A Melody That Was Shining With Fake Dreams

Part 11 "Where are you?"

Just like this a whole month passed by and Daniel never showed up. Amelia even searched the whole school for Daniel and asked students if they knew where is Daniel. Most of them gave the same answer. 

"Who is Daniel?" "I don't think there is someone named Daniel" "I don't know"

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15th January,

A hopeless Amelia still waited for Daniel. 

But since it's been a month Amelia couldn't stop thinking and questioning about whether Daniel was ever real. It was already a new year, she couldn't even tell him "Happy new year".

Amelia went to the tree again. She sat down and hugged her knees as tears were flowing down her cheeks.

Internally, her heart wept, crying out for the boy—for her  Daniel that she cherished so much. The fear of losing Daniel sometimes haunted her but she couldn't lose him no matter what. 

He broke the promise. 

He promised her to be together for the rest of their lives. And now Amelia has to believe that he was not even real.  

How ridiculous.

Her heart felt like it was going to slip out of her throat with how hard she was sobbing, yet to her, she could no longer hear a sound. The silence inside her head was deafening.

"Are you okay?" Amelia felt someone tapping her shoulder. Finally, someone broke the silence inside her head.

"Go away Eva," Amelia again hugged her knees.

"Why are you crying...? Is it because of Daniel?"

"Eva...Did you never see Daniel?"

"No...I thought you were pranking us at first, but later I noticed that something was wrong, remember when I went to your house to do our project? That day I told your Mom about it,"

"You were the one who told her?!" Amelia raise her voice at her.

"Y-yeah,"

"You know for you I had to go through so many things!"

"He is not real anyways Amelia! Just for your hallucination I was losing you! Tell me how many times did we talk after you started dating him?!"

Amelia stayed quiet. Eva had a point.

"You have finally come back to your senses. I'm glad,"
"Glad for what? Seeing me in pain?"

"Why are you getting me wrong Amelia?"

"If only you never told Mom, then I wouldn't have to go to the psychologist and maybe I could still see him and be happy with him..."

Amelia added,

"You know what? Today when I tried to call Daniel, I noticed that the number was totally wrong. How did I talk to him all these days?" 

Amelia teared up again.

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From then, Amelia was more dependent on Eva. Things with her mom started to get better. But her situation got worse day by day. She couldn't stop thinking about Daniel. She was always reminded of how happy she was with him whenever she saw a couple. 

Daniel. 

It's been the only thing she has in her mind. 

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9th March,

It was her birthday that day. She never got wished for by Daniel. Just 3 months of their relationship made her like this. She never thought it'd be like this. If at least, Daniel was a real person, it would've been better. 

"Has it been always so lonely without Daniel? Why was I the happiest only with Daniel who was my hallucination? Why did I start seeing him? Why did I know he was not real? Only if I wouldn't know, I would've been happy, till now. No matter if I acted crazy." Amelia thought as she was sitting on the edge of the rooftop thinking of Daniel.

She closed her eyes feeling the cool wind. She heard Daniel's sweet voice inside her head.

Was it inside her head? Or was someone calling her?

She didn't care. She didn't open her eyes. She missed Daniel so much that she was thinking of only him and she did not want to disturb it by opening her eyes.

However, someone was really calling her.

It was a boy.

The boy who was calling her sat beside her.

"Hey, what ya thinking about?" The boy said in a playful, yet familiar tone.

That voice...sounded like Daniel's.

Amelia thought she was going crazy again, she laughed it off.

"Leave, or mind your own business," she said finally opening her eyes but looking in front of her. Not caring about who sat beside her.

"You're rude," 

Hearing the voice once again, Amelia had to look beside her. The voice definitely belonged to Daniel. She wondered for a moment if he was back.

She looked at her side.

It was Daniel.

"D-daniel?" she stuttered.

"Goodbye!" He slyly winked and waved at her. Then he pushed her, not letting her say or do anything.

She fell. 

The blood from her head was spreading on the grass very quickly. She fell near the tree. Where she and Daniel would pass those wonderful moments. A tear escaped her eyes as she closed her eyes. 

She could hear several screams and noises. But she didn't have the strength to even look.

And the boy was sitting there, looking at her.

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This might be the biggest plot twist the readers could even imagine-

I'm sorry for killing her in this story-

This was my first time writing a story also in "English". I don't know a lot about schizophrenia but I tried my best to make this a good story. If you made it this far or liked it even a bit, my heartiest thanks to you~ <3

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