Royston's Blog: A Déjà Vu

While walking on a street, have you ever felt like you have been there before? While you do something new, did you ever feel like you have done it before? For a fact it is your first time, but there is a strange feeling which we all call Déjà vu. The feeling like you have seen or experienced something before.

I walked down the stairs to the railway platform after a busy day at work. Rushing through the crowd I got myself in the train. I looked pulled out my cell to see if I had any calls, when suddenly a girl taps my shoulder.

“Hi, sorry but I couldn’t help noticing you are carrying a book based on Déjà vu. It’s funny but I felt it when I saw you. Have we met before?” She asked.

A girl hitting on me was something really new to my usual life, so I just played along.

“Yes, I look like a famous author many say that” I said to her. But in my mind I thought I should have said something better than an author, like an actor.

“I am Gail, by the way and you are?” She said giving a handshake.

“I am Carl. So the whole Deja Vu thing? What was that about?” I asked her.

“Nothing much, was just checking if anyone else remembers other than me” She said looking around.

“Remembers what? So you really have seen me before ha?” I asked her as I laughed.

“Let’s just say yes. I remember you and every single person in this train” She said looking at me.

“Interesting, so was it a dream?” I asked her.

“Dreams are not real Carl, but reality is and reality is a very big thing to be explained” She said.

I began to freak out now and wish I had just ignored her. But she was cute and I am a guy so..

“I don’t understand. Can we get down in the next station, sit over for a coffee and talk?” I asked her.

“Carl, this world is a very strange place that none of us can believe.” She said just ignoring my question.

“What are you trying to say?” I asked her losing my hopes on a coffee date.

“Let’s just say you walk out of the train and you are shot by some gunmen and killed that’s reality, but you are still alive in an alternate universe and all this is still about to happen to you. That’s the reason you feel like it all happened before.” She said looking me in the eye.

“Are you high?” I asked her with a smile.

The train stopped.
“I have to get down now” I said to her.

“No, wait get down in the next station” She said as she held my hand tight.

Coffee date hopes begin to raise again. I looked at Gail into her eyes, she was really beautiful. Her long hair flew as the train slowly started. She missed to fall holding me tighter as the train began to speedup. She was quiet light which was believable for her short height.

There suddenly was a loud sound like a gun shot from outside.

“There are gunmen firing outside” Screamed a man as the others panicked.

“How did you know that? About the gunmen” I asked Gail in fear.

“It was the Déjà vu” She said.

Suddenly there was a loud blast and huge flames of fire came closer to us. We tried to run, but we were too slow.

I woke up suddenly all sweaty in fear.

“What’s wrong little one?” asked my mom.

“A bad dream” I replied.

“Don’t worry it was just a dream, now go back to sleep. Tomorrow is a big day, my little boy will turn 7” She said.

20 Years later…

I pushed myself through the crowd to get in the train like every day but suddenly I got a strange feeling. I took out my cellphone and looked around the train. My eyes suddenly fell on a cute girl. She looked familiar, I felt like I knew her. She was short, cute and had long hair that reached her waist. She too looked at me and smiled.

“Do we know each other?” She asked me.

“Yes, I look like some famous actor many say that” I said with a smile and she smiled back too. I suddenly felt like this conversation had happened before too.

“I am Gail by the way and you?”