"I just happened to bump into him, that's all. Then I accidentally stumbled and almost fell, so I reached out my hand and grabbed his arm without realizing it, but after that, I got another headache again…"

She tried to explain everything as clearly as possible, afraid that he might misunderstand anything.

"What about those words you said to him?" he asked. "Was that all really just nonsense?"

She felt choked, almost as if her voice was stuck in her throat and would not come out!

Nonsense? No, it was not nonsense at all. It was the words she had heard the girl say to the boy in her dreams. But how could she tell him that? How could she answer his question now? She had no desire to lie to him, but she did not want to tell him anything that might cause him to misunderstand her when she still had not figured out the whole truth of the matter yet either.

"What's wrong?" he persisted. "Was the question that hard to answer?"

Her silence made him look up at her, the dark pools in his ey