HER PAST & HIS FUTURE

CHAPTER -1 WAY TO DREAM

   -Alara

The Next  Day at lunch:

FEB 21 - 2052
  

Alara and her friend sit together for lunch the next day and decide on visiting an art exhibition after classes end. Their classes end and they head to the art exhibition after getting coffee on their way, Because for Alara coffee is a must after a half day of classes. They reach the exhibition and decide to split up for looking at the paintings. So Alara goes on her own way. Besides architecture one the thing Alara loves so much is painting. “In the modern world, Painting makes me feel like I have been on earth for a lot more years than I actually did” is what she says about paintings. Watching so many arts from around the world would never be boring to her. There were a lot of paintings of seas, cities, skyscrapers to trees, towns, night town markets. A lot of them looked real, But the thing that caught Alara’s eyes is that one painting in the corner of the gallery. Temple with huge doors which were crafted to look like two snakes are tangled and a crowd of pilgrims and devotees a bit far away from the door. “Alara has always had love for her parents’country despite never being there”. So, she was very eager to buy it. She getscloser to the painting and realizes there are no artist credits for that painting and decides to let it go. She walks away from there and meets Mike, Ruby and Nikki. They decide to leave since it’s late and also eat at an Indian-Chinese restaurant.

Alara comes back to her home. Joy welcomes her as soon as she’s back. She notices that it’s out of battery and charges it. Later she freshens up and goes straight to bed. Feeling very sleepy thanks to the lack of oxygen in her brain.

FEB 22,2052

6:00AM

Alara wakes up without joy waking her up. It’s the dream getting more clearer which resulted in that. “She could see
the temple now. She looks at the temple closer to it. She tries to open the doors of the temple now. Alara feels like she’s seen that temple before like, she’s been there couple of times. She gets out of her bed and switches joy back on. She takes her bath and comes back to a very 5- star looking French toast on the breakfast table. Another reason to feel grateful for joy’s existence. “At least I’m not gonna be late today”. She says to herself and leaves the house after saying goodbye to joy. She walks to college very chilled out. Almost as if she is on an undesirable walk. In the same way she gets into her class and sits there. Her mind is totally occupied with that dream. All she could think about was  that temple. Alara comes back from her half-conscious mind when she feels like ruby jolted her, warning her to answer Mr. John. So, she apologizes for not being attentive and continues to do the same again. It’s been almost six hours since she got the dream but she still couldn’t figure out where she saw that temple from.

So, when they are in the café for the lunch she asks her friends about it. “This is it; I can’t figure out where I saw that temple before”. She rants about how she’s filled with the thoughts of a dream. A mix of frustration and curiosity in her voice. That’s where Nikki turns into a life saver. “The art expo” She yells which turns a few heads towards their table. Alara stands up in a split second. She grabs her bag out and runs towards the art gallery and looks at the corner where the painting was placed. Her heart drops when she can’t see the painting there.