Author's Notes: I came up with idea while trying to sleep on my bus into university, so don't expect it to be a masterpiece ;)
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What Might Have Been
Hear
Her parent's laughter as her father swings her mother onto his lap. The happiness in their voices as they talk to each other, joked with each other and to her, their one and only daughter. They were a family, a happy family who smiled and laughed and loved. Together.
Feel
The sun on her shoulders as she stands with her friends, who are yet again exploiting her gullibility and her innocence. This is how high school is supposed to be – surrounded by a group of friends. They would do anything for her, as she would for them (well, except for maybe Dick).
Taste
Logan's lips on her own as she kisses her boyfriend (vanilla with a slight hint of mint). Each kiss always tastes differently to the last. Their love is epic, a cliché love story of two best friends falling in love in high school, to go through college together, and then marriage, and then a family... (or that's how she pictures it, anyway).
See
Wallace Fennell's almost unreadable face as she hands back his gown. The revealing look in his eyes – so cold, angry, but most of all lonely. Wallace as he blends back into the crowd, as if he was purposely trying to disappear. She had never met someone who was so alone.
Smell
The scent of Lily's gorgeous blonde hair as she hugs her, enjoying the combination of strawberries and citrus that is so uniquely Lily. The hint of booze, sex and experience that was flowing from her body. If high school was a blast, joining her BFF at college was going to be an explosion.
Even as she wakes and the details of the dream start to slip from her grasp, these five senses remain. Over time as she suffers through life's many twists and turns, the memory stays inside her mind as a vivid reminder of what might have been.