THE VOICE

     The year 2014 in the month of December the 15th day, the Greenock mall, a haven of quality goods and services, was a beehive of activities, people trooping in and out in their large numbers, a clear sign that the festive season. The staff had so much on their plate. Orders coming in and going out, a very tough period especially for the department of sales and purchase headed by young Milton Kurt, a very intelligent and hardworking graduate of Business Administration. He had saved the company huge sums of money, little wonder was made Head of Department in just eight months of joining, even at 33years of age he was a beauty to behold at what he knows best to do. He could only pray for time to fly so he could quickly go home to relax for the weekend. Saturday shoppings were always hectic during ordinary time let alone festive ones.
       At about 10:30pm he drove into the car park, staggered up to the third floor of the five storey where where his apartment was located, tired and drowsy he flung himself unto the couch,managed to turn on the television set there wasn't much to view he turned it off and slept, still in his work outfit. What a wrecked engine he was.
  Beep!! Goes the alarm clock, he turned and saw it was 6:30am he jumped out of the couch, struggled out of his work clothes dumped them there and dashed into the bath and cleaned up, prepped for church. He started running helter-skelter looking for his church materials, suddenly it occurred to him that he left them in the car after the weekly program. He hurried out towards the car, on getting to the car, he remembered he had left his wallet in the back pocket of the trousers he wore the previous day. He quickly ran back to get it, he got it and at that time his phone rang, it was a member of his unit urging him not to be late. He told him he was on his way. He was beginning to sweat a little, he got into the car, got the engine running and because of the sweat turned on the air conditioning system as he pulled away. The church was about 20mins drive from his place so he did a 75km/h speed.
     Along the way, he noticed people gathered ahead so he slowed down as he approached and noticed it was an accident involving a family of four; a father, a mother and a set of twins , whose car had skidded off the road and plunged head on into a ditch created due to human errors about a week ago. He came closer to the scene and a voice said " that should have been you " he turned around but there was no one behind him, he remembered he was headed to church and left. As he drove all the way to church he felt uneasy and even while the service was on. His mind was fixated on the words and the voice. He waited after service to see the Reverend for a better knowledge of what had happened and the pastor was astonished at his tale. To help him understand better he asked if such had ever happened before, he paused took a deep breath and went down memory lane and recalled his experience at age 9 when he first experienced such but as a kid thought it was his mind playing games. It happened a few more times then stopped and became more constant about five years ago but none of those things happened to him except one and none was about death. He was still deep in thought when the pastor called his name "Mr Milton !!!"  He snapped out of the thought. Since you said only one happened to you, can you recall the incidences , were there others beside you? He said yes! Except on the occasion of the one that happened to me. OK! Can you recall who was beside you today, was it a familiar face?
He thinks for sometime and says " yes!" It was Mr Karmin, one of our customers at the mall. I don't drink nor do I smoke... You have to look for him and tell him to be careful. The pastor gave him some books that might be helpful and bade him farewell. He left but couldn't help what he had experienced earlier. He had something light to eat and sunk into his couch had a brief look at the books he was given but his mind was entangled in the events of the past so he opted for the option of watching the television. On comes the television and there was a new series on it was titled  Ghost Whisperer . He sought of picked interest and realised that the young lady had something close to what he was experiencing. He followed that episode and went further to find out what his case was called and he found it online;he was a  clairaudient. A week later he ran into Mr Kardim in the mall and told him what he experienced, he thanked him and said he had been noticing the signs.
Milton started reading the books and started enhancing his inert powers. He later became a minister using his gifts to reach out to souls .