Naomi leaned closer to have a look at the screen, without uttering any words yet.
“Remember I told you I’ve been practicing on tarot reading?” Nora asked.
“Yeah”, Naomi replied subtly. “Are you seriously going to buy that shitty old thing!?”
Nora paused from toggling her i=Pad screen to look at her friend. Her eyes bore some intense look, and her forehead squeezed together as she clenched her fist around the edges of the tablet.
“Its not shitty… just old!” Nora ground her teeth and frowned before returning her attention to the screen.
She finally settled upon her desired page, with strange markings along the edges, while the website did just about enough to creep anyone interested in visiting it, out. She flicked through her desired tarot card from the pick of many listed along the page, opting for the cheapest in hopes of getting a good deal and not having to expend herself financially, before feeling her throat glue together, her eyes widen and her nostrils flare.
She hadn’t the slightest idea on just how much or how fast she could get low on breath. Upon viewing the picture of the deck box, her breathing took on a shallow effect, and her stomach sunk with the displayed picture of human skulls in the most haunting manner, bearing devilish wings in pairs. She felt her feet buzz with mix of excitement and fright, but chose the former over the latter.
Naomi pressed her gaze closer from behind, seemingly interested in the page, as Daren drew closer too.
Nora tightened her grasp around her I-Pad and cleared her throat softly. She adjusted in her seat nervously and took a brief look at her friend, Naomi.
‘Just read the damn product description”, Naomi encouraged her.
Naomi shot her a frown before proceeding to read the product description as stated on the page;
“Ancient in grace and forged in ages past, the Tarot of Death was used as a curse to homes and families of their enemies. A silent weapon without a drop of mercy, borne of magic so dark, the darkness itself feels cursed to be in its presence, the Tarot cards in this deck would reveal to you messages of fate, absent passion, love or even positive energy. Read the will of others through the cards, and those whom have had their fate read will suffer one of two fates; disappear or die, within the next few days.”
The room fell silent, and as a cold chill raced down Nora’s spine. She felt herself temporarily immobilized, cringing within, as Naomi tightened her grip into the chair and threatened to puncture through the leather with her fingers.
Daren erupted in hysterical laughter almost immediately. “That is the biggest bull shit I’ve heard in a fucking long time!”
Both girls turned to him with frowns on their faces, but Nora’s bore more sting as she wished she could drag him closer and ram her fist into his precious little nose.
“Seriously?” he stopped laughing momentarily while holding his stomach. “Don’t tell me you’re planning on buying that old piece of crap which is obviously meant to rip you off of your money”.
His bluntness often times end up being the one side to him that not only infuriated others, but also brought him on the verge of pain if they could deal it to him. Nora still remained without an amiable response, but she wasn’t in any way pleased with the young man.
He shook his head and sighed. “Just don’t buy it! It will be embarrassing for us when story hits the campus about how we got infections from disgusting old tarot cards”.
Nora finally broke through. “Come on, its just a very old looking tarot card and you can sincerely stop being a jerk about it”.
Naomi looked at Nora and nudged on her shoulder gently. ‘Forget the stale look, what if the product description is true? Are we seriously ignoring the fact that we just read that?”
Nora shot them both a rather bewildered look, stretching her gaze from Daren to Naomi, and then back to Daren once again.
“Bunch of pussies”, she thought to herself, whilst trying not to spell the words out in consideration for Naomi alone.
She shrugged subtly, turned to look at her screen to read the description once again, and even she knew darn too well what cold and disturbingly chilling effect it brought to her spine. She closed her eyes shortly, sucked in tender breaths into her lungs, and parted her lids open again to read the descriptive which was getting everyone on edge.
She smirked softly and reached for Naomi’s hand. “There is no harm in trying something new or risky, provided it isn’t weed”.
The snide dig at Daren definitely go the notice it warranted, as he shook his head, flailed his arms in the air and turned around with a disappointed look smeared across his face.
“Unbelievable!” he stated with a grumble.
Nora chuckled, taking pleasure on getting one over the boy, before turning to her screen once again, focused and ready to proceed with her purchase. She flicked through and scrolled downwards some more, before settling upon the “Buy” button situated at the right hand edge of the screen. Without granting it any further thoughts, she clicked hard on it and watched the screen disappear to bring her a fresh on demanding approval of payment.
She proceeded, while Daren slowly dragged his feet back to the girls.
“Done and dusted!” Nora sounded excitedly.
The screen suddenly went off, taking them off of the page immediately, and bringing them nothing but a dark, reflective surface through which they could see themselves. The trio froze and stared into the screen momentarily before Nora placed it away and got to her feet.
Rubbing her hands together in show of excitement, she spoke. “Okay! With that done, I guess the package will arrive in a day or two, depending”.
She reached her left hand over her right shoulder and rubbed down hard against the sprained feel she had awakened too about an hour ago. The tension seemed to ease away, but the
