Love Out Of Time

Timelessness of Love

Jacob and Rachel

     Jacob touched Rachel’s face tenderly and smiled.  This day had been a long time in coming and he wanted to savor every moment they had together, for fear that they might never meet again. 

     Rachel smiled back at him and said, “See I told you I knew your touch.  I knew we would be together at some point in time.  It had to happen because it already happened.  I am a time traveler don’t you know?”

     “You are something, that is for sure,” he teased before meeting her lips in a passionate kiss.

     Rachel closed her eyes and kissed him back.  She could hardly believe it was at long last physically real after eighteen long years.  For as long as she could remember she had dreamed of the day that her dream Jacob would become real and solid.  She was thankful that even in the darkest and loneliest of times that his spirit had been with her, but it was always incredibly frustrating to feel like he was just out of reach.   How man times had she reached up to caress his face and stare into his eyes only to feel the air above her?  How many times had the arms that held her been invisible? 

      Jacob knew that they had been together in spirit, that they had been lovers long before they’d ever met in person.  That is why it was so easy to be with her the first time that they met.  She was familiar to him in every way except in the flesh, so it was only natural that that they made love the first time that they met. 

      Together they sat in bed, entwined in each other’s arms.  His lips trailed down her neck as she wrapped her arms around him.  They moan and moved in rhythm, lost in the moment of passion.  There was no time to muse about how they came to this point, about what had led them to that fateful day.

Rachel

 

       Rachel didn’t know how she did it.  She just knew that she had the ability experience things out of time.   The idea of being a time traveler never occurred to her in her childhood.  It wasn’t until she was much older that she realized what had happened to her"what she was.  It wasn’t until she met Jacob that she truly understood her power.

       She was fifteen when she experienced her first jump.  It was a blip, a minor oddity that she didn’t recognize as anything important.  Rachel was riding her purple three-speed bike down her street one day when she suddenly found herself sitting on the ground.  The bike was leaning against her back and she had no memory of falling.  One moment she was riding the bike, she mused, the next the bike appeared to be riding her.  Puzzled, she slowly stood up and got back up on the bike.  Shaking her head, she began to peddle again.  She rounded the tree-lined corner and turned down the next road past hers.  She hadn’t passed but two of the turn of the century houses before it happened again.  Magically, she found herself on the pavement unharmed.  The bike was leaning against her back and she was yet again unscathed with no memory of falling.  Okay, she thought, this is really weird.  Rachel picked herself up and hopped back on her bike yet again.  She began peddling home hoping whatever had happened didn’t happen again.

        The fun began when Rachel decided to meditate one day.  It was an empty Saturday afternoon that had her feeling bored, tired and restless.  Having read a number of books on mediation previously, Rachel made up her mind to try it out.  Perhaps it would help her feel more at peace. She lay down on top of her blue comforter in her twin bed with a long sigh.  She glanced over at the clock on her dresser. 

       The red digital numbers read 4:20pm. 

       Rachel closed her eyes and drew in a deep breath.  She imagined herself lifting out of her body and drifting upward into the heavens.  Then her spirit zipped across the earth, shooting swiftly through the miles of air above the oceans and landscapes below.  Her lips twitched into a smile as she recalled the movie The Flight of the Navigator.  Rachel let herself visit everything from Stonehenge to the Great Wall of China in her mind before opening her eyes once again. The shock came when she glanced over at the clock to see how long she’d been daydreaming. 

       The red digital numbers read 4:08pm. 

       Sat straight up in her bed and stared at the numbers in disbelief.  It couldn’t be.  She swore it had been later than that.  She rubbed her eyes and wonder if she simply had misread the clock before she closed her eyes.  How could it be earlier than when she started?  Surely, no one would believe her if she told them she thought.  It had to be her mistake.

       Then the dreams of Jacob began.

 

       

Author's Note

I added a bit at the beginning, but the scene actually takes place later.

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[Yue Zhang]

Can't wait for the rest of it!