'What if the dream is the reality? What if we're only sent here till we find our soulmate and then, at that very great moment, we both realize this and say the magic words that would take us back?' This was Tom's firm belief and he'd always say it, to anyone he'd ever met:
'Come, dream, and take me away...!' but no one had the reaction he's been expecting for so long.
Up until a moment when he stopped believing too, but he would still say the words, more as a joke than what it was at first. Or at least that's how his spouse, Jane, felt it and sometimes she would say the words together with him, hoping and believing that his dreamland would actually be true and they would both return 'home'.
But the world is a great and mysterious place and we never know what lies ahead. So it happens that Tom's best friend, Chris, was married to Jane's best friend, Amelia. And it could have been coincidence, it could have been destiny, but Tom and Amelia had never met, though fate has given them several opportunities. And one day, Jane went to Amelia's house and Chris came to see Tom.
And they start talking their usual topics, till Jane gets to the story of Tom's eternal dreamland. And at the very moment she was about to tell Amelia the famous words, Chris was telling Tom this:
'She's sometimes acting strangely. She's looking at me like she's about to say something, but then she blocks, uses a lame excuse and walks away. So one day I go to her and ask her what's she been trying to tell me. Guess what she answers: <> and then she starts mumbling something about some dreams...'
Coincidence or not, Tom had never told Chris about the dreamland he's been talking about years back, because, as time passed by, he'd become embarrassed to talk about it with a guy.
'Come, dream, and take me away...!' told Jane to Amelia, at the end of the story.
'Come, dream, and take me away...!' is what both Tom and Amelia said at the same time. And then they've realized...
Storming out the door, they've both tried to run to each other, before it was too late. Before that very last moment, when they would leave the world, they begged divinity and destiny and everything for a glimpse at each other so they could know who was their soulmate in this world.
But they didn't meet. And no one has ever seen them since. And Amelia's regret was that they might not know each other in the dreamland either...
