The First Hour

by Bleeding-dreams

Lucia was happily trapped in the world of Harry Potter. She could careless about how she got there or how she would get home. No, the only thing she was focused on was to live the life she had dreamed about. This was her moment to finally be selfish. Lucia was given the chance to start anew, so could you really blame her for taking this opportunity to leave it all behind.

1. Prologue

Prologue:

The Beginning And The End

It was that stupid mirror's fault. All of it. Teasing everyone with a promise to show the "deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."

And it did.

We were given the greatest gift— the ultimate dream. Who else could say that they were given the opportunity to step into a world where they felt like they were made to live in? We had fit in so perfectly. Weaseled our way into everyone's hearts and created a space just for us that no one could rip away. We had found our peace. We had made a family. We had lived our dream. But in the back of our minds, as much as we wanted to bury it in there, we knew this wasn't our home.

And, you know, maybe that was the problem. From the very start, this whole world we had desperately wanted to escape to was nothing more than a desired dream. Our heart was so caught up in the chance to live out someone else's story, that we became okay with forgetting our own. Could you blame us though? In this reality we were strong, powerful, confident. We were so happy and carefree, more so than the place we had held from. It wasn't our home, but it was the home we'd always wanted. Yet, even our hearts knew that was a lie.

We had a home. We had a life. We had a family. It was just all too easy to get wrapped up in a dream. It was so easy in fact, that I denounced all my responsibilities in one reality as soon as I realized who the new one belonged to. This wasn't my world. These weren't my struggles. They weren't my losses. I just wanted them to be. We both wanted them to be. Except it really, really shouldn't have been. We were the parasites invading their home, instead of being the heros who should have been taking care of our own.

So here we were, lying in our beds trying to make sense of all the time we thought we had lost. We had spent years in that desired world, but in reality, it had only been a few hours in our own. Night to day, that was all the time we were given to create new friendships, romances, and family. I thought we would have stayed there forever. I thought I could finally live out my dream in its entirety, but we were only granted some years. And just like the novel we had fallen into, it ended with the last word of the last chapter in the last book of its series.

However, we never got to have our epilogue.