Supernatural Encounter???

A Supernatural Encounter???

something really strange happened at ray's place two days ago. it still gives me the shivers.

you see, ray and i are card freaks. we love playing daidi. and we always feed off the agony of the loser. ya, kinda destructive la, since we both love winning so much. every game we play, someone will be unhappy. but we still love playing.

anyway, we were kinda bored and we lazing around at his place. he was playing this usher CD and programmed it to play only 3 songs- "yeah", "confessions 2" and "my boo". by the way, i really hate "yeah". it sounds annoying and my sis says it sounds chauvinistic gender-wise. muahahaha. and usher is such a poser. like most hiphopers. i hate hip hop.

so i suggested playing two-people daidi. he declined, saying he didn't have a complete set of cards but went in search of a set anyway. he found a relatively thick set. i informed him it was incomplete because i remember having counted the pack in the past. but we counted again anyways.

50 cards.

due to IMMENSE BOREDOM, we checked to see which cards were missing.

"5 of Spades" and "6 of Diamonds".

i happily observed that the two missing cards were in running order and told ray so. because these two cards are not very crucial in playing daidi, i insisted we play with the incomplete deck.

Game 1 : ray spied the "5 of Spades" in his hand.
i said,"hmz, maybe it wasn't "5 of Spades" that was missing. i must have remembered wrong"

Game 2: i spied "6 of Diamonds" in my hand.
i said,"hmz, i must really have remembered wrongly. instead of the biggest 5 and smallest 6, the missing cards must have been the smallest 5 and biggest 6 ("5 of diamonds" and "6 of spades")

Game 3: ray spotted "6 of spades" in his hand.
i said,"wow, it must have been another 6 then"

Game 4: i spotted "5 of diamonds" in my hand.
i said,"okay, i really don't know which cards were missing"

Game 5: ray had all four "5"s and i had all four "6"s!!!!!!!!!

doesn't it seem like...

the cards are slowly trying to tell us...
"hey... why do you keep saying we're incomplete? we're all here."

and as we kept inventing theories for our observations, they got fed up and showed it all in one one hand. freaky right? not wanting to jump to conclusions, i hung onto one final explanation, "hey, maybe it's not "5" or "6" that's missing. it's other cards.

so we recounted.

52 cards.

both ray and i were highly spooked at this point. we just quietly kept the cards and put them on the bedside table. we started to discuss this.

and then...

his disc player played a new song. it played song 19 of the CD, which was UNPROGRAMMED!!! yet, before and throughout the five games, we had been listening to the three programmed songs... over and over!!!

We didn't move from his bed, which is at least 5 feet from the disc player, and no one else was in the room.

or was there?

we looked at each other. screamed. and ran out.

coincidence? i don't think so...