Past the Veil of Reality

Maya Ryan never imagined loosing someone she loved. When she looses her brother, Beau, in a fatal drunk driving accident, she is struggling to cope. Her struggle is paused when Beau appears to her in a dream trying to tell her that he's stuck in an alternate reality. She thinks she's going crazy at first, but something feels true. Is there actually such thing as alternate realities? Is Beau actually alive somewhere out there?

((So this story was actually originally written to be a short story for my creative writing class, but I liked the idea so much that I actually want to continue it! Because of this fact, I'm just putting an fyi here. The first chapter might feel rushed, but that's because I'm literally posting my short story as the first chapter. I don't wanna spend time re-writing it to be tailored into individual chapters so I'm just gonna post what I have so far as one whole chapter. So yeah, I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it doesn't feel wonky and rushed.))