Chapter 117: The Dream Continues

             ***THE DREAM CONTINUES***

At this moment I felt a feeling of surprise and fear because he now bent down and used his hand to rub and brush my hair just lightly like a mom often does when I am tensed. Now I sat up and stared at him till my gaze became clouded and my brows puckered in an effort to remember, but as we locked eyes, I felt like I was been hypnotized, the dream took yet another dimension, I now saw myself just beside my school's swimming pool which appeared to be divested of any human, the place was so peaceful and soothing. I was lying on the cold bare floor, the feeling of the cold tyles of my body was delightful and friendly, I comfortably lay there listening to the singing of the birds which were unbelievably swimming in the pool, I do not understand why I did not question the possibility of a bird to swim, all I know was that I was just enjoying the beautiful melodious song, it was in the middle of the song that I heard a voice calling out this name; "Goldrich", the voice was so clear, it sounded from a distance yet so close, I stood up and looked around to see who called but I found no one but the birds which were apparently swimming round in the pool like it was a normal thing. At the time I heard the name Goldrich, it seemed as though... as though I had heard the name before. And as if the name belongs to me, I almost claimed ownership of the name as I felt this strong urge to answer the call. It felt right at the instant as if I could remember being called Goldrich sometime before. But when? Where? And who had ever called me that? As I was still struggling if to answer or not to answer the call I saw from my own class, a bod of woter in the form of a man coming out, I just can't explain the way the water came out, but I know that it appeared like it was flowing out yet as if it was walking, then I realized that the call was from the water and that it was me that it actually called Goldrich because it once again called out the name, this time it was pointing at me. All of a sudden, I found myself back at the seaside once again with the strange man who looked like me, He nodded his head and let out a creepy smile of victory, shaking my head again. He said

“Yeah! Goldrich."

He said to me again as he bled out that unnerving and subtle smile at me.

Now I was just… I was just remembering that I remembered it. That was not a usual dream, no it wasn't. Even while I was with him at the beachlike place, I could still hear the bird calls from the poolside, that soft chirps, and the Twitter of the unusual birds which swam in the pool.

“I’m sorry sir, but who did you say you were looking for?”

I asked him as I saw that the lost, shadowed look had crept back into his eyes again, he was just looking at me like a lost lamb, I could tell that he had a lot in his mind to say, but was holding It back? What is he keeping? Now he stretched his hands and held me by my cheek. 

“I wish I could give you that which is truly yours now, I mean right now, not in the future. Your true home calls for you.”So he said, after saying this he drew his hands back, resting his chin on his left palm and using his right hand to point at the now raging sea. The lost and wandering look was gone from his eyes again. But something happened, I just recognized something of his hands, he also got scales, yea, what seems to be hairs on his body all now became scales in my eyes, I wondered why he had scales, I looked at myself but I could not find any scales like my scales had leaped from my body to his. The man, even though he was with me, his look was still distant, as though he listened to a voice from far off, he kept behaving like someone who had somewhere else to be.