Kaleidoscope

7-Distant Dream

Chapter-7

Alec:

Maybe it doesn't matter. The memories hurt cause it is their duty to do that. Because we aren't allowed to live in the past.

Iris:

I dropped the glass. Not able to concentrate.

"Are you alright?" I heard Logan say as he walked towards me. I nodded but my hands were still trembling. "This is the 4th time you dropped something. What's wrong?" He asked. I wasn't a klutz. I was just agitated. It felt like something inside me was breaking.

"I don't know." I said as I started to cry. He walked towards me and wrapped his arms around me, making my distress melt away.

***

After taking a mild sedative I laid down in bed. I believe that we are all connected in some way. People with our same magnitude of frequency of souls exist. And when something happens to them it affects us too. We are like climate and weather connected but different. I kept reflecting and ruminating, I remembered the bill in my pocket that I paid for a stranger, and that somehow was the last thing in my mind at the brink of wakefulness and sleep.

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I stepped out from my body and looked around finding myself on a lovely cliff. It was all mountains and greenery. I looked at the guy who stood across me. It was the same guy, I had met at the cafe. I smiled at him. His piercing blue eyes couldn't see me.

"It's so beautiful here." I told him, looking around. He couldn't hear me, of course, I was aware that I was dreaming. "What's your name?" I asked, not able to help myself looking at his full lips. I watched as he laid down on the grass looking at the sky. It felt like he knew this place well like he came here from time to time. This place meant something to him. I sat down next to him watching him. He was upset. He wasn't thinking coherently. His thoughts were written all over his face and his eyes were filled with pain. I watched him carefully memorizing his contours and texture. It felt so real.

Alec:

You know that feeling when it feels like you're falling, sinking inside yourself. My phone rang and I looked at the caller ID. It was Nyla. We spoke for a few minutes, my lips turned into a smile, that didn't mean anything. I was telling her that I was gonna be late and she was talking about her day. I was joking making her laugh. It felt like I was carrying a heavy weight that was slowly shattering me.

The line, 'there's no paradise'. Echoed in my mind. It is something I had written in one of my books after my mother had died. People said, my mother, didn't go to heaven or hell.

Then how was it paradise if my mother wasn't there? Kind, cursed, sick people, didn't have paradise? According to people... Weak people, go 'nowhere'?

Iris:

He disconnected the call and got up then walking towards the edge and stopped at the end. My heart ached a little. It felt like people came here to die. He wasn't looking down, just ahead.

"Don't do it." I said with a laugh. "Seriously. Don't do it." I said feeling dread. He turned towards me, looking me straight in the eye. As if he could see me. Hear me. Feel me.

Alec:

I must be going crazy. I laughed. It felt like someone was watching me, like I wasn't alone. This was my sacred place. And suddenly I realized something. I'd seen someone else in their sacred places. Times when they were vulnerable and intimate.

"Iris?" I said aloud.

Iris:

I woke up in my body with a startle. My heart was racing. It felt like my soul had been pushed back into my body. How did he know my name? Who the hell was he? What is happening? It feels so real.

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