By the way, I am changing Anton's name to Anthony. I'm not going to go back and change it in all the parts I've already written so just so everyone knows Anton and Anthony are the same person.
Part 7
It was still a few weeks before Cassandra had the filming of the first episode of her new show which was going to be called "Cassandra the All-Knowing." They were planning on filming it in front of a live studio audience and were currently building the set, discussing the format, and advertising to get an audience.
During these few weeks, she spent a majority of her time at the studio and did a lot fewer readings. So at first, she didn't notice anything wrong. There had always been skeptics in her line of work so when people didn't believe her she shook it off. She had learned that people tended to discard anything they didn't want to here and since she was now telling the whole truth about their futures there was plenty that people didn't want to hear. It wasn't until about a week later when Maria, an older superstitious lady, didn't believe her that she started to wonder. Maria was gullible, Cassandra had found that she didn't even have to try hard to give her a reading that she would be satisfied with. Cassandra started to reflect on the week. It was common for walk-ins to not believe in her, sometimes they only came for a laugh, but none of her regulars believed her either.
Cassandra thought back on what Anthony had said to her, that everyone would see her as a liar. She hadn't really worried about it at first, she thought that she would just seem unbelievable but since she was good at selling what she had she thought it would be easy to override the curse. She was now realizing how strong the curse actually was.
"It's fine," Cassandra said to herself. "Devin didn't believe me at first and I convinced him that I was a real psychic and I can convince others too. I just need to have visions that will happen immediately."
Cassandra spent the second week telling every client that came in what they wanted to know about as well as something that would happen in the next few hours or days. Nobody believed her but she was sure that people would start believing her once her visions started coming true. She decided to make sure that this was working when one of her clients, a man in his forties named Reggie, called.
"Hello, Reggie. It's always great to get your phone calls," she said.
"I need to cancel my reading for next week," he said.
"Really, why?"
"Truth be told I'm pretty sure you're a scammer. People have been telling me to not believe you for a while and I've had my suspicions as well, but I think after our reading last week I know for sure. Everything that you said just sounded so . . . well so . . . fake."
"What about the part that I told you about your store changing brands of soap in the bathroom? That came true didn't it. I must be a real psychic if that came true."
"I don't know. I wasn't really paying that much attention plus that's not super interesting," he said.
"Yes, but the point is that I knew it was going to happen which means other things that I say are going to happen will happen."
"Wow, you really sound like a scammer. I don't know how I didn't see it before."
"Fine, Reggie, do what you want. I don't need you, I'm about to become a TV psychic," she said.
"Have fun with that," he said hanging up.
Cassandra let out a frustrated huff. But the more she thought about it the less she was worried. Reggie had specifically said that he wasn't paying attention and she knew her other clients would not to mention that the girl who asked her about the date would probably be calling into Mad Maxwell's show pretty soon to tell everyone just how correct Cassandra actually was.
Part 9
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