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peaceful. Today I was in a state that refused to be pacified, despite the beauty stretching out in front of me.
    Mum answered on the third ring. She and Dad were in Miami, waiting for their connection to St. Lucia.
    ''Is something wrong, LucyD?''
    The nickname made me smile. My mother and Dovie had been calling me LucyD for as long as I could remember. Short for ''Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,'' the Beatle song I was named after.
    ''Kind of,'' I said. ''I had a vision.''
    ''Did someone lose something?''
    I flashed to the diamond ring and the skeleton it had been with. I shivered—and not from the cold.
    That problem, however, would have to wait.
    ''No,'' I said, turning so the wind wouldn't cause static. ''I had a vision of . . . the future.''
    ''Are you sure?''
    ''Fairly.''
    ''How fabulous.''
    Leave it to my mom to be unfazed. The boat slid through the water. Lights from the shore twinkled prettily. ''Is it? Do you think it's really possible? Could I have been hallucinating?''
    Her laugh didn't cheer me. ''To my knowledge, you've never once hallucinated. You're the sanest person I know. Quite a miracle, considering your bloodlines.''
    I wasn't sure if she was referring to her side of the family or my father's.
    It was a toss-up, either way.
    She went on. ''You know yourself better than I do, Lucy.''
    I wished it were true. When it came to my abilities, the truth was I knew very little. After the electrical surge, I thought my psychic abilities were gone forever. The colorful auras I used to see around people had disappeared in, well, a flash. It wasn't until a chance encounter with Raphael when he lost his wallet that I realized I could find lost objects. My family's insistence on secrecy limited any scientific testing. The truth was, I didn't know of what I was capable.
    I wanted to vent, but there was really no one I could talk to about how I was feeling. Only Mum, Dad, Dovie, and Raphael knew about my gift. And look where talking to my mother had gotten me so far. I was still as lost as I had been when I left the office.
    It was times like these when I wished more people knew what I could do. My friends. Suz. Anyone who could help me sort out my confusing life.
    ''But do you think it's possible?'' I realized my teeth were chattering and started for the door leading into the boat's cabin. ''Probable?''
    ''Lucy, I've come to expect anything is possible.''
    ''But what do I do about it?''
    There was a long stretch of silence, and I thought I'd lost the connection. ''Mum?''
    ''I'm here. I think that only you can answer that question.''
    I was scared she might be right.
    ''We're boarding, Lucy. I don't know what kind of service I'll have on the island, so I might not be able to check in for a while. As soon as I can, I will.''
    I hung up, dissatisfied. With the odd vision. With my parents.
    Stressed, I ducked into the cabin and decided that not thinking about anything to do with visions might be my best option at this point. Which was easier said than done.
    By the time I'd found my car parked in the lot at the Hingham Shipyard and blasted the heater, I decided to try to forget I'd ever had the vision of Sean and me together.
    I'd just pretend it never happened and be done with it. Otherwise, I was going to drive myself crazy with what-ifs and hows.
    Instead of turning left on 3A toward home, I went right. If I was going to pretend that the vision I'd had of me and Sean wasn't real, then I needed something else to occupy my thoughts.
    That something else was Michael Lafferty and the missing diamond ring.
    A few miles north, I pulled into a Dunkin' Donuts lot and parked. I fought the urge to run in and get a pumpkin spice latte and a French cruller to go.
    I switched off the radio, tilted my seat back. The heater warmed my hands, my feet, my face.
    Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath, let it out. I allowed myself to relax enough to see the vision of the ring again, trying to slow the images down. I knew from the first time