Dreaming for 24 hours
"Why are you crying?" asked Haven.
Though I don't know why I'm crying myself, I answered her "I'm just lonely."
After giving off a long sigh, she asked "Why?"
"Nothing. I don't really know why, myself." is what I told her. A strong slap met my face after a few seconds of silence.
A voice came right after, saying, "Did I make you too lonely?" There was nothing I could reply to it, even a stutter won't come out.
"I guess you do have a point. I guess I'm the only one who thinks I love you enough."
Her voice echoed through the empty room. She sat next to me and hugged me tightly. "Did you think I was lacking?" she asked as she starts to tear up.
I stood up and wiped her tears. "There's nothing wrong about you. I felt lonely because of myself." With tears following my words, I became more and more lonely. "My world is becoming cold, but I don't understand why you are here."
She took my hand and held it warmly, "I can feel you slipping away. Why are you so cold?" With a long silence following her question, my body stiffened.
"Want to take a walk?" I asked. There appeared a road full of cherry blossom trees, I took her hand and led the way.
Her reaction was too funny but beautiful. It looked like a kid who had never seen a neverland before. There is more to this world than she's already aware of, and that is what I plan to show her.
"You don't look like you are expecting this scenery." I chuckled seeing how she was expecting something else. "Come and tell me what you want to see, I might be able to show you what you are looking for."
She looked around and smiled "I do not think there is something more beautiful than this." She was satisfied with a mere garden full of butterflies. But for me, who treasures her more than anything, this was nothing.
"Let me grant you more sceneries far more beautiful than this. Let your words be the key for another door. Let your curiosity be the guide for another path." I spoke, then smiled brightly after letting those words come out of my mouth.
I let her think of any and all things, impossible and possible things.
I showed her variety of things. Different places and different sceneries, until sunshine is no longer seen.
"Abrielle, my love." she whispered, loud enough to be barely heard by my ears.
"Yes, my love?" I let my curiosity run wild as I wait for her answer. But the reply I have waited, never did come out. Instead, a painful sound of cries filled my ears.
"Why does it feel like you're saying goodbye? she cried. Not knowing what to answer, I knelt down and held her hands. "I'm sorry, my love. Please don't cry."
She showed me her face full of dismay and started to cry. "I finally remember what happened yesterday."
"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked with diamond tears in her eyes. "You knew from the start, this is a dream. You died, didn't you?"
Words were locked in my mouth as tears keep getting out from my eyes. I couldn't think straight and neither could I move properly.
"I'm so sorry, I couldn't tell you." This much I could say, and no more. I keep repeating the word sorry, but I know it gives no effect to her now.
"Then let me know just this one thing." She looked around for a long time and finally looked straight into my eyes. "Are you real?"
"Even if this is a dream, I am real." I said with hesitating tone, then my conscience finally led my mind "Well, I am not alive anymore, so maybe I am not." I spoke with humorous tone.
"If you knew from the start that you are dead, why can't you give me a proper goodbye?"she uttered as she held my hands tightly.
"Goodbyes are not meant to just signify themselves, but ofcourse giving another opportunity for a new beginning." I explained with watery eyes. "It will not be long. I will come back. I will find you, and be with you."
"Promise me you'll come back. Promise me you'll find me." She begged with tone coming roughly from her throat.
Judging by the state of this world, I won't last any longer. I guess this it the limit of my skies, this is the limit of my life.
"You will wake up in few minutes, I will have to say goodbye properly." I told her with shaking tone. I did not want to worry her, but it shows too much.
"There is no need to say goodbye, when you are sure to find me and love me all the same." Haven hugged me for the last time then vanished. I'm the only one left in this world.
I checked, and she woke up just fine, but she started crying as she does not remember her dreams, despite dreaming for 24 hours straight.
She cry and cry but cannot remember a thing, that strikes a cord in me. But what made me so thankful is that she recovered very fast.
All I have to do now is to find my way back to her.
