The Real World isn't Kind

I told my best friend once:

"There's this girl... in my dreams. She's real. I I know it."

He laughed like I was joking.

I stopped telling people.

She was my secret - not because I wanted her to be, but because no one else could understand.

Aira was facing the same.

Her mother thought she had an overactive imagination.

Her friends said "That's kinda cute" and moved on.

But he was real. She could feel it.

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