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Chapter 16

 

After dinner, Donovan and Jodi decided to drive around Haneyville.

While they drove down the street after street, they both kept it quiet that they again had intense déjà vu feeling with numerous sights of the town.

These feeling were again strong when they drove by the homes of George and Betsy Anderson and Ernie Carlson.

After their drive through Haneyville, Donovan drove back to the Motel 6 and parked in front of his room.

He and Jodi got out of his car and looked at each other for a second. They both knew each other had the same idea.

“Why don’t you spend the night in my room?” he offered.

“I’ll go get some of my things,” she replied, then gave him a warm smile and walked off to her room.

Donovan went to his room and went inside.

The second he stepped inside his room, he rushed around picking up some of his items like boxer shorts and socks scattered on the floor. 

The second he got everything tucked away, there was a knock. He rushed over and opened the door.  He smiled the second he saw Jodi outside with her toiletry bag and some extra clothes.

“Enter my dear,”

“Why thank you,” Jodi said while she entered his room.

The second Donovan closed his room door. Jodi’s cell phone rang from inside her pants pocket.

“Excuse me,” she said while reached inside her pocket and removed her cell phone. 

She frowned when she saw the text message. “Let’s talk,” was Robert’s text message. She turned off her cell phone and shoved it back in her pocket.

She walked over and placed her toiletry bag in the bathroom.

She walked over and placed her clothes in the opened drawer Donovan had ready.

“What do we do now?” she asked Donovan who stood by her.

He smiled and walked closer. He planted a kiss on her lips.

“I was asking about finding Tiffany and Howie. But this might be better,” she said with a warm smile.

“I think that we should forget about Tiffany and Howie and work on us,” he said.

Jodi thought about his comment for a few seconds. She smiled. “Agreed,” she said then gave Donovan another kiss.

Donovan and Jodi moved while kissing over to the bed almost tripping over their feet a couple of times. They plopped down on the bed with her on top of him. 

It did not take long for their clothes to be scattered all over the floor. They were naked in bed and started their second sex session.

Twenty minutes of sex had passed, and Donovan and Jodi cuddled naked under the covers. 

“Mind if I turn on the TV?” he asked.

“Oh, no, I always watch it while I’m in bed. It helps me relax,” she replied.

“Me too,” he said then reached over and grabbed the remote off the bedside table. He clicked on the TV then immediately flipped through the channels. 

The Bullet to the Head movie with Sylvester Stallone had just started.

Donovan and Jodi cuddled under the covers and started watching the movie.

They were ten minutes into the movie when Donovan and Jodi’s eyes drifted closed. They were both sound asleep in minutes.

A few minutes had passed, and Donovan and Jodi both started to dream at the same time.

In Jodi’s dream, she was in a bedroom at night. The room was dark. The house was quiet. 

She lay in bed and waited.  She looked at her bedroom window where the full moon was visible outside.

There was a tap on her bedroom window.

Jodi’s eyes lit up over that sound and rushed off the bed.

She rushed to the window and slid it opened. She looked back at her closed bedroom door.

In Donovan’s dream, he snuck through the backyard of a home in the middle of the night. The full moon illuminated the backyard for Donovan.

All the lights of the house were off. The house was dark and quiet.

Donovan walked over to a window. 

He tapped on the glass of the window. He anxiously waited.

Back in Jodi’s dream, she looked out the window and saw that blonde-haired boy waiting outside. 

“Quietly come inside,” she softly told the boy.

Jodi moved away from the window.

The blonde-haired boy quietly climbed through the window.

“Are they asleep?” the blonde-haired boy asked her.

“For the past two hours. It should be safe,” Jodi replied.

Jodi and the boy kissed.

In Donovan’s dream, the window opened up.

That brunette haired girl poked her head out and motioned for him to come inside.

He climbed through the window.

“Are they asleep?” Donovan asked the brunette, haired girl.

“For the past two hours,” the brunette haired girl replied.

Donovan rushed over to the brunette girl and kissed her.

In Jodi’s dream, the blonde-haired boy kissed him.

They walked and kissed over to her bed and plopped down on top of the covers.

Jodi and the blonde-haired boy start a passionate kiss.

In Donovan’s dream, he’s on the bed with the brunette girl. They start a passionate kiss.

Donovan and the brunette haired girl start removing each other’s pieces of clothes. They toss their clothes on the floor.

In Jodi’s dream, she and the blonde-haired boy start removing each other’s pieces of clothes. They toss their clothes on the floor.

In Donovan’s dream, he and the brunette haired girl was bare-ass naked. 

“Did you bring it?” the girl asked.

Donovan got off the bed and reached for his blue jeans.

In Jodi’s dream, the blonde hair boy removed a condom in a packet. He flashed it up at Jodi.

Jodi motioned for the boy to return back to her bed.

In Donovan’s dream, he slipped on the condom and was on top of the brunette girl in seconds. He started humping her and was in heaven.

In Jodi’s dream, the blonde-haired boy was on top humping her. She was in heaven.

In Donovan’s dream, he was finished in minutes.

He rolled off of the brunette haired girl and got on his back.

“Are we going to get married one day?” the brunette haired girl asked Donovan.

In Jodi’s dream, the blonde-haired was finished and on his back next to her.

“We will get married one day,” said the blonde-haired boy.

Jodi smiled over that possibility.

Then the sound of an older man’s voice was heard coughing in the hallway.

Jodi looked panicked when she heard that sound.

