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couldn’t understand why Tiffany hung out with people like Amber and Gary. But when she finally got the guts to mention it, Tiffany just laughed nervously and said she’d known them forever.
    She didn’t seem to like them much, though, and by the time spring turned into summer, Tiffany spent more time with Jenny than she did with Amber. Mostly they hung out at the mall, went to lunch in town, or watched movies at Tiffany’s house. But it was nice, having someone to call a friend.
    “So … ” Tiffany finally said, wiping at the same place she’d been wiping for the last five minutes.
    “Uh-huh?” Jenny prompted, keeping her eyes on the coffee pot like it wouldn’t make coffee if she didn’t watch it.
    “Last night was weird, right?”
    Jenny shrugged. “It was just a game.”
    “Did you read the piece of paper?”
    Jenny nodded. “Yeah.”
    “Well?” Tiffany had stopped moving.
    “Well what?”
    Tiffany sighed. “Come on, Jen. You know what. It was freaky.”
    Jenny turned to her. “It was just a game.”
    Tiffany’s eyes met hers. “I saw it happen. I know those guys can be jerks, but I don’t think they were fooling around. They seemed scared when the pointer started moving. Scared and shocked.”
    Jenny crossed her arms over her chest and leaned against the counter. “Look, I don’t know what you want me to say about it. Is it weird that some kind of spirit contacted you guys through the Ouija board? Yes. Do I know what it was or why it said what it did? No.”
    Tiffany set the rag down. “Okay, but what happened when you … you know, when you blacked out or whatever?”
    “I didn’t black out,” Jenny insisted.
    “Then what was it?”
    Jenny took a deep breath, pulling her eyes from Tiffany’s, looking at the wall instead as she tried to remember, to take herself back to the dark space in which she’d felt someone reaching for her, sending her a message.
    “I don’t know. It’s like I was there with you guys, and then I was sort of … floating, I guess.”
    “Floating?”
    Jenny shook her head. “That’s not the right word. It’s like I was in another place. A dark place.”
    “Could you hear us talking? Did you know a message was coming through the board?” Tiffany prompted.
    “I heard Amber ask the first couple of questions. After that, it was almost like being in a dream, except I felt like someone was there, trying to tell me something.”
    “Like what?”
    Jenny shrugged. “I don’t know. I couldn’t quite grab onto it.”
    “Was it … threatening? Or scary?” Tiffany asked.
    Jenny thought back to the darkness, to the feeling of not wanting to leave, of needing the message, which didn’t make sense since she didn’t know what the message was.
    “No,” she said. “And actually, now that I think about it, I don’t think I wanted to leave. It was like I wanted—needed—the message, whatever it was.” She laughed nervously, starting a pot of decaf. “Anyway, like I said, it was just a game.”
    Tiffany didn’t say anything, and a few seconds later Jenny looked over at her, still wiping the same spot on the counters.
    “Tiff?”
    She looked up. “Yeah?”
    “It was just a game.”
    Tiffany nodded. “Right. I know that, Jen.”
    “Good.”
    Jenny went back to work, trying to ignore the voice that told her it was a lie. That the feeling she’d had when they used the Ouija board hadn’t been a game at all. That it had been just the beginning of something she couldn’t yet understand.
     
    *
     
    The signing was packed. Jenny and Tiffany worked nonstop for two hours, filling orders for coffee, tea, and the occasional muffin or pastry brought in from Bianca’s Bakery down the road. Jenny was grateful they didn’t have time to talk more about the Ouija board. Thinking about it just made it seem weirder than it already was.
    Tiffany offered to go with Jenny to the gallery in Acton when their shift ended. They took Jenny’s car, stopping at her house to load