corroborate absolutely everything we’ve learned the last two days.” The detective closed his notebook and shifted his weight from one foot to the other, “I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but if you were a man, I could only describe you as someone with balls of steel. I have had the privilege to witness courage throughout my life, but you take the cake.” The look on his face made my chest swell with pride. This wasn’t some desk jockey. This was a veteran police detective telling me how courageous I was. My first inclination was to invite my mom back into the room and ask him to say it again.
A little self-conscious from his kind words, I was only able to follow with, “Well, thanks.” The two detectives both wished me a quick recovery and politely excused themselves.
My mind spun a little on the detective’s choice of words, specifically the one word. Courage. My reoccurring dream haunted me again – Max’s voice echoed in my mind.
“ Lauren, it is vitally important, you must find me. You will not be able to find me until you are on the path to attaining courage. Once you find me, all the information that I share with you now, is locked away from me, hidden in my human unconscious mind. You will have to follow your instincts, choose your paths wisely. I know you will recognize me. In all our previous lifetimes you have found me. Once you have conquered courage and we are on our journey together, other obstacles will present themselves…”
I got goose bumps on my arm and couldn’t help but let my imagination take hold. There was no way this was a coincidence. Was it some sort of prophecy? A million different ideas began to run through my head, not the least of which was even possible. Max wasn’t just in my dream, he really was my destiny. The robbery fulfilled it. My courage brought me to him, just like my dream foretold.
How could someone I had never met come to me in a dream, and tell me about my future? Then when I met him, he was completely unaware of the future he had told me about. Worse yet, that future wasn’t possible because he was already committed to someone else. To top it all off, Seth was in love with me and thinks I feel the same way about him. I closed my eyes in an effort to settle my mind from spinning out of control. All of this had to be a trick of some kind that my mind was playing on me. It had to be.
Chapter Six
Seth didn’t return until late that afternoon, coming in with a suspicious look as he walked to the side of my bed. He put the chair back where he had left it this morning and sat down. His wariness was evident and he simply took my hand and sat beside me.
With some effort he asked me, “How’re you feeling?”
“ Good, what have you been doing all day? I was expecting you hours ago. Did you remember my cheeseburger?” After the detectives left, I had been left to my imagination for hours, and it was a thrill to have an actual person to talk to. Continuing to analyze my destiny dream had only yielded more questions that I would likely never be able to answer. I was beginning to come to the conclusion that the dream, though very oddly timed, was nothing more than that, a dream.
My subconscious saw a handsome paramedic and began filling in details that I didn’t have. His eyes were beautiful, but in my dream, he was sitting across the room from me in the dark; I would never have seen his eyes, no matter how many times I had the same dream. The adrenaline and heart racing was most likely a response to our first meeting, a little like Pavlov’s dogs. Having Seth here allowed me to stop over-analyzing the entire situation and was a good way to get back to reality.
He handed me the cheeseburger, “I had to go for a run, clear my head a little. Did you miss me?” Seth was trying to be coy, which was a huge improvement over his disposition last night.
“ A run? I thought you
A little self-conscious from his kind words, I was only able to follow with, “Well, thanks.” The two detectives both wished me a quick recovery and politely excused themselves.
My mind spun a little on the detective’s choice of words, specifically the one word. Courage. My reoccurring dream haunted me again – Max’s voice echoed in my mind.
“ Lauren, it is vitally important, you must find me. You will not be able to find me until you are on the path to attaining courage. Once you find me, all the information that I share with you now, is locked away from me, hidden in my human unconscious mind. You will have to follow your instincts, choose your paths wisely. I know you will recognize me. In all our previous lifetimes you have found me. Once you have conquered courage and we are on our journey together, other obstacles will present themselves…”
I got goose bumps on my arm and couldn’t help but let my imagination take hold. There was no way this was a coincidence. Was it some sort of prophecy? A million different ideas began to run through my head, not the least of which was even possible. Max wasn’t just in my dream, he really was my destiny. The robbery fulfilled it. My courage brought me to him, just like my dream foretold.
How could someone I had never met come to me in a dream, and tell me about my future? Then when I met him, he was completely unaware of the future he had told me about. Worse yet, that future wasn’t possible because he was already committed to someone else. To top it all off, Seth was in love with me and thinks I feel the same way about him. I closed my eyes in an effort to settle my mind from spinning out of control. All of this had to be a trick of some kind that my mind was playing on me. It had to be.
Chapter Six
Seth didn’t return until late that afternoon, coming in with a suspicious look as he walked to the side of my bed. He put the chair back where he had left it this morning and sat down. His wariness was evident and he simply took my hand and sat beside me.
With some effort he asked me, “How’re you feeling?”
“ Good, what have you been doing all day? I was expecting you hours ago. Did you remember my cheeseburger?” After the detectives left, I had been left to my imagination for hours, and it was a thrill to have an actual person to talk to. Continuing to analyze my destiny dream had only yielded more questions that I would likely never be able to answer. I was beginning to come to the conclusion that the dream, though very oddly timed, was nothing more than that, a dream.
My subconscious saw a handsome paramedic and began filling in details that I didn’t have. His eyes were beautiful, but in my dream, he was sitting across the room from me in the dark; I would never have seen his eyes, no matter how many times I had the same dream. The adrenaline and heart racing was most likely a response to our first meeting, a little like Pavlov’s dogs. Having Seth here allowed me to stop over-analyzing the entire situation and was a good way to get back to reality.
He handed me the cheeseburger, “I had to go for a run, clear my head a little. Did you miss me?” Seth was trying to be coy, which was a huge improvement over his disposition last night.
“ A run? I thought you
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