For days, I have been repeating the same dream.
That's a long alley. On both sides of the wall, the dense branches growing outside cover the remaining empty sky. Occasionally the sun looks down, dotting the ground with bright sun shadows. The leaves on both sides fell, like butterfly wings, spinning, flying, and then disappearing into the ground with spots of light.
I dreamed that I kept walking on this road, and things around me existed or gradually disappeared, and everything seemed to become magical.
And every time at this time, I will wake up. I always feel like that dream is like a TV series, with the same content playing every day, but there is no ending, which makes me always a little disappointed after waking up. I have wondered more than once where I would go and what I would see if I kept walking like this in my dream, but I still had no answer after having the same dream for nearly a week.
Until the night before Xia Tong's treat, I dreamed of that alley again. I kept walking, but stopped when I was about to reach the end.
At the end of the narrow alley in that dream, a figure flickered and appeared, and the person's appearance could not be clearly seen. The only thing that could be felt was his seemingly smiling face in the sun and the real warmth of his palms.
Then, I heard him say, "I'll take you there."
At noon the next day, in front of the not-deep but scary ditch, a boy stretched out his hand to me and said, "Don't you dare to leave? Let me pull you over."
Weird coincidence.