The Voice

Chapter 1

"Hi, Mama Lucc!" I greet when I saw a woman with long braided hair, the grey apron that beautifully matched with her black dress. She was standing at the back of the counter table.

"Ohh my dear, it's been a long time I've met you. How are you?" She asks me when her bright's eyes met mine.

"I'm doing good... except, I've badly craving your special 'CURSES' " I said while approaching the counter table with a wide smile.

"Is it? I'll make you a special one for today." Mama Lucc said with grins. "Today was your first day at 'Rory College' right? Macy told me that last night" she asks me while closing the book and pick up a black container in the cupboard behind her which is I guess the coffee beans powder's container and she starts to brew the coffee.

"Yeah... and I found today was a really good start" I answered and jump to sit on the stool in front of the counter table.

After Macy and I finished high school, we were sent to the different colleges that are matched based on our Final Exam's Scores at the end of the high school year. I was sent to the college at Barrington Hills which is the college for pretty smart students. Maybe just because my result is better than Macy. However, Macy was more lucky to be sent at Rory College which is in our neighborhood. It took her 5 minutes walks from her home but took me forever to go to Barrington Hill's College. I am not a person who gets 'homesick' easily. But it'll convenience to go to a college that was near to my home. So I decided to be transferred to Rory College.

"Yeap, Sarah makes friends easily," Macy said as she entered the coffee shop while she glanced at me.

"Thanks to you Macy, I could not make it if you weren't there" I answered and gives a captivating smile to Macy.

I know, Macy was mad at me because of the incident at the college today. There is a guy named Ellan who kept looking at me for the entire day. Macy told me that she will punch his face for me and so that he can shut off his eyes from me. But I won't let Macy do that, he could think I am a bit act up. I let him be, practically just because I am a new student. Typically, people will get their eyes on something new right? I am not that beautiful to be such attention.

"is it right Macy? whoah... that's great! You may invite them here. I will serve them my 'Curses' coffee" Mama Lucc grins after she said that.

Mama Lucc was the dearest person that I've ever met. My parents rarely at home. Almost every day I spend my time with Mama Lucc and Macy. Sometimes Mama Lucc had helped me with the schools' things and represented my parents in attending any important school events.

"Sure Ma, but Sarah If you ever getting a boyfriend, don't you ever forget me," Macy said while she jumps to sit on the stool in front of the counter table.

"Don't worry Macy, I will not break up with you, even a very handsome boy from the sky come down to get me... hahaahahha" I burst a big laugh after I said that and look at Macy expression who laugh as well.

Macy stayed with her aunt we called her 'Mama Lucc' since she was a kid. Her parents died in a car accident. I am not sure how old is Macy when that incident happened. But Macy was lucky to have a gentle and beautiful aunt who took care of her until now.

"Okay girls. Here your coffees" Mama Lucc said and put the two cups of coffee on the counter table in front of me.

I pass one of the cups to Macy who sits beside me. She takes that cup and drags it near her nose to enjoy the coffee's scent and then she takes a sip.

I take mine and taste a bit. It is slightly bitter and sweet at last, the aroma and the taste were so great that can wake my adrenaline.

I look around the Shop while enjoying the coffee. Mama Lucc's shop was neatly decorated. The light grey's coffee tables and their stool were arranged orderly. It looks perfectly matched with the dark brown's wooden floor. Mama Lucc admires old and classic decoration so much, she loved to buy old pictures or things that are older than her age. She would spend a lot of money to get any expensive classic kinds of things rather than any cheap new items. Besides the counter table, there is an old painting of a batch of an army. Macy once told me that the army's painting was the most expensive painting in this shop and Mama Lucc's most favorite. That was the supposed it was hung near the counter.

A voice: go home now!!

That was a loud voice told me to go home. The voice seems a bit harsh and firm.

I startled... and spilled out a few drops of my coffee on my blouse. I quickly grab the tissue on the counter table and wipes the spillage on my blouse.

"Are you okay Sarah?" Macy asks while looking at my face and then my messy blouse.

"Urmm... I... I've just remembered something. I've promised my mum to accompany her to go somewhere tonight and I need to head home by now" I lied and looking at my watches.

5.12pm

" Ohh really? alright... see you tomorrow" Macy said and nodded her head as approval for me to go home instead of hanging around with her until night.

"Yeah.. see you tomorrow," I said and walks toward the exit door and walk out of the Coffee shop. I felt guilty for lying. But, that voice always said the right thing I should do. Maybe that was my instinct's voice because I've heard that voice before. I do not remember when it had started.. when I was 15, the voice has saved me from a severe road accident. That voice told me to not join a school's trip a night before. I'm not assured about that voice.. but I didn't make it to the school trip because my father's car broke down.. and he really can't send me to join that school trip on that day. The next day, my school trip's bus was hit by a large tank truck. Only two of my friends survived that accident. Since that incident, I've just followed that voice. Yeah... maybe I got some unnatural superpower that can help me to avoid any dangerous situation. But this time I am not sure, why this voice told me to go home. Is it something happening at my home?