Picturesque Dream

Last night I had a dream… It seemed so real… the colors were so vivid…

She has seen him before… he seemed cute and nice and sort of developed a crush on him. She’s walking along the corridor and she sees him, the make eye contact and he suddenly smiles at her. She smiles back and she knew right there, a connection was made. Suddenly she finds herself in a nice Mexican restaurant having dinner with him. They have a nice conversation that ends up in a coffee house… Nice cozy place… they laugh the night away not noticing that the chairs were being put up and they were the only ones left there.

She’s wearing a mint green dress with a flowery shawl… they are in a wedding setting… but not hers, mind you… it was someone close to her. She gets the bouquet and he gets the garter… what are the odds?! They end up in a kissing contest. It was a nice 75 second soft kiss… and they won.

Scene suddenly changes and she sees fish… and corals… and suddenly realizes she’s diving… he’s there too swimming just below her. They are in a beautiful white sand beach, watching the orange sunset drop in between two hills. Just before it touches the tip of the hills, he gives her a soft kiss on the lips and says “a kiss is supposed to be given just before it sets”… and then she is in a brown dress, he’s in a light blue collared shirt and they are having dinner in a place where it was just the two of them… with drapes of pink and white around them.

They have a whirlwind romance… everything seemed so perfect. A few months later she finds out the truth. He is in a lifetime commitment… yes the big M that ends with an E... till the end. She feels betrayed and decides never to forgive him. As time passes by, they start back on the line as friends. She slowly forgives him. They start to spend time talking… a lot… about anything under the sun. The emotions were clear toward each other but they refuse to give in to it. Or at least she did. How would she know how he really felt?

She knows where she stands… and she knows not to cross that line… he can’t give her what she needs… and she steps back. But a friendship, a special kind of friendship, has been created. He now is special to her, and vice versa. She finds herself sitting on Sta. Monica Pier, watching her sunset thinking that when that sun rises… it will be a brand new day.

It seemed so real… the feeling was there… it was like reading one of those romance novels… and so I wake up with a heavy heart… could something like that happen to me? I close my eyes again… the next thing I see is the sun… I just smile… brand new day… REALITY.