It's a simple enough concept to comprehend; when your favourite song pops up on the radio station you just happen to be tuned into on the way to work - and the rest of the day turns out to be a good day. You dream of someone you haven't spoken to in a while, and the following day you just happen to bump into them. You generally feel that you dislike someone without any means of justification, yet they just happen to turn out to be exactly what your vibes told you. Things like this 'just happen' every single day, in everyone's lives.
Why question it?
Amy had always used writing as an escape from reality, and Ashton had always used to it to create something perfect in an imperfect world. Both living on opposite ends of the world and completely oblivious to the other's existance. It was only when their worlds collided did they begin to get the sense that maybe there's something bigger at work in their lives...
Quizilla. It had all started on a writing site called Quizilla - originally supposed to be a place where you could create your own quizzes and publish them to anyone and anywhere over the web, but apparently as it's numbers had grown, so did it's capacity for what it could offer to members. When both Amy and Ashton stumbled across Quizilla (Amy about aged 14, Ashton 13), it was just by chance that they realised you could actually publish your own works of fiction for others to read, rate or comment on. This was like striking a goldmine for both girls - and it wasn't long until both of their works roused the attention of many fans and followers. This was how they both found each other - 5 years ago, and 5 years later have they only just discovered through writing this - that the nature of them stumbling across Quizilla was exactly the same!
Through some kind of lucky chance, Amy and Ashton kept in contact, which is unusual given the fact that they had many friends on Quizilla but haven't kept in touch with them. Around 2 years ago they added each other on Facebook seeing as they were both outgrowing Quizilla, which was how the intial friendship intensified and became something much more.
Facebook now gave them both new opportunities to get to know the other on a whole new level - never before had they spoken about personal details such as their friends, families, and just their general lives (let alone seen a photo of each other after three long years!!!). Truth be told it was a weird experience, opening up to someone you had known for a long, long time and spoken to at least every week (it makes you wonder what we possibly found to talk about over Quizilla). This was where the coincidences started rolling in. Already they had their writing - their styles and tastes being very similar - and sometimes even their manner of speaking. But they started finding that they acted like twins, constantly saying the same thing at the same time - dreaming of each other at the same time - there were even parallels of situations that were happening in each other's seperate lives! It was soon after their relationship was established that they realised it was too uncanny.
There's so many similarities between the girls that it deems it impossible to write them all down on here. But I can tell you that the most common thing stated in a conversation, on a daily basis, would be 'Oh my god, I swear you're just the American/English version of me!'. They have each other's partners on Facebook, too, and whilst Amy's says how freakishly similar they are - Ashton's even says that they look similar (though I'd like to take the chance to say that neither me nor Ashton agree!).
It was about this time last year that Amy and Ashton decided to start co-writing, taking their writing seriously for once with every intention of publishing a supernatural series they've named 'Morning After Dark'. Within the original plans there were going to be four books - Crimson, Azure, Indigo and Ebony. However, since the girls have started work on the first book - it's become apparent that the books may have to be split into two due to the length! The plot traces the various journeys of four main protagonists - a pair of twins named Briana and Emily Lexington, with the addition of two male characters within the dangerous world of the Lamiae. It's got a unique kind of spin to the ever-popular demand for 'vampire fiction' - and the girls are both confident in the fact that they portray vampires in the way that they should be. Their vampires don't sparkle in the sun anyway, that's for sure! Both Amy and Ashton hold responsibility for two of the four characters each - Amy creating Emily and Jamie, Ashton coming up with Briana and Avery. And is it by any coincidence that over time it's become apparent that Emily and Bree could very well just be representations of Amy and Ashton through fiction? Emily is the fiesty one, incredibly stubborn but equally as clumsy and constantly being the one to fall over her own feet (that sounds familiar). Bree is the more withdrawn one, cautious with everything and careful to not put her trust in the wrong things should she make a mistake. She's also the one with all the good comebacks (again, deju vu hitting the spot right now). And the funny thing is? Amy and Ashton hadn't even realised that they'd created a pair of twins with enough identical traits to draw parallels to themselves in reality until recently.
