Olly ||Everything Everything Fanfic||

Chapter 23

In the end, he ended up leaving. He hasn't been gone long, and I know he fully intends on returning, but it's nice. Not having him around, I mean. Really nice. I haven't been as stressed out as usual, which is always good. Mom seems better, too. Even Kara.

 I've always thought about what it would be like to leave. To take our things, and leave him behind. To leave this crappy town, and everyone in it, and maybe Elle could come, too. I hadn't thought about that recently. 

Well, realistically, Elle probabaly wouldn't be able to come with us wherever we moved, but it's a nice thought. A dream, if you will. 

''In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar—
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?''- Edgar Allan Poe, The Dream 

A poem. One of my favorites. I've always liked dreams. Something about them just intrigued me. Even the bad ones. When I was younger, I'd wake up in the middle of the night, sweating, and nearly crying when I'd had a bad dream. I would sit there for a moment, and think about what happened in it. Of course, I knew it wasn't real, and it was only a dream. It seemed so real, like I was living through the moment. It would take me awhile to fall back asleep, but I don't think it was because I was afraid too, or still trembling from the dream, I was just too deep into thought about it to fall back asleep. 

''Olly?'' 

I snapped out of it. I stopped thinking. I shut off my brain, metaphorically, obviously you can't shut off your brain. If you did you would die. It's quite a shame that you can't shut off your brain, really. It would solve many peoples problems. It could save peoples lives, even. I find this a bit ironic, actually. You can't shut off your brain, and if you tried, you would die, but if we could, it could save lives. 

See? Ironic. 

''Olly!'' Kara yelled, in another attempt to get me snap out of it for real this time.

''Yeah? What's up?'' 

''You left your phone in the other room, and got a phone call.'' She said, handing me the phone, and then leaving.

''Hello?''