The Girl Who Read Minds by Emani Moore
One Friday before spring break, I woke up feeling a bit unusual. As I started to go about my day as usual, I was talking to one of my friends and I started to hear these muffled sounds that sounded like extra voices around me. It wasn’t fully clear to me what was going on, so I brushed it off. I kept hearing these unclear static voices in my head throughout the day and I pulled my friend to the side and asked her if she heard the same thing. She gave me a confused look because she didn’t know what I was talking about, so I left the conversation alone because I didn’t want her to think I was bugging or something. As I walked home from school alone, the sound was getting stronger and louder, but it was still unclear what was going on. I sat in my bedroom looking up at the ceiling, wondering to myself what was going on. I realized being alone I didn’t hear the scrambled noises around me. I started to wonder if something was wrong with me or if I was just stuck in my head. I walked to the kitchen to see what my mom was doing and I started to hear the static noises again. Then, I asked my mom if she heard the noises and she had a confused look just like my friend. I walked back to my room and the noises went away. I had to figure out what was going on because I was starting to get scared. In the middle of me trying to figure out what was going on, I fell asleep. I jumped up quickly because I was awakened by a voice in my head. It was my mom walking past my room but she wasn’t talking to anybody, so I sat up confused for a while by myself. The next morning, I was feeling normal and we got in the car to go to breakfast. We sat down waiting for the waiter when the noises began again. I was scared because the noises started to get louder, but I didn’t want to ruin family time, so I kept it to myself. The noises were getting louder and stronger, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying, so I told my parents and brother and they looked at me confused. They asked me if I was okay but I didn’t really know what to say. My eyes started to water because I didn’t know what to say or how to explain what was going on because I didn’t know if they were going to believe me or not. 243
