the nymph ☼ sean diaz ✓

- nineteen .

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Sean was going to spend all day in his dream. Honey was working on a story she was writing and had suggested Sean dream again.

He was honestly afraid he'd sleep for a week again and leave Honey, but Honey insisted he spend time with the "dream peeps" as she called it.

He needed to talk to his dad, and everyone in general. It had been a while since he dreamt properly, as he was keeping himself from sleeping too long for a while.

He yawns. He forgot how much it drained him to dream and just be awake all the time.

Sean wakes up in his living room in Seattle, so far away from where he was now.

He yawns again.

Daniel sat in front of the tv, the mic on his head as he played minecraft. With Noah presumably.

Sean pats Daniel's head, Daniel responding with a sigh. He makes his way to the door that leads to the garage downstairs.

"Sean is that you?" His dad asks, hearing someone enter the room.

"Yeah." Sean leans against the wall and looks at the car that was going to be his for his graduation. Sean wished dad was finished, then maybe he'd have something to remember him by.

His dad gets out from under the car, his hands covered in black oil. "What's up, mijo?"

"Nothing. I just wanted to see if you needed help." Sean smiles nervously. He wasn't the biggest fan of cars and such, like his dad was.

His dad eyes Sean suspiciously, wiping his hands with a wet wipe. "Is everything alright?"

Sean nods. "Like I said, want to help."

"I was waiting for the day you'd come join me." His dad says, in a light tone. "Didn't know it'd be so early."

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Sean grabs another pizza slice, the taste foreign to him.

"Slow down Sean, that's your third pizza slice." His dad suggests, watching as Sean devoured his slice like it was the first time he ate it.

"Yeah Sean!" Daniel chimes in. "You're hogging the whole pizza."

"You're hogging the whole pizza!" Sean mocks Daniel in a pitch higher than Daniel's. Daniel sticks out his tongue at Sean.

He feels his phone vibrate in his back pocket, he gets off the couch and grabs another slice before making his way to his room.

Lyla: skype me. asap.

Sean plugs in his laptop, balancing his slice in his free hand. He flips open his laptop and smiles when it turns on.

It's been too long since he's been around electricity. He loved everything about this dream.

"Oh, hey, wait a sec-" Lyla grabs her wireless earphones and adjusts it. "Hi Sean!"

"Hey Lyla!" Sean says, eating his pizza.

"Are you Sean 1 or 2?" Lyla squints through the screen to Sean, she glances to the outside window.