I closed my eyes that night and in minutes I dosed and fell deep into sleep and found myself in the night I and May; the night when we climbed a roller coaster together in a park close by.

The real date earlier than what I see before me probably around 6:30Pm or so but this is like 10:00pm the time we left the park and started for home.

There were lots of differences in my dream compared to the real date. I tell you about the real date so you’d pick out the differences with me.

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May and I met earlier that Thursday morning at school before class and she told me about a park she used to go to when she was little and I thought it a good idea to go and check it out later that evening after school and all possible house chores that our parents would ask us to do.

“How about 6:00pm” May suggested. “Would that be okay?”

“Yes it is perfect, I promise I will beat you there” I replied. I know May to be punctual on dates which means that I’ll have to come thirty minutes earlier than the normal time. So in my mind I would be there by 5:30pm.

“Okay challenge accepted” She gestures a handshake and I replied

“Okay see you then” I waved and went to our different classes. I am science oriented and she was arts. We have had so many arguments in the school about which was the best between arts or science; most times the arguments and competition remained undecided.

Every year we would conduct at the end of every session a talent show off and invite parents and guardians to attend. It was always between the arts and sciences. There was singing, dancing, drama, lots of theatre stuffs and live on-stage science exhibitions. The votes where always rounded up and undecided at the end. We were already preparing for this year’s. There was a rule that arts and science students that were participating for the competition were not to meet for any reason as this might leak information concerning the other’s preparation and this was worthy of penalty. So we met less in secret around school. We couldn’t eat together in the cafeteria. But I hadn’t decided whether or not to participate this year. Actually I had never participated or even attended any since I started the school I only heard the news. May was majoring in parts she refused to tell me because of the leaking of group secret stuff; she told me she was taking part in a lot of things. Principal Gloom had just announced that practice was going to start next week and this was the final week for registering with the Head of Departments of both facets for participation. Although May had been trying to convince me about taking part in this year’s not because of the argument but because of the fun involved and making our parents proud but I have been insisting that it meant us going against each other and I didn’t like the idea.

We couldn’t meet that day at all at school because of the tests taking place. Teachers were all rounding up the curriculum that week and conducting tests so the following week would just be preparations for the competition.

I reached the park as she described it for me; it was about 5 minutes of walk from my house. A park was this close by but I had no idea it was as a kid. I never really went out much after my dad abandoned me and mum; apart from that, I was a nerd; always reading. Although that has and is still paying I missed a lot of childhood adventures so this was very important for me. I literally had never been on a roller coaster before so this was my first time. I didn’t know if I was scared of heights but I was about to find out. It looked all fun to me and there was nothing to be scared about; if there was, it wasn’t obvious.

I hadn’t spent up to a minute or two outside the park when I felt a gentle tap on my back. I recognized the hand, the soft tender gentle and very warm palm. Her palm was literally always warm.

“You are here already?” I turned to her. “I got here first though”

“Yea, don’t be full of yourself it is not an achievement” She pulled my plug out of the socket and its lights out for me.

“Really just this once May, just this once” I looked at her and put my hand under her chin. “Let me be full of myself that I got here before you”

“Okay just this once” She smiled and ran to the gate and I followed.

“Wait up at least!” I screamed but she didn’t stop.

Before I could get to her she was already inside the park.

“I got inside first so we are even” She winked at me.

“Wow! This girlfriend of mine; you couldn’t just let it be”

“Yep” She raced to the roller coaster.

I followed her. “Really how do you run this fast without getting tired?” I asked panting.

“See who is asking, look at you and look at me; who is supposed to ask who?” She teased.

She really is strong and has a nice physique like or even more than a sprinter’.

“Okay let’s not walk that road now” I offered for a detour

“Okay do you want to go first?” She asked

“No! This was your idea so go first” I replied. I wanted her to first so that I can see how she does and learn.

“Omg! You are scared of heights!” She looked at me and I shook my head. “Unless you have never….” She trailed off into a giggles

“Yes I haven’t. I was going to tell you but you took it out of me” I looked down.

She raised my jaw and looked straight into my eye. She was fond of doing that. “Don’t worry I’ll teach you okay!” She said. “Actually there is nothing to learn; just put your legs on each step up the ladder get to the where those seats are and sit in one” She pointed up the ladder to the seats high up.

“Okay, that sounds fun and easy” I assured myself.

I followed her up the ladder. She got there up before me and waited for me to come up. Just before the last step she held my hand to pull me up. I held her hand and smiled at her for trying to help me up. Unknowingly I was too heavy for the ledge to carry and every second I spent smiling at May it loosened and finally gave up the ghost. I slipped and almost fell and to my surprise May held me up on one hand. She didn’t let go of me at all. I was just there hanging in the air, my hand in hers and she slowly pulled me up the deck. I climbed up and looked at her in utter surprise. After moments of shock the pressure reduced and my heart rate reduced.

“How did you do that?” I asked. My voice was shaky; I hadn’t regained completely from the shock of the fact that I had nearly lost my life.

If I had fallen off that ladder from that height I would not make it. I didn’t know what I would be shocked the more about. Was it that I didn’t fall? Or was it that May was surprisingly strong enough to hold me up?

