Chapter One: Unforgettable Dream

 “A dream is also a reality, a concealed power of the mind that incorporates the truth.” It's one of her convictions when she reflects on her dream from the past.

She was smart young and naive when she vividly remembers a bizarre dream. In her dream, she met a strange boy she believed was her childhood playmate.

He was a recluse and timid boy when she met him in her dreams. Her other playmates didn’t want to play with him because he was so sheepish that he would not speak to other children. Maybe just because the children bullied him and treated him like a deaf-mute as he always ignored them while he was outside playing alone.

But he wasn’t a disabled child because he could speak normally. One time, he tried asking her to play with him. The reason she becomes his playmate.

When they were alone playing, he had that cheerful and sweet boy character. And that character of his is the thing he shows only to her.

His smile was like a sweet strawberry ice cream that made her thrilled.

Every time she plays with him, he gives her candy. In return, she kisses him on his cheeks.

But the sad thing moment was, one morning when she woke up and looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.

As she realizes now, the only time she could meet and play with him was in her dream.

“Cara!” Her best friend Jean shouted her name as if they were in a cafeteria.

“I knew it! The library is your hiding place.” She immediately hushes her friend, who is now whispering. She was reading a romance fiction book when she interrupted her.

“You are the opposite of my childhood friend!” She whispered to her but annoyingly.

“Hey dear! Can’t you still remember me as your only childhood friend? You are out of your mind, to only remember the boy in your dream! He is only a dream! Dreams and reality oppose each other. So, you should get back to your senses before it’s too late for you!” Jean scolded her again as if they had a therapy session.

She cried so much after she woke up from bed from that time when she couldn’t find the boy in her dream. Her mom and dad couldn’t stop her from crying.

When she stopped crying, she began acting like a brat. She threw away all her things in her room. She began picking on her nanny and loathing her.

Before her situation became worse, her mom and dad brought her to a psychologist.

Years later, as time passed by, she still had her therapy session going on.

Her best friend Jean is a psychologist specializing in dream analysis. She became her doctor when she replaced her mother, who gave her behavioral therapy sessions throughout all her years.

Well, in her absurd thoughts, maybe she was really out of her mind to assume the boy in her dreams had truly existed in reality.

Going back to her senses, she ignored her friend and continued reading the book.

“You know what, dear! Stop, reading fiction stories. Because it can influence your dream behavior.” However, Jean continued to bother her.

She closed the book that she was reading and faced her. “You know what, dear!” while mimicking her friend’s words annoyingly.

“You should stop bothering me because I’m thinking of zipping your mouth to put it in my pocket until you can’t breathe!” She said to her in a firm voice and gathered her things on her library desk then she deeply sighed. She continued back to think. She still believes the boy who came to play with her in her dream was real. Until now, she could still remember his face.

Jean told her, it could be a boy she had met in her childhood days, however, she can’t remember where she saw or encountered a boy like him. Her friend said he kept on showing in her dreams because she remembered his face in her subconscious mind.

"Hmm." That’s the only conclusion Jean and her mother explained to her repeatedly to remind her she is not insane. However, there is a plot hole she still can’t understand in the story of her past that she heard from them. 

She went home while bringing the book she was reading earlier to the school library.

Yeah, she’s still a student. She’s currently in her senior year also studying “Psychology.”

Her best friend Jean is five years older than her, which is why she was ahead of her in becoming a doctor. Jean is also a professor in her school, which is also why they can always hang out inside the campus.

Though her friend always acts like a student, the reason she is called “Miss Professor Classmate” as Jean is always cool in dealing with her students. But her students still respect her, especially because she is true, a genius professor.

“Mom, I’m here!” She went straight to her room and notified her mom that she arrived home safely. She threw away her backpack on her study desk and lay on her bed without changing her clothes.

She closed her eyes to reflect on herself in all the years that she kept thinking about the boy in her dream as she wanted to forget him, but she kept remembering his face again and again.

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Where is she? This place is familiar to her, but she is not sure where it is.

She thought she had gone home already. But where is she? She asked herself repeatedly. 

Wait, if she isn’t mistaken. Oh no! This is a dream!

She looked everywhere to see the environment.

There are no people here, except for a man, standing behind his back.

She remembers it now!

This is the place where she met the boy in her dream. This place was their playground.

The strange thing is, this place is still the same. Nothing has ever changed, even the seesaw and the slides. And the fact that she knows, this is just a dream.

She went near the man who was standing behind his back that he was now facing her but she can’t figure out who is the owner of the face. As she can’t see his face.

She moved closer and closer to him. Despite that, his face was blurry. She can’t able to recognize him.

She woke up suddenly. She was about to see the face of the man, but she suddenly went back to the real world inside her room.

Who was that man?! Is it possible he was the boy in her dream? No, he wasn't. It can’t be.

“Hello, Dear. I need your expertise now. My unforgettable dream is back.”