Another Place Another Time

Another Place Another Time 

By Paul McCann

Francie met Cecila and immediately there was something special happening..

After only a few months he had this feeling that she had lived with him in a previous life . There was something very familiar about her . How wonderful , he thought , if it were true .

He thought to himself , nah , that couldn’t be possible . Could it ?

They lived together for a while and still he couldn’t help noticing the way she did things and  the way she looked at him sometimes . It was uncanny , something deep inside of him knew they had met in a previous life  .

 Could it be true ?

Who know’s and if it were true what a wonderful things to happen ?

They never went out much and enjoyed an enclosed life together at home  .

It was uncanny but each time he felt like talking to Cecila about the connection between them he decided not to bother as it might sound silly him saying ,

“Haven’t we met before on another day in another time ?“

Then he thought , no better not , that sound’s a bit weird .

One night he suddenly woke up , Cecila was fast asleep and he heard someone talking to him about love , then suddenly the voice disappeared and he drifted off to sleep again .

 One night in a dream he was in a colourful place with Cecila and they were both little children with smiling faces playing on streets of a village where they lived “

Next day he told Cecila about the dream and she smiled and said nothing more .

Next night he had a similar dream where he walked down a lane with Cecila .

The next day he told Cecila about the dream and again she just smiled but said nothing more .

Every night Francie was having dreams about him and Cecila in a past time travelling on trams together on old familiar looking roads . Other times he dreamt of them going to school together as young children or of them sitting on the doorstep of an old cottage where Cecila said ,

“This is the doorstep of tomorrow . Yesterdays footsteps have brought us here but now we have to leave them behind because we are here in another place and in another time .“

The next morning when he woke up Cecila was gone. He looked all around the house with no sign of her anywhere .

He thought it very strange when he asked the neighbours if they noticed Cecila leave the house but ever one he asked responded

“We’ve never seen her before “

Other would says

“We all thought you lived alone as we had not noticed anyone else but around the house “

That freaked him out so when he went inside the house he checked the rooms and to his surprise he discovered Cecial had no clothes in the wardrobe or shoes , there was no jewellery or toiletries , In fact there was nothing in the house apart from his own personal effects .

Days passed into weeks and there was no sign of Cecila , No note had been left she just disappeared from his life .

Heartbroken and lost he went to speak to a councillor about what had happened and when he explained about the dreams he was advised to check any photographs of the school he went to as a child .

After months of searching through archives in the library he stumbled upon some photos of his old school and all the students in his class but there was no one there who resembled Cecila . Then by chance he came across an old newspaper clipping with the photo of a home that was burnt down and the story of a young couple who had lost their lives in the fire .When Francie saw a photo of the married couple he recognised it was Cecila standing there with a young man who had been the youngest chief inspector of the police the village had ever had .

He had shivers running all over his body and his hair was standing up on the back of this neck and he thought could that have been him and Cecila in another life ?

Have I been living with a ghost for the last three months .

After a while he left the library and walked across the street but he was still in a daze and never looked and had walked in front of a truck that killed him instantly . On the day of his funeral , a few people stood as the coffin was placed in the ground . Was it just coincidence that the grave beside his was that of Mr and Mrs Delaney who had perished in a house fire exactly 100 years ago to the day when Francie had been killed ,

 The End