Reality

Aleksandra

I told myself, I'm doing this for her. She'll thank me later.

But then I see her halt, staring into the vacant blue sea now turned dark crimson like the sky above. Her chest heaves, filling her lungs with air, and I know that once again, her eyes sees nothing but him. A mirage of his soul probably somewhere along the path to the ocean, inviting her in.

"Mo."

But she doesn't hear our voices. She was not of our world anymore. She had travelled too far, to a land of her imagination. When George lifts her up and spins her around, her eyes refuses to unsee what it had seen so, she twists and turns her head back.

And when he finally sets her down, her head whips back to that empty space by the sand as her eyes searches the darkness. She stares a moment longer until she finally lowers her head back down, only now realising that he was just another mirage from her imagination.

And she has once again lost him in this reality.