Chapter 54

Week 5

She had that dream for the second time, but this time, there was the sound of a baby crying. Something told her to follow it, but she couldn't tell where it was coming from.

When she woke up, she found herself being cradled in a pair of arms and was faced with a worried-looking Takumi.

“Are you ok? You kept calling me in your sleep. I tried to wake you up, but you wouldn't.”

“Yeah, it was just a dream.”

A few days later...

She went to meet up with Hansuke.

“You know; you've been looking less like yourself these days,” Hansuke said.

“That's what I wanted to talk to you about but promise me that you'll keep it to yourself.”

“Ok. You have my word.”

She went ahead and told him about the dream and everything that happened afterwards.

“So that's why you haven't been yourself lately. But do you honestly believe that that dream is true? I mean, you know him as well as I do, probably even better, and that doesn't sound like something he'd do.”

“I know and I don't believe that it's true