IDEA - 10-5-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,547 Words
Some people see shrinks; others see religious leaders; I see a psychic at her home in Arvin, California, about a half-hour away from Bakersfield.Her name is Maria, and she's a single-mom stay-at-home who cleans houses on the side. I've continued to see her ever since she predicted my sister's death. She was so convinced that when my sister was going to be murdered, I wasn't in total shock, like the rest of my family. Now, I've been seeing her for ten years. "I had another Mike dream last night. Should I reach out?" I asked. "It's important to keep a distance; if you make contact, it won't go well," she replies. I like it's not always positive news; bad news keeps it real, I'm a realist, knowing is better than not knowing. Once a week, $40 per session, it's totally worth it, beats paying a therapist. As I mentioned, I keep having recurring visions and coincidences around my ex-boyfriend, Mike. I think it's a sign, but Maria's adamant that if I make contact, bad things will happen. She was confident about my sister's prediction. I know when to stay away. Via social media that night, Mike reached out, "I need to talk to you." As I see it light up my DMs, I ignore it and continue my day. As I left work the next day, Mike was waiting for me in the parking lot. He told me he misses me, saying he's in love and thinking of me day and night. We sit and chat amid Maria's warnings. I must confess, it felt good, like old times. As I join Maria for my next session, she already knows I met Mike and plans to meet him this Friday. "Stop now while you can, if it goes too far, you'll only be hurt or worse." "What do you mean, worse? " I ask. "It's not clear but it is completely shrouded in darkness," Maria says ominously. Since the plans have been made, I meet Mike, but only I officially break things off. I tell him about Maria's prediction, and he scoffs, suggesting she might have had something to do with my sister's murder. "She was the only one who knew it would happen, how can you explain that? " Said, Mike. "She's a psychic!" I reply. “She cleans houses, right? What if, while cleaning a house, she stumbled across something related to your sister? " Mike says. I can't believe this conversation, but he starts to make sense. He thinks the entire mystery of who murdered my sister is inside Maria's house. He persuades me to break-in with him, and search for information. I agreed, but if we found nothing, we forget it forever. We begin watching the house, after 20 minutes, Maria leaves with cleaning supplies and drives away. We've got at least an hour. Mike can easily break through the back door lock. I turn to her reading room in a converted garage out of habit, but why would she hide something there. Instead, I follow Mike to the living house. Her laptop is on her desk and has no password. Once in, Mike and I are surprised to see her customer's phones mirrored, including mine! bt On that laptop, there must be at least 100 phones. Outside, we hear a car door slam, I look out the window to see her teenage daughter coming up the driveway. Mike and I navigate out of the house without detection. We get back to the car, and I was in shock. No wonder she knows so much; she has all the information on my phone. Although odd, it doesn't mean she had anything to do with the murder of my sister, although proof to the contrary is starting to rise. Mike suggests I continue my sessions as usual while producing some texts and messages leading her in the wrong direction. At my next session with Maria, she states that she had a vision. Mike killed me in my sleep. I act shocked, but start wondering if she's the one to kill me and blame Mike? Despite Mike asking me not to, I call out Maria on the mirrored phones. Maria admits it, taking me back to her laptop. As it turns out, once I raved about her about ten years ago, before my sister's death, Mike visited Maria on a whim. Any new phone entering the residence is mirrored on her laptop; her cousin used to work for NSA. My sister and Mike had an affair, but my sister wanted to end it and tell me everything. Maria saw the abusive messages Mike sent her for months. My sister's phone was stolen at the crime scene, and Mike mysteriously misplaced his phone. It wasn't until she showed me the messages leading up to the murder, that I put it all together. So she expected it; she saw Mike's violent tendencies. Looking back, Maria told me to split with Mike all those years ago. Maria had a nanny cam, showing Mike and I breaking into her home. "I could tell when you were interrupted that he was going to kill you, he saw his old cell phone in the list, but he couldn't do anything about it," she said. Mike saw a video about signs your phone is mirrored on youtube; one of the symptoms was your phone slowing down. He recalls his phone slowing down when he went to visit Maria. He reached out to me to see if his messages had been revealed, and the rest was his undoing. So, it turned out that Maria wasn't psychic, and while she saved my life twice, installing an app on someone's phone without their permission is illegal. Mike and Maria were both arrested and I guess closure was finally found, although, I do miss my psychic therapy sessions.
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