Amour Éternal

Bonjour Lucy

     I laid down and rested my head on the the soft silk pillowcase that I had been placing my head on every night for almost a week. I knew that once I closed my eyes and fell asleep I would wake up again the next morning. Sometimes I felt like I didn't want to wake up, like I could just sleep and dream on forever. This time was very different though, I did want to wake up and more than ever.

My eyes closed without my realization and I drifted off. That night I didn't dream which wasn't unusual I didn't dream often and when I did I usually didn't remember what I had dreamt about.

      Lucy always remembered, she dreamed such beautiful things, it was like she was telling stories from the past and the future.  Lucy could see things in her dreams, the type of things people tried to imagine but couldn't. For example, the future, people try to imagine what the future will be like but nobody can know for sure. However, when Lucy dreams she dreams in detail, almost like she was actually there and the thing she was talking about was right in front of her.

You might be thinking "Well yeah because it probably is right in front of her if she's dreaming it." But that's not what I mean. Lucy acts as if it wasn't a dream at all but an actual day. An actual day and time where she was somewhere and saw this "something" and she knew it was real or in our case would be real one day.

      I woke up knowing that was the last night I would ever sleep in such a soft bed. I turned over to look next to me the city shined throughout the hotel room. I didn't want to leave. I knew I had to, but I wanted to go back one day so bad. I turned over to the queen sized bed next to me, Lucy was still asleep and half of the blankets were pushed off the bed. Long pink comforters covered the floor, pillows and blankets tossed everywhere and I just laughed. Lucy always complained about how cold she got in the night, but somehow her blankets always managed to end up on the ground. I laid back down and looked up I heard a yawn and looked back over to her.

"Good morning" Lucy said with tiredness still in her voice.

"Hey Luce, how are you? Did you sleep okay?" I asked her trying not to sound annoying because I had been asking her the same thing every morning for the past days.

      But Lucy didn't care. Even though most every morning had been similar she never got annoyed or upset that I had repeated the same questions everyday.

    "I slept great. What about you? Did you dream about anything interesting?" She answered with excitement.

I told Lucy I hadn't dreamed of anything. She wasn't very surprised, but she gets really excited when I do dream since I don't very often.

"What did you dream about Lucy?" I asked her. I figured she wanted to tell me.

"Well" she began "I was inside this room, it was dark, I couldn't see anything and I couldn't hear anything. It was like being inside the most silent room in the world. I could hear my own heartbeat like it was right next to me"
She finished.

That was the whole dream. It was weird to me but normal. We talked for a few
Minutes and then I got out of my bed. I slipped on my pink and black Victoria's Secret slippers and walked towards the bathroom door to take a warm shower.

      I turned on the shower and took off my real floral pajamas. I took my hair out of its bun, I stepped in after about two minutes of waiting for the water to heat up. When I got in I just thought. I thought about how lucky I was to be here in this city with my best friend. Not many people  have something planned that they really want to do when they're younger and actually get the chance to do it when they're older. When Lucy and I were very young it was always a dream of ours to travel to the city of love together. We would always hear stories of best friends traveling all around the world and we thought we would never have the chance to do that.