"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."—Zhuang Zi
Short chapter this update. I want to thank all the readers and supporters; you guys really seem to be enjoying the story, and it just makes my day to get emails with like FF+Story Alert or FF+Favorite Alert or FF Review Alert! I wake up to those and it feels like I've done good work, lmao! I'm so glad you guys find this piece 'original'; crack fics are something on the spurt of the moment!
Anyways, enough about me. My plants are doing fine and I still have two quarters in my sweater pocket.
Enjoy.
"Leaf, can I ask you something?" Red asked, his breath tickling her left ear.
Leaf closed her eyes. No, she didn't want this moment to end. Not like this when she was comfortable in his lap, his arms around and protecting her. Not like this when she had woken up in a cold sweat from an eerily dreamless night and he was comforting her. Not like this when they were about to see the rising sun.
She opened her eyes, to a glowing pink at the horizon. "Okay," she agreed.
"In your dreams…" he started. "Who…who's 'we'?"
Leaf's warmth turned into a rock hard shudder. A chill suddenly separated her from his embrace.
"A friend," she said. Then after a while: "A very good friend."
Red said nothing but she felt him hold his breath.
"The same guy right?" Red said, after a long time. "The one…you told me about…six years ago?"
Leaf didn't answer. She knew that Red knew.
She didn't think she could admit it to herself yet.
His lips grazed her jawline and she watched the sun unfold. All she could think about was how much as wanted the days to just pass. And as much as she wanted time to go, she also wanted some moments, she realized, to last forever.
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She decided not to tell him anymore about her dreams. She decided that those were things better kept to herself. She decided he would be more and more hurt if she continued to do so.
She also didn't tell Red that she was starting to think that he was right. She had gotten a pit deep feeling that Red was right from the start, that she should have just left her dreams alone and that she should have just forgotten about it all.
Leaf flipped through her empty camera.
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