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Author's Note: This isn't anything but pure emotion.
Premonition
It was something about the way the dog's ears perked up. Pointing high, facing forward, twitching in search of a noise invisible to the human ear. I too searched, first with my eyes. The red upholstered couch held nothing out of the ordinary, the TV remained black, the room shrouded in eerie darkness for no lights were turned on. And it was silent.
My ears strained, listening, hearing. The beat of my heart drummed in my ears and rhythmically found time with the ticking clock. They hummed together, music in a silent reality. The dog's tail twitched for a moment and then began to sway, slowly, and then faster until it too was an instrument of the symphony. The swish, the tick, and the beat were in a melodic state of unison. Their existence was one.
And suddenly my glass of wine slipped from my hands. In a slow motion it tumbled, descending, until it contacted the white rug with a blood red shattering scream. At once everything ceased and the silence became deafening. The crimson liquid seeped, clung, filled the white expanse of carpeted rug, scarring it, claiming it.
Suddenly my world was surrounded by red swirls of light that dripped and overtook my vision, blinding me, bewildering me. I could feel myself falling within my being, the walls caving, the light dimming. My heartbeat was erratic, no longer with the ticks of the clock, and the dog's tail remained motionless.
The tranquility of my world was disrupted by an unseen force. A shockwave ran through me and I knew something had happened. Happened to her.
Rory.
My thoughts were a swirl of confusion. My limbs seemed to have a mind of their own, carrying me from the house, to the car. Driving me down a road. I didn't know where I was going, what was happening. And then the flashing red and blue ahead came into my vision. I was blinded, everything was scrambling. I don't know how but my car stopped and I was climbing from it towards the carnage. A black jeep smashed against the tree, wrapped around it, nearly in two. I didn't know what I was searching for, but something was there, something that I had to see.
Officers called, telling me to stand back, to get out. My voice suddenly called her name, screaming. And then I saw it, the stretcher, the white blanket...the body underneath it. No my mind screamed, NO!
I was fighting the officers, reaching for her. No! She is mine! My Rory! Give her too me! My mind was lost, in pain. And I crumpled to the ground. My limbs no longer in control, my body shook. Pure agony. My heart was splintering, cracking, dying. And I fell into a state of utter loss.
She was gone and I knew I would be gone too.