It's past ten in the evening and the party went over.
So, JA bid goodbye to everyone, especially to Chris.
"Goodbye teacher, thank you so much for coming and for your gift and your special birthday present", Chris said in a sweet voice.
"Goodbye cher, see you in school", other kids said.
The kids hugged her, and it warmed her heart.
"Goodbye kids. Take care"
She stepped out of the venue and dialed her brother's phone number. After a few minutes of talking, she hung up the phone and continued walking. She decided to wait for her brother outside the Café. But suddenly Ace grabbed her hand from somewhere and she could sense he was a
little bit tipsy. His eyes were red as if he had just cried.
"Please Ace, let go of my hand", she said.
"I'm sorry JA, I just wanted to talk to you. Just hear me out one more time. please...!", he
pleaded.
"Okay, what do you want to tell me? My brother is coming here", JA asked with a blank expression.
Ace looked at her. And after a while, she heard he was crying softly.
"JA, please give me one more chance. I love you so much. Please come back to me", he said while clasping both her hands.
"I'm sorry Ace, but things are over for us. Please go back to Trixie. She loves you so much",
"No! I don't love her. You're the one I love JA, it's only you. It's always been you all this time. You know how fool I am for letting you go", he sobbed.
JA couldn't imagine that a tough man like Ace would cry like this. It's due to the effect of alcohol in his body.
"Don't blame yourself Ace, maybe we are not really mean for each other", she said looking straight into his eyes.
Ace was about to say something more, when Josh called him.
"Uncle, are we not going home yet?"
JA turned around and saw the little boy smiling at her.
"Teacher, I thought you have gone home already"
"I'm still waiting for my brother sweetheart", she responded.
The kid just nodded and pulled his uncle's hand.
"Let's go now Uncle, I'm already sleepy"
She gestured Ace to go home.
"JA, I'll be waiting here", he uttered as he stepped away from her.
She just shook her head because she could not believe what Ace had told her.
"He loves me? Well, maybe. It's because he doesn't know anything about me"
JA was about to get inside her car when she heard her brother's car approaching.
"Hi sweetie, how's the party?", Jareed asked.
"It's fine boo. Shall we go now?", she asked.
As usual, she was the one driving her car while her brother was right there following her.
She told him not to come, but her brother insisted because he said it's not safe for a lady like her to be alone on the street during nighttime hours.
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At home...
JA felt so sleepy, so she immediately laid her body on the soft mattress without even getting dressed for bed. She started to close her eyes but no one else enters her mind but the "man in her dreams".
She wanted to see him again, to clear up everything because she had that vibe that he is...
"Would that be possible?"
After a moment of waiting, she saw him again. He drew closer to her, but this time he was so serious while looking at her.
"Are you okay?", she asked him.
He just nodded; no words spoken.
The man cupped her face and gently lifted her chin.
"Still you don't know me dear?", he asked in a soft voice.
She met his eyes and she saw there the intimate feeling he had for her. He pulled her closer until
she felt nothing but the beating of his heart. He slowly lowered his face and touched her lips with a kiss that was so gentle and passionate. She closed her eyes, as his lips were pressed to
hers. She felt so deeply connected especially when he said,
"I love you, Be mine forever".
She opened her eyes, and realized it was just a dream. But it seemed so real.
She could still feel his passionate kiss and gentle touch.
She stood up and drink a glass of water, because her heart was beating faster and faster and her body was already drenched with sweats.
"Man in my dreams, who are you? Why are you calling me dear?"
Zacky...
Zacky...
"Why are you calling me dear too?"
She tried to go back to sleep but she couldn't sleep anymore.
She looked at her watch and it was still 1:00 o' clock in the morning. That only means she only slept for one hour and thirty minutes.
JA was thinking of doing something that was risky on her part.
"What if I try to get into him? Would it be possible?", she asked herself.
She sat on her bed and began in meditative state. She cleared her mind and tried to visualize Zacky standing in front of her.
"I'll come to where you are. I'll come and get into you Zacky, wherever you are."
As she was doing the extrasensory perception, different scenes, were flashing in her mind. She saw a girl, a boy, a man, a lady, and she couldn't identify who were those people.
