Paper Dreams

Chapter 4's

"Hi Keysha, give me your number" said the man in front of me. However, I was fed up and upset that I knew of his behavior in the future.

"I forgot my phone and I didn't memorize my number" I smiled wryly at him. It's just an excuse, so we don't get to know each other for a long time.

"Hey, you're kidding me. I can give her your number if I want to" Riana told me.

"No, no, no. No, he doesn't have to give."

His eyebrows rose as I had seen him first astonished by my words. Actually, he used to look really cool like that. He seems to have a cool aura like a cold man but secretly has a great sense of empathy for his partner. "Why not?" said astonishment.

I also felt my two friends looking at me. "I just don't want to" I said and turned my face away.

"Can you record my number?" he said to Riana. "Later you chat me, and give me the number" he said back to the previous sentence. Meanwhile, Riana simply followed orders from him. "Ok, thank you, yeah." He passed and left the class.

"Don't give her my number, Riana, please" I said.

"Why indeed? Don't you like him?" riana said to me and Lenca nodded her head a sign confirming Riana's words.

...Back to the future...

When I opened my eyes, I returned to my house which was as quiet as before. I, not knowing by my return to the past, succeed or not. I went around my house, hoping I wouldn't find anything from my husband.

I circled the living room and checked the room, everything was still as it was, as I returned to the past. I looked for pictures of our wedding, which I brought from my parents' house. I want to see if anything has changed in that picture.

Half an hour passed, I found the photo in the warehouse behind the house. It seems, my fate is still the same as before. I open the photos that I used to keep neatly, this I do so that I do not feel that I chose the wrong husband to choose like him.

Some of the photos look the same, our wedding was attended by our relatives and our college friends and my friends on the school bench first. I just saw a lot of pictures of my family, with us smiling happily and him smiling mediocrely.

I also saw a picture of us with my friends who were present and my little friends who were still near the house. There's nothing strange, I think, of all these photos. Then, I took an album specifically for my college friends. I started to see the strangeness, I was looking around for a friend who used to attend my wedding. However, I could not find it on the album sheets that I opened. I looked for some more photos strewn across the cardboard. There are no pictures of my wedding here.

I felt strange, when he came to bring a bouquet and some presents for me. Why is it that when I go back in time, I can't find a single picture of him in these photos that I keep.

He's a very close friend of mine, which is Lenca I don't know right now. Lenca who had long disappeared after I married Kenan. Actually why didn't he come? Do I have to go back? But, at what time?