It was around this time that one of the most striking coincidences hit. Amy had applied to go to university to study english (where she resides now), without knowing that it was the EXACT same university that Ashton had been planning to apply to, holding onto the dream of studying english in Europe. Out of all the universities in England - it just had to be the same one?
This was when they first started thinking something was up. Never before had they really taken all of the coincidences seriously, but now it was like a red flashing light demanding attention. Is it possible that some greater force wanted them to meet in person and be in the same place at once?
After that little revelation, the psychic stuff started piling on top of them like brick after brick, after brick. Amy came online one day and (despite the fact that she was keeping it from everyone else, even family) felt the compulsion to tell Ashton that she'd randomly gone out on a whim and bought a deck of tarot cards without really knowing why. She had a few books and the beginner's Sharman-Caselli deck to practise around with, but it was the Cosmic deck that had caught her eye and the one that she had first purchased. You can probably guess what's coming next though - can't you? It was then that Ashton had come forward and revealed that she had been reading tarot cards for almost a year now, always feeling a gravitational pull towards the metaphysical shops nearby - whilst Amy had always felt drawn towards those market stalls that sell the gemstones and the runes - the stall in which she had found her first deck.
Tarot was the first thing that had opened up both girl's perspectives and thrown them a life line to wonder if another world really did exist out there, beyond the one we live in. Amy threw herself into the world of tarot and memorised every card meaning within a month - whilst Ashton now had someone at hand to discuss her readings with. It was then that Amy pointed Ashton in the direction of Aeclectic, a tarot forum with plenty more people nearby and ready to help out. It was through Aeclectic that Amy found Jenny, and thus the key to their psychic awakening.
Jeannine Bakriges is an amazing woman - can we just note - who is extremely talented at what she does and also a compassionate and helpful person. You can find a link to her blog to the left of page, under 'Various Links'. It was just by chance that Amy noticed Jenny post an advertisement on Aeclectic for five lucky takers to get a free Empath reading - and by a stroke of luck she managed to get the fifth spot. A month later, and Amy had her reading... and a little bit more than she had been expecting.
Everything Jenny pointed out was incredibly accurate. Amy's personality, her relationship with her parents, her hobbies and her interests. Her strengths, her weaknesses. It was all there - and truth be told, Amy couldn't believe how spot on it was. Except for one bit. One part of the reading pointed out how Amy had much psychic talent... she had always loved anything supernatural, that was for sure, but apparently she was also a clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, healer, and an empath in many areas. Jenny also pointed out how she could possibly have a channeling ability, too.
Now most of the above was written in a foreign language to her. Only two words jumped out: clairvoyant, and empath. Most people know what a clairvoyant is... but only a few months prior to the reading had Amy been posting questions on Aeclectic about empathy - what are the symptoms, how do you know if you are one? She had suspected, after matching the traits, that there was a probability that she was an empath - and that Ashton was one, too. You'll be able to read more up on both Amy and Ashton's psychic journies in posts still to come - but after Amy had done a few weeks worth of research, she had all the answers she needed and was amazed at how much matched up. Experiences as a child, certain periods of her life - unexplained mysteries that she had just shrugged off to be normal. Things that she did in everyday life turned out to be the works of her natural psychic abilities. She realised she owed Jenny a lot.
The first person Amy went to with all of this information was Ashton - who else? Amy was aware of the fact that Ashton had identified herself as slightly different from others, set apart from the labels that seemed to define everyone else as 'normal'. It made sense to tell Ashton the news - and to point her in Jenny's direction.
I don't think I need to tell you what happened next - but just to make sure you've caught on with the general principle of this post - coincidence would have it that Ashton and I share the most unique traits of all. Jenny pointed out that Ashton, too, is a strong clairsentient and an emotional empath. Alongside that is the possibility that she is also clairvoyant and clairaudient - and only recently have we discovered that Ashton is a healer too.
Despite everything, this is where our story really starts.
But I just want to leave you with a thought to ponder. I asked you before I got into this post, and now I'm going to ask you it again within the hopes that your understanding may have been shifted a little.
Do you still believe in coincidences?
In love and light,
Amy & Ashton.
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