The Land of Dreams by Kira Moericke

Author:Kira Moericke [Moericke, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Hey, is everything okay?” Alec asked the next day at lunch. It was breakfast for lunch, so he and I had decided to stay on campus to eat. Alec was sitting across from me, cutting up his French toast into small bite-size pieces.

“Yeah,” I lied, dipping my head so that my side-bangs covered my eyes as I double blinked. Alec was my friend, he knew my tell. When it was safe to look up, I brushed my bangs out of my eyes and poked my fork into my pancake. Actually, everything was not okay. I guess I had expected to run into Dharma/Kayla this morning in the same spot we had met up yesterday, but when I didn’t see her, I knew that I had been delusional. I needed to talk to her about the whole “Giving Up The World Of Reality To Live In The Land Of Dreams” thing, but I didn’t know where to find her.

“You don’t look okay.” I could feel Alec’s eyes on me, studying me. I didn’t like it.

I sighed as I dug up a lie. There was no way I could tell Alec the real reason I was bumming out without him thinking I was crazy and ship me off to some mental institution. So instead I said, “It’s my mom.” It wasn’t exactly a lie, she just wasn’t the one I was focused on at the moment.

“Oh.” Alec nodded knowingly. “About what she said to you the other day?”

I nodded and started to play with my cold, scrambled eggs.

“Well, like I said before, do what you want to do.” He lifted his shoulders. “If you don’t want to go, don’t go. If you want to go, go. And if you want to go, but bring someone with, I can come if you want?” He tilted his head down and looked at me through his dirty-blond lashes.

I attempted a weak smile. “Thanks.”

He returned my weak smile.

I looked down and scrambled my cold eggs around. I only wished he could help me with the whole “Land of Dreams” dilemma I was having. But I knew I couldn’t tell him.

Because I knew he wouldn’t believe me.

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