My Not-So-Imaginary Friend d.g (Prequel To Lifestyle)

Chapter 1

"You here alone?" A guy sits next to me on the bench. I just nod. "It's nice out isn't it?" I feel two sharp pains in my forearm. I rub my arm and quickly forget about it. He looks up at the sky with the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Wow. I admire his structure as he focuses on the clear skies. "So do you normally sit here?"

"Yea. It's peaceful, you know. Just my place to get away from the drama in life." I slide my fingers across the element-washed wood.

"It is peaceful." He closes his eyes with a slight smile. I close my eyes as well and feel the slight breeze blow across my face. "Let's go." He takes my hand and leads me into the woods.

"Where are we going?" I ask but he doesn't reply. I don't know what it was but something just kept me going.

"Ready?" He moves away some vines revealing a beautiful small pond. The lily pads are naturally curled with frogs hopping across them.

"Wow, this place is beautiful. Had this always been here?" He seemed to not hear me because he just continued to walk to the other side of the pond. I squat down right next to him.

"Feel the water." He sticks his hand in and so do I.

"It feels...strange."

"Magical." We say at the same time then I laugh.

"Maybe it's just from the fish and frog poop." I shake my hand to get the water off even though my hand was dry. I stand up and something catches my eye making me forget the weird fact. "Hey, look at th...." I trail off because he's no longer on the side of the pond but inside.

"Come in, the water feels amazing." He dives under then comes back up.

"Are you sure that's safe, what if there's leaches in there?"

"It's fine." He laughs. I shrug and strip down to my underwear and bra then cannonball in. "See, it's fine." I look down and the water is so clear I can see to the very bottom where pebbles cover the base. "Let's try to touch the bottom. 1,2,3." I sigh but hold my breathe and swim as far down as I can. The deeper I went, the closer to the pebbles I got, the more I wondered when I was going to run out of breathe. But I reached the bottom. I even had enough breathe to grab one of the pebbles and swim back up. That was weird.

I look around and don't see the guy anymore. Even though the water is clear he disappeared somehow. I swim to the edge and climb out.

"Where you going?" I turn back around and there he was trending in the middle. I giggle.

"Oh I thought you left so I just climbed out."

"Come back in, I found a tunnel. Let's go through."

"How long is it? Because I don't want to drown." I laugh. He ignores me once again and swims down. I hurry to follow him so I won't get lost. He turns back and smiles at me before going through the tunnel he mentioned. I see the light at the end but as soon as I got near it, the light blacked up as if I blinked.

I open my eyes to find myself in my bed. Oh, it was just a dream. Of course, it was a dream. That was a weird dream. I've never seen that dude in my life and I'm pretty sure you can only dream about things you've seen before. Anyways, a dream is a dream, I have more important things to worry about. Like Ms.Enchelmier's project that's due tomorrow. I swear that lady has a "quarter project" every week.

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"Hey dad, I'm ready." I tell him but he doesn't reply. "Dad?" I walk in the living room and see a note on the table.

Good morning Condy, sorry but I can't drop you off this morning I had an emergency meeting so you have to catch the bus. Have a good day, love you.