Only In Dreams: A Short Story

The boy sat down, exhausted, he decided to rest his eyes...

He opened his eyes, to see his girl staring at him, smiling, she was amazingly beautiful, like an angel sent down from heaven JUST for him. He loved her, everything about her, the way her dark hair hung down over her right eye, the way her beautiful green eyes glowed, almost mirroring a beautiful sunset over the horizon. Her voice...it was almost like nothing he's ever heard before, much like what spring would sound like when it breaks through the cold, unforgiving trap that is called Winter. She brushes her hair to the side and looks at him, she smiles. "Sorry, didn't mean to wake you!" she says. He smiled too, as soon as he heard her beautiful voice, "it's okay, i don't mind, as long as the first thing i see when i open my eyes is you, i will never be angry when you wake me" he said. She looks at him with her soft eyes, gleaming in the sunlight, and says "you are definitely the most amazing guy in the world!" and kisses him. Her lips felt like what clouds would feel like, if they were objects. He stares into her perfect eyes as she sits next to him. She was shorter than him, body type not perfect to society, but perfect to him, he made sure to tell her that everyday. "You know, you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." he reminds her. "oh stop! you know that's not true!" she exclaims. "No, you are, i don't care what those other guys say, or what the media says, the perfect girl is not what they show on TV, the perfect girl is not skin and bones, to me, the perfect girl is and will always be...you" he says. She begins to happily tear up, "do you really mean that?" she asked. "Of course i mean that, i mean every word that comes out of my mouth when speaking to you, never would i tell a lie to someone i care about so much" he answered. She responds "you are the perfect guy, you know that?" and once again kisses him. They both look at each other, it was easy to tell that neither of them wanted to be anywhere else at this very moment, they wanted to be here with each other, because right here, right now, in both of their eyes, is true love, true happiness, things that they both believed could never exist, but here it is, they found it. "I love you" they both say in unison, and both hold each other, and fall asleep.

The boy opens his eyes...he is alone..."what just happened?" he says, as he looks around his house, confused. "That...was that real?" The boy realized..it was all a dream. "ah..." he sighs, and goes back to sleep.

Written by: Richard Lee Finogle Jr.