Almos

Kiss

Forty-Two:

Dream World

As soon as I sense Jeanne inside the Dream, I quickly went straight to this one place that she's always going.

As I expected, she's at the school park lying beneath the blue sky and as I look at her, she's too focus looking through the sky above. Not even notice I was here beside her.

"Almos." I can see through her face the surprised when I block her sight yet I am more surprised when she did the unexpected action that she did. Jeanne just grabbed and pulled me down and because it was unexpected, I lost my balance and fall right into her arms.

"What are you doing?" I irritably asked her after I finally regain from the shocked that she suddenly done. Although for some reason, Jeanne seems a bit different. She's not on her usual self, did something happened when she got into coma and right now something on her mind collapsed. I don't know and I wanted to snap her out of that collapsed. "Hey!" I said as I snapped my fingers into her face.

She just stares at me then she just suddenly said. "I just simply miss you." Without any hesitation or doubt about it.

I am speechless for a while and I can't believe that what she said flutters my heart. I took a very deep breath as I put down my other hand on her other side, supporting my body not to crush to hers.

"What are you saying?"

"I don't understand, but that is what I truly feel."

"Do you even know what happened to you?"

"I just heard it from my mom and to my doctor."

"And yet here you are, as if nothing happened."

"And where do you suppose me to go?"

"I don't know. Maybe, you should still be resting."

"That I'm doing right now."

"Not in here!"

"Are you still in pain?" Out of the blue she asked me the thing that I never expected.

"Excuse me?" I was stunned hearing it from her. 'Did she know something about what happened to me? No, that is impossible.' "Are you trying to change our topic?"

"No. I'm just concerned about you."

"For what reason?"

Jeanne stare at me longer enough to feel shame as minutes passes by and moreover, the way she's looking at me looks familiar. I couldn't help but to stare on her as she keeps herself in silence as she memorizes my face until her sight stop right through my lips. I don't know what's gotten to me to stare at her lips too and for a second, I really felt that those soft and apple color lips have been touch by me.

Her lips are so familiar and the urge of tasting it is too strong that I couldn't help but to push back the space that separates us. An action I never thought I can do for someone like her.

...

Am I just hallucinating or just imagining things? Because right now, the space between our faces gradually lessens and before I knew it his lips touch to mine.

'He kisses me!' I shouted to myself as I close my eyes and feel the warmth of his lips. Trust and familiarity were too strong as our lips collide. As if I really knew him from the very beginning yet I don't know how it happened but my heart tells me he is the one that I'm looking for.

The only man that can make my heart beats alive once again. I can't explain it and yet I like this intimate moment that we have, I even clasp my both hands through his neck to deepen our kiss as I voluntarily kiss him back. Although he suddenly felt reluctant at first, I was the one who urge him not to and kiss me deeply.

I don't know how long our kisses last long, maybe until our hearts finally feels right because we finally found each other.

'Found each other?' That last words echoed through my mind until he finally cut off our kiss to take some breathe.

I don't know if his eyes are still closed like mine but I'm sure he's also catching his breath after our passionate kiss. And whether I admit it or not, I'm afraid that when I open my eyes, I'll see regret on his face so I prefer not to open my eyes and just listen to whatever he has to say. However, I was very surprised when I felt him leave my surface causing me to open my eyes to see what he was doing. I saw him lying next to me with his eyes closed and his breath still a little ragged. For some reason, I feel so happy seeing him right next to me. I can't explain it, but I'm just simply happy.

"I'm sorry." Suddenly he speaks up that breaks my heart I couldn't find words to say. "I---"

"I'll go home." I said before he can finish his words and with that, I just wake up out of my dream world.

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Dawn

"Good morning." The nurse quickly greeted me when she saw me awake as she entered my room.

"Good morning." I answered back.

"Looks like you woke up early today?"

"Yes, it looks like my one-week coma has taken back all of my wakefulness so now I'm too early to wake up."

"Still, you need to rest more. Even if you wake up early, you still need to sleep to regain your strength faster, alright?"

"Uhm, yes I will try to sleep again."

"Good. Alright, I'm done so I'll excuse myself now."

"Thank you." I said before she finally left.

Being alone means, I can think freely and that makes me to think of the last person that I met inside my dream world.

'Almos.'

What happened? Why I kiss him back? And why do I feel that I already knew him from the very beginning even though we never met before? Who he really is?

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Jr.