Schooling

By Sonya Lee

Story three in the Malevolent Chronicles: Age of Innocence
Agnes has learned to control her reactions to others and control her thoughts. Her parents are ready to allow her to go to school with her peers. But when events spiral out of control at the winter formal will her malevolent thoughts cause more damage than even she believed she is capable of. Join us as Agnes unlocks more of her powers and learns some important things about herself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sonya Lee
• Release date: May 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301047987

Sonya Lee

Sonya Lee grew up in Chicago, IL. She lived on the south side of the city. She taught at many Chicago Public Elementary schools before relocating to the south. Ms. Lee wrote as a child but the demands of school and work stopped her from writing for many years. Ms. Lee began writing again in December of 2011. Since that point she has published several short stories and two novellas. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Mississippi and will continue to write books and teach.

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Schooling

Malevolent Chronicles

Sonya Lee

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Chapter 1

The routine had not varied for Father MacArthur since he met Agnes several weeks ago. He sat patiently at his desk contemplating everything that Agnes had told him. So many troubling words seemed to tumble from her lips. He still loath to believe everything that she had told him but the more he was in her presence the more he began to accept what she said, which made him doubt his own sanity at times, this was one of those times.

Agnes was a troubled teen who came to confess her sins every Wednesday around two o’clock in the afternoon. She always came at a time when no one was around to see, as if she knew his parishioners were at work during that time and she wouldn't be disturbed. He often wondered at her choice of time and church, which made him think she had been visiting the church long before she started coming to confession. He began scanning the crowds during mass each Sunday in the hopes of getting a better glimpse of Agnes but no new faces had been present in recent weeks.

When he began this journey with her, he expected the normal teenage confessions. He soon learned that there was nothing normal about Agnes. He looked at the clock on his study wall, it was one-thirty in the afternoon. He had just enough time to say a prayer of supplication before her arrival. He knew he needed much guidance when dealing with Agnes. He had found her descriptions of her sins to be too fantastical, bordering on entertainment in the beginning. But every time she came to confession she revealed things about him that no one could possibly know because he had never told a soul.

He often racked his memory trying to determine if at some point in his fifty-nine years of living, he might have told someone the things that Agnes seemed to know about him. But no matter how many times he reviewed it in his mind, he knew he had never told anyone those things.

Many people knew the cover story of why he had joined the priesthood but only one person knew the circumstances that truly lead him to join the church. That person couldn't tell a soul because he had been dead some thirty years now. Even when this person was living he couldn't tell a soul because he was in a coma when Father McArthur had told him his intentions. He never regained consciousness from that coma.

It wasn’t that the things that Agnes revealed were bad things. No, he had prided himself on doing only good in his life. It was simply that what she told him made him think that she was indeed exactly what she said she was, a teenager with psychic abilities that caused her to slowly lose her soul. She could no more control her subconscious thoughts than he could force himself to stop breathing. Her parents had tried to train her to control her thoughts but no matter how much training a person has, the mind is still a mystery and thoughts that flow through our mind instantaneously are often the biggest mysteries of them all.

Father MacArthur checked the time again. It was one-fifty, time for him to head down to the confessional. He contemplated what Agnes might tell him today. Thus far, the sins she had committed occurred under duress and were not intentional on her part. It wasn’t that she was an evil person, she just had a strong sense of right and wrong as all teenagers do, at least until the world pounds them down and right versus wrong isn’t viewed in the same way.

Idealism has lost its value in today’s world thought father MacArthur. He would hate to see Agnes lose that sense of fairness that seems to be embedded in her being. He walked quickly down to the church and said a prayer for Agnes and her soul before he entered the confessional.

The church was quiet as usual. In the afternoon, the stillness of the church provided a lot of time for reflection which made it one of Father MacArthur's favorite times of the day. It was the time in which he could actually sit and commune with God. He sat in the confessional now waiting for Agnes.

No sound could be heard throughout the church, time seemed to be at a standstill as he waited patiently. He soon heard footsteps walking in the church and a sense of excitement seemed to flow through him. Outside of the sins that were committed by Agnes, her stories and the way she told them, kept him enraptured. That’s why he often found himself believing the impossible things he knew could not be true. He decided right then and there to research her stories to see if there was even a smidgen of truth to them. She had provided proof on her last visit but a kernel of doubt still plagued him.

The confessional door opened. Someone came in and sat down. The voice threw him for a moment because it wasn’t the voice that Father MacArthur was expecting to hear. A man's voice rang out from the opposite confessional. He quickly stated why he was there.

Father forgive me for I have sinned, said the man.

Father MacArthur settled back down in his seat and prepared himself to hear