Future Foretold

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The sound of an alarm clock disturbed the quiet of the room awakening the sleeping boy lying on the bed. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and then ran his hand through his raven hair. It was long and straight, but at the moment was tousled from sleep. He swung his long legs out from under the covers and put his feet on the floor.

Slowly as the boy came awake a nagging thought kept pressing at the back on his mind. There was something he needed to really think about. Thenas if a switch had been thrown the events from the night before lept into his mind. His thoughts seemed incoherent to his logical mind. He had been enjoying the evening out with his friends and their dates. Then he had gone to visit the fortune teller and later wound upspending time with the one person he would never have believed it would be possible with and they had had a grand time.

He thought back to what the fortune teller had said to him. When he had walked into the tent where she did the readings she looked up at himand said. "I have been expecting you, I also know that you are skeptical and probably won't believe what I have to tell you. Butthere is something special coming to you in the next few months thatwill bring you great joy."

"I believe that is a common line all fortune-tellers use. But since I am here let's hear what you have to say."

Theshort round woman looked at Double Dee through heavy lashes and smiled. "Tonight you will see something that will surprise you. After this event, you will get to spend time with someone you have loved for a very long time. Even though you have never made your love for this person known it will be returned to you this night. He will kiss you without any effort on your part. At a later date, this person will need you to help him overcome something in his own life."

"Ha," Dee snorted and stood up and walked out of the tent pausing at the door to say, "I'm sorry madam that fortune has no chance of ever coming true. The person you spoke of would probably kill me for even thinking such a thing." Then he had walked over and saw Kevin actually standing there talking to Ed and May. Well, she had gotten one thing right; that sure surprised him. He had always wanted to be on friendly terms with the redhead. There was something about those emerald eyes that seem to draw him in. Several times Kevin had caught him looking at him and asked: "What you looking at Dork?" He had yearned for years to be able to just spend time with the jock. He had actually gotten to spend the evening in the jock's company and had even been kissed by him. That kiss he just couldn't figure it out. Itcouldn't mean anything surely? He just felt sorry for you is all. You know it will never happen again. Dee smiled and packed the memory into the back of his mind to be taken out and cherished now and then.

He walked over and looked out the window of his room towards Kevin'shome. The curtains in the redhead's room were drawn open and he could see the jock in his room working out with some dumbbells. Kevin wasworking out shirtless and he could see the movement of each muscle. The boy had a body to be proud of for sure. Double Dee looked down at the clock beside his bed and noticed it was after 10 am. Where had the time gone? He had spent the morning sitting in his room thinking and had let the time slip away. He had his Saturday morning ritual todo. He was behind in his chores and hadn't even had his breakfast. He hurried and got dressed and ran down the stairs to get his breakfast out of the way. He had to get the house cleaned, although if anyone bothered to look around the house they would wonder just what he needed to clean. Everything in the house was spotless.

Just as he was finishing washing up his dishes from breakfast there came a knock at his door. He walked to the door and unlocked it and opened the door. "Greetings Eddy, and how are you this fine morning?"

The short Ed looked at Eddward, then asked, "What were you doing hanging with shovel-chin last night?"

"You were with Lee and Ed was with May, Neither couple seemed inclined to have me around like a third wheel and he invited me to share some tickets he had purchased and would have gone to waste if we hadn't used them. I was tired of trailing behind you guys and feeling left out."