A Love Like Water

Chapter 14 - All Just A Dream?

The Next Day..

Becky's POV

I slowly opened my eyes waking up from the sound of honking cars and the smell of traffic outside..

Where am I?

I blink twice.. thrice.. rubbed my eyes..

In my shop?

I lazily dragged my body into a sitting position as I look around my surroundings. I am at the back of my shop, Freen's space..

How did I end up here?

As I continued to look around, my gaze landed on the water bottle carefully place beside my bag and keys..

I took the water bottle and..

Oh, its already opened. Is this clean? But I'm sure this one is from the clean water bottles that I keep in my store.

I opened the bottle cap and gulped down the water in one go. Am I this thirsty?! But the water also tastes good.. I mean its so refreshing.. Wow.

As I placed the empty bottle back in the table, the memories from yesterday's event began to playback on my mind.

I almost died yesterday..

But someone saved me..

Freen..

Where are you? I'm sure its you.. I can never be mistaken that its another person. Her eyes and voice is enough for me to recognize her. We stood face to face with each other. Its you Freen, but where are you? Did the event really happened yesterday or was it all just a dream?

But it all felt real.. Because how did I get here?

I closed my eyes and both of my hands held my head. It wasn't aching and I'm not in pain. I'm just trying to contemplate what actually happened and this is not just a hallucination.

As I opened my eyes, I noticed that I'm wearing a black hoodie. So, this is why I slept comfortably even though its cold and there is no blanket..

This is not mine and it smells like her..

This is definitely Freen's hoodie and the masked person yesterday was her. I'm sure of it.

I stood up from the couch and went to my flower only to find the paper bag of tulips carefully placed on the top of my cashier its still fresh and it seems that it was slightly watered because of the moist around each buds.

I am not dreaming and this is not just a work of my imagination..

Freen..

She's alive..

And she kept asking me yesterday if I'm okay, but I wasn't able to answer her because I was shocked to see her again after all these years and I just kept at looking in her eyes.

I held my chest out of happiness, I can't contain the joy that I'm feeling and I'm smiling from ear to ear.

I haven't felt this feeling in a long time..

My smile immediately disappeared when I think of "where is she now? Did she just leave me like that?"

When I called her name yesterday, it seems that she does not remember it nor remember me.

What happened to her? I badly want to know, I want to see her again. But how am I gonna do that? Where will I look for her?

Then I remember this hoodie that I'm wearing..

Will she come back to take it?

I decided not to open my shop today because I wanted to take sometime to rest. Honestly, I'm feeling fine now. I know I suffered yesterday from a chronic stress attack and the effect should have been present until now. But I'm fine, like actually fine. No fever, no head ache.. Just fine..

And I also wanted to look for Freen. I don't know where to start looking again. I did not stopped looking for her in all those years. I can't stop, even Nam asked me to stop but I did not obeyed her. I kept telling her that Freen is not gone because we have not seen her body. She's just somewhere there..

But seeing her once again yesterday gave me another hope..

And I will keep on holding on with that hope..

I will never stop..

I will never give up..

I'll do anything..

To be with her again.. 

Before I head home, I fixed the tulips flowers and placed them on pail of water and arranged them beside the other stock of fresh flowers when I heard the door bell ring..

"Ugh! I'm pretty sure I turned the sign to 'Closed' a while ago." I said while walking towards the door.

"We're closed to--" I wasn't able to finished what I'm saying when I saw the person outside..

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