Books had always been friends to him.
She's not doing so well, you should see her McGee. … McGee?
Companions that helped him take his mind off of his troubles.
The doctors say the next couple hours are crucial. You should get in there and say something to her.
He could sit down and lose himself within the words on the page in front of him and block out everything that was going wrong in his life.
Timothy? You need to talk to her. You'll regret it if you don't.
He often went so deep into the words that reality became nonexistent.
McGee… Tim. Tim, she's gone.
Because sometimes reality is not worth paying attention to.
I was looking through my documents and stumbled upon this. I wrote most of this several months ago when I realized I was burying myself in a book trying to ignore the outside world. (My work was going through layoffs at the time, so I was a little bit reluctant to face reality... My job ended up being safe, which is probably why I didn't come back to this.)