The Girl Who Read Minds

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.

A few days passed. I was at my friend’s house and we went for a walk in the park. We sat down and started to have a conversation when a group of kids walked past and they weren’t really talking to each other. The sounds started to come back. I was understanding what was going on because it was happening for a few months. I wasn’t really as confused as when it first started because I was getting better at understanding my superpower. As time went on, I got a letter in the mail and I didn’t want to read it around my parents and brother because it said we have a secret to tell you.

I didn’t read the letter because I was scared and confused. Suddenly, somebody walked in my room and I could hear what they were thinking. Maybe they were thinking about something that was related to the letter and it made me more scared to read the letter.