Lucid Dream

Señor De Leon sat silently as he sipped his tea. I was looking at the window as the rain streaked the glass. I must have been daydreaming after a long day of study. But i was quite sure that i was awake, i shrugged my shoulders and went back to my seat. Today's lesson was mathematics, in Spain women do not have liberties to learn mathematics beyond the basic arithmetics and I was glad that mother has convinced my father to allow my tutor to teach me. Without mathematics i will not be able grasp the teachings of Newton and Da Vinci. But society didn't think that women need those things because all they are good at are being homemakers or worse -  trophies. I know that Señor De Leon thinks that teaching me this is also a useless endeavor, but I wanted to learn nonetheless. 

"Señorita, is it difficult?" He said as if undermining my understanding of his lesson.

I felt challenged, i smiled at him and answered, "Not at all Señor, it's just that I was wondering why this equation seems to be wrong".

I saw how he wrinkled his brow and walked over to me and looked over my paper. He took it away and read it through, I can't help but smile, as he realized that there was really a mistake with the equation. 

"I apologize, I made a mistake", he said, "full marks for pointing that out Señorita". 

All I could do was nod in agreement and reached for my own cup of tea. Señor De Leon is a meticulous fellow as i have learned in the past week that we have been together, he is a no nonsense kind of man with a very elegant taste in art. Tia Lorenza had even mistaken him as my fiance because my father never mentioned that my tutor is a man. 

"Let's end the lessons here, it's getting dark, your aunt might hate me if i push you too hard, after all mathematics and sciences are not really useful for women", he said, again this person is one of those typical men who believes that women has no place in the world of intellectuals. 

"My dear señor, you are correct, but i hope you don't find it rude when i say that this, women may be at home but do not mistake them for fools, we are both human beings in the eyes of God and none is superior than the other", I replied and walked out of the room slamming the door behind me.

Click!

I heard the door knob clicked, what just happened, i said to myself, I found myself in my office again staring at a blank sheet of paper, was I just drawing?  I called Danie so loudly that she was freaked out thinking that something happened to. She rushed inside the room with Albert Saldivar on her heels, and before i knew it everything went dark.

I was awakened a few hours later, with my brother looking over me, he didn't looked concerned but rather hassled. He sat beside me and then smiled, my brother was always kind, but his temper usually gets the better of him. I looked at him and smiled back, he helped me get up and sit, my brother held my hand so tight it almost hurts and bowed till his forehead touched our hands.

"If anything happens to you... I will lose my mind", he said suddenly crying, "We already lost Annie twice... If we lose you too..." He sobbed, i can feel warm tears fall on my hand. 

This is the first time my brother cried since we found Annie, he must have held back a lot of his tears because he had a public image he needed to maintain. My brother is a doctor by profession but was dragged into politics because of my father. 

"Is Laurice with you?" I asked him trying to calm him down, he nodded

"Kuya, thank you for rushing over here, but I'm okay now."

As he calmed down he told me about the diagnosis, "Your anemia is acting up again, the doctor said that you must have been staying up too late and been lacking sleep".

"I see, when can I go home?"

"Tomorrow, they wanted to keep you here overnight to be sure you don't lose sleep", he sighed, "I agree with them, you need to get some rest, ate and you keeps on crying every night, at least for tonight you can take some rest."

I silently agreed with him, i looked at the clock and it was almost five pm my brother stay for another hour before his bodyguard had to remind him to a meeting and needed to leave. Ulysses told me that Daniela was hysterical when i collapsed, and that my client Mr. Saldivar had to carry me and drove to the hospital. I owe him a discount as a sign of gratitude, i said to myself. I reached out for my phone and began browsing to binge watch a series, the silence was a bit unnerving especially in the hospital, it reminded me of my experiences in the church where I stayed for some time. As i finished an episode a knock came to my door, and a familiar face came it. It was the suited stranger, Ciel.

He was again smiling, and this time wearing a very casual outfit, tattered jeans, a hoodie and a pair of sneakers. His hair was styled short with a streaks of dark red highlights, he had a piercing on his ear, overall he was very stylish and undeniably good looking. He was carrying a small cactus with him along with what seems to be take out food.

"Hey!" He said, his tone was friendly a total one-eighty than when I first met him

"Hi..." I replied awkwardly

He walked over to my bed and placed the food and cactus on the side table, and when his hands were finally itempty he snapped his fingers and like before a chair appeared from nowhere, this time a bar stool, he sat and looked at me.

"Do you remember me?" He asked, I nodded, "I thought you'd forget, so did you eat already?" He again picked up the bag of food and began to rummage through it, "I got you some iron-rich stuff here", then he handed me some soymilk.

"Thank you", i said as i took the box from him, "i just ate before my brother left."

"That's good. You're one sturdy kind of chic, do you know that?"

"Excuse me?!" I sounded a bit offended, because i was, he laughed

"No offense, your consciousness has been pulled by a soul and yet all that happened was you fainted. If it were others they would have died before getting back." 

Just like last time he wasn't making any sense, then he looked at me and saw my confusion, "I know it's difficult to grasp, so let me explain." Finally! I felt relieved for the first time.