The Magic Eye

I've never been able to forget what it spelled, out of my head.
It said he would die on a trip but that was over a year ago. I am sure nothing strange or freaky will really happen but I still can't forget how it spelled it out. 1

I went into this little shop downtown one day called: "The Dove's Spirit". A shop full of candles, incense, books on magic, multicolored enchanting stones and all these interesting little gadgets that are supposed to somehow be able to channel the spirits. I never really took such things seriously. I was with a friend looking at the stones while she was messing with something called: "The Magic Eye." Before we left we both stopped to ask the owner about it. Who would have known asking a few questions would lead to buying it? It didn't seem out of the ordinary, after all, spiritualistic kind of things make you feel closer to the whole universe right? 2

The man in the shop had said all of the boards had been blessed by a Shaman the night before. He said we were sure to have something, original and unique happen to us. And then he said: "it was meant to be." 3

We were so fucking excited. My friend played with it in the car, asking crazy questions, if she would travel here or there. When it would say no to the places she really wanted to see she'd get upset. She was positive she was going places, well at least to the ones it said no to. 4

As for me, I don't even know how I started asking it questions. I can't even remember the first question I asked. Somehow it got to the point where I asked it who loved me. It spelled out the names of two men, one of which was my husband. I was shocked because it was completely accurate in it spelling, in seeming to know things. I asked it if it was bad and it said definitely no. I ask it if it knew me and it said yes. I asked it to spell my name and it did, my whole first, middle and last. I asked it why it wanted to talk with me. it said because it loved me. When I asked it who it was, it said it was grandmother, only, it spelled her full name and not what I always called her while she was alive. 5

So far everything was intriguing but nothing scary happened. My friend was more interested in it. She took it and started to ask it questions but when she tried the magnet flew out of her hands. She looked at me noticeably upset and said something took it from her and it was something she couldn't control. She tried again to ask it something and it jerked from her hands. She was distressed and handed it back to me. I asked it why it was doing this. It said because it only wanted to talk with me. At one point it started to turn in circles, it just kept turning and turning. Again, I asked it why it was doing it and it said simply, because it was fun. 6

Somehow we got on the subject of the men that loved me again. It said I would eventually be with the man that wasn't my husband. Not just with him, married to him. My friend was like: "hell no!" And started to asked it how. Frankly, she wanted to know what would happen to my husband. It said he would die in a car accident. 7

We both just looked at each other and you could feel it, see it in our eyes. We were unsure, scared and confused. I felt my heart drop to my knees and the heat rose from my chest to my face flushing inside of me. This is definitely not what I expected when I bought the game and also definitely not how I want things to be. My friend asked it when it would happen, how and if things could be changed. It said on a trip, the next trip my husband was to take and that is all it would say on the subject. I asked my friend to please take the game and go. 8

That night I was with my husband the whole night and I kept remembering what "The Magic Eye" had said. I just hugged onto my husband and even though I know it sounds strange, even having a lover, I truly do care for my husband. I never ever would want anything harmful to happen to him and I couldn't imagine him not existing. I guess I am used to having him around. I tried to not show that I wasn't okay even though I was visibly overwhelmed by all of what this "Magic Eye" had relayed. 9

The next day my friend came over with game in hand again. She said, completely pissed off, that the game was crap and wouldn't work at all the night before for her while she was with some other of her friends, like it had with me. I looked at it. I was now feeling afraid of it. I took it and asked why it wouldn't work for them. It said: "because they all needed to pay." I then asked it again who it really was. It started to spell my Grandmother's name out. I said no...no...It said "yes". I told it, it lied, my grandmother would never be unkind and asked it again, who it was! Again it started to spell her name. I screamed: "no" and demanded my friend to take it away, to get rid of it right then.10

After that, I couldn't sleep for several nights. I was afraid it would mysteriously show up in my closet or in some discreet place in the house. I was afraid some malevolent spirit was always watching me secretly while I was living my life. After all, this weird "Magic Eye" knew an awfully lot of personal things about me. I wanted to tell my husband everything, why I was always scared when all I could say is, I had a bad dream. 11

That was a year ago. I am going on a trip with my husband next month. The first trip we have taken since that stroll to the little shop downtown. I still always remember what it spelled out. How could I forget? All this time I have lived as if it never happened. I know I should know nothing strange will happen, nothing freaky right? I really wish I'd never went into that little shop. 12

You know those scary shows we watch that we think are just crazy fictitious bullshit? I keep asking myself if it was all fake. How can a game spell words correctly and speak in complete sentences that are completely understandable? How did it spell my full name, my husband's name, my lover's, my Grandmother's? How did it know any of what it seem to spell? Was it just coincidence that those letters were picked? What if this "Magic Eye" was right and what if the prediction comes true? This is not how I want things to be. I don't want him to die. I'm starting to think that maybe all the bullshit isn't always just bullshit afterall.