Premonition

She walked into an empty home and sensed something abnormal. Suspiciously she called out her roommate's name and then hoped to hear an answer. There was no answer.

Convincing herself to relax, she took a long shower and deferred the thought for later. After few hours, it grew uncomfortably silent around her. Now she was worried. She texted her roommate and left few messages over voicemail.

Alone by herself she was forced to visit a day from her past. Fours year back on her way to work, she sensed a similar silence in the cab. The driver and she were beyond the professional constraints that limited them from sharing personal stories. The silence brought in some unpleasant thoughts in her mind which were so random that they could bear no real validity. Among the many that crossed her mind few of them were gravely unpleasant, cruel and risque. She was used to them. The driver observed her in the rear view mirror and decided to broach the subject. He chose to greet her just as they were about to reach the destination and shared the incident that destroyed his life forever. Right when he was uttering it, she had a lump in her throat. However it was not because of the description of the incident but because she had processed the same incident in her head seconds before he told her. The premonition scared her against her. She couldn't choose how to react to the information almost guilty of being responsible for the incident in some capacity. It appeared to her that the perceived prescient thought that crossed her mind was responsible for the event that occurred last week. She was embarking on a journey of putting herself on trial when the phone beeped and woke her up to present.