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I lost the future I craved. The boy I think I might love.
Love.
Ha.
What do I know about a word as fickle and fantastical as love.
All I know is heartbreak and loss and loneliness. They’re my old friends. The place where I belong.
At least, that’s what it feels like.
* * *
Iwake with a start, that same strange feeling seeping over me. The crawling, lingering sensation of being watched.
My eyes scan the darkness, and something catches my attention. The click of a door.
My door.
But no, I must be dreaming because when the fear clogging my throat dissipates and I blink, trying to clear my weary eyes, there’s nothing there.
Silly girl. You’re dreaming.
I can’t shake the hazy sensation of something being here though. The heavy weight of a stare as I abruptly wake from a dreamless sleep.
But it’s my imagination.
It must be.
Unless…
No.
He wouldn’t.
Would he?
I’ve heard the stories of Theo sneaking into Raine’s dorm room. Whispers of the boys holding the master key to the building.
But it makes no sense.
Elliot wouldn’t do that.
Not for me.
It was nothing more than a dream.
That’s all.
No matter how much I wish it was real.
* * *
Ethan is waiting for me when I walk into class the next day. His smile does little to ease my mood though.
“Hey, I thought you weren’t coming.” He shuffles over to give me room to lower into my seat.
“I slept through my alarm.”
