s for you to work out,’ she replies enigmatically.

I sigh. ‘Right now I just want to help Mum. It would be hard enough living back here with him,’ I gesture at R-Patz on the wall, ‘and the usual Celeste hysteria, but this new Celeste is a zombie.’

‘A vampire and a zombie,’ Myfanwy observes dryly, before adding in a softer tone, ‘And how do you feel? Y’know, about losing Diane?’

I look out the window. That woman is still standing out by the fence, looking up at the house. I sigh, turning back to Myfanwy. ‘I keep thinking about the moment my phone rang. When Mum called to tell me to come to the hospital.’ I swallow. ‘I was just annoyed about being interrupted. I was flirting –flirting! – with some guy in the store and was about to fob Mum off.’ Myfanwy reaches over to take my hand, as I continue, ‘What if I made this happen? What if it’s my fault somehow?’

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