“I don’t know?” She muttered. “Just be glad that it happened and didn’t lose you. Where ever that strength came from I am grateful it came”

“Okay. Let’s not talk about this to anyone until we are able to figure out what happened okay. And this wouldn’t ruin my first time of climbing a roller coaster” I put hands on her shoulders. “Let it go”

“Since when did you become a motivational speaker? Did you write that down?” She teased.

“Where could I have written it?” I asked.

“You tell me. You look like you can” She replied folding her hands and looking at me suspiciously. “Did you?”

“Yes of course” I said trying to hide the urge of a smile.

“Where did you write it then?” She asked slipping her pinky into her mouth. Her toe was the only part of her right leg touching the ground. She must be getting s hang of whatever she was doing in her head. “Can I see it?”

“What is going on here” I asked. “And why are you looking at me like that” I added. Her eyes were locked onto mine and this was messing me up, really messing me up.

“Just show me where you have written it” She replied shunning my question. “Please” She added blinking her blue snow mountain eyes at me. That works all the time. But I was still trying to figure out where I have to tell her I wrote it that would make sense and also trill her.

“You really want to know?” I teased. “Tell me why you are still looking at me like that? I’m not food okay! I feel like you are going to eat me now and I’m getting scared”

“Well! Indeed I want to eat you so show me or…” She paused, walked three steps forward which was body-touching close to me and ran her index finger up from the side of my throat down to the left side of my chest ab. My heart rate increased. “Whatever! you might end up eaten! You sure are a good meal!”

She was talking slowly and was also looking extremely hot. I looked at her and her eyes were glowing, literally glowing. I was freaking out but tried to keep it inside and succeeded. It looked amazing like she had the moon in her eyes. I kept staring at it. I felt like it was drawing me to itself. I couldn’t help but sink in the beauty of the sight of them.

“Now you’re the one looking at me like you’re going to eat me” She said and I snapped out of drowning in her eyes; her glowing eyes.

“You look incredible!” I said and gently placed my hand at the back of her neck running it through her hair. “I wrote it in my heart May” I finally told her or finally found what to tell her.

“Can I get to it?” She said lifting her face up to mine. I am slightly taller than she is. Our eyes met and she noticed the glow of her eyes on my face. “What is that light all over your face? You are glowing Liam! You are glowing!”

I held her tighter and pulled her closer even though there was no more space between us I felt I needed her closer. “It’s the moon in your eyes” I said pulling her face to mine. “It’s the light of your love shinning through the wonder of your eyes finding mine. You have gotten to the writings in my heart and since the first day I saw you that night something in me changed May! You did something to me, something no one has ever done or can ever do. You shoved out all the darkness in me with your light. You opened my eyes to a world of possibilities, a world filled with love and compassion, gentleness and passion, you made me a better man than I was and could ever be. I am glowing from the good, the love, the wonder and the amazing beauty of your gentle heart reaching out to mine. May! I love you!” Having no idea where what I said came from and how I could say something like that, I finally felt I had to stop and breathe.

“Liam! I love you too! You are still glowing” She said. Her was voice was shaking. She thought I was the one glowing but I was just the moon drawing its light from the sun. I kept it to myself and it was my little wonderful secret. I will never forget today when I finally believed in fairytales; my girlfriend literally glowed. She had the moon in her eyes.

“I know May! And I feel lucky and amazing right now! I have an angel to myself as my girlfriend” I said still holding her, still looking in her eyes, still amazed, still in love and I felt the moment was at its peak and I wanted to capture what was happening to always remember and cherish it; I leaned in a little and sealed the moment with a kiss.

The rest of the day we talked and May tried and succeeded in convincing me to join in for the show off. Wouldn’t you agree if your girlfriend glows? I did anyway that was enough reason to.

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The dream I had this time was so different than what really happened that day; May got to the park before me. She was already inside when I got there. She called my name beckoning on me to come inside. It was weird but I went inside the park with meet her. Her outfit was also different. That day she had a dark blue jean trouser on, a yellow crop top and my sleek black jacket; in this dream she had the trouser on but the top she was wearing was stripped with blue; a yellow and blue stripped shirt! My jacket had ‘my jacket’ scripted on the back of it but the one she had on had my name written on it instead.

I was already freaked out but I am very good at hiding feelings and emotions so she didn’t notice. We went on the ladder and it was time for me to follow up the ladder. I hesitated this time not because it was my first time but because I felt this was a different May. I could feel it in my guts this wasn’t her. All the other dreams had different modifications of May and she was always different but the supposedly May with me there felt like a different person and had this malicious aura. The urge to turn around and go back was building in me but I also wanted to see what happens when I was about to fall from the ladder; if the same thing will happen or not. I climb up the ladder as it happened in real life. I played along as a character in a play only that this was my life. The Ladder broke and she held caught me in the air as; I looked up and she smiled at me. She was supposed to pull me up but she didn’t. She held me up in the air for longer than usual as if she wanted me to know she wasn’t May and she was different. Her smile turned into a laugh and a frown and she gradually let go of my hand. I was falling and screaming but I woke up before I hit the ground.

“May let me go!” I muttered to myself when I woke up.

She didn’t seem like May though everything was the same. The feeling was not; I just knew something bad was going to happen and it did.

I didn’t think of this dream as anything abnormal or more than just a dream. Maybe it was life trying to tell me to let go of May and live the rest of my life.