I spy with my little eye (Sequel to 'Invisible')

Chapter 15: Imaginary friends

Luke's POV

"So where would we meet exactly?" I asked Rachel as we were walking through the hallways. It was lunchtime now, everyone was heading to the cafeteria, except for us and Tina.

Rachel looked at her phone. "The garden, in 5 minutes."

We hurried a bit, we knew Tina might not wait around. She was very shy, at least that's what we thought.

When we arrived, we looked around. "And you're sure she's coming?"

Rachel nodded. "100%, we had a good talk."

I looked at Rachel. "What do you mean?"

She looked everywhere, looking for a sign of Tina.

"Rach?"

She looked at me. "We talked about Blair, about how wonderful she was. And about Willow, but Tina wanted to tell me that in person."

I nodded. "Ok."

After 5 more minutes, I started losing hope. 

"What if she's not coming?"

"She'd call me." Rachel looked at her phone, checking it for the billionth time since we've been here.

"Are you sure about that?"

Rachel glared at me, she clearly didn't like me questioning her.

Suddenly we heard a door. We looked at the direction of the noise and saw Tina run to us. When she was with us, she bent down, holding on to her stomach. "Sorry," She breathed in and out a couple of times. "Was held up in class."

"It's ok," Rachel looked at me, sticking out her tongue, before looking back at Tina. "We're happy you came. It means a lot to us." She smiled reassuringly at Tina.

Tina returned that smile.

"Let's sit down, shall we?" I suggested and went to sit down at a nearby table.

When we all were seated, Rachel and I looked at Tina. "So," Rachel started. "Can you tell us more about you and Blair?"

"Like what?"

Rachel shrugged. "Anything, how did you two meet for example?"

Tina nodded. "We met here, actually."

"In this garden?"

Tina nodded. "She was waiting for Willow here, and I passed by. I like having lunch here, it's quiet here."

Rachel nodded. "It's good here, no annoying teens."

Tina chuckled. "Correct."

"And then what?"

"Blair and I talked, for a long time actually. We had the same opinion about quite a lot of things." She smiled a little. "She was my first real friend."

Rachel smiled a little too. "So you two saw each other a lot?" Rachel asked, which was a good question.

Tina slowly nodded. "As much as we could, mainly during lunch breaks though."

"And what did you two talk about?" I asked, I wonder if she knew more about Willow.

Tina looked down, this seemed to be harder to answer for her.

"You can tell us," Rachel reassured her. "We won't judge you."

Tina looked back up, mainly looking at Rachel. "We talked about Willow and Dennis."

"Who's Dennis?" I was so confused. I looked at Rachel, seeing her also confused. Blair never mentioned a Dennis.

Tina sighed.

Rachel reached for Tina's hand. "Did you ever see Willow?" She changed the subject, probably for the best now.

Tina gave us a weird look. "You're kidding, right?"

Rachel and I looked at each other before looking at Tina. "No, why?"

Tina looked away for a bit.

"Tina?"

She then looked back at us. "Willow and Dennis aren't real," she said, to which our eyes widened. "They were our imaginary friends."

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I let myself fall backwards on my bed, letting out a deep breath in the process. "Imaginary friends it is."

Rachel paced around my room. "I don't understand."

I sat up a bit. "I think Blair just created a friend because she wanted someone to understand her."

"But she had me," Rachel looked down, she seemed visibly upset. I think she really hoped for something else. "Was I not enough then?"

I looked down. "I don't know, Rach."

She sighed. "So what now?"

I looked back up at her. "I don't know," I stood back up. "I guess it's over."

"I guess so," Rachel sighed. "So Blair was unhappy, did what she did and Willow died with her?" She then looked at me. "That sounds so... Unsatisfying."

I nodded slowly. "I know," I let out a breath. "But what else can we do?"

Rachel nodded.

"Luke!"

I looked at my door, my parents were probably gonna head off... "Coming!" I looked at Rachel. "Are you going to stay?"

She shook her head. "I should get home, my parents haven't seen me that much lately." She showed me a small smile.

I returned that smile and nodded. "Ok," I walked to the door of my bedroom and opened it. I let her get out first before following her downstairs. "I'll see you tomorrow morning?"

Rachel nodded. She then looked at my parents. "Good luck."

They both smiled at her. "You too." Dad smiled at Rachel, they seemed to have bounded over this whole situation. Which may be good later on.

Rachel then left, going back to her house.

I looked at my parents. "You're leaving?"

They nodded. "Our cab's waiting." Mom informed me to which dad picked up the suitcases. "Will you be alright, son?"

I nodded, I didn't want them to worry anyway. "Of course, and I'll call whenever there's something."

"You do that." Mom kissed my head. "Goodnight, honey." She then left as well. Dad followed behind her.

The door closed, I sighed and now realized I was all alone. In this big house. What am I even going to do right now?

And so after thinking about it for a bit, I decided to get in front of the tv and watch a movie. It was ok, having a whole bowl of popcorn all to myself. Yet, it felt lonely.

My eyes landed on a picture of Blair. I showed her a small smile. "I wish you were here, I miss you."

"Oh really?"

I turned around, seeing a girl stand behind me. I stood up, surprised to say the least. How did this girl get in my house? "W-who are you?"

The girl walked closer to the couch, she placed her hands on the couch and leaned a bit forward. She had an air of confidence around her, it's kind of intimidating... "Blair used to call me Willow."