random drabbles and short stories

imaginary friend

"I'm here!... Okay, what's wrong with you?" 

My energy dissipated, as I stared at my best friend. 

He looked awful, with a red nose, and dark circles under his eyes.

 He looked sad. 

I "sat" beside him, and held his hand. 

"C'mon, tell me," I urged. 

Finally, Luke looked up at me. His eyes were bloodshot and teary, something I hardly ever wanted to see. 

"Chelsea?", he slowly said.

 And I started to panic. He never calls me by my name. 

I tried to laugh, but all that came out was a shaky pant.

 "Hey, what happened to calling me Chels?" 

lucas shook his head and glared at the floor. "Chelsea, you have to disappear." 

I froze. 

Icy water flooded through my veins, and my "flesh" turned to stone. 

My mouth opened, but no words came out. 

"Chelsea? Look I-," 

"You what?" 

He may have looked a bit tearful, but trust me, there's no way his feelings were hurt more than mine. Lucas started to stutter out a few apologies, but I was having none of it. 

"I can't believe you! After all my help, after all my comforting, you want me to l-leave?!" 

"Chels-"

 Whatever self-control I had left vanished, and I snapped.

 "Now you call me Chels, huh?" "I'm s-sorry, it's just that I don't really... need you anymore. You're just an imaginary friend, and I can't keep having you in my life!" 

Slowly and unexpectedly, I started to smile, and it just grew and grew, until disgusted chuckles forced out of my throat. 

"I may be imaginary, but I used all my time, to help you! Who comforted you when your mother died? I did. Who loved you when no one did? I did. Heck, I even became your temporary girlfriend, just to teach you how love is like." 

My angered shouts lowered to painful whispers.

 "But I guess you never learnt, huh?" 

Lucas started to cry. 

"Oh please! Why the hell are you crying?"

 "I don't want to lose you. I'm being forced to. I'm a teenager now, and I need to let you go."

Lucas doesn't need me anymore.

I'm just an imaginary friend.

He needs to let me go.

"Okay. I'll go."

"Chels, I-"

I started to flicker, and my body slowly started to disappear. "Chelsea, I-" As I disappeared, I exclaimed, "Shut up, Lucas."

My knees buckled and I fell to the floor. "I love you, Chelsea."

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Cringy, but I don't even care anymore.