I had a dream of a world where the dinosaur-evolved people coming out from underneath the earth. They come out and sue humans for monopolize the human language! And these dinosaur people won the lawsuit!! So afterward, if a species decided they want to speak, they can. The first group to do so are dogs! I guess they have been around human for way too long therefore it wasn’t much of a challenge for them to master the human language. It was under this circumstance that I meet my childhood friend again. It was a rainy day, I have my umbrella and was just walking my robotic dog. It was at the entrance of a park where my dog run into a real dog, and they were quickly deep in conversation gossiping about the latest fashion. The other dog’s owner and I looking at each other, not sure what to say to each other.

I looked at him for a while, suddenly realized that he is my childhood friend from elementary school. I haven’t seen him for 18 years! He recognized me too and we talked. It was the strangest thing! We haven’t keep in touch for almost two decades but once we talked, it’s like we were never apart. Even more so, I think I am extremely interested in him, which is weird because when I last saw him, I was like 11 and I don’t think I feel about guys that way back then yet. He seems to be into me too because soon after we went on a date. He was so nice and considerate. When we reach the restaurant there was a little something on my chair, he cleaned it right off for me. We had a fantastic time.

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It was so strange that because he never entered my mind for all these years. I completely forgotten about him. Just like in my dream he really was my best friend in elementary school. We had a really friendly rivalry back then, when we were in the same class together, he always got the best grades. He was always number one. When we were in different classes, I would be number one in my class. I was never quite as good as him but I was never jealous or anything. Because we were best friends and even our Chinese first name have the same pronunciation. Hong Kong’s education system followed the British system, which basically is 6 years elementary school + 7 years of high school + 3 years of university, unlike here in America where it’s 6yrs elementary + 2yrs middle school + 4yrs high school + 4yrs of college. So you can see the transition from elementary school to high school in Hong Kong is extremely important. We have to go through a standardize test and a lottery to determine which school we can go to. I was lucky to get to a really good school in Victoria, while he even though always has better grades, got extremely bad luck and was sent to someplace in Aberdeen.

From that time on our relationship totally changed, it was awkward between us. I never know how to talk to him again, It’s not like I can give up my seat and school for him. I felt really bad and we never talked again. I remember sometime before I left for New York, his mom come by to my apartment and ask me to help her son to get into my school. I honestly don’t remember about our conversation or whether or not I told her about me leaving Hong Kong. But no matter what, I’ve never seen him again, and he was forgotten
as time passes by.

The first thing I did waking up was to look him up online. But I couldn’t find him. I don’t have more recent info of him other than what I remembered for me to look him up. And ultimately, I don’t think this dream is about him at all. Obviously my longing for romance did creep into my dream, but no, it was more about the mourning of a lost friendship, and the fear of it will happen again. Losing a best friend. It was that fear that formulated this dream, and the ghost of my first best friend was just a representation. I won’t let anyone out of my life ever again. I’ll do everything I can to keep what I got.

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