This is an excerpt from the end of a book I wrote, that isn't on this website yet, but I felt it fit the sad mood, so... Yeah. Here it is."Is... Is it over?"
I look around at the endless plain of waves, crashing around the ocean. "There's nothing else here..." I kick the pile of sand next to me, shouting "Dammit!"
Ava hangs her head in defeat. "It was all... fake. There's nothing left."
"There has to be something! We... I could swim across?! I could try, at least! We can't have gone all this way for nothing! We can't have gone through Hell to end up here!"
"Hey, it's alright. We'll just head back the way we came."
"It's not alright! There has to be something! Anything!" I yell back at her. "This is supposed to be my way home!"
"I know, but... Can't you stay here," she whispers, pain evident in her slightly shaking voice, "...with me?"
I sigh, and plop myself down on the sand. "We both know why I can't do that. A day or two more in this world and my real body will probably die from dehydration. I wish I could though." Ava looks down at the ground.
"But... I don't want to be just a figment of your imagination. I can't accept it..."
"That's the other problem. There's no way to take you with me either. Once I leave, then you'll disappear..." I look down at the floor. Ava is the only friend I have ever had. She's the nicest living thing on Earth, and... well, she's starting to become more than just a friend to me.
All of the things that have happened throughout this past couple weeks has been just an illusion. Just a damn dream. Nothing more. But I don't want to leave my only friend behind here. I'm hated in the real world, and pushed away by just about everyone that I meet. I don't want to leave.
Yet if I don't, I'll die.
I dig my nails into my head, standing abruptly. "Damn..."
Minutes pass. I suddenly feel a hand on my shoulder, and Ava says, "Go. Try to swim to the end. We're running out of time; that dragon could be here any second. Just go."
"But... I want to stay..." A lone tear slides involuntarily down my face, before I finally start to let the rest of it out. I can't just leave.
"I know you do..." Ava says, moving her hand to wipe away the tears from my eyes. "... Idiot."
I smile half-heartedly, and say, "I'm going to miss you."
"Mmhmm, I'm going to miss me too." she replies, returning the smile.
"I love you, even if you aren't real," I whisper, water still flowing freely from my eyes.
"Love you too, even if I'm not real." She gives me a quick kiss on the cheek, and says, "Go on, get out of here."
I hesitantly turn, and walk to the edge of the water.
"I can't get rid of the feeling that we'll meet again." Ava says, looking absentmindedly towards the right. "And I sure hope we do."
I close my weeping eyes, and say quietly, "Me too..."
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