The sun shone brightly, and the wind blew softly across his face as he stared out at the ocean, thinking of nothing, and everything.

“You seem a million miles away.”

He turned and, like clockwork, she was there. Sharing his beach towel, staring at him. She was beautiful and unassuming, with a gentle look on her face. She seemed genuinely concerned about him, and he felt at ease with her.

“I’m not sure where I am right now.” He answered.

“We’re together, so does it matter?” She quipped.

She leaned in ever so slightly. Just enough to let him know that her lips waited for him, but not so much to force the issue.

He leaned towards her, and they kissed. Passion overtook him, and where he was, and who he was with no longer mattered. Their kiss seemed to go on for an eternity, but he knew it was coming. It always did.

He woke up.

The same woman in a dream that occurred almost nightly now. She seemed so familiar but he knew that they had never met.

He longed to know this woman.

He felt refreshed, and not at all groggy. It was odd how his dreams seemed so active the last few weeks, but he never felt tired when he woke up.  In fact, he had cut out coffee from his morning routine all together.  However, he still met his friend every morning for breakfast, and today he decided he needed to talk to him about these dreams.

“So, you’re having this dream every night?”

He looked up at his friend, his confidant, the only one he could share this with.

“Yeah, and I know she is real. I am not sure how, but I know it. I also think that I know her, or at least I am supposed to.”

“Maybe you just need to change your diet, I’ve read that too much red meat can give you weird dreams.”

“These aren’t abstract dreams caused by too much red meat, be serious” He started to get up from the table, and tossed a five dollar bill down for the tip. He knew he had to find this woman, but how? It wasn’t like he could look her up in the phone book.

“I have to find her. I have to know what these dreams mean.”

His friend wiped his mouth clean and looked up, realizing how serious he was taking this. “OK. How do we do that?”

“I’m not sure, but somewhere there is an answer to all this.”