is it real?

After recovering from the shock, Devon eventually gave in to sleep, although he still thinks about the many questions he had after losing his memory in his dreams..

Devon was sitting on an armchair in his study room, decoding the blurry words in his diary. Out of the blue, a shadow of a man with a similar build as him lurked at the corner, near the door of his study room. Initially, Devon thought that that shadow was either his or he was imagining it so he ignored it, focusing on the clues he'd garnered to know what memories he'd lost. However, the shadow got closer, darker and larger..

Even when Devon was not moving, the shadow still moved!

Crap! That shadow is not mine..

Someone else is in here!

Devon was currently facing his back against the shadow, at a loss.

His house security was very tight and not once had anyone broke into his house before, until today. To be able to break in like that, the person must be no ordinary person, may even be dangerous! As such, he was curious as to just who is it that is capable of breaking in like that. Yet at the same time, he did not want to know for whoever it is must be someone dangerous.

His heartbeat was beating hard and fast, each beat loud enough for even the 'shadow' to hear. Every passing second felt like minutes.

Finally when Devon could not contain his curiosity, he garnered all his courage to turn around. Whether I see or not, it'll not change my fate. So why not just satisfy my curiosity? Devon thought

When he turned around, he expected a formidable enemy or what not. To his surprise, its neither someone powerful or what but..himself?!

His jaw dropped and Devon widened his eyes in disbelief.

I must be seeing things!

He rubbed his eyes hard, thinking that when he opened them again, his eyes will show someone else. To his astonishment, its still him!

What is going on? He couldn't understand. It's not like he had a twin brother or what. Moreover, no matter how similar strangers look like, they shouldn't look exactly the same. It is also impossible to have 2 of the same person. No matter what he thinks, nothing sounds logical.

"This..who are you?" Devon asked coldly, hiding his dazed and confused feelings

"You are not seeing things, I am you, you are me." The 'shadow' replied coldly in the exact same way as Devon, even the voice sounds the same!

"Wha- How is this even possible?"

"How do you know its impossible?" Instead of answering Devon, the 'shadow' asked him in return.

Devon was speechless.

He knew that there is no way of refuting him for many things in the world can't be explained by science. Yet, he believes that everything is there for a reason and there should be an explanation and/or evidence to prove something. Maybe due to many years of education that he had also have such mentality or that having an explanation and/or evidence allows him to have a sense of security, he don't know. But that person that is seemingly him seems to be right.

Seeing that Devon stayed silent, the 'shadow' continued on.

"There is a cure for the curse but only you can find it. And you'd promised Lyn that you'd remember her no matter what, so fulfil that promise."

Before Devon could say anything, the 'shadow' vanished.

"Hey!" Devon ran and tried to catch him in his direction but failed.

Instead, he woke up from his bed to find that everything that had happened was just a dream.

Wha...why does it feels so real?

Unconvinced, he went to the study room to check; It was just how Devon left it before going to bed. As he regained his senses, he felt a swelling pain at his eye. That was when he recalled that he'd rubbed too hard when he was dreaming.

Normally when we have a dream, no matter how vivid it was, once you wake up, you'd only remember bits and pieces of it vaguely. However, Devon could still remember what he(?) told himself "There is a cure for the curse but only you can find it. And you'd promised Lyn that you'd remember her no matter what, so fulfil that promise."

Ah screw it! I can't waste time thinking about this now! Glancing at the clock, he knew that he needs to prepare now or he'll be late.

...

[In school]

"Uhh Lyn, can you help me answer some questions again?"

"yes...Can you do me a favour too after I've helped you?"

"sure.."

"Uhh before I ask, let me give you a scenario: you are lonely all the time till one day, you found a friend. You and your friend do things like eating together, play games and what not.

So.. what I wanna ask is this; What do you think about the things y'all share in one word?"

Oh no what if its too obvious that I'm talking about myself?

"Uhh I need a woman's opinion for I'm intending to use this as an inspiration to do err...project" Devon hurriedly make up a reason, hoping that Lyn will believe it and not suspect that the scenario is similar to him.

"Oh..err.. I think the things that we share are one of a ki- oh wait that's 4 words! Uhh unique, special, wonderful, different? "

After jotting down onto one of the pages of the notebook where the diary was written, Devon wanted to return her favour for helping him with the blank in the diary.

"unique / special / wonderful / different.. okay thanks! Now how do you want me to help?"