👻 THE MAN IN THE DREAM 👻
Sarah had trouble sleeping for the past three days.
This was because she often had a recurring dream where she would see a very handsome boy in the middle of an empty road.
The boy would often beckon on her, saying, "Come on. Come to me. I'm waiting for you."
The more Sarah saw this boy in her dream, the more she fell in love with him. He was handsome, after all. Soon, she believed that the boy was her soulmate, and he was probably waiting for her somewhere.
One night, in her dream, she couldn't take it anymore, so she dared to ask the boy a question. "Who are you?" Sarah asked. "Where are you? How can I find you? How can we be together? Or are you just a fragment of my fantasy?"
"Tomorrow at 12:00pm," the boy said. "At the motor park, come to me so we can be together. You'll recognize me by the small scar that ran through my left eyebrow."
Then Sarah woke up, with her heart yearning for her dear soulmate. She decided to do as the boy had instructed her in her dream. She didn't want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity of meeting the love of her life. She hurried to her friend's house, to beg the girl, Mercy, to accompany her because she didn't want to be alone in case something happens. Her friend, Mercy, agreed to go with her.
The next day, at 11:00am, the two girls were already at the motor park. They decided to come early in case the boy arrives early. They didn't want to miss him.
As they sat on a concrete pavement in the park, they stared at every boy that walked pass, hoping he was the one Sarah saw in her dream. But none of the boys they saw had a scar on their left eyebrow.
Soon, the two girls began to sweat profusely because they've sat under the sun for so long. Their throats were also dry.
"I want to buy sachet water; I feel so thirsty," Sarah said. "Do you want one?"
"Yes," answered Mercy. "Please, get me a cold one."
Sarah sat up to get the sachet water in a shop across the road. She hurried across the street to the shop, but as she was crossing, she forgot to look both ways in her hurry. A car on a high speed came out of nowhere and crashed into her, knocking her across the road.
Mercy watched with great horror as Sarah was crushed into a bloódy pulp under the heavy wheels of the car.
Mercy rushed over and knelt beside Sarah's mangled and broken body. She watched as her friend gasped for air, in the pool of her own blôod.
When the driver of the car that smashed Sarah got out to help, Mercy noticed that he was in fact, driving a hearse (an ambulance).
And inside the ambulance, laid a dèad body in a glass coffin used for transporting bodies...
It was the body of a teenage boy with a scar that ran across his left eyebrow.
As Mercy cradled Sarah's head on her arms, she looked at her watch. The time was exactly 12:00pm, and it was exactly at that time that Sarah took her last breath; her heart stopped beating and she dièd.
Mercy cried and wailed at the dèath of her friend. The driver tried to console her. She couldn't even blame the driver, as they all knew that Sarah was at fault as she didn't look before crossing the road.
Since there was nothing else the driver could do, he offered to take Sarah's deàd body with him to the nearest mortuary he was already going to; it was where he was taking the body of the boy to.
Mercy watched as good Samaritans helped lift the dèad body of her friend into the ambulance, then the driver zoomed off with Sarah's body and that of the boy. The driver would place both bodies in the mortuary he worked for. Mercy was to call and inform Sarah's parents of their daughter's demise.
As Mercy strolled home, with a heart full of sorrow, it occurred to her that Sarah has now gone to her supposed soulmate. They were after all, together at the end.
THE END