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Inside the kitchen, we found only Alec sitting at the table, eating a bowl of cereal and watching videos on his phone.
“Ooh. Who is he? I never met him before. What a cutie. Is he one of the seven, too?”
“Yo,” I greeted when he looked up and bobbed his head at me in greeting while Raina went straight to him, looking completely intrigued.
“Would you just look at this gorgeous hair,” she murmured in awe, trying to touch it. “These curls are to die for.”
“This is Alec,” I told her. “Alec Younger. He’s a freshman at Haverick and a film major.”
“Really? Cool.” Raina plopped down to sit on the tabletop next to his phone. “So he’s going to be, like, an actor?”
“Director, more like,” I answered while Alec merely lifted a curious eyebrow and glanced around the kitchen to see who I was talking to.
“And this is Raina,” I told him. “So far, only I can see her.”
“Ah.” Nodding his head once, Alec waved at the air. “Hello, Raina. Welcome.”
“Thanks,” she told him with a bright smile, only to lift her eyebrows when he inadvertently glanced in her general direction. “Oh my good God. Those are some blue, blue eyes. I think they’re bluer than yours, Foster.”
“Wow,” I told her as if offended before hitching up my chin at Alec and translating, “She said she likes your hair. And eyes.”
As I headed toward the cabinets to fetch a mug, Alec smiled jauntily and brushed a hand over his locks, making them bounce. “Really? Thanks.”
But almost immediately, he went back to watching his video. Raina watched along with him, swinging her legs as she did. I shook my head at the pair before turning my back to them so I could slot my cup under the Keurig machine to make myself some of Oaklynn’s French vanilla cappuccino.
While I waited for my cup to fill, both Alec and Raina laughed over whatever they were watching.
“Ooh. Play it again. Play it again,” Raina urged.
So I glanced over, saying, “She wants you to play that one again.”
To which, Alec whipped his head up in alarm. “Say what?” he demanded.
“Raina,” I answered, tipping my head in her direction. “She’s sitting right there on the table beside you, watching the videos over your shoulder, and she liked that one. She asked you to play it again.”
“But—”
“Oh my God, it was so hilarious,” she told me, holding her stomach as she laughed some more. “There were these card reader prompts, asking for a donation to save a dog. And the dog died because he—” She broke herself off to giggle hysterically, too tickled to finish telling me what the video had actually been about.
When she slapped the table beside her in glee, I lifted my eyebrows. “You thought a dogdyingwas hilarious?”
“Whoa!” Alec lifted both hands and pushed his chair back away from the table before popping to his feet. “How the hell did you know the video was about that? You were all the way across the room with your back turned.”
I blinked at him dryly. “Because Raina just said so.”
Alec spun toward the table dramatically. “Holy shit. Someone else is really in here with us?”
I lifted my hands in dismay. “Dude. What the hell did you think was happening when I introduced you two and said only I could see her?”
“I don’t know!” he cried. “I thought you were trying something new.”
I lifted my eyebrows at him. “Seriously?”
“Since when do you see ghosts?” he demanded, backing away from the table slowly. “And why are you being so blasé about it? Plus, why the hell did you bring ithere?”
“She’s not a ghost,” I argued. “I mean, I don’t think she is, anyway. She’s unconscious at the hospital. She’s that friend of Oaklynn’s that was in the car accident?”
Alec squinted in confusion. “That one she wanted to set you up with?”
