Ch. 1: I see you in my dreams
Ashley wakes up in sweat tangled sheets. Trying to catch the last wisp of a dream that kept eluding her. When she finally catches the tail end she gets the sensation that something great is about to happen to her.
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A week later she has the same dream only this time she is able to grasp onto a little more. She sees a gorgeous girl running out of the surf carrying a surfboard. She has long honey golden blond tresses framing the most crystalline blue eyes Ashley had ever seen. The girl looked young close to Ashley's own age of 22.
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The next night she sees the girl again only this time she is laying on the beach talking to a friend. Ashley has a little more control in this dream and moves closer to hear what they are saying.
"Hey, when are we going to Waikiki? The surf is supposed to be killer right now with thirty foot crystal clear beaks perfect conditions for tubes." Her friend asks leaning up on one elbow to talk to her.
"I don't know. Maybe tomorrow I just went out yesterday and I want to relax today before I start to design the new board for that oh what's her name surfer?"
"You mean the new one; I think she has a thing for you. She is a great surfer."
The girl sighs "Yeah she maybe great but she will do that with or without me. I want a girl who is quiet yet likes some spontaneity in their life."
"Don't you think that the new surfer is spontaneous enough?"
"She seams spontaneous but there is nothing quiet about her. And she only seems interested in me because I make and design surfboards. Besides I am famous enough as it is having many requests from some more established surfers out there."
"Yeah, so I am going to go spaghetti on you and change the topic. Sooo, are we going to go surfing tomorrow. As I said before the waves are supposed to be perfect for the next couple of weeks so if you don't come out tomorrow at least promise me you will go out with in the week."
Waking up Ashley pulls out a couple of journals. The first one is labeled "dreams". She crosses out the latest entry and turns to the second journal entitled "good premonitions" and proceeds to write about the latest dream in the journal.
Ashley is a witch whose magical ability runs along the capability of time. She can pause, fast forward, and rewind time. Along with controlling time she has premonitions about the future that can range from excellent to catastrophic. The good ones cover from wine sells being exceptionally good to the ecosystem thriving around her ten years from the day. Disastrous vary from a building collapsing to a hurricane the East coast destroying all in its wake. When a catastrophic premonition happens Ashley pulls out her third journal, writes it down and then proceeds to warn people of the pending danger without giving away how she came by the information.
Over the years Ashley has developed her own way of looking at time. It is not one road but many branches off of a fundamental trunk. The trunk is the past but with each new branch that comes is a possibility of what could or could not happen based on what a person does or does not do.
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A few days later Ashley has another dream. But this time she is it. She was in Hawaii working on the girl's computer. When she wakes up from the dream she writes it down in her good journal. Ashley feels as if she is at a cross road in her life. She can take a chance on this girl in Hawaii or let it pass by a quiet possibly let the best thing in her life go by. She decides to take the chance.