Richard after thinking for a while finally said,

“Pamela… our love life is about to get ruined anytime soon.”

“What the hell are you saying?” she angrily asked.

“You won’t believe me today, but you will eventually see that I was right. I have met a very weird person who is beyond us natural human beings.”

“Richard, please, you are getting delusional now. You badly need rest. You need to lie down and just relax for a bit.”

“Don’t worry about me Pamela. You go to sleep, I can sleep on my own. There are other things that I have to worry about.”

“Okay, like what?”

“Like us, it is that simple,” he responded to her. “I have to take care of the two of us.”

“Richard, you are getting really weird day by day. I won’t insist you anymore.”

She stood up, left him standing there and went to the room.

**************

Next afternoon, Richard was seated at the staff room and was having a cup of coffee.

A woman of his age, who was a teacher herself at the school where Richard worked, walked by him and asked,

“Richard, isn’t this your class time?”

Richard did not respond to her and had a sip of coffee. The woman rephrased her question and asked him again,

“Richard, do you know that it is time for your class.”

Richard looked up at her getting kind of annoyed and said,

“I know. I’m going there only.”

“Okay.”

The woman left as she got his reply to what she was asking him.

Richard on the other hand was quite involved in the thoughts of last night’s happening which made him kind of desperate and anxious. He was very disturbed.

His mind could not get off what he heard last night and the words were constantly revolving around his mind.

I can tell you that you have a wife and you two have been recently married.

You went to a trip with your wife quite recently.

By you, I mean you both went there as a couple. Your wife had a great time. She was very happy throughout this time but you apparently weren’t.

And I seem to think that throughout your trip you two were fine. You had no conflict of any sort in your entire trip. This suddenly happened when you both were about to leave and come here.

You are surrounded with evil spirits all around yourself.

Richard felt quite uncomfortable by thinking all this stuff and so he changed his sitting position, but he kept on hearing what he was hearing before that.

I haven’t shared one percent with you about what I actually know about you.

I am a human being just like you. I am just an ordinary human being like you but I have a special connection...

I basically have a communication with these supernatural beings.

I’m not saying that such accidents will necessarily happen with you but I am definitely asking you to be careful and keep your eyes open while you are walking alone.

Richard simply stood up and said to himself,

I can’t stay here like this. I have to do something about it.

He left the spot and said to one of his colleagues who were seated nearby on a chair.

“I am leaving now…”

He rushed towards the exit of the staff room and then eventually walked towards the stairway which was headed downstairs.

Richard as he was walking, he heard and felt that some papers and documents were falling off from his bag.

All the while when Richard was travelling he was thinking about what was about to happen in his near future. He sat inside his car and then he turned on the engine after turning on the engine, he drove his car in a somewhat average speed. While he was driving his mind was not on the road rather his mind was on the words of Mr Wallace. No matter how hard he tried he kept on thinking about him and probably he was enjoying thinking about this person. Things are about to get easy probably for him but not for his marriage life. He believed that the most time he would spend with that friends person the better he would feel about himself but that was not what happened to the last night what happened in the previous night was that after having a detailed conversation with that suspicious person who did not even appear to be a complete and absolute human being his mind got even more disturbed and even more anxious. How could he get himself in one position how could he stand in a position where he would feel satisfied and better than before? He couldn't probably because he had complicated this matter for himself.

Life was about to get stuck, either it was about to get better or worse but either way he was not really enjoying things but he did wanted to resolve all these issues.

He was constantly thinking about these different things you had last night but on the other side here also considering the fact that these would either affect his marriage life in a way that a mela was strictly not liking what he was doing with his life and he agreed with her to some extent he really wanted to get over the superstitions and move on with his life but the person he met last night was not something ordinary he was not a person from the same planet according to him.

Several moments later, he stopped this vehicle outside a restaurant and and he realised that his car’s battery had turned down. He immediately understood that there was something wrong with his car and he did not want to get in these matters of complicating finish which was why he ignored it and remained seated. These things did bother him but he could not stay like this for long. As the evening got closer, he stepped out of his car and he started working he did not look aside and did not even care about his car he just kept on working so that he was headed towards the place that he had never seen before. He however, kept on working until he got tired and then he even lowered his speed.

It was getting dark and Richard kept on walking at a place he had never been to before. He then realised that the different kinds of people who were looking at things differently were considering matters in ways he could not imagine. The world around him was quite realistic and he knew this about himself that his mind and thoughts were way different than the ones of ordinary people.

As he walked he saw an unusual shop that was at some distance from other shops and the shop seemed to be an overall a dark one with just one bulb shining.

