" That was a close one Mr Dew, welcome back to the land of the living, we thought we lost you," The doctor said right after I regained consciousness.

" What happened, will I be okay,” I asked, trying to sit up.

“ This is something I rarely get to see even in my line of profession, we call it a miracle, in short you were out for about five seconds,” The doctor said and all I could focus on was the fact that I was dead or rather almost dead.

After that near death experience, my life changed completely. I had been battling with a brain tumor which on its own was very terrifying but what was even more terrifying was the fact that I would never be the same. After leaving the hospital I started getting these weird dreams where I could see someone die and each night would be a different person, different accident and I would just be standing there looking at them take their last breath.

“ Near death experience like the one you had does live you with trauma, what you're experiencing is very common, some patients claim that the can see people who died some even see themselves die in different ways, I recommend you visiting a therapist to help you overcome that fear,” the doctor explained but it still felt like it was real.

After trying to face what I was going through by going to therapy and trying meditation nothing seemed to work, the dreams kept on happening and each was worse than the other. Reality suddenly hit me at one of my visits to my therapist and I saw a familiar face on her flamed photo.

“ Excuse me but who is this next to you,” I curiously asked.

“ Aww that's my cousin, did you know him or something,” the therapist asked curiously.

“ Did he die due to drowning,” I asked and I saw the shocked face on my therapist's face.

“ No, he's still alive, why would you think he is dead?“ She asked but before I could ask she received a phone call which led to her falling on her knees crying.

“ Wait what's wrong, what happened are you okay,” I asked, helping her up.

“ It's my cousin, he's been found dead drowned in a pool, just like you said, how did you know that's how he died,”

“ The same thing you have been treating me for, I saw him in my dream and he was drowning and I saw everything, I know this is not my business but was he going through something that would lead him to drowning himself,” I asked curiously.

“ What makes you think he drowned himself,” the therapist responded angrily to my question.

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“ He couldn't swim and I saw him jump into the pool in my dream,” I responded and she looked at me curiously.

After the incident it was discovered that it was true that he did drown himself after being heartbroken and this scared me even more, if he was real that meant that all the other people I dreamt of were real and I just watched them die.

“ I've never seen anything like this, I can't believe you can really see how people will die, what are you going to do now because this now isn't something that can be changed by therapy, I can't help you Dew I'm sorry,” the therapist said and she was right, this was so real.

The dreams continued each and every night and this time it hurt more because there was a chance that all this was real but why me? What was I supposed to do with this information? I wasn't anyone special.

“ Son I'm worried about you, you haven't been yourself, maybe going back to the company is the best thing, you could distract yourself and stay busy,” my mother said worriedly but maybe she was right. Maybe keeping myself busy would help.

My family owned a cosmetics company and it was always busy and before my surgery I would always go and hang out with some of the employees.

“ Dew how have you been, we couldn't find the right time to come visit you, it's been very busy at the company,” Matt, one of my friends in the company, said after seeing me.

“ Not a very valid excuse, we really wanted to come see you, but your mother said you were going through something,” Lexy said worriedly.

“ I'm fine now, see I'm back, so what's new,” I said changing the topic but I could tell that Lexy and Matt were worried.

“ Well Matt has a boyfriend now, surprisingly right, I can't imagine someone would date him either,” Lexy said teasingly.

“ Jealous much, because you are still single waiting for Dew to notice you, hah,” Matt teased Lexy.

I wasn't that dumb, I knew how Lexy felt about me, I just chose to stay silent, she was special to me and I didn't want to hurt her feelings or lose a friend like her, staying silent was the only way I could protect her.

“ Matt! Anyway who is the unlucky guy,” I said changing the topic.

Matt showed me a picture of his boyfriend and my fears came back to me, I had dreamt of him, his death was pretty bad. Come to think of it, the place of his death looked so familiar.

“ Matt is your boyfriend coming to meet you here,” I asked.

“ Yes, how did you know that, do you know my boyfriend? What a small world it is,” Matt responded.

“ This is no time for that, is dad still constructing his off-site building?“

“ Yes, why? Dew you are acting weird,”

“ I don't have time to explain but your boyfriend is in danger if I don't get to him first, come with me and call him,” I said, pulling Lexy and Matt with me.

We reached the construction site and it was as I saw in my dream.

“ Dew what's going on, why did you drag us here and how do you know Matt's boyfriend will be in danger,” Lexy asked curiously.

“ Just know ok, Matt have you contacted him yet,” I asked worriedly.

“ He's not picking up,”

In my dream, Matt's boyfriend is crushed by an excavator, so if I could stop him from being hit I had to stop it instead.

“ Excuse me sir where is the excavator,” I asked but I could sense that it would be too late. But it suddenly hit me that Matt's boyfriend was talking on the phone when he got hit. That's why he didn't see the excavator.

“ Dew he picked up, hello babe where are…,” I took the phone away and we suddenly heard a scream.

We found Matt's boyfriend lying down, but it was different. I guess when I cut the call he had time to see the excavator and jump away from it. He was still injured but the doctors said it wasn't anything serious.

“ Dew how did you know that was going to happen,” Lexy asked and all I could do was Stare at her.