The Seer (Chapter 05)

I worried about Charlie. To me it didn't seem like he was all that happy. You'd think that with his ability to see things in the future, he'd be the happiest person in the world, but that was not the case. It seemed just the opposite. I guess there were things that he knew that he wished he didn't know. What a weight there must have been on his shoulders! I know I would have been happy to always know what questions the teacher was going to put on tomorrow's big test! If Charlie knew (and I'm sure he did) he always made sure he missed a question or two so that the teacher would not suspect him of cheating. He always scored high enough to get an A, but never one hundred percent. I never asked Charlie for help, but he wouldn't have given it anyway. My cousin Jim got kicked off the school bus one day for throwing a snowball at the driver. He forgot the driver had a rear-view mirror and could see him throwing it. Jim was faced with the prospect of walking about three miles to town and I was worried about him because he had a problem with one of his feet, but Charlie whispered to me Don't worry, he's going to get a ride. Sure enough, a few minutes later, Jim came by in a car with Bob and Leon and a couple of others, all of them grinning and waving. They beat the school bus to town. Of course I didn't tell anyone what Charlie had whispered to me. Up to this point I was the only one who knew what Charlie could do. to be continued...