"Please, don't do this."
"I have to. You don't belong here."
"Maybe I want to, did you think of that?"
"...it doesn't matter. It wouldn't work anyways... You're not real."
"But I am, I'm standing right here!"
"Only for right now... It's just a dream. Right? I can't even tell anymore."
"It's not a dream. I swear, I'm standing right in front of you. Don't make me leave. Please."
"Please don't beg me. It makes me feel guilty."
"Then I'll beg until you change your mind. I won't leave."
"You don't have a choice."
"So you're taking my free will as well as my heart?"
"No, I'm not. And who said anything about your heart? It's still right there, in your chest. I haven't taken anything from you."
"Give me your hand. Feel how strongly it beats?"
"...yes."
"It beats for you. If you're gone, then I don't know what I'll do. Don't send me away. I want to stay."
"...you're making this harder than it needs to be."
"So are you, and doubly so. I want to be with you, to hold you, to experience all of your laughs and expressions right next to you."
"...I don't deserve you..."
"Yes, you do. You deserve the world and more. Let me stay with you, and you can be mine. Be my world, and I'll be yours."
"You already are... But that doesn't change what needs to happen. Just... Hold me, one last time."
"...I can't change your mind... Can I?"
"I'm sorry."
"No, I am. If I had just been born in this world instead–"
"–no, if you had been born here, you wouldn't be you. You're fine the way you are."
"Don't make this more difficult."
"I'm not, you are."
"You're so stubborn..."
"I know, I'm sorry..."
"...kiss me, please?"
"...I love you."
Within a blink of an eye, they were gone. Vanished without a trace... Leaving behind only a slew of fleetingly joyful memories, a few brief but meaningful embraces, and a sobbing individual, standing alone in the dark silence of the night, that same person wished they weren't so foolish as to fall for someone they couldn't have.
Love is cruel at times, is it not?
