"So you're saying, you finally met with THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS, in your dream?"  Mina's loud voice screeched from the other line of the phone, hearing the details of Sana's nightmare. Honestly, she didn't know how the two of them came to settle on this cheesy description  'The man of her dreams', it sounded more like something romantic rather than horrific.

Sana sighed,   "Nightmare."  she corrected her best friend for the hundredth time.   "Not dream. It was scary as . More scary than the usual ones. He was...he was standing just behind me!"  She yapped, trying to deliver how intense the nightmare from last night had been.  "I don't know whether I can call it a 'meeting' or not. I mean, I didn't even see his face!"  Then she murmured softly, sparing the information about seeing his eyes for unknown reasons. She also kept the part of his provocative words and inappropriate touches in the dark. 

"Okay? So can you repeat what he said? He called you his wife?"  Out of habit, Mina repeated again what Sana had already told her.  "Babe, I think going back to Busan wouldn't be as helpful for you as we thought of it. You went on a vacation to clear your mind, but all you got is creepier dream than your regular dreams...uh nightmares." Mina told her with utter seriousness. 

"I...don't know. It happened only once. Maybe it'll get better when I fully relax here. I mean, I just got here last evening. Probably I was too tired from the journey and that's why my dreams got messier?"  Sana meekly said. At this point, Sana was already aware of the fact that she was saying these to placate her own self rather than convincing the girl on the other line. She was in fact, exceedingly terrified. She wouldn't have been this much petrified if the nightmare from previous night was similar to the ones that she had been experiencing for years. But she could still remember with a shiver in her heart that how much real his voice, his touch had felt last night. 

"Okay, whatever it is, I'm coming to Busan. It'll take me one more day, so just hold it in."  If Mina had noticed the dread in Sana's voice, she didn't mention it, probably not wanting to make Sana feel more frightened. 

"Come soon, babe. I d-don't even want to fall asleep tonight."  Sana sighed, revealing little bit of her vulnerable state as it was impossible for her to hide everything from her best friend. 

"Listen, you can sleep with your grandma tonight. It will make you less scared."  Mina suggested, a few rustling sounds were heard from the other line,  "Okay, gotta go. Take care, babe. We'll meet tomorrow!"  She then added. 

"Okay. Enjoy the classes without me. Bye. Love you!"  Sana internally sighed, knowing that their small chitchat time had come to an end as Mina still had to attend classes. 

"You sly , you know pretty well I'll be bored as hell in Prof. Kim's class without you!  Ugh, how I wish it was monday today, so I could sit in the class and admire your gorgeous brother..."  Mina sighed dreamily.

Even though Sana couldn't see Mina's face at this moment, she knew it to her bones how her best friend would be blinking her eyes dreamily at the thought of Sehun. She sometimes wished that her no-emotions-available elder brother would see Mina as something more than his younger sister's annoying best friend. She had never revealed it to Mina, but she actually shipped them inwardly. 

"Umm I think the correct term is 'drool over my brother'."  Sana interjected, stiffing a giggle.

"Yeah yeah, just like you drool over Prof. Park, or might I say,  your brother's best buddy Chanyeol?"  Mina countered back, her tone smug as she knew she had pressed on the correct button. 

Sana felt her cheeks getting hot at the mention of her secret crush Park Chanyeol. She wasn't at fault because it was inevitable to crush over the said guy. He was sweet, gentle, understanding, caring. He had never made fun of her problem ever since Sehun had let him know about it. In fact, he was her unofficial psychologist, giving her advices to make her feel less nauseous about her terrible nightmares. And his tall and built frame, handsome features came as a pleasant bonus.   "Shut up, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't crush over him! He's my brother's best friend and almost like a friend to me as well!"  Sana hurriedly pulled her head out of the charming male's thoughts and denied her friend's claim.

"Babe, I'm not your best friend for nothing. Let's see how much can you deny. Anyway, do you think there's any chance that I can get your brother to drive me to your granny's house?" Mina asked. Sana was grateful that her friend didn't pry on her feelings anymore, or she might've accepted her feelings for Chanyeol. 

"You can try. Though tomorrow's weekend, I highly doubt he would be willing to step his foot outside his room." Sana mumbled, rolling her eyes thinking about her brother lazying on the bed for almost the whole day in weekends.

"Ugh, why is he like that! Sometimes, I want to kidnap him and take him to the bushes. Then we could build our own house there, be the jungle couple and live happily ever after."  There she was at it again, in her dreamland, thinking about obnoxious possibilities. 

 Sana laughed heartily at her friend.   "Stop day dreaming about my brother and keep your eyes focused on the ground, or you'll just stumble upon something and kiss the ground." Sana joked.

"You're no fun! I hate you. Bye, for real. I'm entering the class."  She lastly said before ending the call. Sana sighed for the nth time of the day. Though she definitely felt a little better after talking with her best friend.

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"Sana, my child, ever since you've arrived here, I can only see you getting lost in your own thoughts. Is there something bothering you?" Sana's grandma asked with concern filled eyes, as they sat on the cemented island of her garden. The garden was still as mesmerizing as Sana remembered from eight years ago when she last visited this place. The peonies and the rare blue roses made an ethereal combination, making the place soothing to the eyes. 

"I'm okay, grandma. I'm just tired from the journey."  Sana replied, feeling guilty of lying to the older woman. 

Grandma Oh patted Sana's head with affection,  "Look, I have passed many decades of my life, so don't think that you can lie to someone like me, little girl!"  she told her while scrunching her nose cutely. "And your mother kind of told me that you are really stressed about something, that's why you're here in the middle of a busy year. Aren't you?"

Sana gave the older woman a defeated nod. She didn't want her grandma to know about her problems and give her unnecessary stress at this age. But it looked like her grandma wouldn't leave her to it until she didn't explain her circumstances. So she told her grandmother about her weird but constant nightmares for the past eight years. Though she kept the information about yesterday's weirder dream to herself.

"Why didn't any of you tell me about this earlier! Sana, sweetheart, I don't want to scare you or something. But I think something's wrong in Seoul."  Her grandmother concluded, eyes knitted in concentration. "You've started having these nightmares from the day you returned there from here. So it might be because of that place or something.."

"What are you talking about? How could be something wrong with Seoul? Millions of people live there! If there was something wrong with Seoul, then I wouldn't have been the only one having these nightmares." Sana was bewildered, she had always been a logical person. She had never believed on superstitious logics.

"What I meant to say, maybe there's something wrong with your house in Seoul?