The Ark of Life

The Forgotten Dream

"Xia.. are you okay, son?!"

"Mother, Xia may have had nightmares before!"

The voice I recognized seemed to be calling me from an untouched place. It made me wake up and realize that I was lying on the bed.

I started to open my eyes.

Where I saw mom and dad looking at me with a restless look.

I'm still silent, doesn't mean I'm indifferent because of circumstances. I try to remember something that is almost completely forgotten.

While trying to remember, the memory was lost. I can't remember back for now.

While both my parents were inexhaustibly looking at me with a sad look. After the two of them deliberately allowed myself to calm down.

"Ugh..."

"Xia?!"

Mom finally showed a small tear in the crack of her eye. I can imagine how anxious my mother is right now.

Previously, he deliberately curbed tears for the comfort of the atmosphere when I calmed down.

"Mother..."

"You may have had Xia's nightmares, but seeing your expression made me sad..."

Father then began touching the mother's body from behind, a warm embrace that seemed to be able to eliminate feelings of sadness.

Just now my head was feeling dizzy next door and a faint faint memory flashed through my head.

At a glance, a little describes a room in a period of seconds. Makes it hard for me to just describe the room.

"My head hurts, Mom..."

Maybe because of the headache that I felt my memory become dull.

"Wait a minute, I'll get you water with the same medicine. Take care of Xia first!"

"Give Xia to me."

Although the mother had to move with a wheelchair but the mother was so deft when it came to matters important to her.

"Xia, you just had a bad dream, didn't you? Dad and mom previously saw you in your sleep, but you kind of said something you couldn't understand. The words you say are only a few percent that I understand!"

I remember that I was dreaming before.

Unfortunately the memory of the dream vanished as I tried to remember it, and I almost remembered it but quite the opposite.

I can't remember when Mom asked me about my situation.

On one hand I still remember, even though a faint room in memory flashed earlier. But not entirely clear. This makes me even more curious.

Whether I was dreaming or in a condition where I forgot what I was going through.

Even the memory of that room I felt like a Dejavu feeling was flowing inside me. No stranger to that room.

It was just like there was a barrier in my head that made the faint memories unable to reach too deep.

"See. These tears can be proof if the nightmares you experience are related to tragedies and events that make you sad in your dreams, Xia!"

I was pensive, as my father showed me a drop of water as he wiped my eyes.

Mom then came and brought me some drinking water and a tablet containing a dizziness reliever.

"Where, has Xia calmed down now?" ask me gently with a soft tone and worried eyes.

"Um.. I'm fine Mom, the pain in my head is also starting to go away."

"Thank God, the previous mother was very worried about you Xia. Let's drink first, keep taking the medicine..."

"Yes Mom..."

"wait. That means...before.I dreamed exactly as you describe. And this sad feeling I'm feeling is slowly fading."

Mom and dad then told me everything, everything I guess.

From the condition when I was dreaming before like delirious, there was a look of annoyance, which suddenly became sad, and the cry was not too loud as shouting at someone.

Then what makes me most sure if there is an incident that I forgot is...

Today is tomorrow. Though before it was still the fifteenth, now said the mother of the sixteen.

Even today the clock shows at 05:00 am.

My mother said I was found in an empty room that had not been occupied at all. At that time I was asleep. It makes me unable to wake myself up at night.

Unexpectedly, when I was busy assuming after mom and dad told me about yesterday's incident, I didn't expect mom to hold me tight.

Mother courageously got out of her wheelchair in my bed basket. Until I was surprised and excited by it.

The warmth from my mother's embrace added to the calmness I was feeling. It even exceeds the softness of the very soft silk in the world.

Kruyukis...

The hug ends when the sound of the stomach is clearly heard in the ear. And that voice came from my stomach. Makes me smile when I see my mother's face.

Mom then invited me to breakfast as soon as she touched my forehead, and she said no need to shower first. Because I missed dinner last night.

I just replied with a nod with a smile as usual. Followed by the blink of an eye as a gift for mom and dad.

What I understood when I was a kid, mom and dad liked me a lot when I smiled. I hope the extra blink of an eye makes them happy.

"Xia...??!"

Their response was so unexpected, pecking at me without blinking. And eyes sparkled after.

After washing my face and hands, I went straight to the dinner table.

The breakfast menu at this dining table looks so much for some reason. Do mom and dad always have breakfast with this much food?

"You must be wondering, why is breakfast so much this morning?" mom said spontaneously as I stared at the menu before sitting down.

"Let me help you answer Mom.. This was because Xia went home again. Just yesterday you haven't had dinner yet, you must be very hungry!"

I admit that I am very hungry now. But this hunger I can actually hold until noon if it is because of force.

It was the circumstances of the past that made me strong and accustomed to the situation. You have to endure hunger with water.

Sometimes when I see those who eat well in restaurants I can only imagine myself in exactly the same state as them.

Go home and drink as much water as you can while imagining the restaurant menu. With the addition of looking at the picture of a cuisine on a menu sheet that I took on the road.

I don't know why my imagination as a child felt so real. I really ate the menu I wanted.

And I remember when I was caught imagining it by my mom and dad. They cried and hugged me at the same time.

While I realize if my stomach bloated because of drinking too much.

"Xia. Don't daydream in the morning, it's not good!"

"yes Ma..."

For now I focus on filling my stomach first.

Tok..

The sound of knocking on the door made me pause for breakfast.

Who exactly is that guest?