This Doesn't Happen in Real Life

Chapter 16: Nightmares & Davids (err... Daydreams)

A/N: I FINALLY GOT WIFI TO UPDATE. WOOHOO. Ok so I'm going to be back in the states in 4 days! I've had a brilliant time and you can expect me to get back to posting regularly! Promise!  

Enjoy this chapter! I have 4 different ones all ready to post! Woo. 

Oh and the dedication is because this awesome girly has been reading TDHIRL and encouraging me since I started writing it! I really appreciate it!

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I looked around the familiar convention hall of comic con... Everything was just like when I was there.... I looked down at my phone... It was the same time and date too... "What is going on???" I thought to myself in a confused manner.... It was that first day at comic con that had basically changed my whole life.... So now I was anticipating everything. Yep, there was that guy that dressed up convincingly as Darth Maul passing by hand in hand with a Cyber(wo)man.... A weirdish sight. There was the group of friends dressed up as the Knights of Camelot talking to Aang the Avatar... I looked around and loved the sights. Everything seemed rosy. I looked down at my hand and noticed my ring, the one ring that changed everything..... (Lord of the Rings pun intended). It was still on. Vince and his friends hadn't come yet... But if I remembered right it should be any moment. My feet were taking me exactly where I'd already been as I thought this. And then I saw the trio of meanness pass.... And by pass I mean they walked right by me. I almost said "WAIT!!!" What were they doing??? That bad thing that happened to me is what let me meet Colin. I wanted it to happen, I needed it to happen!!! Why were they walking away?! They needed to stop. I needed their bullying, why couldn't they bully me the one time it'd actually prove useful? But I just stood there dumbstruck as the passed. Not a word to me. Nothing to make a ginger haired (wigged) savior help me. Nothing to make my friend notice one more fangirl in a whole sea of them. Then I saw him walk past. He bumped into my shoulder "Sorry!" He said in an American accent and he walked on again. I felt like crying. I felt like calling out to Colin and making him stop. This wasn't about becoming an actress like I'd always dreamed of, this was about meeting a really truly amazing friend. But the moment had passed unaware. My friend who would now never know me was already lost in the crowd of fangirls, middle aged weirdos, and cosplayers. I found a corner and cried. I had lost a friend even though I guess I'd never gained one to begin with. Yet my heart hurt all the same while he was none the wiser. Then I heard those words in the back of my head that Colin had told me not that long ago it seemed, "...But if you're right and one of these days you wake up and I was a dream.... Find me somewhere in your real world.... Because you're like the little sister I never had and I don't want any reality of me to have to live without you Callia.... Sometimes destiny can be cruel but it was kind when it let me meet you..." 

I had to find him... But what could I say "in an alternate reality we're friends and you told me if I woke up in a different one and you didn't know me that I had to find you....blah blah blah." Basically I'd be instantly admitted to an insane asylum by Colin himself. So I stayed there in my corner mourning what I'd just not witnessed until....

I woke up frantically in a bit of a cold sweat. Sometimes nightmares aren't hellhounds chasing you or dying in some gruesome way. Sometimes the nightmares that get you are watching things that were wonderful never happen or seeing someone you know but they don't know you. And those can sometimes be the worst of all. 

My iPod had been playing on shuffle though my iHome speakers when I went to sleep and now I actually heard what song it was: A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep

"Not when it's a nightmare you freaking princess!" I said irritably and shut off the speakers. My phone rang and I picked it up, I wasn't feeling great, emotionally or even physically for that matter (sometimes in the morning my stomach decided to be upset for no reason).