Pandemic Diaries: Read, laugh, cry, love and sing

Prologue

As terror quickly gripped his senses, he realized something...

"I have never experienced the wrath of a super typhoon before!"

"At least not in Wuhan where I've lived most of my life."

"But that is not my concern at the moment."

Then he remembered...

"I'm still with her... right?"

"Or am I?"

"I know that she is still in my arms for that was my last memory of her."

Hans looked straight...

He looked to his left...

He looked to his right...

"OH NO! She's gone!"

"Where did she go?"

"Didn't I embrace her just minutes ago?!"

"What's going on?"

In an instant, he gets overwhelmed by panic as he worries about the whereabouts of the woman he held so dearest.

"Where are you?!"

He tried shouting, calling her out by a name that he could have sworn he knew but now he couldn't remember.

Yet, nothing came out of his lips.

He strived to shout even louder to call her...

"What was her name again??"

His frustration swiftly turned into fear.

"Why couldn't I remember her name?!"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Did I not just kiss her?"

By now, hot tears have started rolling down, mixing with the cold raindrops that soaked his face.

"I need to find her and fast before that storm surge reaches land!"

As the terrifying wave grew closer and bigger, he started getting desperate

"Where are you?!"
"I need to bring you to safety, now!"

He tried shouting again at the top of his lungs...

Stronger and more forceful this time.

Then at last, for the first time, he heard himself verbalizing an audible, but meaningless sound...

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The next thing Hans remembered was that he was shouting in his bedroom as he inadvertently succeeded in waking himself up from the dream...

He opened his eyes and saw the darkened ceiling of his penthouse apartment.

As he sat up, he felt his pulse running.

He was crying at the same time trying to catch his breath.

"It was just a dream..."

"A wonderful one..."

"At first."

"But then it finished off as a nightmare..."

"Again."

He checked his watch.

"3:44 am."