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Chapter 13: Close doesn't cut it
"It's time for watch, Elen" Lizzy said with a yawn as she threw a pillow in my general direction. I was smarter the second time and wore my flannels and sweatshirt. I grabbed my journal and we made our way to the observation deck. I recorded my dreams as usual, but something was bothering me. I know it had something to do with my most recent dream, but I don't know what was throwing me off.
After I had finished recording Lizzy asked to read it again, and I obliged. While listening to her reactions and keeping my eye out for the off chance that I might see a whale through the dense fog that surrounded the ship, I slid my hand into my sweatshirt pocket and found that fortune cookie fortune. I took it out and read it to myself a few times and then it hit me. She had made the Impossible Choice. The fortune said," The Impossible Choice must soon be chosen."
I looked over at Lizzy and the first thought that popped into my head was, they look so similar. They even have the same name. Snap out of it! She doesn't exist! My subconscious could have easily added that bit about her making the Impossible Choice. It was bugging me. I began to rant to myself. Lizzy's an orphan. She lost everything and everyone, which probably included her parents. Okay. When you get to three coincidences, they stop being coincidences. They must be linked somehow. Could my dreams be…? No. Not possible. Things like that don't happen in real life. And even if they were, the dreams would have been given to her. But, then again who wants to know what happens in their own story ahead of time. Why me then? Am I supposed to be the catalyst? How did it all start? I never saw that part.
I dwelled on those ideas for hours, debating what was real and what was fabricated. The alarm went off and we both jumped as we were torn from our own worlds. We traversed our way back to our room, not even stopping at the cafeteria. We both crawled back to bed.
"Elen?" Lizzy asked
"Hmm…"
"Do you think I'm the girl from your dreams?" Lizzy continued. So, that's what was bothering her.
"I don't know. Go to bed Lizzy."
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