Mira didn't sleep again after that.
How could she?
The message kept repeating in her mind.
"I think it was a memory."
A memory of what?
A place she had never seen before?
A moment that didn't exist in her life?
The next morning felt strange.
Everything around her looked normal.
The sunlight coming through the window.
The soft noise of traffic outside.
The smell of fresh tea in her kitchen.
Yet her mind felt completely different.
Like something invisible had shifted.
Her phone buzzed.
A message from him.
"Did you sleep after that?"
Mira smiled slightly.
"Not really."
His reply came.
"Same."
She typed again.
"Do you really think that dream was a memory?"
The typing dots appeared.
Then his answer came.
"I don't know what else it could be."
Mira leaned back in her chair.
She didn't know what to believe anymore.
"Maybe our brains are just playing tricks," she murmured.
Then another message appeared.
"I tried something."
Mira frowned slightly.
"What?"
"I searched online."
Her curiosity immediately grew.
"For what?"
His reply appeared.
"For cafés that look like the one in our dream."
Mira blinked.
"That's… actually smart," she whispered.
Then another message appeared.
"And I found something strange."
Her heart skipped slightly.
"What?"
The reply came.
"There's a café in Seoul that looks exactly like it."
Mira sat up straight.
"Exactly?"
"Almost identical."
Her mind began racing.
But then she remembered something important.
"Wait," she typed.
"I've never even been to Seoul."
His reply came instantly.
"I know."
That made the situation even stranger.
Mira put her phone down for a moment.
Thinking carefully.
Trying to calm her thoughts.
But something about the dream still bothered her.
She opened her laptop.
Typing a few keywords.
old café warm lights wooden tables vintage café street
Dozens of images appeared.
But none looked like the place from the dream.
Then she suddenly remembered one small detail.
Something she hadn't told him yet.
In the dream…
There had been a street sign outside the café window.
She quickly opened the message again.
Mira:
"Did you notice the street outside the café?"
His reply came.
"Yes."
Her fingers paused.
"Did you see the sign?"
A few seconds passed.
Then he replied.
"You mean the one that said 'Haneul Street'?"
Mira's eyes widened.
Because that was exactly what she remembered.
"How is that possible…" she whispered.
Her heart started beating faster again.
She immediately searched the name.
Haneul Street Café
Several results appeared.
Images.
Articles.
Old blog posts.
Mira clicked the first image.
Her breath stopped.
The café looked exactly like the one in her dream.
The same wooden chairs.
The same warm lights.
The same window near the table where he had been sitting.
"This can't be real…"
She quickly checked the details.
Reading the article below the image.
Then something unexpected appeared in the text.
"This historic café on Haneul Street was famous in the early 2000s before it permanently closed ten years ago."
Mira's heart skipped.
Closed?
She read the line again.
Closed ten years ago.
Her hands started trembling slightly.
That meant something impossible.
The place from their dream…
Didn't even exist anymore.
Her phone buzzed again.
Another message from him.
"Did you find it?"
Mira typed slowly.
"Yes."
Then she added another message.
"But it says the café closed ten years ago."
There was a long silence.
Then his reply appeared.
"I saw that too."
Mira swallowed.
Her fingers hovered over the screen.
"Then how did we see it?"
This time his reply came almost instantly.
"That's what I've been trying to figure out."
Mira looked at the photo on her laptop again.
The same place.
The same café.
The same window.
Then a strange thought appeared in her mind.
One that made her heart race.
What if the dream wasn't from the present?
What if it was from ten years ago?
Before the café closed.
But that raised another terrifying question.
If the memory was from ten years ago…
How could both of them remember it?
They hadn't even met back then.
Right?
Her phone buzzed again.
Another message from him.
"Mira."
"Yes?"
His next message made her entire body go cold.
"I just realized something."
Her fingers tightened around the phone.
"What?"
The reply came.
"Ten years ago… I was in Seoul."
Mira's heart began pounding.
Then another message appeared.
"Were you?"
The room suddenly felt very quiet.
Because Mira remembered something.
Something she had completely forgotten.
Ten years ago…
When she was younger…
She had taken a trip with her family.
To South Korea.