Rebekah watched Craig at the kitchen table huddled over a book. Rebekah went to get something from upstairs.
Rebekah's fantasy world
Raul appeared on the carpeted stairs, Marcella was in her long flowing lavender dress and she looked up at him and wisps of hair fell into her face. "Raul," she said.
"Hello, Marcella," he replied, smiling. He turned and saw Craig sitting in the kitchen. He looked back at Marcella. "Who is he?"
"That's Craig, I can explain—" but she stopped. She couldn't. She didn't know if she was "Marcella Anne-Louise Jalessa Rain Williams" or "Rebekah Baxter", she didn't even know what time period it was.
"Rebekah, I understand," Raul said.
She looked up at him. "Rebekah?" she asked.
"You're real name," he replied, "is Rebekah Elizabeth Williams. Your mother was Marcella Anne-Louise…"
He continued and she joined him, "Jalessa Rain Williams." He nodded. She licked her lips and sat down on the steps. Raul sat next to her.
"Rebekah," Raul replied, lifting her face up to his. She looked into his hazel eyes and blinked back tears. "Your mother died when you were only nine months old."
"Then how do I know her name?" she asked.
He shrugged. "It was an instinct I guess," he replied. "You use to always feel alone so you made me up and Marcella was your name you went by. I guess, you started to believe that I was actually real."
Rebekah looked at him and studied his face as he started to fade. "What are you saying?" she asked. "You are real!"
"I'm not real!" Raul said. He pointed to Craig. "Craig, he's real. Not me."
Rebekah sobbed and Raul touched her face. "Take Craig," he said. "He's real. You'll be a million times happier with him since he can actually touch you." He put his hand on her face and he went through her. "See?"
Rebekah looked at him. "You're real, Raul," she told him.
"I'm not," he said. "You have to understand that. Do you?"
"Do I what?" She turned away.
"Do you understand that I'm not real? That Craig is?"
Rebekah looked back at him and he started to fade some more. "Craig is real," she whispered. "And you're not."
"I love you Rebekah," Raul replied.
"I love you, too," she whispered. Raul leaned in for one last kiss.
back to reality
Rebekah came back to reality so fast that she stumbled backwards and fell down the stairs. Craig jumped up from his chair and ran over to her. "Rebekah! Are you ok?" he asked.
Rebekah looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah," she said. She touched his face. He was real. She looked into the same hazel eyes that Raul had. "Craig?"
"Yeah?" he asked.
Before another word was spoken, Rebekah leaned in and kissed him. Craig didn't pull back but pulled her closer.
Rebekah pulled back and felt everything Marcella felt looking at Raul. She smiled and Craig blushed. "What was that for?" he asked.
Rebekah shrugged. "I don't know," she said. "Helping me see reality from fantasy."
"Huh?" Craig asked.
Craig and Rebekah sat on the steps and she told him everything that had happened to her with Raul and he listened to every word. Without thinking she was crazy.