Premonitions Chp. 3

He looked up at her from the magazine he was reading.
"Can I come in?" she asked.

"Sure, come sit down."
He waved his hand welcoming her in, then patter a space beside him telling her to sit.
"I called Gaby," she said as she sat down.
"So she was there?"
"Yeah, but I'm still really worried."
"Why? She was there. You talked to her."

"But she sounded as if something was terribly wrong."

Michael shrugged. "Maybe there is something wrong, just not the kind of thing you think."

"Maybe it's exactly what I think."

"You're stubborn, you know that, right?"

Kasey smiled sheepishly. "I'm going to bed now."

Kasey got up and walked to the door to leave.

"Goodnight, Nancy Drew," Michael teased.

Kasey rolled her eyes at him. "Goodnight."

Kasey soon drifted on to sleep with pictures of Gabriel going through her mind. The same dream played in her head each night. She still saw nothing but a van and Gabriel tied up inside.

The next morning, she woke up to the sound of the telephone. Later she heard her mother call her downstairs.

"It's Gaby's mom," her mother explained as Kasey walked into the kitchen.

"Hello?"

"Kasey, do you have any idea of where Gabriel could be?"

Kasey's pulse quickened. "You mean she isn't there?"

"No. I looked everywhere. She isn't here."

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Lawson. I haven't seen her."

"If you do see her or hear from her, please let me know."

"Of course."

Kasey hung up the phone then ran to Michael's room. She opened the door and entered without hesitation. She bounced on his bed in hopes of waking him.

"Isn't it a little too early for this?"

"Michael, Gaby's mom just called. She isn't there."

Michael sat up. "Any idea of where she is?"

"I don't know. In my dreams I see a van, but I've never seen it before. Gaby's tied up in the back. That's all I ever see."

"What about a license plate number?"

"It's blurred."

"If you see it tonight, focus on that. If you get the number, we can get police to track it."

"We?" Kasey asked. "You mean your gonna help me?"

"Nothing better to do. Besides, this could be fun."

"Fun? How could this be fun?"

Michael shrugged. "Like Sherlock Holmes. Bashing bad guys. It's just like the movies."

Kasey offered him a smile. "You're impossible."

Throughout the day, the phone rang and each time Gabriel's mom was on the other end. "No, I still haven't seen her," Kasey would tell her.

"Why don't you tell her mom about the visions you have?" Michael asked.

"Because what if my vision isn't true? I don't want to get her worked up over nothing."

"What if your vision is true?" he challenged.

"Then we can handle it."

Finally, the sun disappeared below the horizon and Kasey got a notebook and pen ready on her nightstand. She figured that if she saw the license plate number of the van, she'd better write it down.

She changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed. She hoped that this dream, if she had one, would be the answer to finding Gabriel.
"I'll find you, Gaby," she said to her empty room, as if Gabriel were there to hear her.

Suddenly her eyelids grew heavy, and she fell asleep. In her mind she saw Gabriel still tied in the back of the van, kicking and screaming. But she saw something new as well, a house. A huge house in the middle of no where. The van pulled up to it, but soon was hidden by the trees near by. She heard Gabriel scream and cry. She tried to make her mind travel more into the dream but couldn't. Finally she woke, breathing heavily.
"I need to find that house."

She looked over at the clock on her nightstand. 4:00 a.m. She decided that she would wake Michael up around 7:00 so they could look for the new clue Kasey had found in her dreams.

At 7:00 she wandered to her brother's room. She silently approached him lying on his bed. "Michael. Michael, wake up," she whispered as she tapped his shoulder.

"It's 7 a.m.," he said as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"Yeah, but we need to find Gabriel."

"Did you get the plate number?"

"No, I saw a house. huge house in the country somewhere. That's where Gaby is."

Michael sighed. "Alright. Let me get dressed. Go wait in the car."

She had been waiting in the car for nearly ten minutes when Michael finally came out of the door.

"About time," Kasey said.

"Sorry, Kase, but I had to give, Mom some kind of excuse."

He pulled out of the drive way. "Not many country roads here, ya know?"

"There's that one we used to drive down every Sunday. It looked similar to the one in my dreams. Go that way."

"That's a good 45 minutes away."

"So? Nothing better to do."

The trip seemed longer to Kasey than she had thought. She tried to fight off sleep and direct Michael of where to go, but she couldn't defeat her exhaustion. She slowly drifted off to sleep. Again she saw the van, and Gabriel. The van traveled down the same road that she had led Michael to. Then suddenly, the van made a sharp turn onto another road. "Whispering Woods."

Kasey quickly woke. "Whispering Woods."

"Whispering Woods?" Michael asked confused.

"Yes, turn there. That's where the house is."

"Okay."