She did it again. She waited for some time, until things gradually became clear.
She saw a girl, that was so lonely, lying-in bed but not asleep. A girl was in deep thoughts trying to analyze something. She came closer to the girl to clearly see her, but her face was blurry.
She tried once more, to figure out her identity and personality. The girl was gradually
changing into a young lady, then to a boy...
She glared at the boy, and her heart beats so fast.
"Ryle, is it you? Ryle?"
She came closer and tried to hold the boy's hand, but he slowly turned into a young man.
"It was him! The man in my dreams!
"Ryle, you're the man in my dreams". she said as she drew closer and was about to hug him.
"No, you're wrong dear. I am not who you think I am." the man said, taking few steps back.
She looked around and she noticed, two people were there.
The first one was a lady, and the other one was a man.
The lady spoke, "It's me dear"
The man said "It's me dear"
She was a little bit confused, so she asked them.
"Who is the real Zacky?"
The lady said, "It's me"
But the man interrupted,
"No it's me".
She looked at them. Then she tried to get into their soul.
The man and the lady were one and the same. There were two personalities living in a person's body.
The first Zacky who is a man, is arrogant, rude and cruel. While the other Zacky is a lady, who is caring, sweet and kind.
The lady asked, "Would you still love me, even if I am a girl?"
The man also asked, "Would you still love me even I have this darkest side of me?"
She looked at them straight into their eyes. She saw there, the pain that was hidden in the past, the desire to be loved and to be cared for.
Now, she understands.
"Whoever you are, whatever personality you have, it doesn't change the fact, that you are the man in my dreams"
The man came closer to her and pulled her a hug.
"You finally found me dear", the man smiled at her.
"I love you, I honestly love you". she said, with her tears rolling down her cheeks.
It took three hours of doing that mental telepathy. And she felt so restless. Her body was feeling so exhausted.
"Zacky, I am now certain. You are the man in my dreams", she whispered.
JA couldn't go back to sleep, so she stood up and opened her laptop because she wanted to finish the poem, she wrote last time.
Then i woke up from that wonderful dream,
Thinking about him and wishing to meet him again,
And came another starry night to meet my man,
The man of my dreams, hoping he would come.
And there i saw him again, looking at me seriously,
I came towards him, and asked "Are you okay"?
He just nodded while his eyes set on me,
Moving closer, until we're an inch away.
Taking a deep breath, he caressed my face so tenderly,
Lifted up my chin and looked at him anyway,
He was more intense couldn't hold any longer,
And he said, "I love you", be mine forever.
He planted a kiss on my lips, so real, so passionate,
I felt so deeply connected and could hardly breathe,
But as i opened my eyes and came back to reality,
Feeling lost and broken coz he was not there beside me.
She felt dizzy. Her body was so weak and exhausted. Nanny was calling her for breakfast, but she really felt tired.
After some time Nanny, went inside her room and brought a serving platter.
"Are you okay darling? Your hands are cold", Nanny asked.
"I'm just restless Nanny, but I am fine.", she responded.
Nanny went out and she was left alone in her room thinking about Zacky.
She reached out for her phone and posted the poem "Man in My Dreams" on her FB timeline.
Afterwards, she chatted Zacky on messenger.
He responded and asked her.
"Whom did you see in your dreams?", Zacky asked.
"You", she replied.
"Me? How? You don't know me", he asked.
JA did not respond.
"Are you happy that I made you into a different person?" she asked.
"Yes", Zacky replied.
As their conversation went on,
"Did you think of me?", JA asked.
"Why would I think of you", Zacky responded.
A sarcastic answer that somehow struck her heart in pain.
After a while Zacky asked,
"Are you trying to read my mind?"
"Yes", she responded.
"That's why I felt restless", he said.
JA was in deep thought knowing that Zacky was restless. That only means, that the mental telepathy was done successfully. He was really that person whom she met during the extrasensory perception. And he let her enter into his world.
After long hours of chatting, JA felt she was weak.
"Are you alright", Zacky asked her.
But she was not able to reply, because she felt she was about to faint. Until, she did not know what happened next.