ASMSG Scifi Fantasy Paranormal Emagazine April 2015 | Page 25

So much for support! Jerry was twisting my thoughts with male trickery. “Not exactly, I started seeing this woman right away, but it’s more than that. How did I know the entire gruesome crime scene? She’s in my head.” We looked out the window to a clear night sky. Stars twinkled above the distant homes. In an effort to comfort me he said, “You see how clear the sky is tonight? There isn’t even a cloud and tomorrow will be another perfect day.” “In your head?” he questioned, raising one eyebrow higher than the other. Watching the stars glow brought me back to his parent’s house and the fireflies. Her house, in my mind I saw her catching fireflies with another young girl, Sage. They were laughing and giggling. How could I tell him this? My eyes drifted to the tree across the street where I had seen her before. “Jerry… there, over there under the oak tree. You see her? That’s her!” She was back. He had to believe me now. I couldn’t make an entire person appear. I had decided to appeal to another side of him. “Have you noticed anything different about me lately?” “Since you’ve returned from Chesterville, no. You’ve been very normal,” he said matter of factly. “Before my trip?” His eyes rolled to the top as they did when he was deep in thought. “OK yeah, you fell at the hospital, made a trip out of town without telling me, ate Chinese food without chopsticks, and have a whole new taste in clothing.” There we go; he finally got it out. “You see, you’ve noticed it too.” Something else suddenly struck me and maybe it meant nothing but since I was on a roll I blurted it out. “Remember that first night I came home from Chestervill e alone.” He started to speak but I cut him off. “Don’t speak; allow me to finish. I had gone to her house, Eilida’s, but I didn’t know then that it was hers. I was driving and before I knew it, I was there. My legs turned to mush and the scene in front of me shifted dimensions or something. It was like watching a TV with bad reception. Then lightning hit the ground beside me. It came within inches of me along with a massive rain storm. I made it to my car and off the mountain. That’s not the first time the rains have come when I remember her thoughts or seeher. It’s sporadic but it happens.” He contemplated everything I told him, then chuckling softly he said, “People don’t control weather and just because it doesn’t rain around my Sunshine, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t rain. When I was a kid it used to rain all the time but weather patterns change sometimes. We are just getting rain again.” If he couldn’t accept these little tidbits, how would he accept my twin theory? “Yes, I see something, could be a person under the oak tree. I have an idea maybe this person is lost, let’s go outside and check, maybe talk with the person. I’m sure that it is just someone who is lost or maybe waiting for a friend.” Jerry replied to ease my mind but he didn’t actually see anything under the oak tree. I went along with his blind scenario. “Maybe, OK, I’m not scared… and you are probably right.” I wondered, do all men have a paranormal block or just Jerry? We headed out the door hand in hand. To get to the street we had to go down a flight of steps. When we opened the front door, she, of course, wasn’t there. “She’s gone but she was right there.” I pointed in the direction of the tree. “Her ride probably picked her up,” he said. Whatever, he didn’t believe me even when she was standing no more than twenty feet away. “Maybe, I don’t know or I’m losing my mind?” I stated. He placed his hands on my shoulders and looked into my eyes. “Honey, no you’re not. Your mind is just playing tricks on you.” Was he that blind, really? He was most definitely in denial. I shuddered from the sudden cool breeze and said, “It’s going to rain. Look at the sky; remember how clear it was? We were just looking at the stars, and now they are fuzzy from the clouds. I told you they roll in after I see her. I can’t control the weather.” Jerry, Mr. Denial and I don’t believe in paranormal science, offered, “The clouds are off in the distance and will probably pass us by.” Hmm… Yeah right and pigs fly. 25 | P a g e