Roomies

Michelle’s Muse Not long after I began working at the police department, it became known that I was a little more than just intuitive but psychic as well. I never knew why and I never knew how. It simply was. I had a knack for knowing the unknown and being able to read certain things and people as well. Not their minds, of course, but I could sense things about them that most others couldn’t—at least not as fast and as detailed as I could, anyway. Sometimes these things came to me in a dream, and other times I would be wide awake, studying a picture of someone, watching someone in person, holding an object someone once possessed, or standing in a place where a certain event occurred. I became Michelle’s “muse” of sorts, the more I was able to prove myself as more than just a damn lucky guesser. She would often come to me—and sometimes even Angela would as well—to see if I could get a sense of someone’s whereabouts or certain details about a particular crime. Without mentioning names, I was once asked for my opinion, or more like my feelings, pertaining to a rather famous case involving a missing toddler. There were the statistics and what was the most likely scenario to have played out, and then there was what I felt deep in my gut. Many people felt the parents were to blame but that they didn’t mean to kill the child. They believed it was an accident that they covered up and claimed they had nothing to do with. But I believed the child was abducted by a stranger who had been watching the family for a while and that the child was taken for sexual reasons and then killed. Sadly, it would turn out that I was correct. There was another case in the news. Michelle and I were sitting in the living room watching TV one evening when the news came on about a missing woman who was presumed dead. “No, she isn’t,” I suddenly burst out for some strange reason. But I just knew it. I knew she wasn’t dead. I couldn’t say where she was—just that she was alive. A month or so later, this “vibe” was also proven to be accurate.