Chapter 48

Miranda saw AJ right away; he was standing at the wall of windows staring out with his hands linked behind his back. His overnight bag was on the ground at his feet and her heart gave a lurch at how easily she could lose him forever. For a moment before she approached him, she wondered if he already knew he loved her or if it was something he had yet to realize. When she had the vision of him calling her from the plane, had he just then known as he was dying that he loved her, or did he know it standing there at this very moment, and would she ever know?

"AJ!" she called out.

Turning around he stared at her in amazement. "Miranda how in the world….." he asked as he walked up to her.

"I had to come, AJ! I had to find some way of keeping you from getting on that plane!" she said as she wrapped her arms around him.

"Why is it you have such a fear of me going on this trip, my dear?"

"Oh AJ, I just have the most awful feeling about this flight!" Miranda didn't realize that the two of them had drawn the attention of most of the people in the waiting area. "I just know that if you get on this plane that I will never see you again!"

"Why in the world would you think that? I'm going to be back tomorrow night," he assured her.

"AJ, Mac told me that you understood when she had hunches or feelings about certain things…"

"Yes, she has some kind of special ability that I don't understand, but I have seen enough of it to trust in it. Why?"

"Because I have the same kinds of feelings about things and I just know that you shouldn't get on the plane!"

Before AJ could respond to that, and elderly woman that Miranda remembered from her dream as AJ's seatmate, came up to the two of them and she placed her hand on AJ's arm, she smiled gently and said, "You should listen to her young man. It sounds like she has what my mama used to call the second sight. I know for one thing that if she thinks that strongly that you shouldn't go on this flight that I'm not going to get on it either."

Miranda saw out of the corner of her eye that there were a few other people in the waiting room that were nodding in agreement with the old woman, but most of them were looking on the scene as if they were crazy. AJ looked down at the tiny woman clinging to his arm, then at three other people that got up and left the waiting area, and then back at Miranda, he asked, "You think something is going to happen to the plane?"

"Yes, I do. I've seen it twice now, the plane is going to crash over the ocean and there will be no survivors," Miranda insisted quietly with tears forming in her eyes.

"I believe you, my dear," the older woman said and turned to gather up her belongings. "I am going to take another flight if I can get one, and if not then I just will see Italy another time."

Giving the commotion in the waiting room an angry once over, the desk clerk called for the pre-boarding of the flight. There was some hesitation and then people began to form a line to board the plane. AJ looked down at Miranda and kissed her forehead, with a smile he put his arm around her and walked with her to the window to pick up the bag he had left there. Then he turned them away from the boarding passengers. It wasn't until they had reached the airport entrance that AJ spoke, "I have the Escalade here. Did you take a cab or drive yourself?"

Reluctantly she admitted that she had driven herself. "Well I can come back for the Escalade later if you wouldn't mind giving me a ride?" he smiled down at her.

"I don't mind at all, would you like to go to my place so we can talk?" she asked knowing that they needed to.

"Yes and I should also call Francesca and tell her that something has come up and I will have to see her another time."

"I'm really sorry about you not seeing your daughter for Father's Day AJ, but if what I saw was true you wouldn't have made it there anyway."

To Be Continued….