[I wonder...will we ever meet again? ]

[...In another lifetime? Where you're not you and I'm not me?]

[Yes! I promise! I'll find you! I will find you, no matter what.]

[I see. So then...I'll go ahead. I'll wait for you.]

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Sunlight.

Warmth.

Laughter.

Those were the things that assaulted my senses. Soft light gently burned my eyes as I opened them. I blinked a few times before I could see anything besides the blinding light. When my eyes finally adjusted, my brain had finally freed itself from the holds of my dreams and reality settled around me.

I looked around and I remembered where I am.

I was on the university grounds together with my friends. After hours of wandering around, we had finally settled on one of the tables scattered all over the campus and proceeded to debate where to spend our weekend. I remembered that Evans and Icy was in a heated argument trying to prove that going to the beach and having a bonfire was much better than going hiking and vice versa before I fell asleep.

Now, Looking around me, the two fiery duo had settled down and everyone was either having small chats or just unwinding. I looked to my left and saw that Kleine was reading something before he closed the book and looked at me.

"How was your sleep? Good one? You know, I really envy you Xerxes. You can just sleep anytime you want. If I'm like that I wouldn't have to suffer from all the fights Evans and Icy have every five minutes or so." Kleine said, exasperation clear in his voice.

I snorted and brushed my bangs away. "Well, it was okay. Thanks for asking."

"....Another dream?"

Yes.

Dreams.

Dreams of someone I think I knew long ago. Dreams of tears, of smoke, of fire and of violet eyes. I started having these dreams about a year ago when I started college. The first dream was just an image of someone I couldn't quite see because the sun was rising behind that person and it was blinding my eyes but somehow, even though I couldn't see it, I knew that she had violet eyes.

After that, I kept on dreaming of her again and again, just the same one, where she's standing before me, smiling, and the sun was in my eyes and no matter what I do, I could never reach her, I could never took a step forward. The dreams consumed me and for weeks I kept on painting violet yes. On canvas, sketch pads, scratch papers, on my palms. Then my dreams changed and the fire and smoke and screams of horror came. I would wake up drenched in sweat and a scream clawing at the back of my throat begging to be released.

I was a wreck those first few months until my friends couldn't take it anymore and confronted me and demanded to know what was happening with me. So I told them everything. All the dreams that I had. Some said it was only because of the stress in school and some of them said that maybe, just maybe, it was my memories from my past life.

But that couldn't be true right? I mean, those enormous winged creatures aren't real...right?

But...some part of me is starting to think that it might be true...

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I stopped whatever I was about to do and faced Kleine. He was looking at me seriously and there was worry behind his eyes. I sighed.

"Yeah. Another one. But this time, that person was dying and I was saying a promise or something. I'm not sure."

"Hmm.I see." Kleine said and continued to read his book. Maybe he had sensed that I didn't want to talk about it. And for that, I am thankful.

Death was not new to me. My dreams are filled with dying people but her death, this person's death had shaken me more than all the past deaths I had seen. It hurt me too much and I think that If I would touch my chest right now, my hand would be covered in blood.

Well, whatever.

I stood up, telling Kleine that I'll just go buy juice from the vending machine and left with orders to also buy him canned coffee.

While I was walking along the familiar path that would lead me to the vending machines, I looked around. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom and every time the wind blows, the pink petals would ride on the wind, looking like it was snowing in pink.

Without thinking about it, I started singing the song "Hello, I'm in Delaware" by City and Colour. I don't know why but the first time I heard this song, I felt like it was something that was meant for me. Well, it might just be me being stupid.

So I continued walking and singing, looking up towards the trees and when I was singing the chorus of the song, I bumped into someone.

The world went askew and when I came to I was sitting on my butt in front of a girl who was picking up her books.

Maybe I was walking too fast or she was walking too fast but our collision sent her books flying everywhere and now she was frantically picking up every single one of them.

And the idiot that I am, I stood there staring at her while my mind took time responding.

1...

2...

3...

And then it kicked in.

"Oh damn! I'm so sorry! Here let me-"

As I was about to hand her one of her books, she looked up and our eyes met.

Violet eyes.

Achingly familiar eyes. Eyes that I have gazed at thousand of times before.

"Ha-have we....have we met somewhere before?"

An amused glint in her twinkling eyes.

"Yeah. I think so, Xerxes."

She smiled and the memories rushing in drowned me.

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Hi! Hello! Hi! My name's Yomi and actually this is my first day in Royal Road. A friend of mine introduced me to this site yesterday and they said that since I write a lot and it'll just be a waste if I just let it collect dust at the back of my wardrobe, they suggested to why not post it here that way people can read it and you'll get a lot of reviews and improve your writing. And this story was actually something that I wrote for our readers theater in my final year of high school.  

So uh...just a warning. English is not my first language so if there's any spelling mistake or wrong grammar please tell me so I can correct it.

So uh yeah XD Please go easy on me and I hope that you'll like it.