Chapter 218 - Black & White Reality (1/2)

'I saw a dream last night,' he had said while drinking his soft drink. There was silence at the other end waiting for him to continue. 'I was standing under the fairy lights. But not alone. I was holding someone's hand. Fair, long and slender fingers. So soft to touch that I was scared to bruise them.'

'Ohhh! Someone had a romantic dream. Who was the girl?' came the excited and teasing voice.

'Will you let me finish? I didn't see the face. But I vividly remember the feeling and emotions that spread throughout my heart,' said Darren with a dreamy sigh.

'Dreams have feelings as well?' she asked. 'I never heard that. My dreams only left me with fear. Because I always end up falling from somewhere in my dreams. Anyway, what did you feel?'

'I felt like I wanted to hug her and keep her safe forever. Like I wanted to hold that hand forever and never let it go again. Like I wanted her to be mine. Just mine.' He sounded so content and yet sad. 'Just as soon as I was about to kiss her, my stupid dream broke.'

'Hahaha!' he heard a peal of hysterical laughter from the other end. 'It suddenly took a sad turn and somehow it's making me laugh.'

Darren didn't say anything even when she laughed at him. How could he when he loved hearing her laughter? What he didn't tell Chen Xiu back then was that she was the girl he saw in his dream but he never even imagined how the next moment she sang the exact same song to him in her soft and beautiful voice would come back to him like that.

Darren's mind was buzzing as he stared at Xiu playing the piano with a stupified expression. The lyrics, the melody even the emotions were the same as he remembered except for the voice. His mind couldn't come up with any possible explanation as to why his Sweets knew the song Chen Xiu wrote for him?

Xiu noticed his skeptical look as she stood up and walked up to him. Taking his hand in her own she said, ”Aren't you gonna say something?”

”How?” Darren took a moment before he managed to voice out only one word.

”Hmm... How do I know the song Chen Xiu wrote to tease you for the dream you shared with her?” voiced Xiu making Darren's mind go in another frenzy. ”What do you think? What is your mind telling you?”