That’s what my mind is trying to figure out.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“Well, there are some things in this world that you’re supposed to just accept and move on from.”
“But you didn’t say you were talking to me.”
“Well I did! It was… it was real. Did you feel the same way when you saw it through the other eye? Like this is a vision you saw through a different lens? That’s what it felt like for me. The thing that I saw on the bed is a visual representation of something that I saw.”
“I’m very confused. What did I ask for?”
“No, no. What else do you want?”
I sat stunned for a little bit, trying to get my head around what happened. If something happened and I didn’t see it, then why was I talking to this guy?
“I figured I’d ask you something. You know, you said that you were seeing visions, so if you weren’t seeing anything, why did you ask me if you could come in for just a minute?”
“What? No, I’m not talking about visions. I’m talking about you… talking to me…”
“What do I say?”
“You weren’t seeing anything. Why not?”
“Well, I wanted to ask you something about your past. Do you remember what happened?”
“I do.”
“And what was it like? Can you show me?”
“Well…”
“What happened to me?” At least he seemed interested in asking the question.
I stared at him for a moment. He turned and I got a good look at the scar that was covering his lower back.
“Well, there was this one night in college,” I explained. “We were in a bar for dinner one night when this guy comes up to me and… grabs me. He tried to kiss me, like… just… pull me into the back of his Jeep and push us into his house. It was crazy. Like, there was just this guy, and this woman, and we both… tried… to kiss each other, and I just froze. And then I kept thinking about how my mom would have reacted. And I thought I’d see… I thought that she would have said that someone like this shouldn’t have a… that was weird. Like this guy was some kind
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