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“You are so beautiful….. So…. Beautiful. I am not worthy, worthy to have you.”
“I am just a dream Prasun, your dream. So I am yours, always yours.”
It’s almost 9 am, Prasun got up from his bed, he inhaled the aroma of fresh cooked breakfast and tea coming out of the kitchen. He freshened up and sat with the newspaper as his wife Malini served the breakfast on the table.
“You are late today, missed your morning walk as well. Are you alright.” Prasun heard Malini’s concerned voice.
“Oh ya, just tired, busy time at office.”
“Yeah. That’s why you slept early last night, never watched you sleeping so much.” Malini’s voice gets fainted as she walked back to kitchen.
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“I want to be with you, always. I love talking to you, holding your hand and walk though this gardens and boulevards.”
“I am your dream Prasun, you can be with me as long as you are sleeping, as long as you let me be in your mind.”
Prasun felt a sudden jerk on his shoulder, as he opened his eyes he saw Malini is holding and shaking his shoulders with both hands, she looked worried.
“Its 10:30 am Prasun, Don’t you have to go to office? Are you feeling alright? I am seeing it for a week now, you are sleeping for hours. Are you feeling weak or something? I think we should consult a physician.”
“Ahh, don’t make a fuss. Get me some tea, I am already late.” Prasun stepped towards the bathroom leaving his clearly anxious wife behind.
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“Malini, what if one fine day I don’t wake up from my sleep at all, how will you react?”
“Prasun, please don’t speak all these nonsense, Nothing of that sorts will ever happen. If anything happens to you, I won’t be alive without you.”
“I am not saying I’ll die, I am simply saying what if I never get up from my sleep. What If I just be asleep all the time?”
“I don’t understand.”
“There’s a girl, in my dream. I think I have fallen love with her. But I can see her, talk to her and be with her if I am asleep. You see, she’s a dream, so I need to be in my sleep to be with her.”
“(Horrified), you have gone crazy. We need a psychiatrist.”
“No, I need some sleep. I need her.”
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“Doctor, please do something, he is sleeping more than 18 hours a day, hasn’t go out of his bedroom for 3 days. He is not eating or even talking to me.”
“I am not able to understand the symptoms, try the medication for one more day, if there’s no improvement we have to shift him to a mental ward for further treatment.”
“Is he going insane? Doctor please help him.”
“I am trying all I can. Let’s monitor him till tomorrow.”
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“I have come to bid you goodbye.”
“What? Why? And why are you looking so miserable, tired and exhausted, black patches under your eyes.”
“It’s your wife, Malini.”
“What did she do to you?”
“She invaded into my dreams, she is threating me, tormenting me in my dreams.”
“Your dreams? You are a dream!! How a dream, can dream?”
“I am a dream Prasun, but in this dreamland of mine I am just like you, I eat, play, drink and sleep. And I dream too. Your wife is constantly entering in there and threating to ruin everything. I am unable to sleep, scared to see her. She turned to be a nightmare of mine. I am sorry, but I must leave you.”
“Please don’t go………….”
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Prasun woke up with a jolt. He drank half a bottle of water in a hurry and checked the table clock, its 3 AM in the morning. He turned and saw Malini was fast asleep next to him. ‘What a nightmare’ Prasun thought. He remembered clearly from the first day incident, crazy, he felt like he passed weeks in this dream.
Malini was mumbling something in his sleep. As prasun turned and bend over to listen, he heard!! “Keep your filthy hands off my Husband you BITCH!!”
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