Jodi and the blonde-haired boy cautiously got off her bed.

In Donovan’s dream, he and the brunette haired girl quickly got dressed when the sound of an older man coughing was heard in another room.

In Jodi’s dream, she watched while the blonde-haired boy rushed over to the opened window.

Then Jodi turned and saw herself in the mirror on top of the dresser. Her eyes widened in shock. 

She saw Tiffany Carlson in the mirror and not Jodi Lauder. 

She saw a small mole on Tiffany’s right upper lip.

In Donovan’s dream, he glanced at the mirror on top of the dresser while he headed to the opened window. He stopped dead in his tracks, and his eyes widened in shock. He saw Howie Anderson in the mirror and not Donovan Kirby.

Back to reality, Donovan and Jodi simultaneously shot up in bed from their dreams.

They both looked confused at each other then looked around the dark motel room.

“I had the weirdest dream,” said Jodi.

“Me too,” replied Donovan, and he paused to try to understand what he just dreamt. “Why was your dream weird?”

Jodi paused for a second. “I was having sex with that blonde-haired boy in my bedroom. It was late at night, and there was a full moon outside. After we were done, I heard some man coughing down the hallway. We both got off my bed and quickly got dressed. Then while he ran back to climb out my window, I glanced at a mirror,” she said, then paused while she thought about the dream. “I saw Tiffany Carlson in the mirror,” she added and tried to understand what that meant.

Donovan’s mouth dropped in disbelief. “You won’t believe this, but that sounds just like the dream I had. It was also late at night with a full moon outside. I had sex with that brunette haired girl and heard some man coughing in the bathroom. After I got dressed, I saw Howie Anderson in the mirror above the dresser while I headed to an opened window,” he said.

Jodi and Donovan stared at each other in disbelief. 

 “What do you think that means? Why would we see Tiffany and Howie in our dreams when we looked in the mirror?” asked Jodi.

Donovan looked at Jodi, and after a few seconds, the only possible answer hit him like a ton of bricks. “We’re Howie and Tiffany.”

Jodi thought about his comment for a few seconds. “What?” she said as his answer did not make sense at the moment.

“We’re actually Tiffany and Howie.”

“I’m not following you,” said Jodi, still confused.

“I’m talking reincarnation,” he said, and the more he thought about that, the more he believed it to be true.

“Reincarnation?” she said and pondered that idea for a few seconds.

“It makes perfect sense and explains all those strange déjà vu feeling I’ve been having while I’ve seen areas of Haneyville. Especially when I was in Howie’s home and bedroom.”

Jodi looked at Donovan while she thought about his comment on those déjà vu feeling. “You’re right. That sure explains all those déjà vu feelings I’ve been having around town,” she said and the more she thought about it, the more she felt she was Tiffany from a previous life. “What do we do now?”

“We find out what happened to us. I know it in my gut that we never made it up to Canada,” he replied.

Jodi thought about his response for a few seconds. “Something makes me believe we weren’t planning on heading to Canada that night,” she said.

“We weren’t?”

“No.”

“Then were we planning on going somewhere?”

“I don’t know where, but I have a strong feeling that Canada wasn’t our destination,” she said with confidence.

“Then, where?”

Jodi thought hard for a few seconds. “Maybe we’ll find out.”

“Well, then we need to stay here until we find out what really happened that night,” he said.

Jodi shook her head in agreement then she rested her head on Donovan’s shoulder.

“Now I know why I started to fall for you the second I first laid eyes on you,” he said while he placed his arm around her shoulder.

“Me too,” she replied with a warm smile.

They passionately kissed.

Then the kissing turned passionate, and ten minutes later, they were naked with their third round of sex.

Afterward, Donovan and Jodi cuddled naked under the covers.  They both fell asleep within minutes.

Donovan started to dream.

In his dream, it was in the middle of the day. He sat in the clearing near Lake Haney with Charlie who had long black hair down below his shoulders. He was tall and lanky with blue eyes. Charlie was the same age as Howie and was old friends since the first grade.

Charlie had a joint in his mouth, and he took a drag.

“What time are you leaving in the morning?” Donovan asked the guy with black hair.

Charlie exhaled smoke. “Eight, Howie,” he said then handed the joint over to Donovan.

“Okay. I’ll come along,” Donovan said then he took a drag on the joint. Then he looked like there was something he wanted to tell Charlie. He decided he should. “Listen, Charlie, there’s something I need to tell you, but you can’t tell a soul,” said Donovan.

“I promise Howie that I’ll keep it to myself,” said Charlie and he looked sincere.

Donovan started to tell Charlie a secret.

Back in reality.

Donovan woke up and looked around the room. It took a few seconds for it to dawn on him that he had a dream. He thought about his dream for a few seconds then drifted back to sleep.

Jodi had a dream.

In Jodi’s dream, it’s sunset time, and she and Howie sat in her Buick along the street of his house.

“Charlie and I are leaving at eight in the morning,” said Howie.

Jodi felt sad. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

“I believe that it’s best for the both of us if I do this,” Howie replied then he leaned over and gave Jodi a kiss on her lips.  “I’ll see you later, Tiffany,” he said then opened up the passenger door.

Jodi felt like she wanted to cry while she watched Howie get out of the car and rush to his front door.

Back to reality, Jodi woke up from her dream. She looked around the room in a bit of a daze. Then she realized she had another one of those dreams. She looked over and saw Donovan was sound asleep.

She closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep.