Love with a hint of apocalypse

Date: 3/13/2019

I was standing in a line at a shopping mall, somewhere at its center. The line was for a small stall that dealt with fixing keys, locks and such. The line was maybe around five people with me included and there were two workers behind the counter. One was an especially attractive man with dark hair and quite tall. I didn't recognize him, it wasn't someone I know in real life.  The man was currently serving a customer and I was observing him, or more like ogling. He was exactly my type and I couldn't help it. The woman he was serving was young and blond and with the most obnoxious personality. She was complaining about something while he remained calmed and collected. It was rather admirable. Nothing seemed to phase him and he was trying to be very understanding. The woman wasn't really paying attention to her surroundings and just kept on talking and gesticulating violently.  At one point, out eyes met and I sent him a small smile, trying to look understanding. It must have been hard for him to listen to that woman. He returned the smile and had to eventually turn back to her. I was hoping that she would leave by the time I moved in the line and it was my turn so that I could go to him. However, that wasn't the case.  I moved down the line and approached the counter. His colleague was nice and polite. I took out a key broken in half, there was some kind of decoration attached to it, equally broken. I explained to him what was wrong, if that wasn't obvious, told him how it happened and how it was supposed to look like in one piece. I then handed it to him. He took it instantly behind the counter so I couldn't really see what he was doing. I kind of spaced out for a second but the clerk saying "Four." got my attention. I turned back to him and sheepishly asked what. It was pretty embarrassing.  The clerk repeated the number, saying it was the sum of euros I had to pay for the repair. I was looking at him in surprise as he was already handing me the key, now fixed and in one piece. I started shuffling with my wallet and looking for the right amount. At first I checked my banknotes, knowing I had at least 50 euros there in one banknote but I didn't have a 5 one. I closed the wallet and turned it upside down to open a compartment with coins. It was taking me a while and so I started explaining to him that I was surprised how fast he had done it and that I had expected it to take like 2 days and that I would have to come pick it up the following day or something like that. I figured out quickly that I didn't have enough coins so I had to go back to banknotes, which took me a lot of time and my anxiety started showing. I had to give him the 50 euro banknote which he took and gave me the change.  Later in the dream I was behind the stall, talking to that attractive clerk and he was standing really close to me. It was very soft and romantic. He was telling me something in a silent voice, I don't remember what. He was pretty much towering over me with his height. He got even closer, close enough to kiss, but he only reached for my hand, it almost looked like he was putting something into my hand. I saw all this as if it was a movie, I could see myself with him from afar, unlike the part of the dream by the counter, I kind of lived through that.  He may have been going for a kiss, I wouldn't know, because suddenly my mum appeared behind us, getting closer and we jumped away from each other. I immediately told her we were doing nothing, I felt the need to explain myself. My mum was no longer there and it was already the night, the guy wasn't there as well. I was exiting the mall and getting to my car. All of a sudden, it started raining heavily, a real downpour. I hurried to my car, parked close. I was feeling more and more panicked with each second. There was an intense trepidation in me, I knew something big was coming but I wasn't sure what, I just felt the dread and imminent threat of the unknown. I got to the car at last, slightly out of breath. It wasn't rain falling anymore but huge chunks of ice, not like hails but more like rocks, foot long. Now I knew it was that ice that I was running from. Just before the first ice hit the car and everything around, the back door of the car opened and one of my distant friends got in. She was frantic, also out of breath. She too was running and trying to find the shelter before the ice hit. She asked if she could stay in the car and I of course allowed it. The ice was dangerous. It was terrifying to sit in the car, everything around was dark and the car was shaking violently and was getting hit by the ice. It was scary but eventually passed. Moving on in the dream, I have only now taken into account my surroundings. It was sunny outside after the storm, odd because it had been night before, but it was the kind of sunny where everything seems just a tad brighter and in a sharp hues of orange, just before the sun sets. The time was passing rather weirdly. The buildings around were nothing but ruins but life inside of them continued like nothing was wrong. It was as if some kind of apocalypse had happened years ago and people were back to their ordinary lived but haven't yet repaired anything. Oddly enough, everyone seemed happy, the kind of happy that doesn't really happen in real life. Everyone, even I, was content and smiling. It was warming and nice, feeling like that. I went inside this building that from outside looked like a ruin of a castle but once inside it was kind of modern, in a great condition, it made no sense but that's this dream for you. I was not alone, with me was my best friend and also my sister. Inside, I don't recall when exactly but I was faced with this glass wall, more of a display really, like the kind that is in the museums. There, in the middle, was written a name. To be more specific, there was a title, another title, Robert and a surname. All titles and names were pretty long but I only remember the name Robert. Somehow I knew it was the name of the attractive clerk I had met before at the mall. I was impressed by the titles at the time and was wondering what it meant for my and his future.  That was almost the end of the dream, last thing I remember is leaving the place and again leaving in this kind of hall that was nothing but ruins, there were stones laying around, coming from the walls and the structure, as if it had once collapsed and no one had bothered to clean it up. I was there with my best friend, talking to her about something. We were both concerned about something and discussing the issue. I don't know what it was. I was kind of just watching from afar again, but the atmosphere was tense. Then I woke up.