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.
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