Walking into the kitchen, Elia notices a few new things. The eerie silence of her mother and elder sister who sat at the table.
Eating their toast and eggs. The heavy atmosphere was very damning. As if validating that her dream was actually true. But she knows she's still dreaming.
sigh
Elia sits at her usual spot, the chair facing the main hallway. The fried egg's yolk is as yellow as the sun. As if it's smiling at her.
Tsk
Irritated, she grabs the fork and muddles the yolk to spread it on the plate. As she tries to breathe more, she looks around the room.
A single flower petal lying across the kitchen counter. Gray shade. Like the opposite of the yellow sunlight-colored yolk. As if all the color was erased from the petal.
Squinting at it, she tried to focus.
[What the…?]
"Where did that come from, Ma?" She asks as she points at the petal with her fork. "We don't have flowers around the house."
Her elder sister stops chewing and slowly looks at her. Giving a long pause. Perplexed, as if.
"Elia...you brought that home."
[Me? When? and why just a petal?
As she tried to word these to her sister, her mother's voice could be heard with a light chuckle.
"Oh, come on now," she says. "Eat and go. It's almost 9 am. You'll be late for class."
[Almost 9…? I just woke up !!
Elia looks at the clock hanging in the room.
8:55
Elia is very perplexed.
Did an hour just...vanish? Just like that...]
The petal lies in the background. Gray. Quiet. Devoid of life. Undisturbed.
She leaves her food on the table, grabs her bag which is light as a feather.
Dashed toward the garage, preparing to drive to her university.
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* hiss *
The front two windows of the car are cracked open, which is making the window hiss through them. Weirdly, this comforts her in ways she is unable to explain.
[mhmm]
From her perspective everything is blur, traffic light is blurring past her vision. Pedestrians are crossing trying to get to their destination.
For Elia, the World is "Moving", whereas she is blurring through it. As she taps her fingers to the rhythms of the wind hissing, on the steering wheel.
[I'm glad, i am able to drive and enjoy this peace.]
Elia pupil expand a bit, having a grey shadow roaming within, similar to that rainy day.
However the sky is blue, as if it's trying to open up, trying to wake her up ?.
Maybe that's an illusion as well.
Maybe she's still really dreaming ?.
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Lecture Hall
Philosophy Class
10:45 AM
Elia walks into the lecture room, quickly finding her group of friends, who are seated in the middle row away from the front.
Looking around, every student in the room is half asleep, or trying to stay awake with a coffee cup in hand. Meanwhile, the professor is checking his wrist watch, before moving towards the whiteboard. He is mid sentence, as the lecture started 15 minutes ago.
"and so Deja vu, in simple terms means 'already seen'. It's a feeling which created by your brain of familiarity". says professor riel and looks around the class, as if trying to see if student are still listening.
"Another perspective of Deja vu is, an alternative timeline, for some it's overlapping of dreams and reality...as if bleeding into one singular timeline".
Elia is closely listening to these sentences..
[bleeding into a singular timeline....
maybe?...surely not....hmmm ]
The professor unbothered by students not listening, continues.
"One of the great minds of human behavior suggested that , this overlap is caused by suppressed desires. Whereas, i believe it's a connection of the collective unconscious within humans."
Slowly his voice starts to fade away.
[hmm....why does he sound like he's underwater...]
Elia looks around, everyone is acting normal, as if shes the one who's experiencing this alone.
"It's as if this overlap wants us to live the exact life moments on repeat. Over and over again. Forever."
Elia feels a sharp shudder in her body, as if these words were targeted toward her. She stares at the professor with more intent.
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Lunch Time
"I still can't get used to this noisy place", as Elia sits down in the noisy cafateria, with lights buzzing, students chattering away.
Elia sits down with her few friends, who are May and Zara. She is mostly ignoring them but acting as if she's listening to their chateter about their boyfirends, classes and even gossip regarding a girl two timing.
Zara grabs Elia by the shoulder and says "And could you believe the nerves he had to tell me, 'I didn't cheat because we were taking a break from us' ".
Zara is spilling her drama with her boyfriend of 4 months to Elia, and explaining why she's angry.
Meanwhile Elia is nibbling on her bland sandwitch, while thinking about the time when she can go home and enjoy her peacful drive back.
May turns towards Elia and with concerning eyes asks
"Hey Elia, you're out of it?. Are you okay?. You havn't muttered a word today"
Elia perplexed by this, takes her sight away from the sandwitch, as the lights flicker abit. The sound around the cafeteria are fading away again.
She smiles slightly.
"Just tired today, that's all"
[I'm probably a dead soul...]
Zara and May turns towards Elia with more concern,
"Lets party hard today then after class end. What do you say, nothing beats a good session of karaoke" says Zara.
Elia is already waving her hand in rejection
"No, not today, lets do it another day, i'm really done for today. Probably tomorrow ?"
All three agree that tomorrow is karaoke day, leaves the cafeteria and into their own respected lectures of the day.
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Elia streching her arms in the air.
"Finally, free..Time to go home"
Elia is walking outside her university building, as she looks forwards. She notices a misty puddle.
"ohh"
The puddle is reflecting her face..this time.
[Why was my reflection that day are blurry then]
The reflection smiles back at her causing Elia to step back abit.
"wait...what ?."
Spooked and feeling very uncomfortable, as the sound around is slowing starting to fade and the surrounding is losing it's color. She speed walks to the parking lot and gets into her car. Drives off.
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As she pulls the car out of her parking bay, what she doesn't notice is the flower bed behind her car. It's a flower bed of grey flowers. Discolored. Just existing. For what ?.
However one of the flower has a slight hue of yellow, from the inside of the bud. As if its bleeding yellow.