26. daydream believer
Title: Make Believe Reality
Word Count: 265
Rating: G
No one liked to dream more than Inoue Orihime. She could spend hours off in her own world. The worlds and dreams she made up didn't always make sense, but neither did the world everyone lived in. Better to admit the world didn't make sense than to try justifying the irregularities.
Just because. That was the way the world worked, and the way she set up her own fantasies. Just because. That's the way things are.
In her daydreams, there were princes, and dragons, and all the things most make-believe stories had. People thought she'd watched to many cartoons as a child.
The truth was that most of her daydreams were more like the twists in real life than in the books. It didn't make sense the way life didn't.
There was a beloved princess, but she married the quiet archer that sewed her wedding dress.
There was a giant with monstrous strength, but he was the gentlest of them all.
There was a cold noble; but he loved the stars most of all.
And there was a prince, but he never loved the princess. Instead, he fell for the star and went up in the heavens just for her.
And the star fell with him back to earth.
And Orihime knew the only thing her daydreams really had in common with the stories was that they still had more or less happy endings. But they all made their own, dreams and happy endings, so making sense wasn't first priority to any of them.
But also just like life, that's just the way things are.