Escape From Reality

The End

"Do you believe that when people die, they will live up in the stars?" I asked Jacob, the both of us lying down on the grass, watching the stars twinkle in the sky, our bikes thrown haphazardly to the side. It was a question I often wondered about nowadays, and I wondered what Jacob's response would be.

"I don't know. But anything is possible right? I mean look at our dreams." Jacob answers thoughtfully, his hand reaching out to clasp mine, and I squeeze back, watching the lights in the stars.

"Yeah that's true." I chuckle, the cool breeze sweeping through the air making me shiver slightly, but I don't move. I haven't stargazed in a long time, but me and Jacob had cycled until nightfall, and when I saw the stars I couldn't resist.

Life was still difficult, but it was getting better. Even though Layla still was intent on making my life a living hell, Jacob was there, and we helped each other through the bad times. My dad also made sure to call the school about the bullying, and after some serious threats, she finally backed off on it, although not without the occasional vicious glare. But it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. Not after I nearly died in a dream, somehow Layla just seemed less scary to me. Like now she was insignificant in my life, a measly pebble in the middle of a huge grass field.

My dad was also spending more time with me, and less on work, and every Saturday we would hang out together, and go to the beach. It sort of hurt enjoying ourselves like this without her, but that's okay because I think that was the way it was meant to be. My mother was someone I would still miss, but I was not going to let my grief for her drag me down for the rest of my life. She wouldn't want that for me.

I don't know about Jacob, but he seems less in his own world now. He told me that he confronted his parents and even though he didn't share the details, he seemed almost happier about the situation, and I sincerely hoped that whatever problems he was struggling with were getting better. It seemed like the both of us were improving our realities bit by bit, one step at a time. It wasn't perfect, but it sure as heck was better than what we were initially going through.

"I think I know why the dreams brought us together." Jacob suddenly says, and I turn my head, only to be met with his beautiful green eyes, eyes that still burn bright in the back of my mind. Because it was these eyes I stared straight into before everything changed.

"Me too. We needed each other." I said, it was true, Jacob and I did need each other, not only to grow as a person, but to bring out the best in each other.

"Yeah. I'm glad the dreams did that. Even if they tried to lure you in and almost killed you." Jacob says and I laugh, and the boy beside me laughs too, and it felt as if both of us simply being together was enough for the world to be right again.

Jacob pushed himself up and took my hand. I stand up, smiling before he suddenly just runs, and I'm laughing in the moonlight, the both of us running through the park, feeling the cool breeze swept through my hair, and my sneakers pushing against the pavement.

The moment might have been brief, but yet just for a few minutes, it felt like we were flying.