Richard got interested and curious, so he followed the shop and kept on following it until he finally reached inside. Inside, an aged woman was seated all alone with her eyes closed, he then saw that there were somewhat poster like symbols of horoscopes on the walls of the shop and these were meant to either attract the customers or communicate with people of different world.

Richard broke the silence of the place,

“Excuse me, can I come inside?”

The woman with her eyes shut simply nodded her head.

He said courteously,

“I hope that I’m not disturbing you.”

“Sit down, Sagittarius,” she said to him.

“Excuse me?” Richard felt a bit weird as he heard this.

“Sit down…”

“Wait, how do you know that I am a Sagittarius?”

“Please be silent. I’ll talk to you in a while…”

Richard got so agitated that he wondered,

What kind of people are these? How do they know everything about me? It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

“Alright,” the woman finally broke the silence and acted like a normal person, “what are you here for? My name is Rachel Finneran, and you are?”

“I assume that you already know me…”

“Well, I don’t, I can only make a guess…Your first name is Richard.”

Oh, my God! Richard was quite shocked on this.

“So Mr Richard, what do you want to know?” she continued.

“I just want to ask you,

how is my future? Can you see my future?”

“I can see your future but not right now. I have to make some analogies.”

“How do you know about this stuff? I mean how do you make such analogies? Are you allowed to share this kind of information?”

“Allowed?”

“I don’t know, I mean do you have any communication with the spirits who can stop you from this stuff?”

“Mr Richard, there is no such thing as communicating with spirits.”

“But I know a person who can communicate with spirits this way.”

“Whoever is telling you this is a liar. There is no such thing as communicating with spirits. Just remember that…”

The different kinds of thoughts were coming in Richard’s mind and he felt seriously confused thinking about what kind of contradictory things he was listening to.

“How can you be so sure?” he asked her.

“Alright, fine, you tell me. How can a person communicate with spirits of the dead.”

Richard was left speechless as he had no answer to this.

Rachel gave an expression of listening impatiently to him and Richard was obviously nothing more than embarrassed on this.

“Mr Sagittarius, I am waiting for your answer,” she said a bit sternly.

Richard looked down feeling ashamed and answered to her,

“Alright, I give up. I don’t have any answer to your question.”

She sat back as if proving that no one could out win her in conversations.

“Alright, Mr Richard, how is your wife?” she changed the mode of conversation.

“She is fine,” he replied kind of hopefully, “I mean I hope that she is fine. We have a really good marriage life and we are planning to move ahead happily.”

“Move ahead, where?”

Richard realised in that moment that it was a bit out of the situation and he had wrongly uttered it, so he immediately covered it up,

“We both are really happy and we want this to keep on going forever. That’s what I meant.”

“I see. But I have a little bad news for you. I am sure that you will be depressed after listening to this but the truth is that your marriage life is about to get ruined, really bad…”

Richard moved back so badly that his chair moved as if he would fall.

“I’m sorry but I see it this way,” Rachel said courteously.

“Look, I’ve been told the same thing before, tell me please, what can I do to prevent this from happening.”

“The different kinds of situations occur and these can happen quite unexpectedly. I can’t tell you exactly what would happen, but it would happen. The two of you shall see really dark things around yourselves. As long as you two are together, this is meant to happen. You cannot really prevent it.”

Richard was really upset and he felt that even though the two fortune tellers were way apart from each other, there was one thing common between the two and regardless of how different the two appeared before him, they seemed unified on this point that Richard’s marriage life was at risk.

Richard asked her sadly as he stood up from the chair,

“What if I get separated? Will my wife be safe? I just want her to be fine. I don’t care about myself.”

“Look, I can’t give you any false commitments. Just give me a few days.’ time. I’ll have to make some calculations. These will literally require some time in accuracy but I think that there can be hope.”

“Okay, what must I do right now? What can I do now? What should I do as I leave?”

“Just keep silent and don’t talk to her. No matter what happens, don’t get trapped in an argument. Be nice to her in every manner but don’t talk too much for now… and just relax.”

“Okay… thank you very much.”

Richard sadly left the place asking her before leaving that place,

“How much do you charge?”

“I don’t charge at all,”

she replied to him.

Richard smiled and walked ahead towards the exit of the shop.

As he stepped out of the shop, he saw through the window that the woman was not even seated where he just saw her and even talked to her for a while. He looked carefully and saw that she was literally not there anymore.

Oh, my God! Where did she go? She was just here… he asked himself confusingly.

to be continued...