Chapter 49
They arrived at Miranda's house and she offered to make some coffee. AJ followed her into the kitchen saying, "Coffee is fine, my dear, but we do need to have a talk."
"I know we do AJ and I want to start by thanking you for trusting me about the plane. I just wish that there had been someway to convince the other people not to take the flight."
"Miranda if the bomb scare didn't do that then nothing that you could have said would have," he stopped speaking when he saw the guilty look on her face. "Did you have something to do with that too?"
"Yes I did," she admitted. "I had called in early this morning to tell them that there was something wrong with the plane and either they didn't check it out or they did and found nothing so after the second vision I had I called in a bomb threat hoping that would get the flight canceled."
"It only delayed it, just long enough for them to search the plane and find nothing, that was why we were still there waiting to board when you got there. So you had more than one vision about the plane crashing?" he questioned.
"Yes the first was a dream and then two visions after that."
"Will you tell me what you saw?"
They sat at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew and Miranda began to explain her dream. How she had seen him sitting next to the old lady that had believed her in the waiting room and how the plane was loosing altitude and filling with smoke. "You talked to the lady and were so kind to her. She told you that she was alone in the world and you held her hand saying that you were there with her," she told him with tears filling her eyes.
"Was that all? Why did she tell me she was alone in the world?"
"You had offered her your cell phone when you knew that the plane was going down."
"Did I call anyone?" he asked watching her face closely, there seemed to be something she was leaving out and he wondered what it could be.
"You called me," Miranda admitted softly and got to her feet to pour them each a cup of coffee.
As she placed AJ's cup in front of him on the table he reached out and took her hand pulling her around in front of him as he scooted his chair back. He gently pulled her down onto his lap and then tilting her face up to his, asked, "What did I say to you Miranda?"
"You didn't talk to me. You got my machine…."
When she trailed off, he determinedly pressed on, "What message did I leave?"
"AJ, I don't know if it was just the emotion of the moment or not."
"Did I tell you that I love you?" he asked tenderly.
"Yes…and that you were glad my voice was the last you heard even if it was just my machine. How did you know?" she asked stunned.
"Because I was going to tell Francesca about the wonderful woman I had fallen in love with and find out how she would feel about me getting married."
Kissing the tip of his nose with a giggle, Miranda told him, "She'll be fine with it. She and Nora will be my attendants."
"Oh they will?" he laughed. "So our whole life is already mapped out? I don't have to do a thing? Like asking you…."
"Well it's always nice to be asked…"
"I'm pretty sure I can get around to that this evening some time, but there are a few other things that need to be gotten out of the way before we can concentrate on pleasure."
"I know, but before we get to those things, why don't you call your daughter so she knows she won't have to meet you at the airport?"
AJ nodded and flipped open his cell phone, placing the call to Francesca. When she came on the line he spoke to her in Italian and she answered him in English. It was a game they had started after reopening their relationship several years ago. He explained that something important had come up at the last minute and apologized for not making it there for Father's Day.
To Be Continued….